Summary: This is what the Goblet of Fire would have been from Cho Chang's point of view. There's not much said about Cho in the first four books. This story is what I think Cho would have been, her character and what she went through during her fifth year at Hogwarts.

The story starts with HP Book 4 Chapter 22, up to the end of her fifth year.

Disclaimer: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Cedric Diggory, Poliakoff, Professor McGonagall and Sleekeazy's Hair Potion (and all other HP terminologies) are obviously not mine but JK Rowling's intellectual property. As a matter of fact, all characters in this story are JK Rowling's, except for the following: Pam, Jane, Crystal and Patrick (plus the Wise Old Man.)


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Cho's Dilemna

(This chapter occurred concurrently with parts of "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, Chapter 22 - The Unexpected Task")

"Wind chaser."

The portrait of the Wise Old Man swung open. Cho stepped into the portrait hole and on to the Ravenclaw common room. Pam, Jane and Crystal were right behind her, all three still giggling about that little incident after their Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

"You're still not telling us, are you?"

"Tell you what, Pam?" Cho spun around to ask. This was getting a bit embarrassing, she thought. She needed some time alone to think, but it doesn't look like her friends will leave her alone any moment.

"Harry asked you to the Yule Ball, didn't he?"

"No, I've told you it's not that. It's just that-- he just needed to talk to me about something, that's all," Cho replied, furious at herself. Why she can't make up some story now, she can't explain.

Her friends weren't convinced.

"Yeah, right," Jane said, "and your pretty little face just had to go scarlet. C'mon, you're not fooling anybody."

"Girl, we've been together more than four years, we know you too well to know you're lying," said Crystal, as she grabbed Cho by the arm. "So, we are all going to our dormitory and you are telling us all about." Crystal winked as she, Pam and Jane marched Cho up the staircase and into the fifth year girls' dormitory.

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"You are something," Crystal somehow got herself to say as she and Jane recovered from a fit of giggles. Jane was seated on her bed next to Cho's. Pam was still curled up on Cho's bed, shrieking with delight in the news they just heard. Cho, sitting on the edge of her bed, had finally admitted Harry asked her out.

"Both school champions asking you to the Yule Ball! Oh, why can't I be as lucky," sighed Pam. She had recovered from her giggling fit as well.

"Or as pretty," Crystal said, and she tried to duck as Pam swung a pillow at her.

"So, what are you going to do?" Jane asked Cho. A pillow fight had started on Cho's bed.

"What do you mean, 'What am I going to do'?" she asked back, as she tried to avoid being hit by pillows.

"Are you going with Harry now?". There was a glint of excitement in Jane's eyes.

"No."

"What?!"

Pam and Crystal heard this. Both have stopped swinging the pillows and are now looking at Cho with disbelief.

"I've told Cedric I'm going with him. I can't take my word back now," said Cho. There was a hint of regret in her voice. Realizing how Cho felt, Pam and Crystal dropped their pillows and sat on either side of Cho.

"Tell him you've changed your mind," said Pam.

"I can't just tell him I changed my mind. He asked me weeks ago," Cho said, not pleased with herself. "It's just not right."

"So, you are going with a guy not because you wanted to go with him but because you think it's not right to refuse him," Jane said disapprovingly.

"It's not like that," replied Cho. "I should have said no when he asked me, not when..."

"Not when you knew Harry wanted to go with you," Jane finished her words for her.

All three of her friends were now just looking at her, not knowing what to say. "I know, it's my fault," Cho sighed.

Her friends knew how she had admired Harry Potter ever since their Quidditch match against Gryffindor last year. He was a very good seeker and had been very nice to her. She saw him at the Quidditch world cup and how pleasantly surprised she was when Harry said hi to her.

Cho looked at Pam, expecting her to say, "I told you so." Pam had been trying to get her to ask Harry the moment they learned of the Yule Ball. Instead, she heard her say, "No, it's not your fault. Who knew he wanted to take you to the ball? And why did he have to wait this long to ask you?"

"Well, he might have been afraid I'd turn him down," said Cho. This was why she never had the courage to ask him herself, she was afraid he'd turn her down. She was a year older than Harry, and there was this article in the Daily Prophet about him and Hermione Granger. Though both Harry and Hermione have been telling everyone they are just friends, she can't help but think there must be something more to their relationship than being just friends.

"Well, you really liked Harry and he asked you to the ball," Jane said, "you should go with him."

"But what about Cedric? I don't want to hurt his feelings," Cho said.

Crystal placed her arm around her and said, "Cho, you always do what is right. Sometimes, you should do what you want to do."

Pam added, "and you can tell Cedric I can go with him. He will need a partner to open the Yule Ball, won't he?"

"What about Poliakoff?" Crystal asked, frowning.

"I'll tell him I can't refuse a Hogwarts champion, " Pam replied, giggling, "unless the Durmstrang champion asked me."