Rose Potter, The-Girl-Who-Lived

A/N: As the title suggests, this will contain fem!slash, and fem!Harry Potter. I do not own Harry Potter, etc. etc. etc.

Chapter Seven: Rose Potter and the Mystery of her Godfather

One great thing about being in her third year, was that she was now allowed to go to Hogsmeade, the village that was right next to Hogwarts. There were pubs, and nearly every type of shop that one could think of. There were the bookshops (which Rose literally had to drag Hermione out of a couple of times), the potions shop (mostly potions ingredients, though they did have a couple of pre-made potions that were marked as 'APPROVED BY THE POTIONS COUNCIL OF BRITAIN'), the post office, the quill shop, the pranking store, a clothiers, a sweets shop, and many others.

Rose thought that Hogsmeade always looked so picturesque, as most of the buildings were at least as old as the late Victorian era, with some dating back to the First Elizabethan Era. Rose thought that there must be some type of charm on the village, as there always seemed to be snow on the ground. It looked like something one would find on a postcard.

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Christmas came and went uneventfully. Ron and Neville both had gone home for the holiday, so Rose and Hermione nearly had the Common Room to themselves.

Slightly after the new year, Rose noticed an article in the paper saying that Sirius Black had been wrongly accused. It went on to say that the real culprit had finally been caught, and that Sirius Black would be given a large compensatory package for his wrongful time in Azkaban. The article also said that Mr Black forfeited some of the reward, as he was an unregistered Animagus (punishable by a fine of ₲10000 and a sentence in Azkaban of no longer a year for purebloods, ₲1,000,000 and/or life in prison without the possibility of parole for Muggleborns).

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Nearly as soon as school resumed in January, Wood started to schedule practises again. This match would be against a rather good looking Cedric Diggory and his Hufflepuffs.

He's good looking, thought Rose. But I don't think I'd ever date him.

Cedric was one of the few Quidditch players at the school that actually had his own fan-club. Rose was displeased to realise that she had a fan club, as well, made up mostly of the male students at the school, although there were a couple of exceptions (like Ginny Weasley). Rose had failed in her efforts to eradicate the club, and tried to insist that people know it was unofficial.

The Hufflepuffs were known as the team that played hard, but fair. The Ravenclaws had good strategy, but not necessarily the best team. Slytherin were usually the dirtiest players, especially against the Gryffindors.

The day of the game was cold and windy, however there was no rain, unlike with the game against Slytherin. The scoring came fast—within the first 20 minutes, the score was tied at 200 apiece. At an hour in, the Gryffindors had pulled ahead 440-300. It was then that Rose spotted the Snitch. It was almost directly above the centre circle, about 50 feet up. She had almost reached it when she felt even colder than she had been. Then the voice of her father. Then she fell.

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When she woke up, she was surrounded by her teammates. Hermione was there, as well.

'What happened?' she asked.

'A Dementor came onto the pitch,' said a Weasley Twin.

'You fell off your broom,' said the other.

'Your broom, incidentally, did not survive,' said Katie Bell, one of the Chasers. 'It flew into the same tree that Weasley did his first year.'

'That was his second year,' corrected Rose. 'That's the tree that hits back, right?'

'That's right on the galleons,' said Alicia Spinnet, one of the other Chasers. 'We were able to retrieve the pieces after the Headmaster did something to temporarily paralyse the tree. Unfortunately, your broom is a total loss.'

Rose looked around and couldn't see their captain. 'Where's Wood?' she asked.

'In the showers since the game ended five hours ago,' said Hermione. 'They think he's trying to drown himself.'

'The match?'

'We lost by ten,' said Fred. '440-450. We're still in the running, though, if Slytherin loses to Ravenclaw.'

A couple of days later, Rose received a note in the mail.

Dear Rose, my Prongslette,

I am Sirius Black, your godfather. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have been in Azkaban since your parents' murder. This summer, after I'm released from hospital, I plan to live with you and your Gran to ease myself into living with people again.

I saw that your broom was destroyed by a rather violent tree in your last match. Aurora (Professor Sinestra to you) told me that the other day. Therefore, since I have missed every birthday and Christmas since your first, you will be receiving a brand-new broom soon.

I hope to be out of diesem verdammten Krankenhaus (this place) soon. Then, we can finally be a family.

Your godfather/dogfather,

Sirius Black

PS: I'll explain the 'dogfather' bit when I see you next. It's barking mad!

Rose saw that the expletive phrase in German had been crossed out, and replaced with the second phrase. Professor Sinestra was a teacher who looked young, despite being the same age as Snape. She had flowing blonde hair, and charming forest green eyes, which were a different shade than Lily Evans-Potter, whom Rose had seen in photographs. Her nose looked like it had been broken a couple of times, but there were rumours that she used to play Quidditch.

Most of the boys had crushes on her, and she seemed to really be a down-to-earth type of woman. If that rumour was true, then she'd probably keep Sirius in line.

True to his word, the new broom came a couple of days later, leaving Rose with plenty of time to practise for the game against Ravenclaw. When she opened the packaging, she realised that it wasn't just a broom. It was a Firebolt, one of the newest brooms on the market, that she'd read were to be favoured at the World Cup that summer. The broom had literally just been released a couple of weeks earlier.

Wood was amazed when he saw it.

'We're going to win the match for sure!' he said.

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One weekend, Rose decided not to go to Hogsmeade, and to instead see Professor Lupin. She had something on her mind ever since it happened: why didn't Professor Lupin let her face the Boggart. He had frantically jumped in front of her when her turn came.

'Why didn't I let up face the boggart?' asked Remus. 'Merlin's beard, girl, they told me you were smart. I'd assumed that it would take the form of Lord Voldemort.'

'At first, I thought that it would,' admitted Rose. 'But then I remembered the Dementors. Why do they affect me so much?'

'You've seen true horrors in your life, Rose,' said Lupin. 'There is a defence against them, except most adult witches and wizards cannot perform the spell.'

'What is it?'

'It's called the Patronus Charm,' said Lupin. 'With the Patronus Charm, you need to focus on a single memory or happy feeling, and really focus on that. You say the incantation, and the Patronus is produced.'

'What is a Patronus?'

'A Patronus is a type of spirit guardian between you and the Dementor,' said Lupin. 'The shape is different for everyone. Mine is a wolf, and Professor McGonagall's is a cat that looks remarkably like her Animagus form.'

'If you come back in a week, I can begin to teach you,' he continued. 'I'm starting to feel a little under the weather, and I'm afraid that I'll be sick for a couple of days.'

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A couple of days later, Lupin told Rose that he could give her lessons at the Patronus (of which he didn't claim to be an expert). She went to his office at the appropriate time, and found him there with a cabinet.

'Hello, Rose,' said Lupin. 'If you are correct and the boggart becomes a Dementor, our lessons will be a lot easier. The spell is Expecto Patronum! Remember, you have to think happy thoughts—that's not always the easiest around Dementors, of course.'

Her first attempt failed miserably, and Lupin had to banish the boggart back into the cupboard. Her second attempt, with a different memory, produces some mist.

'You're getting there, Prongslette!' said Lupin. 'There are many wizards who can't even progress this far.'

'Why do you and Sirius call me that?' asked Rose.

'Because your father was nicknamed "Prongs" due to his Stag Animagus form and Patronus,' said Lupin. 'And since you're his daughter, we added the -ette at the end. Do you want to have another go?'

The third time was a charm, if you'll forgive the pun. It was exhausting, but she managed to produce a doe Patronus, which she was able to hold for about 10 seconds.

'That's great!' praised Lupin. 'It looks like Lily's Patronus—a doe. Now, we need to continue our lessons so that you can hold it for longer. Ten seconds isn't going to do much against a Dementor.'

They continued their lessons every week, and by the time of the game against Ravenclaw, Rose was able to hold her Doe Patronus for over 2 minutes, which seemed like an eternity when she was doing it.

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The game against Ravenclaw would decide who won the Cup. Since Ravenclaw was 2-0, a win or a loss by 40 points or fewer would guarantee them the cup. The Gryffindors needed a win of 50 or more points. Both Ravenclaw and Gryffindor would have 2-1 records, but Gryffindor would have the tiebreaker on Point Difference.

The temperature for the game was a cool 21 degrees C, it was sunny, with a slight breeze. It was perfect Quidditch conditions. The Cup was in the tunnels near where the players flew out, but the players on both teams knew that they should never touch the Cup until they'd won it.

The players flew out to thunderous applause from the crowd. Slytherin and Ravenclaw were cheering for a Ravenclaw win, the Hufflepuffs wanted to see a good game, and naturally the Gryffindors were cheering for a Gryffindor Quidditch Cup win.

'Welcome to today's match,' said the commentator, the Weasley twins' friend, Lee Jordan. 'Perfect weather today to decide who wins the Hogwarts Quidditch Cup!'

A number of times, Cho fell for Rose's feints, as Rose dove to the ground pretending to have seen the Snitch. Rose would then pull up at the very last second (and with this broom, it was easier to do). If the opposing Seeker fell for the trick, they'd plough into the pitch. Cho fell for two of these.

Soon, the score was 100-60 in favour of Gryffindor. Rose started looking for the Snitch in earnest now. She really hoped that Gryffindor could score a couple of more goals. Rose got blocked by Cho, but Rose was clever. She dodged Cho, and then saw something come onto the pitch. It was three Dementors! She took out her wand and cast the Patronus Charm at them. She didn't stay to see what it did, since the Snitch was 60 metres ahead.

Cho was hurtling towards it at 50 kph, but Rose was faster at over 100 kph. She got there first, and grasped the Snitch.

They'd won the game 250-100 and the Quidditch Cup.

Dumbledore brought the Cup onto the field, wearing white gloves. He then handed the trophy to Oliver Wood, who handed it to Rose, who handed it to the Chasers line.

The party in the Gryffindor Common Room, which included butterbeer, pumpkin fuzz, and several bags of Honeydukes Sweets, lasted so long that McGonagall came up to the Common Room at 02:00 to tell everyone to go to bed.

Rose learned the next day that Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle had been pretending to be Dementors, and were each fined 30 points and a week's detention.

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The next Charms class, they covered Cheering Charms, which Flitwick heavily suggested would be on the Final Exam. Everyone was rather happy after the class, as Professor Flitwick seemed to have forgotten to teach them the counter-charm.

Rose could only partially imagine the horrors that must've occurred if the Weasley twins had ever done that lesson.

'The fates have informed Professor Trelawney that you actually won't die this year,' said Lavender, after coming back from a Divination Class.

'Why would she keep predicting deaths?' asked Rose. 'Hasn't she anything better to do?'

'You and Hermione are the same,' said Parvati, Lavender's friend. 'Divination isn't something learned from a book, it's a practical application.'

'And crystal balls are a practical application?' asked Rose. She could never understand Lavender and Parvati's obsession with Divination.

'You would have hated Divination, and I'm pretty sure that whatever is in that Muggle Studies textbook is at least half-a-century out of date. I'm glad we didn't take those classes,' said Rose to Hermione later. 'I'm sure that you could pass the OWL for that class without even revising. You probably know more than the invigilators anyway.'

Hermione quickly agreed as she'd seen the textbook for Muggle Studies before. It was laughable what the Wizarding World thought about the Muggles. The book didn't even mention any of the more interesting inventions of the late-19th century and the 20th century.

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The exams were coming up, so Hermione had Neville, Ron, and Rose revising every possible minute. These were important exams, of course, as their OWLs were only two years away. Rose and Hermione revised their Ancient Runes and Arithmancy, whilst Neville and Ron pretended to revise their Divination.

Most of the year, Ron had been making up predictions for that class, which annoyed Hermione a lot.

Even the twins were revising, as it was their OWL year; their older brother, Percy, was taking his NEWTs, and needed to get top grades, as he wanted to join the Ministry.

Percy was giving out draconian punishments to anyone who disturbed the peace in any way, for example, 100 points and a month's detention for being too loud. McGonagall had to overturn most of these point losses.

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For their exams, Professor Snape assigned them a Confusing Concoction, which Rose managed to do fairly well. History of Magic was on Wednesday, where Rose remembered much more of the material than she would have thought.

In Transfiguration, they had to do multiple tasks, including turning a teapot into a tortoise ('mine looked more like a turtle,' claimed Hermione in fright), which most of the students found to be difficult.

Charms consisted of Cheering Charms, among other things. Rose had slightly overpowered hers on Hermione, so Hermione was more manic than usual.

Herbology was Wednesday, which took place in the greenhouses, which gave them all sunburns.

Defence Against the Dark Arts was a rather unusual exam: Professor Lupin had designed an obstacle course. They had to wade across a pool containing a grindylow, cross a series of potholes that contained Red Caps, and make their way through a marsh whilst ignoring commands from a hinkypunk.

The pièce de résistancewas an old trunk that contained a boggart. Rose and Hermione were both able to defeat theirs. Rose's Dementor turned into a dead Hermione, which she then resurrected with the Riddikulus charm. As she passed by, the professor told her she got full marks.

'Was it iambic pentameter McGonagall again?' asked Rose afterwards.

'No' said Hermione before answering. 'She sang opera this time.'

Ancient Runes was a series of translations—Hermione was sure that she'd mistranslated one of the runes, and Arithmancy was a series of maths equations.

Hagrid set both a practical exam and a theory exam. The theory exam asked questions about some of the creatures they'd studied that year.

The practical exam was care of a Flobberworm, which was one of the easiest exams Rose had ever sat. The easiest way to keep a flobberworm alive was to leave it alone.

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The last week of classes went quickly, although Rose found out that Professor Lupin was a werewolf.

'Did my parents care?' she asked him.

'No,' said Lupin. 'Your dad became an Animagus for me. See, a werewolf only attacks humans. An animal prevents the werewolf from harming itself.'

He then told her that 'someone let it slip,' that he was a werewolf, and he was being forced to resign. He coughed the word, 'Snape' as he said that. 'I may come by the Longbottom house to let Sirius know what's been happening the last couple of years.'

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'By now, I am sure that you know that your godfather is the infamous Sirius Black,' said Dumbledore after calling Rose to his office. 'I'm told that as soon as he is released from the hospital, he will be joining you at the Longbottom household. I believe that will be very soon, as your godfather has already attempted to seduce quite a number of the nurses at St Mungo's. That isn't to say that they didn't also to have him seduce them. I am hoping that Professor Sinestra will keep him in line. I'd again like to apologise for leaving you with those Muggles. While I am not usually prejudiced, for them, I can make an exception.'

'There is nothing to forgive, Headmaster,' said Rose.

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Soon, they were on the Hogwarts Express heading home. This would be the second time that she would be going to the Longbottom household; this would be the first time her godfather would be joining her.

'It's the World Cup this year,' said Rose.

'Yes, in the USA,' replied Hermione. 'My dad says that Brazil are heavily favoured to win.'

'You're talking about football?' asked Rose. 'I meant the Quidditch World Cup. It's being hosted here in England, and Sirius has a number of tickets for the Final that he received as part of the compensation. You and Neville are welcome to come.'

'It should be fun,' said Hermione. Neville nodded.

'I don't think that Gran wants to get tickets,' he said. 'She doesn't like Quidditch much. Plus, the tickets can be expensive.'

'I heard that the Weasleys are going?' asked Hermione.

'Ginny said that their dad got a good deal on them from someone at the Ministry,' replied Rose. 'Knowing the Ministry, Mr Weasley did someone a favour, and they used pureblood politics to get him tickets.'

'That's probably right,' said Hermione. 'I'll ask my parents if I can go.'

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A/N: There are no pairings with Ginny nor Luna yet, at this point Hermione and Rose are just close friends (but romance for them will be down the line)

Also, while I realise that during the first four years of Hogwarts, a witch's body begins to change, just figure that there are potions for everything.

First Elizabethan Era was 1558-1603

Second Elizabethan Era is 1952-? (although who knows if historians will actually call it that)