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Rose Rita Pottinger is a resident of New Zebedee, Michigan, and the best friend of Lewis Barnavelt.

Background[]

Family:[]

Rose Rita is the daughter of George and Louise Pottinger and together the Pottinger family lives on Mansion Street. Their names are mentioned in The Specter from the Magician's Museum. Her parents love her but do not completely understand her. At least her mother respects Mrs. Zimmerman and is glad she is a friend to her daughter. Her husband is less supportive. Sometimes they argue, and Rose Rita accepts this as a fact of life.

Florence Zimmerman[]

Rose Rita thinks of Mrs. Zimmerman as her second mother (LETTER). It is true that our favorite witch/retired schoolteacher is good at explaining things to Rose Rita, and understands the confusion of growing up when Rose Rita can't explain it. In LETTER she tells an anecdote about herself and her cousin Oley that proves she, too, possesses the imagination to spin amazing tales. While her mother

Rose Rita has long, black, stringy hair, is one year older than Lewis (but in the same grade), and is prone to wearing a black plush beanie covered with cartoon-character buttons. She’s tomboyish by nature: she likes doing things that usually only boys would want to do, such as fishing, climbing trees, or playing baseball. As such, she wears a skirt and blouse to school only because she has to – as soon as she’s back home she’ll be in blue jeans and a sweatshirt.

Rose Rita wants more than anything to be a famous writer, and she can spin amazing stories with barely a prompt. Her ability to tell tall tales (or perhaps her inability to stop) can damage her credibility when she needs it the most. Although she tries not to lie to her mother, her mother does not tend to believe her because of her tall tales.

She suffers from claustrophobia.

Biography[]

Rose Rita meets Lewis Barnavelt shortly after his encounter with Selenna Izard and the Doomsday Clock.

Lewis Barnavelt Series
Bellairs Corpus
By John Bellairs
Completed by Brad Strickland
By Brad Strickland
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