Rose Zeller

OOC

Game	Journal	Portrayed By
Rise of the Ancients	by_another_name	Aimee Teegarden

Basic Stats

Full Name: Rose Marie Zeller
Nickname(s): Rosie, Rosie Posie
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Date of Birth: May 4, 1984
Zodiac: Taurus
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Dating Euan Abercrombie
Bloodline: Muggleborn
Hometown: Camden, London, England
House & Year: Hufflepuff 2002
Occupation: Herbologist's assistant
Pet: Yellow laborador (Dog)

Family

Father: Alan Zeller (muggle; Curator: Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool)
Mother: Catherine Zeller (née Bullard; muggle; florist)

History

Alan Zeller and Catherine Bullard met in 1972, when Catherine, a young florist in Liverpool, wandered into the Merseyside Maritime Museum, where Alan worked. It was love at first sight, and after a whirlwind courtship of merely three months, they were engaged, and married within six months of their first meeting. They lived in marital bliss for several years, just the two of them. Alan was promoted to curator of the museum at the age of thirty, quite a feat indeed, and Catherine continued her work at the flower shop where she'd been working when they got married, eventually taking over the shop when the previous owner retired. They were happy, just the two of them, they did not need children to make their lives more complete. So it came as something of a surprise to the both of them when, in 1983, Catherine discovered that she was pregnant. It took a while, but they came to welcome the pregnancy and looked forward to the birth of their child.

Rose Marie Zeller was born on May 4, 1984, to parents who felt like they had no idea what they were doing and even wondered if they had any business being parents, with Alan as curator of a museum and Catherine owning her own flower shop. But they managed. Catherine hired an assistant at the shop so that she could spend some time at home with Rose when she was younger, but then as Rose got older, she would join her mother at the store, learning about flowers and arrangements and all sorts of other florist-y things. She didn't visit her father at the museum much, because it wasn't exactly a place for children to play. Of course, the flower shop wasn't, either, but it was safer, at least. And so Rose grew up surrounded by plants, and she grew to love them as much as her mother did.

It came as quite the surprise to the whole family that an owl delivered a letter to the Zeller household in the summer of 1995, when Rose was eleven. The letter informed the family that Rose was a witch, and that she was invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that September. A few days later, a member of the school's faculty came to explain things to the family, and Alan and Catherine learned that all the odd things that had been happening around Rose for most of her life were actually the result of her magic leaking out, and that at Hogwarts she would learn to use it properly. Rose was thrilled at the idea of learning magic, but at the same time terrified of leaving the home she knew and her parents. In the end, though, she was taken to Diagon Alley to purchase her school supplies, and on September 1st, she boarded the train to Hogwarts.

At Hogwarts, she was sorted into Hufflepuff and immediately took a fancy to Herbology, of course. She also learned that she was joining this new world at a time of brewing war. Apparently a student had died the year before, and some boy in Gryffindor named Harry Potter was telling everyone that someone named Voldemort was back. Rose was confused and didn't know much about what was going on, so she tried to stay out of it and focused on herbology instead. At the end of her second year, she was as shocked as her school-mates at the death of their Headmaster, Dumbledore. Her parents were worried about that, as well, and kept her home for her third year. It turned out to be fortunate, anyway, as muggleborns were being taken to the wizarding prison and not allowed back at school. But with the help of an older wizard, Rose and her family were safe. When Voldemort was defeated, Alan and Catherine were worried about letting Rose return to the wizarding world and Hogwarts, but they eventually relented. Rose spent her fourth through seventh years at Hogwarts feeling a sense of relief that the war was over, but saddened by the lack of familiar faces around, those who had died in the great battle of Hogwarts.

Rose's best subjects were Herbology, Muggle Studies, and Charms. Those were the only NEWT-level classes she took in her sixth and seventh years, and managed Os in all of them. Herbology remained her favourite class at Hogwarts, and she was admittedly something of a teacher's pet to Professor Sprout, always asking questions in class and volunteering, and often coming by during her break periods to help out in the greenhouses if needed.

After sitting for her NEWTs and finishing Hogwarts, Rose gained a position as an assistant to a wizard herbologist in London. She was supremely shocked to find out that this was the wizard who had helped to hide her and her family during the war. Rose was incredibly grateful for his help, and she was more than happy to be his assistant. She loves her job at the herbology shop, and loves that she seems to be learning something new about plants every day.