Disclaimer: I don't own "Harry Potter", it is hereby © to J.K. Rowling. I wrote this story when I was 11-12 years old and between the years 2001-2003, so the actual "Order of the Phoenix" had not been released yet. Errors in spelling and grammar have been purposely left in to preserve originality and my skill as a young writer. This story is complete. This is a repost.
Chapter Four: An Exquisite Meal
Cho was running as well as dragging Harry along, who hadn't had the slightest trouble keeping up. They reached Cho's house in five minutes. Cho took Harry to the room in which he'd be staying. She showed him around the place briefly, and then she went to her room and closed the door. Harry washed his hands and face and then dried off. He opened the door a crack and saw Cho's door open slightly. She was wearing a white dress with small pearls on it. She was brushing her hair and humming a sweet tune. She looked in her mirror and saw Harry. She turned around, smiled and waved.
"If you'd like you can change too. We're going to have dinner. It's kind of a formal thing, since we've got guests over…" Cho said.
"Guests?" Harry asked.
"You know, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, You." Cho told him.
"Oh! I see what you mean. I don't have any formal-like clothes though." Harry said
"You do now. Check the boudoir," Cho said grinning. "I hope they fit."
Harry went to the boudoir and found a few white dress shirts, a gray sweater, gray pants, black pants, and a variety of shiny black shoes.
"Thank you. I don't know what to say." Harry told Cho.
"Well I guess that means, you like it?" Cho asked.
"Like it? I love it! I've never gotten gifts like these before." Harry said.
"Put them on. We'll need to get to the table soon or we'll have to wash the dishes! Our family rule, last one to the table washes all." Cho explained.
Harry did as he was told and picked out one of the white dress shirts and the black pants. He tried them both on and they both fit perfectly. He chose one of the pairs of shoes and got a new pair of socks from his trunk. He put on the shoes and socks, and then he reached for the gray sweater and put it on. He looked at himself in the mirror in his room, desperately trying to flatten his hair.
"I think you look fine just as you are." Cho said to him.
Harry turned around and saw Cho standing in the doorway or his room.
"You think so?" Harry asked her.
"Yeah. You look great." Cho assured him.
Harry walked out of the room and followed Cho to the dining room.
They walked down a spiral staircase, and then turned right, then left, then right again. When finally they reached a door and went inside. Harry walked in and saw Cho take a seat. Harry took the seat next to her. Ginny, Ron, and Hermione arrived right after and they all took seats on the opposite side of the table. To Harry's great surprise, Bill and Charlie Weasley showed up. Bill sat next to Cho, and Charlie next to Harry. Fred and George arrived at the table and they sat next to Charlie. Then Percy, Penelope Clearwater, Mrs. Weasley, and Mr. Weasley all arrived at the table and sat down. Everyone wore rather formal muggle clothing. Each one unique. Then a girl about Ginny's age sat down at the table. Harry didn't know who she was, but Ginny certainly did. This mysterious girl looked just like Cho. After everyone was seated, Cho's parents gracefully came through the doors of what Harry thought was the kitchen. Mr. Chang and Mrs. Chang had a great array of food and they set it down on the table and removed the lids and then brought out pitchers of water, tea, and apple juice. They said grace and then everyone began to dig in. Cho poured apple juice into her glass and reached for a bowl filled to the brim with wispy mashed potatoes inside then loaded salad onto her plate with a few crackers with cheese and bit of roast beef. Harry reached for the bowl of mashed potatoes and cut himself a medium sized portion of roast beef. Ron just loaded up on chicken legs and string beans. Hermione ate mostly vegetables. Ginny, well she got a small tidbit of everything on the table. Everyone else got a different selection of food on his or her plates and everyone ate their fill. Then the dishes were taken away to the kitchen to be washed.
Harry was very tired after the meal and Cho was too.
"You can meet the rest of my family tomorrow." She said through a yawn.
Harry went to bed but couldn't sleep. He knew that Cho was probably sleeping. Harry could hear the murmurs of people saying goodbye to others downstairs. He also heard a roaring fire, and supposed that all the other Weasley's were going home by Floo Powder. Harry closed his eyes and fell asleep. But he woke up in the night and couldn't go back to sleep. Something had woken him up. He had a dream. About Cho. Only, this was no fantasy. It had something to do with Godric Gryffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw making a trade of some sort of spiritual force that could destroy even the most powerful of evils. In his dream, Cho had that force.
"You're being stupid. It was just a dream." Harry muttered to himself.
Harry heard movement in Cho's room. He went to the magic journal and opened it.
"Cho!" He hissed into it.
"What?" it hissed back.
"I had a strange dream. It was about you and some spiritual force. It was really weird." Harry whispered.
"You did? That's odd because I did too." Cho replied.
"Freaky!" They both said together.
"Meet me in the hall. Bring you journal. And your wand." Cho told him.
Harry got the journal and his wand and was in the hall. Cho was out a second later.
"Lumos!" She said.
"Lumos!" Harry said.
They both saw each other illuminated in their wands' light.
"Harry, get a sweater, we're going to the gazebo." Cho said.
"Why the gazebo?" Harry asked.
"In the meadow, everything echoes and in the maze it's too dark. Even for flashlights." Cho explained.
"I'm impressed that you know about flashlights." Harry commented.
"Well I took Muggle Studies for two years at Hogwarts, but I dropped it because it was annoying. Besides I could always ask my cousin. She's got muggles in her family." Cho told him.
"But seriously, why do we need to go there?" Harry asked.
"Because, I need to tell you something." Cho answered.
