Rose Olivia Weasley
1) She doesn't actually like roses. To tell the truth, she finds them clichéd and a bit boring, although she does like the way they smell. Carnations are her real favorite flower, though. She'll forgive anyone almost anything if they show up with a bouquet of carnations in their hand.
2.) In her first year, Rose Weasley didn't like her name, or her freckles, or her vividly red hair, or the fact that her initials spelled out R-O-W, but she loved her family, who'd given these things to her. When Scorpius Malfoy laughed at all of those things, he laughed at her family, and she vowed that she would make sure that he never laughed at her again. Although, in retrospect, she probably shouldn't have been so focused on her loyalty to her family, because when the Sorting Hat made its decision, Rose found that the only open seat at the Hufflepuff table was directly next to Scorpius Malfoy. Stupid hat.
3.) Rose doesn't wear a lot of jewelry. She has a few bracelets and bangles that she puts on as an afterthought, but not much else. The only permanent thing she wears is a necklace her Grandma Granger gave her before she went off to Hogwarts: an opal from Australia that hangs from a thin piece of leather.
4.) Al likes to tell her, "one day, the medical staff at Saint Mungo's are going to have to surgically remove your foot from your mouth." Aunt Ginny is fond of telling her, "your timing is worse than your dad's". Whenever Lily attempts to talk to her about boy troubles, she ends up sighing and moaning about how Rose has "the emotional range of a tablespoon". When they "debate" – or argue, more like – her mother usually just sighs and says that she's "worse than Ron." None of them know that she usually takes these little comments as a compliment.
5.) Her dad is the only one allowed to call her Rosie. Not her mother, or Hugo, or Al, or anyone can call her that but her dad.
6.) It is impossible for Rose to sleep without two pillows: one for her head, and one for her to drape her arm over in her sleep. Scorpius is usually the substitute for the second pillow, and while he complains that he can't sleep with her all pressed up against him and drooling on his shoulder, she knows he secretly likes it.
7.) Her best friend from the age of seven isn't any of her cousins, but Faolan Finnigan. They do almost everything together, or at least, everything that doesn't fall on Full-Moon Days. It takes her six years of being friends before she realizes where Faolan and his mother, Lavender Finnigan, get to each month. What really bothers her isn't that they're werewolves, but how poorly they get treated because of that fact.
8.) It's because of this kind of treatment that makes her so angry about the lack of werewolf rights. When she enters the Ministry after graduating Hogwarts, Rose does everything that is within her power (including name-dropping and borrowing money from her Uncle Harry) to set things right. It takes her seven years, but she finally turns Werewolf Support Services into something useful. Sometimes, she wonders if it was even worth it, with all the pain and blocking from the Wizengamot and all the money from hers and her Uncle's pocket that she's poured into this one project. But when Lavender smiles knowingly at her from the queue for the first-ever Ministry-Funded Wolfsbane Program, Rose knows that it was.
9.) She knows her mother is right when she talks about how high-heeled shoes are a way for a "patriarchal society" to "keep women down" by causing pain, various foot problems, and "a misguided sense of self". But that doesn't mean she can't love the way they make her legs look…right?
10.) She names her son Ronald Draco Malfoy for two reasons: One, she and Scorpius both love their fathers, and wanted to honor them both through their firstborn son.
And two, well…she couldn't resist seeing the look on Draco's face when she told him that he would be getting the middle name, not the first.
