Chapter 9



"Cho" Harry said softly as he sat down next to the Hufflepuff student "are you alright?

"Oh Harry!" Cho sobbed, "I'm so sorry! Sniffle, It wasn't me! Sniffle, I couldn't control it! Please, I couldn't control it, it wasn't me!" Cho began to cry hysterically and Harry tried to comfort her

"Shhh, I know, I know, you couldn't have done anything, I understand, and I'm not mad at you."

"You're not?" Cho said as she wiped he nose and put her face up to look at Harry, but when she stared into Harry's deep emerald green eyes she bagan to cry again "I hated the feeling not being able to control it, and I never want to do that again!"

"Well, maybe you can get Dumbledore's permission and Ellena Leonessa can help you?"

"I hate him." Cho said in a very angry and serious voice, Harry was startled by this and asked

"Who?"

"Voldemort." Cho said in a deep voice full of fear. Harry was surprised that she didn't fear the name Voldemort and she even said it "I want to do whatever I can to defeat man who killed my boyfriend."

"You're going to become and auror?" Harry asked

"Whatever I have to, but first I have to learn how to control being under the Imperius Curse." Cho nodded and stood up (she had stopped crying) "Lets go to Dumbledore." The two students walked down the empty hallways and to the Gargoyle that guarded the Headmasters office.

"Er, Cho I don't know the password." Harry said as he shrugged

"I do, I saw him earlier, Skittles!" Cho said as the gargoyle jumped to the side and they stepped onto the moving staircase. Once they were off, Harry knocked on Dumbledore's door.

"Come in" The old voice of Dumbledore said as the door magically opened "oh Cho, and Harry great to see you! Come in, Come in." Once they walked in Cho immediately said

"Dumbledore, is there any way for me to somehow be able to learn how to control the Imperius Curse?" Dumbledore didn't seem startled by this and said

"Well, I am having a meeting with professor Leonessa in a couple of minutes and we might be able to think of something. Now back to class, you have Transfiguration now if I'm not mistaken." The students nodded and ran down to class. Luckily, they hadn't missed any of professor Mongonagal's class. Harry trotted into the class and took a seat next to Ron.

"What'd I miss?"

"Just Charms, were learning freezing and heating charms this year." After Ron said this, professor Mongonagal walked to the middle of the class, turned Lavender's quill into a cushioned chair and started to speak

"This year we are going to learn human transformation. Example." professor Mongonagal took out her wand, and pointed it at herself when a blast of green light flew towards her. All of the students quickly ran out of their seats to go see what happened to their teacher. Where Mongonagal was standing, there was now a fully bloomed rose. All of the students were stunned, and when Hermionie was about to take out her wand to do a spell to turn anything that was transfigured back to its original state, the beautiful turned back into their teacher.

"Now class, human transfiguration is the hardest of any transfiguration I know of. Many wizards to this day still can't change themselves into a common honeybee or a red wig. Turning yourself into a living thing is much easier than turning yourself into a door, but turning yourself into an animal is the hardest of all." This gave many confusing faces to students, so professor Mongonagal cleared it up by saying "So we will learn to turn people into plants, or vegetables. Nevertheless, you will not be turning yourself into anything else; you will be turning other people things. Now pick partners and there is a list on your desk, of all of the simpler vegetables, and plants. Pick one from the list and turn your partner into it. Have fun!" Harry and Ron were obviously partners, and Harry scanned his list to pick something good to turn his friend into. The list read

Banana Tulip Apple Rose Carrot Daisy Pear Venus flytrap Mango

Harry thought this over carefully and finally chose to turn Ron into a pear.

"Done Ron?"

"Yeah Harry, what'd you chose to turn me into?"

"You'll find out!, alright 1, 2 ,3" After Harry counted to three they both took out their wands, pointed it at each other, when green, and yellow blast of light flew towards Ron, and purple, and red light blasted towards Harry. Neither Harry's nor Ron's spell had worked perfectly. Harry looked somewhat like a giant Venus flytrap, jet-black leaves sticking out all over the place and a lightning scar at the top of it. Ron looked like a pear. A pear with red hair, freckles, and two little arms sticking out. The spell wasn't that strong and quickly wore off.

"How'd I look?" Harry asked excitedly

"Like a mutated plant that was run over by a car and digested by a troll."

"Shut up Ron! Well you looked like a." Harry couldn't finish because he was distracted by what Neville was doing. Neville turned Semus into a perfectly shaped apple green apple.

"Wow Neville, you did it perfectly!" Ron said as he stared at Neville

"Yeah" Neville said as he shrugged "but I tried to turn him into a tulip." After Harry's classes, he went to the library to study. In the library, he saw Ginny, Colin, and Neville practicing switching spells. And if Harry was mistaken, he saw Neville try to turn his textbook into a pencil but accidentally had all of the pages catch on fire and then explode. Harry walked over to Hermionie, who was reading the daily profit, and asked

"Hey herm. What ever happened to Rita seeker?"

"Oh, well my parents dentist office is getting a whole new makeover with a jungle theme, and I thought it was a perfect idea to have a jungle green beetle on display!" Harry started to laugh at this when Cho came running over to him smiling like mad

"We got permission! Lets go!" Cho grabbed his hand and started running down the hallways, so fast Harry couldn't ask where they were going. They reached the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom when Harry said in a puzzled voice

"I already had class today" Cho didn't respond and walked into the classroom where professor Leonessa was sitting on a desk. She stood up, took out her wand, and had all of the desks fly to the edges of the room when she said

"I have been given special permission, to cast the Imperius Curse on you, but I have never been under the Curse so-" Ellena was interrupted because a sneakscope on the shelf started to spin uncontrollably. "Sorry about that, I wanted to put it up just once but I knew I couldn't because of all of the little lies going on around here, it's a very sensitive sneakscope and can detect a lie within half a mile." Harry nodded as professor Leonessa took out her and and put a silencing charm her lie detector "now back to business. Since I have never been under the curse I cannot tell how you how to get out of it, but I have head you Harry, were excellent and being able to break free of the curse. So I will perform the curse but Harry you must teach her how to get out of it. Okay?"

"Okay" Harry said as Cho walked into the middle of the room. Leonessa took out her wand and Imperio! Cho started to sing an Italian opera while dancing the hula. Since she was having, no progress in stopping the unforgettable curse the teacher took it off.

"Cho?"

"Yeah Harry"

"Did you hear that little voice in the back of your head that was trying to stop it?"

"Yes"

"Well you have to let that voice be the stronger voice, have it fight the other voice and win!" Cho nodded and tried the curse again. This time professor Leonessa had Cho doing finger push-ups. After seeing no progress with Cho, they decided to meet at the same time the next night.

Harry went to bed that night and had the same re-occurring dream. He tossed, turned, and sweated like mad. Harry was jolted awake, panting for breath and holding his scar. He couldn't stand another night of this. He walked down stairs to meet Fred and George standing over a black kettle boiling with red and blue liquid. Harry walked down the stairs still holding his scar and muttered

"Dammit Voldemort!"

"Couldn't say it better myself" Fred said

"What are you doing up at the crack of dawn? Another whoopee- cushion?"

"No" Fred said as he poured some crushed unicorn hair into the pot

"We'll tell you about it later" George said as he tripped over Colin's Jemetas.

"I have to get a few thing out of my head." Harry said while trying to think of something to do

"Take a fly." George said as he stirred the potion

"What?"

"Take a fly, go out the window. We used to do it all the time when we were worried." Harry took the twins advice, ran up the stairs and flew out his bedroom window. Harry soared threw the sky as he felt the crisp morning air blow threw his hair. He soared around the buildings having his hand skim across the smooth stones of the Hogwarts castle. Out of the corner of hi eye he saw the highest tower of his wonderful school. The Astronomy Tower. Harry went over to the roof and sat down on the cold tile's. He placed his broom to the side of him and reminisced on his dream. For some reason he felt pure, and his thoughts were clear as he sat on the rooftop. He could see everything for mile on end. He could see the monster in the lake, Aragog in the woods, and the railroad for the Hogwarts express. When he was up on the roof the memories of Cedric, and his dream seemed to run away as he watched the sunrise over the horizon.