Open Casting Call For Lavender

"You know what I'm going to do," director David Yates asked MTV.com. "I never did this before, but I'm going to get Rupert together with the top five Lavenders, get him to come and read with them and snog with them."

"It's a chemical thing, and you want to feel that chemistry between them," he said. "That will help me decide."

Pucker up, Rupert.

Anyone interested in playing Lavender should head to the Earls Court Exhibition Center in London with proof they are British citizens and between the ages of 15 and 18.

Yates and company have struck gold at these open casting calls before. Evanna Lynch - a die-hard Potter fan who seems born to play Luna Lovegood in "Order of the Phoenix" - beat out almost 20,000 other girls to snag the role.

These casting folks know what they're doing (except for Michael Gambon, who turned Dumbledore into a crazy, scary weirdo, as we discussed before). So good luck to them with Lavender.

In addition to the hunt for Lavender, a casting call will also be held on July 8 to find very bad boy Tom Riddle, who later becomes the one and only Voldemort. Actually, can we call him the one and only? He is technically in several pieces, after all.

Ah, never mind.

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