This article is about minor Harry Potter characters who are Gryffindor students in the same year as Harry. See Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom and Ron Weasley for information on them.

Lavender Brown

Lavender Brown is a close friend of Parvati Patil. Lavender enjoys the same subjects as Parvati: Divination and Care of Magical Creatures with Professor Grubbly-Plank. Lavender attended the Yule Ball with Seamus Finnigan. During the Ministry's smear campaign against Harry Potter, Lavender initially believed it, but later joined Dumbledore's Army. She shares her dormitory at Hogwarts with Hermione Granger and Parvati Patil.

Lavender learns of the death of her pet rabbit, Binky, in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Since Binky was killed by a fox and she got the news the day Professor Trelawney said the thing she was dreading would happen, Lavender has been convinced of Trelawney's powers. Hermione Granger, however, pointed out that Lavender only learned of Binky's death on the sixteenth of October and that it didn't really occur on that day, plus the fact that because the news had been very much a shock, she couldn't have been dreading it.

Seamus Finnigan

Of Irish descent, Seamus Finnigan has sandy hair and is—like Ron Weasley—a huge Quidditch fan. He shares his dormitory at Hogwarts with Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom and Dean Thomas.

He watches the Quidditch World Cup Final with the Weasleys and Harry, of course supporting Ireland against Bulgaria. He also has quite a strong accent. His best friend in Hogwarts is Dean Thomas. His mother is a witch and his father didn't find out until after the marriage.

Due to the influence of his mother and the Daily Prophet, Seamus did not fully trust Harry at the start of their fifth year. However, he changed his mind after reading Harry's interview in The Quibbler.

Seamus is played in the Harry Potter movies by Devon Murray .

Parvati Patil

Parvati Patil is a dark-haired Gryffindor girl in Harry's year. Parvati is described by Seamus Finnigan as "the most beautiful girl in the year," along with her twin sister Padma Patil (a Ravenclaw). She is played by Sitara Shah in the film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and will be portrayed by Shefali Chowdhury in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Parvati went with Harry Potter to the Yule Ball, since his crush, Cho Chang, was going with Cedric Diggory. Parvati wore shocking pink dress robes with her hair in a plait braided with gold. Parvati and her twin later joined Dumbledore's Army. She shares her dormitory at Hogwarts with Hermione Granger and Lavender Brown.

She has many friends, including her closest friend Lavender Brown. Her favourite class is Divination with Professor Trelawney, although she also enjoyed her Care of Magical Creatures lessons with Professor Grubbly-Plank.

Dean Thomas

Dean Thomas is a black boy who is taller than Ron and was sorted into Gryffindor house; he is good at drawing and forging signatures. He shares his dormitory at Hogwarts with Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom and Seamus Finnigan.

Dean comes from a Muggle family which is evidenced by him being a fan of the football team West Ham United and using the word "cool" a lot. Dean was raised by his mother and stepfather, because his original father left the family when he was young. Dean was raised with a number of half-brothers and sisters. When Dean got the letter inviting him to Hogwarts, his mother wondered if his father had been a wizard. The truth, which they never discovered, is that Dean's father was killed by Death Eaters when he refused to join them.

Dean is the best friend of Seamus Finnigan, but unlike Seamus, he believed Harry's claim of Voldemort returning during their fifth year at Hogwarts. He was one of the members of the D.A., and considers Parvati and Padma Patil to be the best looking girls in their year, although he is suspected of dating Ginny Weasley at the end of Order of the Phoenix

He is played by Alfred Enoch in the Harry Potter movies.

External link

• Information about Dean Thomas's background from J.K. Rowling