Rosmerta's Role (was Re: MWPP Generation Women (was Rosebushes )

[Rosmerta]

No: HPFGUIDX 17639

"Lyda Clunas" <lydaclunas at x> wrote:

We have yet to 
> see 
> > a woman who is in the 20ish-30ish age bracket. (Madam Rosmerta's 
> got 
> > to be rather older herself, at least mid 40ish or so."

::coughs demurely but insistently:: as Rosmerta's namesake, I must 
leap to her defense. I have seen speculation elsewhere (won't take 
credit for this idea as my own) that she was quite young at her 
induction into the bar scene--perhaps it's her family's business or 
she started working there as a Hogwarts' student herself? In any 
even, she's NO older than mid-40s and could well be the same age as 
the MWPP crowd (her comment is something like, "the number of times I 
saw them [Sirius and James] in here..." but was she there as an older 
serving person or a fellow student? I certainly served up my share of 
butterbeer as a non-trust-funded undergrad, and I went to school in a 
town so fun that many people I graduated with are still there, 
tending bar and generally having a much nicer life than the rest of 
us rat-racers). 

Whatever her age, Rosmerta certainly has enough mojo left in her to 
make a 14-yr-old boy like Ron blush and go back for seconds, and if 
you had the time to go back and read the lines describing her in PoA 
and GoF (I don't or I'd do it for you), you'd see that besides (and 
perhaps rivalling?) Fleur she is *hands-down* the most attractively 
described woman in the books. No one else even comes close, including 
the much lauded Cho, who is never described as more than quote-
unquote pretty. Rosmerta's dress is analyzed, her allure on older 
(Fudge) and younger (Ron) men is established, her legs are 
shown...She's a "playa," as they say where I come from. I think we'll 
see her again.

~Rosmerta
the *other* one. what we have in common is that we both serve a lot 
of drinks each day.