Title: World of Possibilities
Main Character: Cho Chang
Other Characters: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy
Ships: HP/CC or DM/CC? I don't know… Read to find out!
Summary: Cho is married to Harry. How different would her life have been if she chose to stay with Draco Malfoy? Involves multiple eras, flashbacks, after death, etc… R & R! But be nice cos this is my first fic in 3 years!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters, etc… I only own this particular story.
A/N: The idea for this story came to me a week ago (a small portion of it was inspired by a scene in one of the nip/tuck episodes… but that part won't come out until the latter chapters)… It took me a week to get my ideas out onto paper. The past week, I made my outline… I included the things that would be in my story, the twists, the characters, etcetera… And so now, with the outline… my life is much easier… BUT it is still difficult to write because I feel like I have to be constantly inspired to get the proper words out… But anyway! I haven't written any fics in the longest time… The last fic I wrote was more that 3 years ago! So, I would appreciate it if you r & r… but be nice! I'd love for you to throw in any comments or suggestions… Or how you'd want the story to unfold, etc… Don't be a lurker! Review! Let me hear your voices! Beautiful voices that is!
Chapter 1: Warmth and Happiness
A person only lives once. If he or she lives it right, by making the right choices, this once is more than enough. But how does one know if the choices he has made are the right ones? Is it even possible to determine whether a choice made is correct? It is not a choice akin to whether a student should cheat in his examinations or not. It is not a choice between doing good or evil. Instead, it is the type of choice that involves the practice of judging the qualities of certain options and selecting one for action. There are many examples. To name a few: it could be deciding whether to get up in the morning or go back to sleep… It could also be choosing which method of transportation to use: floo powder or apparating… And, it could even be the choice of marrying this person or that.
Our story begins in the year 2000. Three years has passed since The-Boy-Who-Lived graduated from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is no longer within the confined bounds of the epic Hogwarts. He no longer strolls the school grounds, magnetizing adventures. He no longer parks himself in the familiar Gryffindor common room with a bottle of butterbeer and his '3-rolls-of-parchment' assignments for potions class. He no longer sits in a classroom, day dreaming about his crushes.
But as the saying goes, some things never change. For one thing, our hero still has the lightning scar on his forehead. He may no longer walk the school grounds of Hogwarts, but he still magnetizes adventures. He no longer worries about his lengthy potions assignments, but he still has to worry about ministry work (He is on his final year of auror training, and in spite of all the physical work involved, he still does paperwork). He may no longer be in a Hogwarts classroom daydreaming about crushes…
But he, Harry Potter, is actually married. He now has to live out his day dreams.
The twenty-year-old wizard lives in the real world with his wife, Cho Chang Potter.
Cho Potter, our heroine, has accomplished a lot at a young age of twenty-one. Right after her graduation from Hogwarts, the raven-haired beauty has secured a job from the ministry, working at the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes. Her department is responsible for repairing accidental magical damage. (As Harry recalls, "The department that takes care of crazy muggles like Aunt Marge.")
Cho has certainly grown from an easily-swayed-teenager into a matured adult with her two feet planted firmly on the ground.
Aside from working for the Ministry of Magic, she has also established her own cafe. (Very entrepreneurial, indeed) This cafe is called Chaleur Et Bonheur. A French phrase which translates to warmth and happiness. She named it such, because her aim is to make every Chaleur Et Bonheur customer feel warmth. Thus, Cho designed the circular cafe to have tables containing their own mini-fireplaces, big fluffy couches for lovers to cuddle, and of course a floor covered with a beautiful Persian rug. The happiness, on the other hand, comes from the wide selection of drinks and snacks served – butterbeer: hot and cold variations, mulled mead, red currant rum, raspberry syrup and soda, chocolate malt, gillywater, and a wide variety of pastries (her specialty: cinnamon fortune cookies).
Owing to her workload at the ministry, Cho doesn't personally watch over the cafe. She has hired a slightly older lady to run it. Her name is Madame Delara Chuca, a friend of the Chang Family's. Madame Delara is a widow and has no children. With the establishment of Cho's cafe, Madame Delara was allowed to have a place of her own. For at the back of the café, was a small, but beautiful room, with a bed covered in rich crimson blankets and drapes, a warm fireplace, a desktop for her to use, and her own loo. To top it all off, she was also able to earn extra money.
Another reason why Cho (With Harry's help) named her cafe Chaleur Et Bonheur: Jonah James Potter.
That's right. They have a baby boy - A baby boy who never fails to make the young couple glow with warmth and happiness.
Jonah, a bouncy baby of one year, has never failed to put a smile on his parents' faces. Their beautiful baby Jonah was a bundle of joy. As he grew, the intensity of the green color in his eyes grew as well. His soft baby hairs projected a dark chocolate color. His little hands made fists that happily pounded on the sides of his bed whenever he'd see his mum and dad come home from work. Baby Jonah has even learned to say the words, "Mama, and, Dada."
The young family lived in their own house, which Harry bought with his own money. The house they lived in was a small but beautiful house. It was a house with two levels: the first level containing the living room, kitchen, and dining room; and the second level containing the bedrooms. It was decorated to have a Gryffindor feel. The couches and seats in the living room were covered with plush red and gold. And at the center of Harry & Cho's bedroom was a big four poster bed with gold satin coverings. Jonah's small bed was next to theirs. This was home to them.
Cho couldn't have been any happier. She had Harry Potter as her husband. And Jonah, as her son. She had a lovely home. And a secure job. What more could she ask for?
'Nothing,' Cho would think. But deep inside her she knew that one thing she would certainly want to ask for… was for the thoughts she had recently been getting, to be cast out from her mind forever. These thoughts were thoughts of her husband's nemesis. No, they weren't thoughts of You-Know-Who. These thoughts were thoughts of a certain Slytherin boy. These thoughts were wondering thoughts, as to how her life would have been, if she had decided to stay with this certain person. You see, Cho has recently been getting dreams about him. And the next day, she would usually feel a pang of guilt – as well as feelings of regret, because for a brief period, she had a relationship with this boy. And this relationship went on during the same time as her relationship withHarry in her seventh year at Hogwarts. This person haunting her dreams was none other than Draco Malfoy.