Rose

Rose
Species information
Sentience	Non-sentient
Stem	Green
Leaves	Green
Flowers	Vary in colour
Usage	Garden plant Petals, thorns and oil could be used as potion ingredients Herbology
Affiliation	Valentine's Day
Status	Extant

"There are over a hundred species in the genus Rosa. Wizards and Muggles alike have been breeding garden roses for thousands of years."

— Zygmunt Budge, Book of Potions

The rose is the common name of a flowering shrub in the genus Rosa, of which over a hundred different species exist. The flowers come in a variety of different colours. The rose is considered a symbol of romance in many countries.

Various parts of the plant were used as potion ingredients. Their petals were used in Zygmunt Budge's variation of the Beautification Potion, perfumes, and some varieties of Love Potion. Rose thorns could also be used in the latter, though, in the opinion of Zygmunt Budge, Love Potions made with the thorns tended to be more short-lasting and unstable.

The charm Rose Growth caused roses to spontaneously grow. The Herbivicus Charm could also be used to rapidly accelerate the growth of roses.

History

Wizards and Muggles alike had been using roses as garden plants for thousands of years prior to the 15th century.

Red roses bloomed in Herbology for Valentine's Day

Around Valentine's Day in February 1988, to celebrate the holiday, classes in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry provided subject-related lessons, Professor Pomona Sprout taught fifth-years how to magically grow red roses with the Herbivicus Charm in Herbology.

During the 1989–1990 school year at Hogwarts, Jacob's sibling, with the help of Barnaby Lee and Rowan Khanna picked rose thorns from roses in the Herbology Classroom so they could use them to brew a love potion with Penny Haywood.

When Tom Riddle visited Hepzibah Smith on behalf of Borgin and Burkes, he produced a bouquet of roses to present to her, a successful attempt of flattery on his part. This was apparently common at their meetings, as Hepzibah had already prepared a vase to hold the roses.

The Dursley family grew roses in their garden. On 31 July 1992, Harry Potter was forced to prune and water these roses, along with other menial household chores by Petunia Dursley, as punishment for scaring Dudley with the nonsense incantations jiggery pokery, Hocus Pocus and squiggly wiggly.

The Weasleys also grew roses in their garden. During a dinner at The Burrow the night before the Quidditch World Cup final in 1994, Crookshanks chased a group of gnomes through the Weasley's rosebushes as his owner and the Weasley family finished their meal.

For the December 1994 Yule Ball, rosebushes were conjured for decoration in an area of the Hogwarts grounds along with statues of Father Christmas and his reindeer, which were all illuminated by living fairies. As the ball began to wind down, several students, including Stebbins, S. Fawcett, Fleur Delacour, and Roger Davies, used these bushes as cover for intimacy. Severus Snape tasked himself with blasting apart bushes he felt suspicious, taking ten house points from those students he caught.

Both Bill and Charlie Weasley wore white roses as boutonnières to the former's wedding.

Roses were used as symbolism for pure-bloods on the images accompanying the propaganda packet Mudbloods and the Dangers They Pose to a Peaceful Pure-Blood Society, with Mudbloods being represented as weeds strangling the roses.

As a sign of respect, Hermione conjured a wreath of roses to place on the grave of Harry's parents located in the cemetery at Godric's Hollow when she visited it with Harry on Christmas of 1997. Later that night, after escaping from an ambush at Bathilda Bagshot's house, Harry dreamt of Nagini winding through various objects, including Hermione's wreath of roses.

In the early 2010s, Jerry Warwick, wanting a singer to hire him as her manager, ordered fifteen rare-coloured roses from Bewildering Blooms, hoping it would help him convince her to stay on his side.

Behind the scenes

• Rather than hiding in the rosebushes, which were not in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Fawcett and Stebbins instead hid in the Hogwarts Carriages.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Appears in flashback(s))
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Appears in deleted scene(s))
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (Appears on Jacob Kowalski's wedding cake)
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard
• Pottermore
• Harry Potter Trading Card Game
• Wonderbook: Book of Potions
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
• Hogwarts Legacy (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter: Magic Awakened