Phoenix Rose

I don't own any of the Characters you'll recognize

I also kind of don't own the plot. It's Anastasia, Harry Potter style.

Prologue: The Christmas Ball

Rose Weasley was happy as she twirled around in her dark red ball gown. Today was the day of the ministry's annual Christmas Ball, and Rose was finally going. Usually Rose had to stay at her grandparents' house with the rest of her younger cousins. Not this time. This year all of Rose's family would be attending, as well as all of her friends from school with their parents.

There was a knock on her door and Rose stopped twirling around so she could answer it.

Hermione Weasley, Rose's mum, was standing in the door way in a floor length sapphire dress.

"Hey can I come in?" Mrs. Weasley asked.

"Of course" Rose said and she took a step back so her mother could step into her room.

"I went to my first ball when I was fifteen" Mrs. Weasley started.

"You went with Viktor Krum" Rose said. Even though it happened a really long time ago, Rose's dad still brought it up.

"Yes, it was at Hogwarts, and I had a lot of fun. Week before the ball I wrote to my mother and she sent me this" Mrs. Weasley pulled out a beautiful silver necklace.

The necklace itself was silver, and there was a periwinkle blue and marcasite heart.

"It's beautiful" was all Rose could say as she looked at it.

"It's been in my family for generations, and now it is time I passed it along to you."

Rose had tears in her eyes as she put the necklace on. It was exactly the same color as her eyes.

"Thank you" Rose said as she hugged her mum.

"Okay," Hermione said, getting a little teary herself, "we don't want to ruin your make-up. Let's go see if your father and brother are ready."

It took twenty minutes to convince Rose's brother, Hugo, that he didn't look like a penguin in his dress robes. Finally the Weasleys were headed towards the ministry ball.

The hall that was rented out for the ball was abolusetly beautiful. There were chandeliers and ice sculptures, the ceiling was bewitched to make snow fall. The feeling of snow wonderland filled Rose's head. While her parents talked to all the big wig ministry people Rose went and found her best friend and cousin Roxanne.

Together the girls kept a look out for Haden Summers, the really cute third year who played for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Haden's father was junior undersecretary to the minister so he had to be here.

"ROSE!"

Rose spun around at the sound of her name. Her eyes landed on her cousin Al Potter, but he wasn't the one who called her, it was the blonde hair silver eyed boy standing next to him.

"Hey Al, Scor" Rose said as the boys walked over to them.

Scorpius Malfoy was nervous. When his father first told him that they would be attending the ball Scorpius was unhappy. He didn't want to get all dressed up and meet a bunch of boring ministry people. But then Scorpius' best friend Al said his whole family was going and Scorpius started to look forward to the ball. Every since their first train ride to school Scorpius had a quiet crush on Rose, Al's cousin. He didn't tell anyone. He was eleven for crying out loud, guys weren't supposed to like girls until they turned thirteen and started going through puberty. But Scorpius figured the least he could do was ask Rose for a dance since he was never going to act on his crush.

"So, why are you hiding in the corner?" Al asked his cousins.

"We are trying to find Haden Summers" Roxy said.

"Summers isn't here. His family went on vacation in Scilly." Al said.

Both girls looked disappointed.

"We were hoping to dance with him" Rose muttered.

"You can dance with me" Scorpius said. Internally he cursed himself, that was not the way he planned on asking her.

"Okay" Rose said jumping at the chance to dance with at least someone.

A slow melodic song came on and the two of them went onto the dance floor and swayed along to the music.

Close your eyes little girl

You're a princess now, you own this world

Twirling in your twirly dress

You're the loveliest far above the rest

You build your castles in the skies

Stars reflecting off your eyes

And angels sing on silver clouds

And no one cries, screams or shouts

It was a very pretty song and Rose felt it was very fitting to the moment. Because right now she felt like a princess. When the song went off Rose was surprised Scorpius still wanted to dance so they danced for two more songs.

Suddenly a scream went up into the air and everyone froze.

Before Rose could so much as wonder what was going on black smoke filled the room. There were lots of shouts. Scorpius held on tight to Rose's hand and they tried to bob and weave their way into safety. Flashing green and red lights filled the room and there were a lot of people running around.

Rose tripped in all of the confusion, her heel broke making her fall. People pushed her out of the way and she ended up away from Scorpius. She could barely hear him calling for her and she tried to answer. Rose took off her other shoe to make it easier for her to run.

She was paniced, where were her parent, what was going on? Just as the haze started to clear. Rose could faintly see an outline of at least ten people standing together with their arms raised. Rose wondered if they were Aurors, like her father and uncle. But before she could get a clear view, she was hit. As the spell hit her her mind went blank and that was all she knew.