Chapter 1- Dumbledores Mistake
The birth of the young Potters triplets was a joyous event with laughter and tears. Lily and James Potter could not have been any happier than sitting in bed together with their three triplets in their arms at St Mungos.
Their oldest child was named Vanessa Rose for her first name was her mother's side grandmother and meant a butterfly and her middle name was kept in the Evans tradition of having a flower for her name.
Their 2nd child was their first and only boy Harry James for his first name meant Commander and his middle name was his father's name.
Their youngest was named Cherish Carnation for her first name meant Loving and Benevolent and her middle name was again a flower.
Overall they were happy with the names they chose and glad that they suited each child. They were each beautiful and unique in their own way each having all of the redeeming qualities of their parents.
Vanessa had her mothers' red hair that curled just like Lily's, light hazel eyes from her father surrounded by long ginger eyelashes. She was the chubbiest of them all and had perfect red lips from her mother.
Harry was the spitting image of his father with the raven black hair that even at birth stood up at all places, the same chin, mouth and nose. The only difference was that he had his mothers sparkling emerald green eyes.
Cherish was by far the most beautiful even if her parents refused to admit it, she had her fathers raven black hair but it did not style like her parents but was straight instead. She had her mothers emerald green eyes that sparkled with her emotions surrounded by long black eyelashes. Her face was pure white but had a beautiful rosy coloured blush.
Peter Pettigrew was named Vanessa's godfather, Sirius Black was named Harry's and Remus Lupin was named Cherishes'. They were all decided by choice because as soon as Sirius saw Harry and his laughable manner Sirius thought that Harry most represented him.
Remus knew that Cherish was most like him as she was the more observant and quiet of the bunch and Peter got chosen Vanessa. Pettigrew did not see any resemblances but if you observed closely enough you would notice Vanessa was the loudest and whiniest of the triplets and would cry at anything much like Wormtail.
A few weeks before the triplets would have been 6 months Lily and James were informed of a prophecy that meant that they had the chosen one.
It went like this:
The one with the power to vanquish the dark lord approaches…
Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies…
And the dark lord will mark her as his equal, but she will have power the dark lord knows not…
And either must die at the hands of the other for neither can live while the other survives…
The one with the power to vanquish the dark lord will be born as the seventh month dies.
Dumbledore and them figured out the hints in the prophecy and realized that it could only be the Potters as the Longbottom family had a boy while the prophecy clearly stated that the chosen one was a girl.
They soon moved into a small cottage in Godrics Hollow and they were to wait there for their own protection. They placed several protection charms around the cottage one being the fidelus charm. The secret keeper was James' best friend Sirius Black.
Soon after though they received news that brought the prophecy almost all out of their minds together. It appeared to be that Lily was expecting a new baby and with difficult and advanced spells from St Mungos they discovered it was going to be a girl.
James and Lily began creating a new nursery with an enlargement charm on the cottage. It was going to be for Vanessa and their new baby girl.
The triplets could almost feel the excitement and happiness in the air and they began to quieten and help by keeping the peace with each other.
Soon after Dumbledore began suspecting that there may be a spy in the Order and after much negotiating they decided that the Secret Keeper would be changed to Pettigrew. This was because it was too obvious that Sirius was the secret keeper and Peter would not be suspected at all.
On Halloween it was another St Mungos' appointment for news on how the baby was doing health wise. It was expected that Lily would go while James stayed with the triplets.
But right at the last minute James found the recordings of the last x-ray of the baby so he flued off to give Lily the file.
This was the worst mistake or perhaps the best idea James ever had because just as he flued off Voldemort blasted the door open. After realizing that James and Lily were not at the residence he walked up to the triplet's nursery.
The door was already open so he stepped in and took in his surroundings. Three cribs were pushed together with a name on each. He walked to the children and found that none of them were asleep and that the two black haired ones were in the same crib and the red haired girl was next to them.
As soon as they spotted Voldemort Vanessa burst out into tears and began screaming for her parents. Harry and Cherish stayed silent but you could see that Harry looked afraid while Cherish stayed immune to the snake like face of Voldemort.
Riddle knew that the one that was to supposedly defeat him was one of the Potters girls and so after much deliberating between the two he chose the black haired girl for she looked more likely to defeat him.
As if she knew that Voldemort had chosen to kill him she pressed her forehead against Harry's and placed her hands in his. Riddle aimed for their foreheads that were together and chuckled to himself.
'Two birds with one spell' he thought to himself slightly altering the old muggle saying. He then cast the unforgivable curse that had so often escaped his lips.
"Avada Kedavra!"
The last thing he saw was a slight glow emitting from the two which was golden in colour. Then he felt a pain so torturous that it would compare to the Cruciatus.
Voldemort was no more.
The cottage crumbled around the nursery and left a scar that looked similarly like a VR on her neck from the wall that had broken.
It was at this stage that James apparated to the outside of his protection shields and saw the cottage half destroyed.
He being the Gryffindor he was ran to the door and with all determination he had sprinted to the nursery in hope that at least one of his daughters was still alive. He was beyond relieved when he heard Vanessa crying loudly and Cherish and Harry sitting next to each other bleeding profusely.
'Their alive!' He thought to himself. Cherish and Harry was under scraps of the cottage but Vanessa was completely under the wood so he rushed to take it off her.
He noticed the scar on her neck that was shaped into a VR and thought to him that his butterfly was the Girl_Who_Lived as Harry and Cherish were together and Vanessa was by herself. Soon after taking the children out of the nursery he flued to St Mungos and rushed to Lily's ward.
When finding Lily she immediately asked what happened that would rush her husband to St Mungos with her three babies in such a worried state.
James filled Lily in on what happened when he arrived back home and what he thought happened. Dumbledore soon arrived after receiving a warning from his security shield that dark magic was being used in the Potter household.
After seeing it empty he jumped to the worst but knowing Lily was at St Mungos for her regular check up so he immediately apparated there. To say he was relieved when he saw the three triplets and James alive was a bit of an understatement.
Dumbledore began interrogating James on what happened then he looked at the triplets. He saw the VR scar on Vanessa's neck and he immediately connected it up to the fact that Toms' favourite cursing spot was the neck.
He did not even see the scars on Cherish and Harry's forehead as they were covered by hair. If he did look he would have seen that Harry had a lightning bolt on the middle of his forehead and Cherish had one on her temple.
Dumbledore didn't even cast any spells to check as he immediately thought of the evidence that went for Vanessa Rose to be the Girl_Who_Lived. For one she was female and so that classified for the prophecy, she was the oldest triplet and so even at young age she would feel obligated to protect her younger siblings from harms way.
She had the scar on Toms' favourite cursing spot and she was the unique one compared to her siblings as she had the red hair and hazel eyes.
And so with this evidence Dumbledore classified Vanessa Rose Potter as the Girl_Who_Lived. Her parents were so proud of their baby's triumph that they completely forgot about the reason they were at St Mungos in the first place and spent the next week celebrating with friends and family.