Lisa-Rose Marie Longbottom

Lisa-Rose Marie Longbottom (born December 31st), was a Pure-Blood witch and student at Hogwarts School. Having grown up in a loveless household, Lisa-Marie had a childhood habit of telling lies for attention, getting to the point that none believed a word she said. This reputation followed her to school and played a role in all of her storylines.
== Character History ==
=== Hard Feelings/Loveless (Age 0-10) ===
Lisa-Rose was raised in a good home, belonging to a good upstanding Wizarding family. On the outside she was the perfect image of a happy, polite young lady, but that wasn't the case. Her parents, while they technically provided everything she needed in terms of food and clothing and shelter, they never really connected with their child. There was no warmth there, and Lisa-Rose knew from a young age that her parents had priorities that came before her. She accepted it, thought for most of her childhood that she was better off on her own, but when the time came that she desperately needed support she found no one there to help.
She's not sure when it started. At first she assumed her imagination was kicking into overdrive, creating stories and characters for her to amuse herself with. Whenever she closed her eyes she saw new, random people going about their lives. It was largely minor things, someone shopping or casting a spell, but over time they became more intense. She started seeing things with her eyes open, flashing before her like surreal movie scenes. The mundane became horrors, from families in parks to people being murdered in alleyways. When she tried telling her parents, they chalked it up to her wanting attention. When she told her cousins, they all laughed at her. No one around her believed a word she said, and she even overheard her aunt and uncle talking about it once. "You've seen how her parents are with her, of course the little thing is desperate for attention."
She knew from then on she had to hide this from her family, because obviously they wouldn't believe her anyway. She began fighting back against every random thing her brain decided to show her, ignoring and pretending and even shouting at them in instances when no one else was around. Nothing worked, and the visions persisted.
As the years went on and her strength to fight waned, Lisa-Rose's happy-go-lucky façade started to crumble. She fell into a deep depression and locked herself away in her room. A part of her thought maybe her parents would notice this turn and finally try to see if she was alright, but they never came. It didn't take long for her to grow bitter and resentful of not just them, but life itself. How was her own mind tormenting her even the least bit fair?
=== Down a Troubled Path (Age 11-14) ===
When Lisa-Rose finally got to leave home and attend Hogwarts School she immediately went to work branching out and meeting new people. She became fast friends with a couple girls in her year, and after the initial shock of not being home wore off she found herself having the best time of her life. She even occasionally hung out with her cousins Cornelius and Brandon, who she'd never been super close with growing up. They were older and so cool, and she'd felt intimidated. But for the first time things felt okay, and even though her visions persisted, dancing and twirling at the edges of her vision at all times, she knew she'd be okay. They didn't control her or her life, she did. At long last. 
She wasn't sure at first why her two friends pulled away. It was very sudden and it left her confused and hurt. She'd done everything right, hadn't she? After venting to her cousins about the situation they accidentally let slip that they told some people about their "cousin who loved to lie," thinking it was just a funny story to share. However this "funny story" made it's way back to her friends, and they decided they couldn't trust her. Teenage girls can be fickle and mean, and Lisa-Rose found that out the hard way. She realized that nowhere would be any different than home and that trusting people only led to her being an outcast. She stopped talking to her cousins entirely and gave up on making friends, resigning herself to her fate.
She spent the next couple school years all on her own, and she preferred it that way. At least that's what she told herself.
In her fourth year she was teamed up with a boy named Roland Valentine for an assignment. He tried to get to know her but Lisa-Rose kept it strictly professional. But over time, and against her better judgement, she let him in a little bit. He was a Muggle-Born and told her all about the cool things the Muggles had that Wizards didn't. Her family wasn't obsessed with blood status so she'd been exposed to many Muggle inventions, but nothing close to everything. It was all super fascinating, and she wondered if having Muggle parents played a part in Richard turned out so nice. Maybe Muggle parents were just better at loving their kids and she never stood a chance with her magical ones.
Roland was the first person to offer her weed. He'd smuggled it in his bags, having tried it over the summer with his older brother. Together they snuck into the Room of Requirement with his other friend Kira Thomas and smoked up. Being high offered Lisa-Rose a reprieve from her visions. They were still there, but they felt so distant, as if they couldn't touch her even if they tried. It was the first time she'd ever been able to distance them in any way, and she'd decided immediately to never let it go.
Of course getting more weed was the immediate problem. Roland only had so much, but he promised to bring more after Christmas break. Lisa-Rose knew she couldn't wait that long and sought other methods to achieve the same effect, her search eventually leading her to Baruffio's Brain Elixir. It supposedly increased brain power, but that was widely disproven. Instead it caused high-like side effects that sounded to Lisa-Rose to be a lot like weed. She swiped the ingredients from the Potions Classroom and brewed a large batch in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.
From then on Lisa-Rose took the potion every single day. It was exactly the fix she'd been hoping for.
=== A Sight for Tormented Eyes (Age 15) ===
Lisa-Rose became a master at taking the elixir. She even tested new ways to do so, ranging from mixing it with food to inhaling it like glue. Roland tried it a few times but decided to stick with the devil he knew. Whatever, his loss.
In fifth year Lisa-Rose's grades began slipping. She'd maintained a good EE grade level up until that point, and the numbers were falling fast. Things only got worse when she stopped going to most of her classes (she always made an effort to attend Herbology, her favorite class). The staff reprimanded her several times and even wrote letters to her parents, which resulted in her getting many a Howler from her father. Her cousins, who were hurt when she shut them back out (even though they knew they messed up), didn't know what to do. Their parents were asking them to reach out and help Lisa-Rose, saying they had a duty as her family to figure out the problem and report back.
Cornelius and Brandon cornered Lisa-Rose in a hallway one afternoon. She was on her way back from Herbology and stopped in the courtyard to drink some elixir, so by the time her cousins confronted her she was flying. They told her that they knew something was wrong with her and that her parents were worried, to which all she could do was laugh. "There's a first time for everything," she managed to say between bursts. Cornelius implored her to be honest with them now before things went too far, because it was very clear she was on something, they just didn't know what. She accused them of being fakes because if they cared about her they wouldn't have driven her friends away. When Cornelius went to apologize yet again, she slapped him, and Brandon grabbed her wrists to keep her from doing it again. 
"You never cared about me! Let me go!" She screamed, gaining the attention of the Divinations Professor Blanc, who had been walking in the adjacent corridor and heard everything. When Professor Blanc tried to break the scene up, Lisa-Rose flew into a frenzy, jerking her body in all directions and screaming bloody murder just to get her cousin to let her go. She just wanted to be let go. She just— 
====Lisa-Rose's One True Prophecy====
It's like all the elixir drained from her system in that single moment. The visions, always at the edges of her vision, become so clear. Clearer than they'd ever been. No longer was she seeing flashes of moments, or pieces of scenes. She had reached a place beyond that now. Something deep inside her just clicked, out of nowhere. Outwardly, Lisa-Rose froze in place, her eyes rolling back and a powerful voice coming out of her mouth. It was her first true prophecy, and it went like this: 
Beware the prick of the thorny flower, 
and mourn the three that she devours.
The sun, the moon, the prodigal daughter,
blood runs cold all those who fought her.
Vengeance, sworn. A familial oath.
Her escape assured, it's beyond reproach.
===Something Different, Something Other===
Professor Blanc recognized this immediately for what it is, and she said as much in the moment. "She's a Seer..."
Lisa-Rose came out of the trance just in time to hear the Professor call her a Seer and her cousin Brandon asking, "Wait, so she wasn't lying?" Of course she wasn't lying. Hearing the word Seer, realizing that what's been going on with her has an actual name, it... it pisses her off. If anyone in her family had bothered to listen, really listen to her, then this revelation could've come a lot sooner. It could've spared her years of pain and isolation, second guessing and self-loathing. When Professor Blanc says something about "having to contact the Ministry" and "all Prophecies have to be logged" the whole thing becomes too much for Lisa-Rose. She starts running away from the Professor and her cousins, ignoring their calls all the way back to her dormitory.
Once again alone, Lisa-Rose couldn't deny that everything's changed. If she was a Seer and the Ministry was going to get involved, she's going to be ostracized even more than before. She didn't want to be special, she just wanted to be like everyone else and loved like them too. Her entire life these visions—of the future, apparently—plagued her. They made her something different, something other, and she didn't want it. She still didn't.
The decision wasn't conscious, but it was one she made all the same. She took the few remaining vials of elixir and drank them all, one by one, until there was nothing left. Crying, she laid down in her bed and covered up. She'd read that brewing Baruffio's Brain Elixir was always a risk, and that one wrong calculation or too much dosage could cause brain damage or even death. She was banking on that last one. As the elixir filled her head and she couldn't fight drifting off to sleep, Lisa-Rose thought about the few good moments in her life. Her two first friends, even though they'd betrayed her in the end, she never stopped cherishing that time with them. Her friend Roland, who'd she drifted from the last year as she fell deeper into her drug-induced haze, brought back some nice memories. She had so little to show for her miserable life, but she felt okay with that for once. Maybe because she knew that miserable life was finally ending. She waited, and drifted, and everything went to black.
She wasn't conscious for this, but Kira Thomas found her. She was then rushed to the Hospital Wing and treated immediately, but a lot of damage had already been done. The elixir was flushed from her system and a transport was sent from St. Mungo's Hospital. Lisa-Rose spent the next week in intensive care, in a coma that she just wouldn't wake from. In the end she did wake up and the expected brain damage just didn't manifest. She could speak clearly, knew what year it was, and showed remarkable signs of recovery.
But Lisa-Rose knew there had been some brain damage, she knew it from the second she opened her eyes and didn't see anything dancing at the edges of her vision. She didn't say anything at first, wanting to make sure it wasn't temporary, but as the days turned into weeks she knew her power was gone. She wasn't a Seer anymore, and for the first time in years she was so happy. Her prophecy, that she knew would be the only one she ever told, was logged by the Ministry and she was given strict instructions to contact them if she had another. But there wouldn't be any more.
Lisa-Rose felt like a new person. Her history was still the same, but it felt lighter, less of a burden. She wasn't tormented by it in the same way as before. The staff had taken her brewing equipment and she was serving a very long detention period, but she didn't want that anymore anyway. The elixir had ruined her life as much as it saved it, and her visions were gone anyway. She transfigured her hair blonde, got a new wardrobe from Hogsmeade, and embraced being alive. Her attendance and grades picked back up, and she resumed her friendships with Roland and Kira. She even forgave her cousins and started building relationships with them as well.
===She Devours (Age 16)===
Over the summer break Lisa-Rose met a Muggle girl named Juliet Noble while shopping in London. She was a tourist from America visiting family, and the two became best friends for a day. At the end they exchanged contact info and became pen pals.
Overall, she had a year of peace before she saw something again. She was on her way to class when a vision flashed before her eyes, the first since her overdose. She saw a seventh year boy, Colin something-or-other, burning on the forest floor at sunrise, his echoing through the trees. But there was someone else there, too. Katherine what's-her-face. She was off to the side, shrouded in shadow, watching Colin burn. Lisa-Rose wasn't friends with either of them but even so she couldn't imagine what would make a scene like this happen? The vision vanished, and unbeknownst to her at the time but that was truly the last time she'd ever see the future in any way. But what did it mean? Was Katherine going to murder Colin?
Just because people knew she was a Seer didn't mean Lisa-Rose trusted anyone to believe her. Maybe it was the years of trauma giving her that response, but ultimately she decided to play it safe and gather some evidence first. The last thing she wanted was to make a bold accusation just for it not to come true. She'd rather die than be seen as a liar ever again. So she began watching Katherine and Colin both, monitoring their schedules and looking for anything suspicious. The two barely interacted, let alone in a way that screamed potential murder, and after a couple weeks Katherine left school entirely. According to the rumors she had a family emergency and had to take the rest of the year off, so Lisa-Rose thought the matter was done with. Her random visions weren't always accurate anyway. However, when Colin disappeared around the same time, Lisa-Rose felt a chill go down her spine. She tried to share her worries with Professor Blanc, but she assured Lisa-Rose that only true prophecies are guaranteed to come true, and that visions are more like their unofficial cousin. They can come true, but those situations are in flux until they do or don't happen. Lisa-Rose accepted this explanation and went about her life as usual, but the whole situation still bothered her.
==== An Unfinished Future ====
Lisa-Rose continued writing letters to Juliet Noble. Their letters became more and more personal over time, until Lisa-Rose found herself writing about things she'd never even admitted to herself. She couldn't help but wonder if her feelings for Adrianna were becoming more than a friend and pen pal. The letters were the highlight of her days, and even though she had to censor a lot of information to not break the Statute of Secrecy, Lisa-Rose felt more connected and honest with Juliet than anyone she'd known before.
When Katherine returned to school a few weeks later, Lisa-Rose was visibly distraught over it. Another student, Adrianna Snape, approached her and called Lisa-Rose's odd reaction out. This girl also had concerns about Katherine, and explained the situation: Months ago Adrianna stumbled across someone in the woods, and when that person noticed her they stabbed her in the gut and left her for dead. The school suspected a dark wizard was using the Forbidden Forest to get onto the grounds, and the protective spells were touched up just in case. Adrianna recovered from the incident but after hearing about Colin's disappearance and Katherine's leaving, she suspected she stumbled onto something she shouldn't have. Maybe they were in on something together, Adrianna wasn't sure, but something was wrong with the situation and with Katherine back at Hogwarts she was determined to get to the bottom of it. Feeling justified in her own suspicions, Lisa-Rose told Adrianna about her vision of the forest. Together they came up with a plan and they marched into the Forbidden Forest in the dead of night. They soon found the area where Adrianna had been attacked, and after some wandering around they found what they were looking for: A patch of forest where the trees were charred and burned. Lisa-Rose knew it was the exact spot from her vision, and that means Colin either died here or the battle that was supposed to kill him happened here. She had no way to know for certain which way the future had gone, but she believed the worst.
Lisa-Rose resumed her surveillance of Katherine, this time with Adrianna's help. Unfortunately this landed them in the middle of her plot: Katherine managed to disarm both of them very easily, ambushing them in the Seventh Floor Corridor when they were trailing behind her. She forced them into a nearby classroom and used Silencio to quiet them, but they were discovered by another student, Kitten Jasmin, who wandered in looking for a book she'd forgotten. Knowing time was limited Katherine used a spell to knock over the bookshelf nearest Kitten, trapping her underneath it. Katherine then used Colloportus to lock them inside and went about enacting her vicious plan.
Lisa-Rose and Adrianna did their best to get the bookshelf off Kitten, but it was too heavy for them and their wands were still taken. Adrianna managed to break the handle on the door and ran to get help, or so Lisa-Rose assumed. She had no idea Adrianna chased after Katherine instead, intending to have a final showdown. Lisa-Rose stayed with Kitten for as long as she could, but as the girl slipped into unconsciousness and Adrianna still having not returned, Lisa-Rose ran to get help.
In the end, Katherine escaped Hogwarts having done everything she planned to do. Lisa-Rose wasn't privy to that information, the staff and Ministry were handling that, but Kitten survived with a few scrapes and a couple broken ribs. Lisa-Rose passed along all the information she had to the Aurors, and after she decided to distance herself from Adrianna Snape. While she appreciated the team they formed, she just didn't trust her anymore. While Kitten was injured and Lisa-Rose was muted Adrianna made her choice to go after Katherine instead of getting help for them. She knew why, and she did understand it, but that didn't mean she wanted that energy in her life. She went back to focusing on classes and hanging out with Roland and Kira, just happy that everything was over. She'd had enough drama for one lifetime.
===Lovers in the Wind (Age 17-23)===
Lisa-Rose graduated Hogwarts the following year. She celebrated at the ceremony with her friends and cousins. Her parents did also attend, and as she watched them in the audience, pretending to dab their tears and play the proud parents, she found herself letting go. They were who they were, and what happened, happened. Nothing could change that now. All she wanted was to focus on the future, especially now that she couldn't predict it.
Afterwards, she left everything behind and moved to America to be with Juliet. The two confessed their love and never looked back.
Having need of new pen pals, Lisa-Rose kept in contact only with her cousins, via letters. In one, a few years down the line, she mentioned working as a bartender in the Muggle world with plans of buying the place one day, and how she'd love if Cornelius and Brandon came down to visit sometime.
== Trivia ==
* Lisa-Rose first appeared in September of 2010, with the surname Marie. The character went mostly dormant after that, being brought back in April of 2011 with the surname Longbottom. The concept was a Luna Lovegood-like, manic-depressive drug addict.
* On May 1st 2011, the character gained the trait of Seer.
=== The Prophecy Explained ===
* Beware the prick of the thorny flower: Referring to Katherine Nightingale.
* and mourn the three that she devours: Referred to Katherine's three most impactful murders.
* The sun, the moon, the prodigal daughter: The three victims: Nymphamera Pierce, Colin Dumbledore, and Nardecca Novacaine.
* blood runs cold all those who fought her: Referred to herself and Adrianna Snape.
* Vengeance, sworn. A familial oath: Katherine's revenge driving her actions, and her secret ties to the Romanov family.
* Her escape assured, it's beyond reproach: Katherine's escape from Hogwarts.