THE CHARACTER NAME: Rose Weasley. AGE: 20 (b: 18 October 2005). FANDOM: Harry Potter. SPECIES: Witch. CANON POINT: Next-gen, 2025.
PERSONALITY:
Rather than be an amalgamation of her parents, either as all their bests or all their worst smushed together, Rose Weasley is very much her own person. The steady, reasonable child in a huge clan of vibrant personalities, she grew into the balance between serious and fun. Affectionate and loyal, she uses her balance between her big emotions and her ability to come at things reasonably to be the one others can depend on, and her stubborn streak usually helps her succeed at her goals. Her sense of humor is no longer in short supply and despite her personal steadiness, she's sometimes just as likely to be in trouble with the rest rather than have sorted out their way out of hot water.
For the most part, Rose is a responsible person. Fulfilling her obligations and being someone people can depend on is very important to her. She isn't always so, there are things that can knock her off track the same as anyone, but as long as she keeps her head, that's what she aims for. At one time, that sense of dependability and responsibility made Rose uncommonly serious for a pre-teen and teenager. She wasn't really the sort to harp at others to be the same, unless it stood to affect her negatively (so family and housemates did get a 'talking to', but others didn't). No, her strict ideas of how to be the best daughter, best sister, best student, best everything were for herself, her own measuring stick, created not by the actual judgment of adults and family around her, but by her own lofty perceptions of being the daughter of war heroes, of being the daughter of Hermione Granger. She kept her nose to whatever needed done and it took years, and a considerable, persistent influence of her younger brother, to learn how to go easier on herself. She's not perfected it yet, so she's still her most vicious critic, but she does much better overall.
"Steady" might make one think humorless, or even emotionally detached, but that's not the case at all. Rose has a great sense of humor, and while she's not the planner of epic pranks (she has enough family members for that), she's happy to be on Hugo's team for whatever he's cooked up and ready to point out any problems and fixes along the way to doing whatever's being orchestrated. Really, she's a team player in most cases, because while she can and will lead, she also understands the value of being a good 'follower, with knowledge and opinions, rather than a blind follower.
And she certainly has emotions; big, vibrant, Gryffindorian feelings and thoughts. She's just much better at controlling them, or at least weighing feeling and reason equally to get somewhere productive. What did get Rose going in a big way back in her strict phase, and still does today, is the idea of fair and just. She's a championer of causes, but in her own, slightly more subtle, way. Stubborn, oh yes, the girl is as stubborn as the Weasleys come, but still with polish, rather than wild chaos. So if you're looking for someone to rush into something first and think about it later, you'll have to look elsewhere. Though sorted into Gryffindor, Rose isn't the type to blindly charge off on an adventure or throw herself into a fight with emotions ahead of her. Her argument style is redirection before addressing the issue, to give herself time to think over what's going on, as well as to give the other person a chance to do the same, or at least calm the heck down. One would also find her being the arbitrator and peacemaker-of-sorts in her immediate family and extended family, as well as with her friends.
It's not possible to discuss Rose without discussing her bond with her little brother. Theirs is a codependent relationship, but it's not as ugly as the word is often meant to be. From the beginning, Rose took her role as big sister extremely seriously, and that hasn't changed with age, being Hugo's support and even guide when he needs it. And in Hugo, Rose has always had a champion who believes in her one hundred percent, who, among many things, reminds her how to always find her personal happy middle ground between seriousness and responsibility and fun and hijnxs. Their dependence does mean that while they play off each other positively, they're also susceptible to feeding off the others emotions in negative ways, so if Hugo's in a big bad mood, Rose might not be far behind.
HISTORY:
The first of ultimately two to Ron and Hermione Weasley, Rose was born on an otherwise uneventful day in a rather uneventful way, no matter how much flailing Ron did at the time. She was a relatively easy birth for a first baby and didn't give her parents much trouble with common baby problems like being difficult to get to sleep or colicky. She wasn't a quiet baby, for she was often babbling or cooing about something or the other, but she wasn't a fussy or unhappy baby. Unsurprisingly, she was spoiled rotten in that new parent mixture of doing everything right and not wanting to be too anal about everything, especially with such a huge family around her when it was just the three of them.
And then three became four with the arrival of baby Hugo, who Rose took to immediately. There'd been plenty of talk in the later months leading up to Hermione giving birth, about the sorts of things big sisters could do, even tiny big sisters, and Rose came to think of Hugo as hers, somewhere between a toy and a playmate at that age. At two, she couldn't really read, but that didn't stop her from chattering toddler nonsense to the wriggling baby at nap and bedtimes, a habit which continued as she aged through being able to tell coherent stories with beginnings and ends through the various reading levels of storybooks.
They had a wonderful mother of course, but Rose did whatever she could do for Hugo, and Hugo relied on her over their parents for things like after-nightmare snuggles and a warrioress to chase away the Things In The Dark. Exposed to cousins and children of family friends, neither lacked for playmates and certainly formed relationships with others, but above everyone else, it was Rose and Hugo. Leaving for Hogwarts was difficult, and the first weeks of pining for Hugo were mirrored by him pining for her, but eventually Rose settled down and started to make the adjustment to a life lived half at school, half at home. Fortunately, she was clever enough in her own right that the inevitable comparisons to her mother were favorable, rather than disappointed, but with so many people knowing her parents well, or worse, knowing of them in a heroes of the war way, a problem developed that would last Rose into her late teens – how to not only live up to all of that, but set herself apart instead of remain in the shadows.
Thus began Rose's years of relentless striving and personal judgment, in everything from academics to extracurriculars. Her first few years at Hogwarts weren't her best, though she did have her cousins there to try and temper her driven stubbornness. Hugo's arrival at Hogwarts and their ability to once more be as inseparable as they wanted certainly helped, but it didn't derail Rose. Excellent grade after notable achievement like Prefect were gained, but she was never satisfied. It had to be better. Even getting the position of Head Girl didn't immediately stop the ever-churning drive to be the best, but it was what started a flat top to her peaking before finally gaining self-confidence and learning ways to be more accepting of the person she was, a person who others weren't actually expecting such lofty things from.
Figuring out what to do with her life was a shockingly hard decision for someone who had been so focused on being a success. The general idea of succeeding had been relatively easy to lay down, but now to pick a specific? Auror? Healer? The Ministry? Media? Quidditch? At one point, she almost joined her uncle Charlie on the dragon preserve because it was finally a clear decision she could make, but he was ultimately instrumental in helping her figure out what it was she should do, which wasn't dragon care.
It was the Ministry. She had avoided the idea of it, because the Ministry was something of her family's 'playground', but with Hermione's focus on the bigger concerns of the wizarding world as a whole, Rose was able to find a path to helping the wizarding world – in the Department of Mysteries. A hard and secretive, but also challenging, varied, and exciting, work day was balanced by evenings mostly spent with Hugo or her local-living cousins, playing a pick-up game of Quidditch, getting into some minor (or not so minor) trouble, or camped out in one pub or another. Rose wasn't a heaver drinker on the weekdays, but she could be counted on for drunken merriment on weekends, because it was a release from a job she couldn't ever talk about (though to this day, one Hugo Weasley knows more about the Department of Mysteries than ANYONE knows he does). In fact, that 'let loose' behaviour was so expected of Unspeakables, so long as they never spoke of work, that there was never a conflict or danger to her job when Uncle Harry had to show up somewhere to keep the peace before anyone could get in serious trouble.
It was a good life, with a balance of a purpose in life and the enjoyment of every day, and then Rose took an unexpected dunk in waters far too warm and salty to be near home.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: Wand-using witch. WRITING SAMPLE: ♥ ♥ ♥
PB: Jane Levy. ICON: JOURNAL:_rofollow / _rofollow. HOUSING PREFERENCE: WITH HUGO. WAS THIS CHARACTER HELD FOR YOU? Yeppers!
ROSE: b. October 2005 Y1 2017-2018 (11 in September 2017, 12 in October 2017) Y7 2023-2024 (18 in October 2023)
HUGO: b. June 2007 Y1 2018-2019 (11 in September 2018, 12 in June 2019) Y7 2024-2025 (18 in June 2025)