In the books, Padma Patil is in Ravenclaw and in the films, I was a Gryffindor. Now, the story about that was at the auditions, once we first got the role, me and Shefali, who played my twin, look nothing alike, and 'cause we were new characters being introduced in the fourth film, Mike, the director and the producers didn't want people to be like "who are they?" so he put me into Gryffindor so that in every scene we would be together as we were walking around, like with that "hi Harry!" that we would be saying in every scene. So, he put me into Gryffindor so that we would be together and the public and fans would know we were the Patil twins.
Afshan Azad, who played Padma Patil, explains why her character was in Gryffindor in the Harry Potter films (x)
