The Girl Who Lived to be a Nightmare

Summary: What if the Potters never died that Halloween night? What if everyone believed that Rose Potter was the Girl-Who-Lived? What if Harry started to be ignored in favour of his sister, Rose? What if Harry knew all along that he was special and began practising magic at the age of 7? What if Harry began to do things that no one thought possible for a Potter? What if…

Disclaimer: I own nothing, not even the computer I'm typing on (not entirely anyways).

Thoughts

Parsletongue or Beast Speak

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 on an elaborately decorated throne. If a normal person were to see him, they would be wondering why he was sitting on a throne since everyone knew that the Queen of England was a woman and there were no current kings.

If they looked more closely however, the person would realize that this throne looked completely different than something the Queen would sit on. The throne was black, with silver and emerald trimmings accenting the pointed features of the throne. Also separating the throne from any others before it, were the intricate snake carvings that decorated almost every inch of the throne.

As different as the throne was from the Queen's, so were the differences between the man and any normal man. Looking at him, one would think that this man was not even human with his red eyes and snake-like features…

… they would be right.

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 he showed a defenceless child, none.

A massive snake lazily slithered across the floor of the empty room towards the Dark Lord.

"Massster," the snake spoke, sounding to the rest of the world as unintelligible hisses "The rat-man wishes to ssspeak witthhh you."

Rather than being shocked that a snake was trying to speak with him, like a normal person would be, Lord Voldemort responded to the snake with similar hiss-like sounds.

"Sssend him in," the Dark Lord hissed. Without hesitation, the snake slithered off and out of sight.

'What could Wormtail possibly want,' Voldemort thought to himself. 'It better be good news. I am NOT in the mood to be trifled with.'

Voldemort was interrupted from his musings when a young man stumbled through one of the many doors leading into the room. Even in the near-darkness, Voldemort could recognize the mousy brown hair and cowering hunch of Peter Pettigrew, also known as Wormtail.

As soon as Wormtail entered the room, he quickly scurried over to the throne of the Dark Lord and kissed his feet. While he was still bowing, Wormtail spoke up in a quiet, snivelling voice. "My Lord, I have finally done it. I have made myself the Potter's secret keeper."

Voldemort smiled, a truly terrifying sight since all of his teeth ended in sharp points.

"Yesss," Voldemort whispered, sounding very much like a snake. "Let uss leave now my sservant."

Without giving Wormtail time to react, Voldemort grabbed him and 'popped' out of sight.

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amethystdreamstar: Extremely short, I know, but I didn't want to deviate too much from how I first wrote this story under the name 'Sapphire Fire Stone'. I was shocked when I checked that account for the first time in 4 years (my friend wanted to read my first attempt at a story so I had to look it up) to see how many people loved that story, and decided to redo it on this account.

The original reason I stopped writing was because I got some bad reviews (which are gone now…) and got really discouraged. I've decided that even if I get bad reviews again, I'm going to keep writing since so many people liked it. I hope that the people who originally read this story are happy with the changes and continue to read and review, which is why I decided to keep writing in the first place :)

Amethystdreamstar

(or if you would prefer, Sapphire Fire Stone)