The Girl Who Lived: the Sorcerer's Stone

disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. Things of my own creation, like the plot and original characters, are mine.

summary: Join Rose Potter and friends in her first year of Hogwarts. It will be a year full of magic, pranks, learning, and adventure. (AU, Harry as a girl. pairings: beginning of RPxCD)

Prologue

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 THE 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

"Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Potter. It's a healthy baby girl. What are you going to name her?" the healer asked as she handed a baby wrapped in blankets to a nervous father.

An exsausted Lily Potter answered, "Rose Angela Potter."

"A beautiful name for a beautiful baby girl. Yes, born on July 31, 1980 at 11:59p.m.," the healer muttered to herself as she filled out Rose's birth certificate.

"Lily, it's him! Take Rose and go! I'll hold him off!" James Potter yelled as the front door to his family's cottage was blown off its hinges. Lily Potter picked up their one year old daughter, Rose Potter, and ran up the stairs just as a blacked robed figure stepped in the cottage. James drew his wand.

"Jamesss Potter. Stand assside ssso I can kill Rossse," the figure hissed.

"NEVER! YOU WILL NOT KILL ROSE! YOU WILL HAVE TO KILL ME FIRST, VOLDEMORT!" James shouted.

"That can be arranged," Voldemort said as he drew his wand. "Avada Kedavra!"

James fell to the floor as the killing curse hit him in the chest. He was dead. (a.n. sorry for stating the obvious. Here's my sign)

Voldemort cackled and headed up the stairs in the direction Lily went. He entered a cheerful pink (EVIL COLOR!) room where Lily was leaned over a crib.

Lily turned and drew her wand as Voldemort entered.

"Ssstand assside woman."

"Please! Not Rose!"

"Ssstand assside."

"Not Rose!"

"You are tesssting my patienssse, woman. Avada Kedavra!"

Rose cried as she watched her mother fall to the floor.

"Finally, I have found you, Rossse Potter. Goodbye. Avada Kedavra!"

Voldemort laughed evilly as the killing curse rocketed towards little Rose Potter only stopping as the curse bounced off Rose's forehead and hit him. Voldemort screamed in agony as his soul (does he even have a soul?) was ripped from his body. With one last scream of pain, Voldemort fled from the Potters' burning cottage in Godric's Hollow.

A minute later, a rumble could be heard from the sky as a motorcycle descended. It rolled to a complete stop and a black haired man jumped off. As soon as he landed, he took off running towards the flaming house. He came to the living room of the house and tripped over a rather large thing. He cursed and looked at what he had tripped over. It was his best friend and basically brother, James Potter.

"James! Get up! Come on Prongs! Get up! You have to get up! James! Jam…" the man broke into sobs. "James come on! Get up! Damn it get up!" Just then, he heard someone crying from the second story of the house. He heaved himself off the floor and hurried towards the stairs. As he put his foot on the bottom stair he turned and said, "Goodbye, James. I will never forget you. You were the only family I ever had. Rest in peace, Prongs." He tore himself away before he broke down again and hurried up the stairs.

He came to the room from which the cries were coming from. It was Rose's room.

"O god. Rose!"

He rushed into the room and, once again, tripped over something, or rather someone.

"Lily! Not you to! Damn you Peter! I swear I will kill you for this! How could you! You left Rose without her parents!"

He picked up Rose seething. He perked up a little when Rose smiled innocently.

"Uc Pafoo! (Uncle Padfoot just so you know)" He cracked a smile.

"Let's get you out of here," Padfoot said gently. He ran down the stairs just as the upper was completely consumed in flames.

Once he was out of the house, he started towards his motorcycle when another voice called, "Halt, who goes there! Show yourself!"

Sirius turned around and breathed a sigh of relief. It was only Hagrid. Thank Merlin it wasn't rogue Death Eaters.

"Hagrid, its Sirius Black. I've got Rose as well," Sirius replied.

Hagrid walked over to him (which didn't take long) and said, "Give her to me, I've got to take her to Dumbledore."

"No, I'm her godfather, I'll take her."

Hagrid took Rose out of his arms with surprising gentleness from a man his size.

"Let me have Rose Hagrid! I'm her godfather!''

"It's Dumbledore's orders; she's to go to her relatives."

"Not those horrible muggles!"

"I'm sorry Sirius, but Dumbledore's orders."

Sirius was about to protest again before he remembered the rat. He could go after the traitor and come back for Rose...

He barely agreed to let Hagrid take her.

"Take my motorbike, I won't need it anymore."

With that Sirius turned and apparated away.

The only thing wrong with that plan was Sirius Black underestimated Peter Pettigrew and ended up in Azkaban. And Rose Potter ended up with her muggle relatives for ten years...or so we, and they, thought.

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