How Lavender Brown Became White

blackisbeautiful25:

Any Harry Potter fans out there?

Any?

Well, I am a HUGE fan. First off, let me say I am very happy about the diversity of the HP films, I really do appreciate it, but something has got me bothered.

Lavender Brown.

In case you don’t know, Lavender was originally black. In both the Chamber of Secrets and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Here are the two original actresses:

Kathleen Cauley (Chamber of Secrets)

Jennifer Smith (Prisoner of Azkaban)

Proof can be found on IMBD.Com, Wikipedia.com and Harry Potter Wiki.

But some how… we went from these two actresses to this:

Now don’t get me wrong. She did a wonderful job as Lavender. But, in the interest of continuity, why did she become white. And it begs to ask: what hell would have been raised if they had cast a black actress as Lavender in the Half Blood Prince?

As if it wasn’t bad enough, it seems the reason is because she becomes a romance interest to Ron in that movie.  =(

Reblogged 11 months ago from kulfislut (Originally from cocobaby23)
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