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Madam Rosmerta is the fictional landlady of The Three Broomsticks pub in the Harry Potter series of novels by JK Rowling.

She is attractive (described in the books as "a curvy sort of woman") and runs her pub well. Several pupils, including Ron Weasley, have a crush on her. Madam Rosmerta was played by Julie Christie in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Background

Nothing is known of Madam Rosmerta's origins, or of her life before the commencement of the Harry Potter stories. She is a popular figure among the wizarding community of Hogsmeade and an acquaintance of many of the Hogwarts teaching staff, including Professor Dumbledore.

Role in the stories

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Madam Rosmerta is angered when Dementors (guards from Azkaban) were in Hogsmeade because their presence is scaring away many of her customers. Apart from hosting an informal meeting between Professor McGonagall, Minister Fudge, Filius Flitwick and Professor Hagrid and being the object of Ron's romantic interest, she does not play a major role in the early part of the Harry Potter series.

In the sixth book, however, it emerges that Rosmerta has become an unwitting agent of the Death Eaters. In order to fulfil his mission to assassinate Albus Dumbledore, Draco Malfoy had managed to place Rosmerta under the Imperius Curse. He used her to pass on a cursed necklace to Hogwarts student Katie Bell, who accidentally touched the necklace and was herself subjected to the very harmful curse intended for the Headmaster.

After Harry and Dumbledore had been to the cave to retrieve a locket they believed to be one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, they apparated to Hogsmeade, where Madam Rosmerta alerted them to the presence of the Dark Mark above the school and gave them brooms on which they could travel rapidly back to Hogwarts, where Draco's plan could be brought to completion.

Rosmerta, Madam

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