A/N: This fic is the second I have ever written so I hope it goes over well, and also gets more reviews than my other work in progress, but anyway I hope you enjoy this.

Summary: It has be close to six years since Harry and the gang have graduated from Hogwarts, Voldemort is still on the loose and ever present in the back of Harry's mind.CHo is moving in with him after they have been going out for like three years, Ron and Hermione are married and so on this fic is going to be a mirror of sorts, of what happened during the time that the Muraders had been alive after they graduated from Hogwrts. well anyway, Enjoy; Nothing except the plot is my own;

El Permanente

HISTORY IS REPETED

Chapter 1 - Disaster at the Ministry

It had been a quiet few days at Godric's Hollow, the current residence of now 22 year old Harry Potter, Auror for the Ministry of Magic, and former Hogwarts student/celebrity, and current member of the O.O.T.P. (Order of The Phoenix).

On this particular evening Harry was sitting at the desk in his den reading a letter which he had just received from his girlfriend Cho Chang. The letter read:

Dear Harry

I hope that you're enjoying your time off from work, seeing how it has been such a long time since you have had a vacation from work I guess that I am asking a question with an obvious answer to it. Anyway you'll never guess what has just happened to me, I have just received the chance of a lifetime, I was just offered a chance to become the starting seeker for the Tornados...

Cho Played Quidditch which was the wizard community's favourite sport and pastime. The team that Cho played for was the Tutshell (A/N: I think that's how you spell it, I couldn't find it anywhere in the books) Tornados, a team which she had been a fan of since she was just six years old. Harry remembered during his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, how her face had lit up when she had received the letter from the Tornados asking her if she would consider trying out for the teams seeker position for the coming season. Harry recalled how excited she had sounded in her letter when she had written to him telling how she had made the team as reserve seeker and how she didn't care if she wasn't playing because she was just happy being part of the team.

Harry read on:

…I can't believe that this is happening I'm f finally going to get the chance that I have been waiting for all this time (Which had be quite a bit of time, six years in fact it had taken for this opportunity to arise) I am so excited as you can probably tell by looking at my writing and how messy it is in this letter. By the way I'll be at Godric's Hollow in about three days instead of tomorrow, because today and tomorrow, I'm going to be evaluated for the position tomorrow, you know medical examination and so on, at that time I guess I'll be bringing all my stuff over to your house. I can't believe that we are going to be moving in with each other my goodness its amazing how quickly tine flies isn't it? I can hardly wait to get there. Anyway I'm going to bed now can't wait to see you.

Wish me luck, much love;

Cho

Harry re-read the letter twice more. When he read the part about "how time flies" he couldn't help but remember going into the sixth year at school. He had thought that things between him and Cho would forever be left on the horrible note that they had ended in his fifth year at school when they had an enormous fight, because Cho was sticking up for her friend Marietta Edgecomb, who had ratted all of them out to professor Deloris Umbridge, a toad like women who had represented the M.O.M., (Ministry Of Magic) who at the time did not believe Harry about Voldemort, the most evil and powerful Dark Lord in wizarding to have ever existed, having returned to power. When Harry had returned to school for his sixth year, having recently gotten over the death of his godfather Sirius, Harry had felt that he really had not been very fair to Cho, and he felt it his duty to fix things with her before she graduated at the end of the year, so that they could at least still be friends. In The end after they both made there apologies to each other, Harry admitting that he had been a real jerk to her, and Cho admitting that she had no idea what it was that Harry had been going through at the time and now that she knew she felt incredibly stupid and heartless. Later after not seeing each other for close to three years they had run into each other at a quidditch match between Puddlemere United, and the Tornados, reserve teams. They ran into each other by chance after the match was over, and had been seeing each other ever since.

Harry read over the letter another couple of times, he was doing this simply to pass the time, as he was waiting for a large group of his friends, who were coming to visit and also to help Cho moving in with Harry. After reading the letter for a twentieth time he finally put it down, and began to stroll through what had once been his parent's home. The house had needed rebuilding due to its destruction which occurred when Voldemort had attacked and killed his parents, in the process of an attempt to kill him, an attack that when it was turned on Harry, backfired making Harry famous as "The boy who Lived" As Harry walked around the house he could still feel his parents presence even though the house had been rebuilt, and they had not lived there for twenty two years.

The doorbell rang, and Harry went to answer it. He had a pretty good idea of who it was in the last few years of his life; Harry seemed to have developed the power to sense the presence of people nearby and at this particular moment he was sensing his best friends; Ron and Hermione Weasley, and sure enough as he opened the door, he found that his senses had been correct.

"You're early" he told them

"What do you mean early?" Hermione snapped, "I told you that we would be here at exactly 6:50 PM and here we are." Harry looked down at his watch and sure enough it was exactly 6:50 PM, he couldn't help but smile and answered,

"No, no, What I mean is that I just got an owl from Cho telling me that she's going to be here in three days, instead of today, because she has a chance to become the starting seeker for the Tornados," Harry explained.

"Oh!" said Hermione, "well at least this gives us three days to catch up with what has been going on with in your life lately." Harry couldn't help but agree this was the first he had seen of his friends in months, due to each of them having such busy schedules, which made it impossible any of them to meet up; Harry was surprised that Hermione found enough hours in the day. Hermione worked for Gringots wizarding bank, along side Ron's older brother Bill as a curse-breaker, and if she wasn't at work, most of the time she would spend her time doing her duties as the president and only member of S.P.E.W. (Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare) while Ron, to the suprise of nobody, had decided to work at the Ministry of Magic in the department of Magical Games and Sports.

"So, how has your vacation been?" Ron asked Harry

"Alright I guess" Harry lied; he had actually spent his time off the same way that he spent all of his Vacations/ Breaks; with a nagging little voice in the back of his head warning him not to let his guard down because who knew when Voldemort would attack him again. The question that bothered Harry constantly was how? How was Voldemort going to come after him this time? The last decent chance that Voldemort had had to permanently be rid of Harry had occurred during Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts. The aftermath of that event was the loss of Harry's godfather Sirius. Since that time however Voldemort and his supporters had made a few more attempts but they had never come as close to succeeding as they had on the night of Sirius's death. As far as avenging his godfathers death went, Harry had no regrets, his godfather's murderer Belatrix Lestrange had met her end at his hands and a far as Harry was concerned the matter was closed.

This was the first time that Ron and Hermione had visited him since Harry had moved into his parents recently rebuilt home in Godric's Hollow, so they spent the rest of the afternoon taking the official tour of the house; its ample sleeping quarters, and many corridors. After showing them to one of the rooms that Harry had had his volunteer house elf Dobby prepare for them and the other guests that were coming to help Cho move into the house, Harry left the two too their unpacking. He knew from experience that it was better to leave them to the task on there own, since they were very prone arguing, and these arguments were famous for drawing and unsuspecting innocent bystander into the middle of them, a place that Harry would not recommend to anybody, not even his worst enemy. Sure enough, after about five minutes Harry could hear Hermione berating Ron.

"I must have reminded you a million times before we left to pack that but as usual I might as well have been talking to a brick wall!!" a comment which would quickly be answered by a comment from Ron that would go something like…

"Well excuse me for missing one of the million requests that seem to come from your mouth, besides I never really had time to pick it up considering that I was loaded down with the millions of books that you seem to deem necessary for me to carry for you. With the amount I was carrying you would think that I had become some kind of portable library looking to start some kind of variety rivalry with the library at Hogwarts!!"

Later that night at dinner the three friends talked covered in a way that they hadn't since they had done since the time of their final departure from Hogwarts, covering topics ranging from quidditch, to the business of the O.O.T.P. When the topic of quidditch came about they discussed how Ginny, Ron's younger sister was doing very well with Puddlemere United as she was currently leading the league in goals. After discussing this topic long into the night Ron and Hermione bid Harry goodnight as they were both tired from their long trip. After they had gone to bed Harry took advantage of his remaining energy to write Cho back and give her his, Ron and Hermione's best wishes and support. Just as he had finished writing the letter, his owl Hedwig flew in from her nights hunt. "Feel up to a delivery to night?" Harry asked her as he scratched the back of her head, Hedwig hooted excitedly as it had been the first time in a while that Harry had used her to deliver mail to anybody.

The next morning Mr. and Mrs. Weasley Sr. arrived at Godric's Hollow followed by Fred and George Weasley who had all come to help Harry clean up the place a bit, also to help him make room so that they would have an easier time of organizing Cho's things when they arrived at the house.

Later that afternoon Neville Longbottom and Ginny Weasley, since the two were going out they had decided to travel together. Neville was perhaps the biggest surprise out of all of his peers, he surprised everybody, especially those in his family when he had decided to follow in his parents footsteps and become an auror alongside Harry, Dean Thomas, and Seamus Finnegan two of Harry's other schoolmates.

At dinner Harry and Ginny discussed quidditch and Puddlemere Utd. "So how is Oliver Wood these days?" Harry asked, Oliver Wood had been the quidditch team captain of Gryffindor House during the first three years that Harry had been playing quidditch for his school house which just happened to be Gryffindor, but Wood had been signed to Puddlemere during Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts.

"Well…" Ginny said "you heard that he had to retire early due to health concerns right?"

"No I never heard that!?!" Harry answered suprised that Oliver would allow something like his health come between his precious quidditch and himself.

"Yeah" Ginny answered "but he stayed on as team manager/coach, and he just works us into the ground every chance he gets during practices."

When Harry heard this he couldn't help but burst out laughing, he remembered all too well the kind of practice that Oliver Wood ran and it was something that just like being in the middle of Ron and Hermione's arguments he wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

After dinner nobody seemed to have any energy left in them to continue cleaning, nobody that is except Mrs. Weasley, who the second that she walked through the door had told Harry that it was a good thing that Cho was moving in because it was evident that his house was in desperate need of a women's touch, much to the amusement of the twins. Mrs. Weasley's limitless energy didn't seem to be fazed in the least, and she had insisted that continue to clean, until finally Mr. Weasley, who began to sense the telltale signs of a mutiny on the horizone convinced her to call it a night.

When Harry entered his room, he found Hedwig in there with a letter in attached to her leg. As it turned out the letter was from Cho, and read:

Dear Harry

Thank you so much for the words of encouragement, you have no idea how much they helped, also thank Ron and Hermione too, it's a great feeling to know that you have the support of you friends and family, which is what I consider you all to be. Great news by the way, I got the position, so you are now reading the letter of the first string seeker for the Tutshell Tornados. I don't think that I have ever felt so happy in my entire life, I feel like I could break into song and dance at any moment. I sent Hedwig ahead of me to let you know that I should be arriving there around noon, I'm meeting your friends Dean, and Seamus at my place, they offered to help me bring things from my house over. It was weird I don't even know what it was that they were doing out here and I can't help but not believe their whole "oh just happened to be out here and thought we'd take a look" excuse but anyways I'm probably just being paranoid.

Lots of Love;

XOXO;

Cho

After reading the letter Harry felt a kind of buzz go through him and he realized that sleeping was going to be impossible. He went downstairs to the kitchen to fix himself some tea and found Mr. Weasley still there.

"Couldn't sleep?" Arthur Weasley asked.

"Not anymore…" Harry answered as a grin slowly began to creep over his face "I just received a letter from Cho so sleep probably won't be possible for a few hours"

"Really?" inquired Mr Weasley "Ginny told me that she was offered the starting seeker position with the Tornados, did she make it? Harry nodded as he grin on his face threatened to take over his entire face.

"Yes she did, she also said that she would be arriving here around noon tomorrow, by the way Arthur I wanted to thank you and Molly for coming over to give us a hand with all of this."

This time it was Arthur's turn to chuckle "My boy it's no trouble at all, do you have any idea how much Molly has been worrying about … oh how did she put it, that's right the poor boy all alone in that big house with nobody to care for him were her exact words" Arthur Weasley said the grin on his face ever present. "So Harry, how are Cho's things getting here?" Arthur continued.

"Dean and Seamus are helping her bring the majority of her things over, but after that I think we can bring the rest by apparating back and forth between here and her flat in Diagon Ally" Harry answered.

"Thomas and Finnigan?" Arthur asked

"That's right" Harry replied

"They're the other two aurors that joined the Ministry along with you and Neville right?" he asked.

"That is correct" Harry answered.

After talking for a while Mr. Weasley went up to bed and left Harry to be alone with his thoughts. Harry had the warm feeling of anticipation coursing through him and it showed no signs of dying down anytime soon, in short Harry new that he would not be able to sleep at all that night.

Cho arrived shortly after noon the next day. She arrived to warm greetings from everybody present even though Harry couldn't help but notice that Hermione's greeting seemed significantly cooler than everyone else's. Harry always suspected that something must have occurred between them in the past because he could see the daggers coming from both of their eyes which could only mean that Cho's feelings for Hermione were none too warm either.

"Welcome home sweetie; how do you like it?" Harry asked nervously

"Oh my god Harry I love it!" Cho exclaimed finally taking a good look at her surroundings "it's huge yet at the same time it is so cozy, it's simply beautiful."

It was as if a wave of relief had passed over him. Harry had been extremely worried about how Cho would like the house because it was after all the first time that she had come to Godric's Hollow, but when Cho spoke the words "I love it" all of Harry's worries seemed to just melt away.

"Umm… Harry could we have a word?" Harry turned to face the speakers and noticed Dean and Seamus for the first time since they had entered the house, he also noticed that they looked extremely distraught.

"What is it?" Harry asked he couldn't shake the uncomfortable feeling that was creeping up his back.

"Well, about a night ago a secret meeting of the wizengamot, was attacked by what we you know who's forces. Everyone was killed, save for Dumbledore who was unable to attend due to his being preoccupied with the Order's business, and Percy Weasley who somehow managed to stay alive but has been shaken up quite a bit nonetheless. Then there is the one person who we are not sure about, and that is the minister Fudge." Dean finished.

"Why haven't we heard about this through the news or the Daily Prophet?" an astonished Harry asked. Seamus continued for Dean,

"Its because they are trying to keep it all under wraps, I mean if word got out that almost the whole government was killed and that the Minister of Magic had gone missing can you imagine the chaos that would spread through the country?" at this Harry nodded. "Anyway we hate to do this to you mate, this being your time off and everything, and on this of all days but we are under orders by the head of the department to come fetch you at once, that's the reason that we volunteered to help Cho bring her things, it was so that we could bring you your orders from the head of the department, then you are to report back to the Ministry with us immediately.

When Harry heard this news, his spirits dropped a remarkable distance, he had wanted to, at the very least spend the next two weeks with Cho before either of them went back to work.

"Harry!" Harry turned around and saw that it was Cho who had called out to him and she was headed towards him. Cho instantly noticed the look of depression in his eyes "Harry what's wrong?" she asked concern evident in her voice. Harry sighed deeply and proceeded to explain what was wrong, his spirits dropping lower with every word. "Cho… I'm really sorry about this, you have no idea how badly I perfect for you I wanted to make this, but I'm going to have right away" he finished feeling more guilty than he had ever felt about anything.

Though her mood had apparently dropped a few notches as well, Cho smiled brightly and said "Don't worry love I am moving in after all so I'll be here when you get back, and as far as work goes the quidditch season doesn't resume for another month so we'll have plenty of time to spend together, and catch up on things." Harry couldn't help but notice the slight note of disappointment in her voice.

Mrs. Weasley who had just happened to overhear their conversation spoke up at this point, "Don't worry Harry dear, we'll help her get settled in , you just go on now, get your things and get going alright?"

Harry nodded and after apologizing to Cho quickly one more time, headed upstairs, and grabbed his wand, broom because apparently apparition into the ministry still wasn't possible due to the emergency wards that had been activated during the attack. He quickly grabbed his invisibuility cloak and before he knew it, he was flying away from Godric's Hollow with Seamus, Dean, and Neville who had also been ordered to accompany them back to the ministry. As he flew away Harry felt as if the combined feelings of guilt, bitterness were going to eat him from the inside as they all sprang up at the same time. He felt extremely bad because he couldn't help but feel that he should be there at the house to make Cho's first night in her new home as special and comfortable as he felt that she deserved.

A/N: Ok people I hope that you liked it, and if not please review and tell me why. at any rate I acctually enjoyed writing this story a great deal so I think I'll keep writing a few more chapters and see how you all like it. anyway enjoy and please R/R