Credit: Warner Bros.Six months into her OnlyFans journey, a Harry Potter star has revealed how it’s impacted her connection to the franchise.
Jessie Cave, best known for playing Gryffindor student Lavender Brown in the last three Harry Potter films, marked the milestone by reflecting on her experiences creating hair-focused content for the subscription platform, which allows creators to monetize exclusive posts.
Cave joined OnlyFans in March 2025, telling fans she wanted to share lighthearted, sensual videos centered on her hair. She described it as a creative way to support her family (Cave has four children with comedian Alfie Brown) and fund home improvements. In her latest Substack essay (titled “Only Wingardium Nakediosa”), she wrote that the endeavor has brought both moments of joy and plenty of unexpected challenges.
OnlyFans, often associated with adult entertainment, is a subscription-based platform that lets performers, influencers, and public figures earn directly from fans. Cave emphasized that her content involves “no spells, no nudity,” only playful storytelling and hairstyling.
Even so, she admitted the association has already created friction in her professional life and led to at least one lost Harry Potter-related opportunity.
Jessie Cave Reveals How OnlyFans Impacts Her Place in the ‘Harry Potter’ Fandom
“I found out that I didn’t get booked for a Harry Potter convention recently, as I’m now doing OnlyFans,” Cave claimed. “They explained it was because it’s a ‘family show and OnlyFans is affiliated with porn.’ This was baffling to me… I’m just playing with my hair!” she wrote in the September 17 essay.
Cave first appeared in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), where Lavender Brown became a central part of the story. Her romance with Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) sparked tension with Hermione Granger and gave the character a higher profile than in previous installments. Lavender later returned in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, fighting in the Battle of Hogwarts. She’s defended the franchise from criticism in recent years, particularly against fellow alumna Miriam Margolyes, who had said that adult Harry Potter fans “should be over that by now.”
The actress said she doesn’t feel particularly upset about missing future franchise events as Warner Bros. pushes ahead with its Harry Potter reboot for HBO. “There’s going to be a new cast now and it’s a different time,” she noted, pointing out that she has already participated in conventions for more than 15 years. “I have enough photos and wizard memorabilia,” she added, suggesting she feels ready to move on.
Still, Cave described the pressures of content creation as “exhausting” and “competitive.” She admitted her “self-worth has become entwined with my statistics,” a reality she didn’t anticipate when she began experimenting with the platform. Even her home life, she wrote, has occasionally collided with her side career, producing moments both awkward and funny.
One evening, her daughter stumbled across a pair of opera gloves used in her videos while looking for a hair tie. “She only sees me in leggings and massive American football shirts and asked why I had these gloves,” Cave recalled. “I told her I wore them one Halloween and hid them away quickly.”
Cave added that she didn’t disclose the real reason, joking that she sometimes plaits her hair while wearing the gloves for subscribers who enjoy it. “I chuckled and deflected,” she said, reflecting on the incident as one of the stranger byproducts of balancing motherhood with her unconventional creative outlet.
PEOPLE reported that it reached out to Cave for clarification about the convention but did not hear back. For now, she appears committed to her unique corner of OnlyFans, framing the journey as an experiment in independence – even as it reshapes her long-standing connection to the Harry Potter fandom.
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