Recaps

Rose escaped the poorhouse and began building a life at Hogwarts, where she made friends, studied magic, and pursued Quidditch. After becoming a reserve player and revealing how to enter the Room of Requirement, she continued searching for Ravenclaw’s Diadem while Professor Bosde questioned her place at school.

• Rose was locked in the poorhouse cellar after rejecting Mr. Johnson’s advances, but Professor McGonagall rescued her and brought her to Hogwarts.
• Rose befriended Lily Evans, joined Gryffindor, and grew close to Mary, Marlene, and the other students while navigating Lily’s friendship with Severus Snape and the Marauders’ clashes with him.
• Rose found work in the library, received a warming scarf from Sirius Black, and sent him homemade cookies that his mother crushed before he found them outside his room.
• Rose challenged James Potter and Sirius Black to a secret-passage bet, won Quidditch practice with James, and trained with James and Sirius through the school year.
• Rose returned to the orphanage for summer, reunited with Becky, visited Lily and the Evans family, and came back to Hogwarts for her second year.
• Rose searched the Room of Requirement for Ravenclaw’s Diadem, but Professor Bosde warned that her magic seemed weakened and asked whether she truly belonged at Hogwarts.
• Rose earned a place as a Quidditch reserve after scoring well at tryouts, punched Hudson Sparrow when he mocked her, and received support from her friends.
• After Rose scored at early-morning practice, James and Sirius offered her a broom in exchange for explaining how she entered the Room of Requirement, and Rose told them its secret.

Rose helped the Marauders through their first year of close friendship, joined their Animagus efforts, and found work and a welcoming home with the Bennetts over summer. She began pursuing magical inventions with Snape and ended the stretch after Gryffindor won the final, while James stormed off intending to break school rules.

• Rose proposed that James, Sirius, and Remus create a map showing people’s names, then searched for the Diadem with Sirius and nearly died after trying it on.
• Rose recovered in the Hospital Wing, where Dumbledore took the Diadem, and she and Sirius shared Christmas food and spoke about her orphanage and his family.
• Rose played in Gryffindor’s Quidditch victory over Slytherin, practiced spell variations, and reconciled with Sirius, James, Peter, and Remus after learning Remus was a werewolf.
• Rose returned to Frenshem for summer, found work at Mia’s fish-and-chips shop, and moved into the room above it before reuniting with Lily and her Hogwarts friends.
• Rose joined James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter in their attempt to become Animagi, then followed them and Lily into the Forbidden Forest, where they encountered Aragog and his Acromantulas.
• Rose became Gryffindor’s Seeker, spent Christmas with the Bennetts, and returned to school as Sirius told her he had succeeded in swallowing the Animagus potion.
• Rose helped arrange Lily’s surprise birthday party and invited Snape, then agreed to work with him on magical inventions after he promised to avoid Dark Magic.
• Rose caught the Snitch in Gryffindor’s 120–40 win over Hufflepuff, then walked away from James after he told her to be more ladylike, and James left angrily, intending to break school rules.