What if…?

Summary: What if the Potters never died that Halloween night? What if everyone believed that Rose Potter was the Girl-Who-Lived? What if the Potters became egoistic gits and ignored Harry in favour of Rose? What if Harry knew all along that he was special and began practising magic at the age of 7?

Disclaimer: I own nothing, not even the computer that I'm typing on.

Italics are thoughts Bold is parsletounge or beast speak Bold and Italics is writing or letters Prologue: Down a Different Road

In life we meet many different types of people,

The ones worth knowing are the ones who don't change who they are,

No matter what life throws at them.

Unknown location

In a large, dark room, a man sat in a throne. One may have been wondering why he was sitting on a thrown, since everyone knows that the queen of England is a woman, and that there were no kings at the present time, but this man was different. If one were to look at him though you would not think that he was a human, he had red eyes, and his features reminded one of a snake. You see this man was a wizard. He was no ordinary wizard though. Oh no, this man was Lord Voldemort, the most powerful dark lord since Salazar Slytherin. He showed about as much mercy on an armed man as a defenceless child, none.

A large snake slithered up to the Dark Lord, "Massster", it spoke, "the rat-man wisshess to ssspeak with you."

Voldemort hissed back, "sssend him in." The snake slithered off and out of sight. Voldemort wondered what Wormtail could possibly want.

He was interrupted from his musings as a young man stumbled threw one of the many doors. He went up and kissed Lord Voldemort's feet and said in a snivelling voice, "My Lord, I have finally done it. I have made myself the Potter's secret keeper."

Lord Voldemort smiled, which was a truly terrifying sight since his teeth were all ended in sharp points. "Yess," he said, his voice sounding very much like a snake. "Let uss leave now my sservant." Voldemort grabbed onto Wormtail and 'popped' out of sight.

I know its short, I'm not supposed to be on right now cause it's the middle of the night and my mom doesn't let me on the computer on weekdays. Like it? Love it? Hate it? I'd really appreciate if someone reviewed, and no flames, this is my first attempt so be nice. I know your gonna think that this will be like other 'brother of the boy-who-live' fics but it wont be, you should have figured that out in the summary.