When Voldemort arrived at the Potter cottage in Godric's Hollow that night, he was intending to leave Lily Potter alive as a reward for his servant. Waking up a single mother the next morning, Lily has one goal: to do everything in her power to make sure her son has the best upbringing she can manage. The wizarding world is a strange and dangerous place, but she will protect him.

First attempt at a fic. JKR's version of what happened on Hallowe'en 1981 makes no sense. I have tried to provide a sequence of events to justify the actions of Dumbledore/Sirius/Hagrid based on the principle that nobody had any idea what was going on. Well meaning and not omniscient Dumbledore.