A/N - Ok, well this is my short stories collection. This is my 1st 1 into it! I hope you like it! I have had this story up as a single story before but added it to my short stories collection as I have a few of them now!So what happens when 2 love 1?
Chapter 1 – Secret Nights
It was Harry's Sixth year at Hogwarts and it was common knowledge that he was going out with a gorgeous 7th year girl. They had become lovers since their first meeting on September 1st. Harry understood what Cho had been going though when she had lost Cedric, 2 years previous. As Harry had last year lost his only left link to his parents. He had suffered a great loss the day Sirius Black had died.
Harry had been spending as much time with Cho as Hermione and Ron. They had been meeting up in the day and night too. They were really close and often had a good old kiss to cheer each other up when they were down, sharing tears and happiness.
But Filch had banished students from going anywhere after 7pm apart from their dormitories, common room and the library. Harry was annoyed by this as he could no longer spend any of his nights in the company of Cho. And as it was her 7th year she was busy studying for her NEWTs. They were now down to only one meeting every week and this was getting Harry very down.
He was explaining this to Ron as he was eating his dinner (Hermione was in the library as usual, she insisted in studying for the NEWTs a year early).
"You no what you should do"? Said Ron
"No" Said Harry hopefully.
"You should get out your old invisibility cloak, and go down to her dormitory and see her there."
"I doubt she would wanna risk anything for me, I mean she says she loves me, but not that much." Said Harry. Taking his stress out on the plate of mashed potato that he had just got himself.
"You'll never know if you don't ask".
"I suppose I could ask her..." Said Harry.
"Great, If she says says yes, can I come? I haven't had any fun in ages. She might even be able to bring one of her friends along for me." Came Ron's hopeful voice.
"No, sorry Ron I just don't think you will want to be there"
"Oh... I see...I don't think I wanna come any more, you wait till I tell Fred and George what you get up to when you meet Cho." Said Ron sounding excited.
"Shut it, I didn't mean that" Said Harry quietly while going very red in the face.
"Beetroot head, you gonna go and ask her or sit here growing redder every second?"
"I'm going, but only because you are annoying me"
"Bye" Said Ron happily chuckling to himself.
But what they didn't know was that someone had been watching them from the other side of the table. And she wasn't happy either.
Harry found Cho on her way out of the Great Hall from dinner.
"Cho, can I have a word" Asked Harry nervously.
"Sure, Catch you later" She shouted back to her friends.
"Sorry Harry I haven't got long I've got to got to go and revise, you no what its like."
"Yeh, well I was thinking maybe I could meet you in your dormitory tonight about 12, most people will be in bed then" He asked nervously.
"Umm... what if you get caught by Filch?"
"Oh, I can sort that out!"
"Ok, cant wait I haven't had any fun in ages what with all this revising"
"See you then. And I will need to know your password, sorry I haven't been up to see you in ages and I forgot".
"Hagnas Chet"
"Ok, thanks"
And they went their separate ways. Harry feeling considerably happier. He was going to meet Cho, tonight. I must remember to thank Ron he thought.
Harry climbed through the portrait hole to find Hermione once again buried in a book and Ron sat next to her peaking at her work and then scribbling away.
"Oh, Hi Harry" Said Hermione from behind her book
"How'd it go?" Ron asked
"Great, I am meeting her at Midnight in her common room"
"I hope your not planning another secret night out, remember the last time, you almost got caught, Harry, no." She said bossily.
"Stop moaning, its Harry going not you." Ron said to Hermione.
"Fine, but don't blame me when you get expelled Harry" And she went into one of her huffy silences.
"Lucky for some" Ron said, ignoring Hermione's huffs.
"What do you mean?" Harry said now clear that Hermione had stopped moaning.
"Well, you've got a girlfriend, but I've never even been asked out, not even by a minger" He said dully
"You should get out more, meet more people, anyway you've got Hermione!"
"She is NOT my girlfriend, I would never go out with her anyway she's to cooped up with Vicky." He said in utter disgust.
Harry chuckled.
"Come on we better get on with our homework else Hermione might moan" said Ron returning to his Transfiguration essay and becoming quiet.
The rest of the night went through slow and dully, it always did when ever you were looking forward to something. The common room was slowly emptying...
"Right I am going to bed now" Hermione said, she put down her quill, got up and went off into her dormitory.
"I think I will to" Ron said
"Ok, see you in the morning then. Bye" Harry replied
"Have a good time, Oh and don't get up to anything I wouldn't do" He said giving Harry a wink, and he departed to his dormitory.
It was 11.00pm and there were only a few people left in the common room. Harry decided to try and finish his Transfiguration essay, but he didn't know how far he would get. He was too excited.
Half an hour later he went up to his dormitory and got out his old invisibility cloak, which used to belong to his father. He covered himself with it, checked that none of him was showing in the mirror. Then went back down to the common room below.
It was now completely empty, or he thought it was. He didn't stop though. He climbed through the portrait hole and then climbed through the castle until he reached the trapdoor which led to the Ravenclaw common room.
He climbed up through the trapdoor, to find Cho sat on a big blue sofa, she hadn't noticed him, he was still covered in the cloak.
He stared at her for a couple of minutes thinking. God, she is gorgeous.
But then took off his cloak and walked up to her.
"Hi" He said.
"Oh, Hi" she said. Also thinking God, he is gorgeous. Mimicking his thoughts exactly
They truly were the most suited couple you could imagine.
Harry sat down next to Cho. He put his arm round her and softly kissed her on the cheek. She smiled at him.
What Harry didn't know, was that Cho was fighting back her tears with all her might. She was staring straight into his bright green eyes, she couldn't hold it back any longer...
A single tear...
Dropped
Then another
And another
"Cho, Whats wrong?" He asked concerned
"Nothing, its just you remind me so much of Cedric". She hastily trying to brush her tears away.
He understood what she meant; he put his arms round her and gazed into her beautiful eyes...
He leaned forward and pasted his lips onto hers kissing her as if nothing else mattered.
As Harry leaned forwards onto her, she allowed herself to fall back onto the soft cushiony sofa…
It was 3 o'clock in the morning when Harry spoke again.
"Sorry Cho I am have to go" Said Harry getting up and doing up the buttons on the front of his robes.
"Ok, same time tomorrow then?" Cho had just got up too. She too was straightening out her uniform and buttoning up her robes.
"Yeh sure"
And he gave her one last kiss and was off.
Chapter 2 – A Broken Heart
"So how'd it go?" Said Ron later that morning.
"It was super"
"You didn't" Ron said amazed.
"I did!" Harry whispered.
"Of course he didn't Ron" Hermione snapped obviously not having heard Harry.
Harry quickly changed the subject not wanting to talk about what he got up to in the night.
It was 12pm again and Harry was once again on his way to the Ravenclaw common room to meet Cho.
He found her. Once again she was sat on the blue sofa. Every thing was wonderful, they were getting on fine, chatting, flirting, everything a normal couple would do.
But then Harry felt himself fading, he needed to hit something, something sat next to him, Cho
He bought his fist back, and punched it straight in her gorgeous face.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!" She screamed clutching her face in agony and starting to cry.
"Well you are kinda so annoying, and ugly and DON'T YOU DARE START CRYING AGAIN" He added as an after thought.
"OH GO AWAY... sniff... I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DID... sniff... I WAS SAT THERE AND... sniff... AND, YOU HIT ME, YOUR NOT SUPPOSED TO HIT GIRLS..."
The row went on for hours until finally everyone in the common room was awoken by the noise and Professor Flitwick had come down and told Harry to calm down and go to bed. By that time Cho was crying her eyes out and refusing to speak to him.
Chapter 3 – Possessed
Harry couldn't remember anything about the previous night, not the argument, the punch, nothing, it was as if he hadn't even been.
"How'd your meeting go then Harry?" Said Ron
"Oh, it was ok" He lied.
"Ok?" Ron replied astounded.
"I don't know its abit – "
"Harry I've been looking for you everywhere, can I have a word please" Hermione had come in looking very hot and flustered.
Harry looked at Ron, who shrugged.
"Yeh sure"
And Hermione led him out through the portrait hole.
"Lets go for a walk" she said.
"Umm... ok..."
They walked for several minutes in silence.
"What did you want to tell me, Hermione?"
"Oh well... I don't really know how to tell you this" She said nervously.
"Carry On"
"Please don't tell her I told you this!"
"Tell who?"
"Ginny, Look Harry, you know when you get back from your meeting with Cho last night and I was still down in the common room, well, shortly after you came back and had gone to your dormitory Ginny came through."
"And, it's a free world, Hermione!"
"Well, she came through and the lst thing she asked was, Where's Harry? I told her you had gone up to your dormitory. She was asking all sorts of questions about you. She said she needed to tell me something... She said she had done something terrible."
"Yes, but what's this all got to do with me?"
"Shh... I am getting there" She said impatiently.
"We sat in the corner and she told me everything. How she had been spying on you, how she had been heartbroken when she found out you had slept with Cho. She was really jealous and wanted you to notice her. To love her as you love Cho. The only way she could get you to stop looking at Cho was to make you do something, something Cho wouldn't like. She studied in the library for hours looking for a spell that could help her, but found nothing. She was sat day dreaming when it came to her she would have to use the Imperious curse. She followed you out of the common room that night, she saw you sat with Cho, and she put her spell on you. She made you hit Cho and shout at her and then sent you back to your dormitory. That's why you can't remember what you did with your time with Cho. Because Ginny was controlling you, Harry"
"What? This doesn't make any sense? How can she have done?" He asked confused!
"Harry its simple! Ginny wanted to stop Cho loving you so she could have you. So she put you on the imperious curse to make you hit Cho!"
"I hit Cho?"
"Yes Harry, You did"
"I will see you later" Said Harry and he hurried off
"No wait..."
But it was too late Harry had gone. Had he really hit Cho? He must go and say sorry. Say he didn't know what he was doing.
He searched and searched for Cho but couldn't find her anywhere. He was just about to give up hope when he turned down a corridor and found her going into the girl's toilets with one of her friends, Marietta.
He followed her in.
"Hey, you there, Harry! This is a girls bathroom, get out" It was Parvati. She tried to push Harry out.
But Harry wasn't in the mood. He shoved her hard in the stomach. She groaned gave him a dirty look and walked out.
He caught sight of Marietta staring at her reflection in the mirror, gently prodding her soft curls.
"Where's Cho?" He asked aggressively.
She pointed to a cubicle which was locked; she looked totally petrified of him, as if he was some kind of monster, he couldn't blame her though.
He walked up to the cubicle and leaned on the wall next to it waiting for Cho to come out.
He waited,
And waited,
And waited,
And waited,
And waited...
She wasn't coming out. She must be hiding from me he thought.
"Cho, I need to talk to you, I won't hurt you." He said firmly
She didn't answer
"Come out Cho, please, I really need to talk to you". He pleaded.
And still no answer.
"Cho..!"
He hammered on the door and heard the faint sound of sobs coming from a very upset Cho.
"Look, I didn't mean to hit you that night, I was under the imperious curse by... by Ginny Weasly, but I didn't know it at the time."
He could hear the laughter of the people behind him. By this time the bathroom was full of girls all staring at Harry. Peering over the heads of the people in front to get a better view.
He heard the click of a lock and it slowly opened. A crying, red - eyed Cho came out. She was staring straight into his eyes, but not with love, with hatred.
"DON'T, YOU GO BLAMING OTHER PEOPLE FOR WHAT YOU DID, YOU ALWAYS BLAME OTHER PEOPLE! I HATE YOU LEAVE ME ALONE!" She screamed through her tears.
"NO! LISTEN! HERMIONE TOLD ME – "
"LOOK WHY DON'T YOU GO AND GET LOVED UP WITH YOUR BELOVED HERMIONE AND DO ME A FAVOUR AND GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!" She barked.
She grabbed her bag from the floor below her, and stormed out. The heads of their audience turned with her.
"CHO...!"
But it was too late, she was gone.
The heads of the audience turned back to him as the door slammed shut behind her.
"WHAT ARE YOU ALL STARING AT?" He shouted his temper rising for boiling point.
He stormed out the girl's toilets and bumped straight into Ron.
"Harry mate, what were you doing in there?" Ron said shocked.
"NOT NOW RON, OK?"
And he stormed straight past Ron, who looked utterly shocked. He didn't know where his feet where carrying him, he was too full of anger and hatred. He was going to kill Ginny. The stupid little brat. How could she ever think he was going to go out with her? Especially after what she had just done.
He stopped and looked up and found himself staring up at the portrait of the fat lady.
Chapter 4 – A Price to Pay!
He entered the common room. He was heading straight for the spiral staircase to the boys dormitories when he saw her, Ginny. Sat down looking depressed and staring moodily at the book on her lap.
He was so angry with her...
"HEY GINNY, I HOPE YOU ARE HAPPY NOW! CHO WON'T TALK TO ME AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR CHILDISH BEHAIVOUR!"
She burst into tears and stood up. The common room had turned slowly silent as people broke off from their conversations to stare at Harry and the little red head.
"Harry, I am really sorry, I wasn't thinking straight –"
"YOU'VE GOT THAT RIGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT I DON'T KNOW WHY I SAVED YOU FROM THAT BASALISK, BECAUSE I WISH I HADNT NOW!"
At that moment Ron came through the portrait hole, he stopped in shock staring at Harry, when he started to move.
Ron was running straight at Harry, he reached him and hit him with all his might.
"HOW hit DARE hit YOU hit SAY hit THAT hit ABOUT hit GINNY!" Ron screamed while hitting Harry in between each word.
Harry had never seen Ron this angry before.
"WELL, THAT BRATS MESSED UP MY LIFE"
"DON'T YOU CALL MY SISTER A BRAT"
"STOP! STOP! STOP!" It was Ginny she was crying her eyes out, as she looked between her angry brother and furious lover.
"NO!" Harry and Ron said together
But Ginny wedged herself in between them. And Ron hit Ginny by accident. She screamed and ran up the girls staircase. Harry thought it was a good time to leave too and stormed up to his dormitory.
He reached it and flopped down onto his bed. His heart beating so fast it was causing him agony.
He lay there and lay there, until Ron and the others came up to bed, he pretended to be asleep. But didn't sleep at all that night.
Chapter 5 – The truth!
Harry and Ron weren't talking to each other after the previous night. And no one had seen Ginny anywhere; they supposed she was hiding somewhere, probably crying.
Harry was on his way out of the great hall, from a lonely breakfast. When he saw Cho, he carefully tried to avoid her, but she made a direct route to him.
She grabbed his arm and Harry found himself being dragged out onto the grounds by her.
"No, Get off me Cho!" He said trying to remove his arm from her grip and avoiding her eyes.
She stopped just behind the lake. And turned Harry to face her.
Harry chanced a glimpse at her eyes, but she wasn't cold and bitter like before she smiling, the way she used to.
"Look Cho, I don't know why you are smiling but I want to apologize–"
"Shhh, let me speak, Ginny told me the truth and its me who needs to apologize, I am sorry I didn't believe you, I really love you Harry, I know I may not always show it but I do, let me prove it..."
And before Harry could get a word in edgeways she had placed her lips on his.
She bought them away, and they shared a happy smile.
And then they kissed a passionate kiss. All was well, but if they would have took there eyes upon Gryffindor tower, they would have seen a tearful Ginny staring out at them.
A/N - Well, what did you think? Please review and tell me. I liked that 1 i wrote it about a year ago, but I went over it and changed bits, so it should be slightly better! I hope you liked it, please review, thankyou!
Disclaimer - Nothing in any of the Harry Potter books belongs to me! They belong to J.K Rowling but everyone who's that!
