gwenfrankenstien:

Played by Kathleen Cauley in the second film (non-speaking part, but the actress is credited as Lavender):

[img: Lavender Brown, a dark-skinned girl with short black hair, wearing earmuffs while working with mandrakes in herbology class]

Played by Jennifer Smith in the third film, again in a non-speaking role:

[img: Lavender Brown, a dark-skinned Gryffindor student with short black hair, clapping during Dumbledore’s speech at the beginning of the school year]

In the later films, when she gets a considerably larger part and dates a member of the main cast, she’s played by Jessie Cave:

[Lavender Brown, now suddenly a pale-skinned girl with long dark-blonde hair, writing in a notebook]

So yeah. This is a thing that happened.

Ron Weasley doesn’t care if his girlfriend is a pureblood like him.

But the producers might care if his girlfriend is black.