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)

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Chapter One

Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, and Severus Snape blinked as the door to Number Four, Privet Drive slammed in their faces.

"Damn muggles," Snape sneered.

"Really Severus! Miss Potter is and has been missing for ten years and all you can think of to say is 'damn muggles'? What is wrong with you?!" McGonagall yelled. Then she rounded on Dumbledore, "And you! What were you smoking when you decided to put her with them, when I specifically told you they were the worst kind of muggles?!"

"Now, Minerva, the blood protection…" Dumbledore started.

"Damn the blood protection! For all we know she could be dead! Then what is to come of your blood protection then, Albus? You could have placed her anywhere, any wizarding family, and she would have been protected. James was a pureblood, as you well know, and many other families were somehow related. You could have let her go with her godfather like she was supposed to! Or she could have gone…"

"I have a suggestion," Snape cut in. "How about we stop bickering about what could have happened, and focusing on how she got to the States?"

"The states? And how do you know where she is?"

"I took the liberty to perform a tracking charm while you were arguing. As she is so far away, it only told me she is somewhere near Ft. Worth, Texas."

"Why thank you Severus, that was a splendid idea. Shall we go find our wayward Miss Potter?" Dumbledore asked.

"Yes, of course!"

"If I must."

"Now, I imagine we will be going to an area vastly populated by muggles, so I am going to take the liberty of transfiguring our clothes to suitable outfits," Dumbledore said. With that, and a wave of his wand, he was in a navy business suit, McGonagall in a dark grey suit, and Snape in a maroon suit.

"Albus," Snape hissed. "If you don't change the color in less than ten seconds, I have a couple of untraceable poisons I wouldn't mind trying out on you."

"Yes, of course, my dear boy," Dumbledore chuckled with a twinkle in his eye. He flicked his wand again, and the color of Snape's suit went from maroon to black. "Now, I believe we all know the general location of Miss Potter? Very good, let's go." And with that, he apparated and the other two quickly followed.

(I don't know the time difference, so if this is completely off, I'm very sorry.)

When they arrived, they noticed it seemed to be quite hotter than they were used to. No matter, cooling charms quickly took care of that minor problem.

"Now that we're closer to her location we should be able to get a better reading. Severus, if you will…"

Snape quickly cast the tracking charm and the odd trio watched writing appear out of thin air to spell Rose Potter's location. It read as follows: Rose Angela Potter, (also known as: Alexandra Renae Brackin) Harvest Christian School, Ft. Worth, Texas.

"What is she doing in school at this time of the year?" Minerva exclaimed.

"Another question to which I don't know the answer to. Now we need to apparate outside of the school so we do not scare the muggles. See you there!" And with that he apparated and McGonagall quickly followed.

"That man needs to be in a mental institution," Snape said as he shook his head. Seconds later he followed the other two.

Without a word, the three of them walked into a small building. As they walked through a small hallway, they heard a voice ask, "May I ask what you are doing here at Harvest?"

The three turned to see a rather short woman standing behind them.

"We were wondering if we could possibly talk to young Miss Brackin. Do you know where she is?" Dumbledore asked kindly.

"Yes, I do. And may I ask why you are asking for her?" the woman said coolly.

"We're friends of her family and we haven't seen her for quite a while. Can you take us to her?" Dumbledore asked.

"Well, if you know her family…"

"Please ma'am, we've been in England, as you can tell, ever since she was a baby, and haven't seen her in years. We would be extremely grateful if you could take us to her."

"In that case, I think I can."

They walked silently through a hallway lined with doors on either side, with the woman leading the way.

"She's in here, with some others," the woman said as she knocked on the door before she opened it. Inside were two redheads, one a girl, the other, a boy, who had classes. In the room with them were three other pre-teens. "Can I see Alex for a while? There are some people who want to talk to her."

The two redheads looked up at the woman, and then glanced at each other.

"Yes, of course! Alex, off you go!" the teacher that was in the room said cheerfully. The redheaded girl got up gracefully from her desk, and walked slowly across the room to the door. As she saw the three of them, she whispered, "I know you." She tripped and her eyes started to roll. As she stumbled the boy was out of his desk, across the room and caught her just as she fainted.

"Can we go somewhere where we can talk privately, Mrs. Wellborn?" the boy asked quietly.

"Yes, of course! Take her to the auditorium and lay her down!"

The boy gathered Alex in his arms and led the way to the auditorium. He laid her down on a couple of chairs and turned to them.

"What's you name, dear boy?"

"Jonathan, and please excuse Alex, that happens once in a while when something triggers a memory. She'll be awake in," he checked his watch, "exactly six minutes. Until then, however, we can talk."

"How old are you, young man?" Snape asked rudely.

"Severus!" McGonagall exclaimed.

"Don't worry about it ma'am, I used to that kind of thing. And to answer your question, sir, fourteen."

"How did you meet Alex? From what we can tell, you two are really close." Dumbledore said.

"When I started attending here, I had heard of her but never really talked to her, I mean, she was an honor student, why would she want to hang out with a stupid orphan like me? And then one day I ran into her and knocked her books out of her arms, and her to the floor. After apologizing and helping her pick her books off the floor, we just got to talking and thing just went from there. I found out about her being an orphan as well, and that helped thing even more. She helped me out in our classes…"

"Excuse me, young man. Did you say our classes? Didn't you say you were fourteen? Are you that behind in classes?" McGonagall questioned.

"Yes, I said out classes, yes I'm fourteen, and no, she's just that far ahead of those her age. Well, now we're like siblings, we do everything together. Well, almost everything. I'm not as good with animals as she is. It's like she can talk to them. You should see her with her own horses! She's very good at dressage and three day eventing."

"Well, they can always go riding with me this afternoon and see it for themselves."

The four turned towards the new voice. They watched as Alex shakily rise into a sitting position. "Well, grandpa, grandma, long time no see."

Sorry for the long wait guys, this year's been extremely busy. It normally doesn't take me this long to update! The next chapter should be up really quick, because I already have part of it down, but no promises.

So, has anyone seen Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix yet? I thought it was great. Definitely better the Goblet of Fire was. The graphics were awesome! I'm gonna have to see it again. If you haven't seen it, I suggest you do so, you won't regret it.

Ta ta for now!

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