"Anyway, what were we talking about before we got on the subject of Victor Krum?" Harry asked.

"Homework," Ron said.

"Ummm...anybody have anything interesting to talk about? Other than Erica," Hermione asked.

"Nope," answered Ron.

"Ummm...Neville?"

"What about Neville?" Hermione asked. Harry pointed to Neville who was coming towards them.

"Hi Neville. What's up?" Ron asked.

"Nothing much. Hermione? Could I talk to you? After lunch?"

"Sure."

"Thanks. Bye."

"Bye."

"I wonder what he wants to talk to you about," Ron said.

"I think I know," said Harry, "He's going to ask you out or something isn't he?"

"Maybe, I don't know. Probably. He's liked me for a while," Hermione said.

""Hermione?" Seamus asked as he sat across from her.

"What?"

"Will you go out with me?" he asked.

"Ummm...ya."

"Really?"

"Ya."

"Awesome. Can we meet after lunch?" Seamus asked.

"Well, Neville wanted to talk to me about something. I can meet you after though."

"Okay. Just to let you know, he was going to ask you out."

"Was he really? I feel so guilty now!"

"Don't worry. He's been asking out a ton of girls. He's really desperate. I suppose he'll be moving on to Slytherin now. He's asked out every good looking girl in every house except for Slytherin. He would have asked Ginny and Cho out if he didn't know that they already had a boyfriend."

"Oh," Hermione said, slightly disgusted, "Well, I'll just tell him you asked me yesterday. If he asks you just tell him you sent me a letter or make something up."

"Okay, works for me," said Seamus.

"See you after lunch!"

"Bye."

"I was right!" Harry exclaimed.

"Ya, ya, ya, I know," Hermione said.

"I can't believe you're going to break Neville's heart like that," Ron said with a smirk.

"Oh leave me alone. As if I don't feel guilty enough." Ron laughed. Hermione scowled.

Harry got up, "I'm done. I'm going to go meet Cho."

"Bye," said Ron.

"Bye," said Hermione.

"Bye," said Harry. Harry walked into the entrance hall, and sat down on the bottom stair on the marble staircase.

"Waiting for someone Mr. Potter?" McGonagall asked. Harry nodded. McGonagall kept going up the stairs.

"Ah, Harry. I've wanted to speak to you." It was Dumbledore.

"Yes Professor?" Harry asked.

"I wanted to tell you that a recent decision you have made, has come to my attention. I have found you t not only be an intelligent student, but simply intelligent all around. I would like to congratulate you on your decision."

"Thank you Professor," Harry said.

"You're welcome," he said. Then. He too continued up the stairs. After about five minutes Cho came out followed by Collin Creevey.

"Hi," Cho said.

"Hi. You want to do something?"

"Sure. Want to go outside or something?"

"Sure."

"Harry! Cho!"

"Who are you?" Cho asked.

"I'm Collin. Collin Creevey."

"Gryffindor?" Cho asked Harry.

"Yup. What's up Collin?"

"I wanted to tell you both something that I overheard. It has to do with a Slytherin who you hate," Collin pointed to Harry, "and it has to do with you," Collin said pointing to Cho.

"Well? What is it?" Cho asked.

"I can't tell you here. Too many Slytherins."

"Well we can't exactly bring Cho to Gryffindor tower now can we?"

"Oh, but I think we can," Collin said.

"Are you mad?" Cho asked.

"Well, all we have to do is find Gryffindor robes that fir you. Then we just bring you to the Gryffindor common room."

"Again, are you mad!" Cho said.

"Not really, he's got a point," said Harry.

"Have you both gone mad?" Cho asked.

"No. Unless you have a better idea though, that's the only way he can tell us both."

"Oh, but I do. The Room of Requirement."

"Let's go," Harry said.

"Okay," said Collin. As soon as they got there, they opened the door. It was a big room with these three fluffy looking chairs/pillow, looking, things. There was a table in the middle with three glasses on it filled with pumpkin juice.

"Pick a seat!" Cho said as she sat in the pink one.

"So, what is it you wanted to say Collin?" said Harry as he sat in the blue one next to Cho.

"You know how Draco Malfoy broke up with Hermione Granger?" Collin asked after he sat in the green one.

"Yes," Harry said.

"No," Cho said.

"I'll tell you later," Harry said looking at Cho. She nodded.

"So, ya. I know," said Harry.

"Well, do you know why he broke up with her?" Collin asked. Harry shook his head no.

"Really? Well, he broke up with her because he was appointed quidditch captain. He felt he deserved someone better looking. By his standards," Collin continued.

"So, where am I in all of this?" Cho asked.

"I'm getting to that. The girl he decided he wanted, was none other than, you."

"Me! I would never go out with that filthy, selfish, egotistical scumbag if my life depended on it!" Cho said.

"That's probably why he wanted you," Harry said sarcastically.

"Actually, you're absolutely correct. He wanted Cho because he knew you were going out with her and he loves to see you miserable. And because he knew he would have a challenge trying to get you."

"Oh, he has more than a challenge. Like I said, he'll have to kill me before I'd ever go out with him."

"He'd also have to go through me before I let him go anywhere near her," Harry said. Cho smiled at him.

"Where do you get this gossip?" Cho asked.

"Nobody notices me. Not a lot of people now me, and a lot of people couldn't care less about me. Especially the Slytherins. I had dropped a few things and an ink bottle had rolled underneath the stairs. A few Slytherin girls had stopped at the bottom of the staircase, and were talking about it. I just sat there and listened until the left."

"Cool," she said.

"So, why are you telling us this again?" Harry asked.

"So you both have a warning. You know that he's going to ask you out, and you know he's going to do anything to get her," Collin said.

"Okay."

"Well, it's been nice talking to you Collin. Thanks for telling us. Harry and I can stay here. That way he can fill me in on what happened with the break up," Cho said.

"Well, I can tell you-"

"I'll do it Collin. You've told us enough for one day," said Harry.

"Okay. Bye Harry. Bye Cho."

"Bye," said Cho.

"Bye Collin," Harry said.

"So, what happened?"

"Well, last night, when Ron and I got back to Gryffindor tower, we caught Hermione right before she went up to bed. She said that we would talk tomorrow because she was exhausted. The next morning, when she finally got up, she told me that they had broken up. I told her what had been happening. I told her that she looked like she was going to pass out at any minute and should go back to bed. She said okay, went to bed, and then we talked again at lunch, but nobody ever mentioned Draco."

"That's it! No details, nothing!" asked Cho.

"Nope."

"That sucks."

"Well, I think that we, you in particular, really need to watch our backs now that Malfoy's going to be trying to get you to go out with him," said Harry.

"I don't think so. Like I've said twice, I will never go out with him! Never! I think that you're the one who needs to watch your back. He might try to hurt you, send you somewhere, or even kill you! He's a horrible little prat."

"Let's go outside. I need some fresh air."

"Me too." They both went outside and sat under the trees.

"Cho?" Draco asked.

"Yes Malfoy?" Cho answered.

"Could I speak to you? Privately?"

Harry gave her a concerned look, and she nodded, "Sure." She walked away with Malfoy. All Harry could see was them talking. Cho yelled at him and came back.

"Collin was right. Malfoy just asked me out," she said.

"Ass hole," Harry said.

"Excuse me?"

"Malfoy. He's an ass hole. He's always tried to make my life as miserable as possible. He's always tried to be better than me at everything. He wants to go out with you because he knows it would be horrifying to me if I lost you, and, let's face it, you're gorgeous."

"Thank you. Anyway, I've told you about 100 times, I don't go out with egotistical scum buckets." Harry laughed and so did Cho. She wrapped her arms around Harry, then he laid down and she put her head on his chest.

"Well, I have to go see if there's anything going on in the common room. I've got to check with a few people about quidditch," said Harry.

"I have to do homework. See you after dinner?"

"Yup. Bye," said Harry.

"Bye," Cho said. They kissed and then split up. As Harry got to Gryffindor common room, he could hear two guys fighting. As he got into the common room he saw it was Seamus and Neville.

"YOU KNEW I WAS GOING TO ASK HER OUT, AND YOU WENT AND ASKED HER OUT NO MORE THAN FIFTEEN MINUTES BEFORE!" Neville yelled at Seamus.

"OH BULLSHIT! I ASKED HER YESTERDAY! YOU CAN EVEN ASK HERMIONE! BESIDES, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO NOT KNOW WHO YOU'RE GOING TO ASK OUT! YOU'VE ASKED JUST ABOUT EVERY GIRL WHO YOU KNEW TO BE SINGLE!" Seamus bellowed back. Well, Harry knew what they were arguing about know.

"NOW THAT'S BULLSHIT! I SAW YOU GO AND TALK TO HER RIGHT AFTER I ASKED HER TO MEET ME AFTER LUNCH! AND, WHEN ELSE WOULD YOU HAVE ASKED HER! SHE WAS IN THE GIRLS DORMITORIES THE WHOLE DAY YESTERDAY! WHAT'D YOU DO, APPARATE INTO HER DORMITORY!" yelled Neville.

"So what if I talked to her! What, I'm not allowed to talk to Hermione anymore! And in case you don't know, which wouldn't surprise me considering how incredibly thick headed you are, you can't apparate on Hogwarts grounds!" Seamus yelled back.

"You knew that I was going to ask her out! The fact that you asked her out was what was incredibly rude! Not the fact that you talked to her! And you're the one who has, let me see, burnt off your eyebrows, somehow created a bald spot on the back of your head, blown up a feather trying to levitate it, and blown up a goblet trying to turn the water in it to rum!"

"Those were all accidents! It's not like I said to myself, oh, today I think I'll blow my bloody eyebrows off!" Seamus bellowed.

"Well, knowing you, you would!" Neville yelled back.

"Boys! Boys! Knock it off!" Hermione yelled. Everyone looked at her as she came down the stairs.

"He started it!" Neville and Seamus said in unison. They both pointed at each other.

"What are you two in second year? Listen, I'm going out with Seamus. It doesn't matter if he asked me out yesterday or five seconds before I talked to you, Neville. No offense, you're a great guy and everything, but, I can't go out with you. Don't ask me why, because I don't know why. I just can't, and I won't."

"Why are you taking his side? I've always liked you, and you know that! Do you have any idea what it's like being me when it comes to dating? You're the only girl who I've ever liked that I can talk to. At all! And half the time I can hardly do that!"

"I know Neville. But all you need is more confidence. You're going to have to get that on you own," said Hermione. Neville stalked upstairs to his dormitory. Harry went up to talk to him.

"Don't talk to me. Especially if you're Seamus," Neville said as soon as Harry opened the door.

"It's Harry."

"So! Go away!"

"Fine." Harry went back downstairs. "Don't go up there," he said to Seamus and Hermione, "He's wicked mad."

"Let him be mad," Hermione said, "Maybe it'll help him to get more confidence."

"I have an idea," Harry said.

"What?" asked Seamus.

"Why don't the three of us meet Cho, Ron, and Erica at around seven or eight, and just kind of hang out outside?"

"Under the stars?" Hermione asked.

"Weather permitting."

"In the dark?" Seamus asked.

"Yup," Harry said with a smile because he knew that Seamus was not prude."Sweet," said Seamus.

"How romantic. Let's do it!" said Hermione.

"Well, I'm going to work on some strategies for quidditch. I'll see you two later?"

"Okay," Hermione said.

"Bye," said Seamus.

"Bye," said Harry. He went up to his dormitory, told Neville he was just grabbing a few things, and brought parchment, a quill, and an ink bottle downstairs. Harry checked his watch, and it was three in the afternoon. He started working on his strategies, the first of which he called Frunkie Doodle, because he remembered it from somewhere, but couldn't remember where. This took him half an hour.

Then he started another one which took him an hour.

Then he started the third one. It took him an hour and fifteen minutes to do that one.

Harry finished drawing, stood up and stretched.

"Done?" Ginny asked.

"Yup. About time too," he answered.

"I know. I thought you were going to turn into Oliver Wood."

"I wish."

Ginny laughed, "Hungry?"

"Starving."

"Let's go eat."

"Ya." They talked as they walked down the staircase to the entrance hall. Harry saw Cho, said bye to Ginny, and went to talk to her.

"What's up?"

"Draco hasn't left me alone all day!"

"Huh? I thought you were going to do your homework?" Harry asked.

"He wouldn't let me get to the portrait! He kept on asking me out and when I said no, he would ask me why. Once I told him he knew damn well why, he asked me why again! I told him I was going out with you, and he said that you were a fag and that he's much better looking. Then he asked me out, again. I told him no, again. H asked me why, again. That's when I told him I don't go out with self-centered scumbags. Eventually I got into the common room, but all the girls were bugging me about him. So, I went into my dormitory. All the girls went into there and they wouldn't leave me alone, again. So I ran out of my dormitory, out of my common room, and all the way until I got to the Room of Requirement. I asked for a place to hide and stayed there until about five minutes ago."

"That sucks," said Harry.

"I know! Ummm... want to go somewhere and talk?"

"Sure. I have to ask you something."

"Okay." They walked outside and sat under the shade of some trees.

"So, what did you want to ask me?" Cho asked.

"Do you want to meet Ron, Erica, me, Hermione, and her boyfriend Seamus at around 7 or 8? I've already talked to Seamus and Hermione. It's up to you though. I can ask Ron later. Or you can ask Erica," Harry said.

"Sure!"

"Cool. Now, what was it you wanted to ask me?"

"Well, my parents are kind of weird. They asked me, to ask you, if you would want to go to my house for the Christmas holidays," Cho said.

"That's kind of far away. I don't know. I usually...um...stay at Hogwarts. I'll have to think about it."

"They said that they don't need an answer right away."

"Okay, I'll tell you my answer after I think about it."

"Oh please Harry? You know that I would go to your house if you had one!"

"Well I'm sorry. I don't. The closest thing I've got is this school. But, like I said, I DON'T KNOW."

"You don't have to be so mean about it Harry," Cho said as she began to cry, "It was just a question!"

"Well you're being bloody annoying about it! You just said that your parents don't need an answer right away! AND YET YOU'RE SITTING HERE BADGERING ME ABOUT IT!" said Harry.

"Ya know what! NEVERMIND! DON'T GO! PRETEND I NEVER EVEN ASKED! AND WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, YOU CAN PRETEND THAT YOU NEVER ASKED ME OUT, THAT WE NEVER SPOKE TO EACH OTHER, AND THAT WE NEVER DID ANYTHING!"

"FINE! WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO RUN OVER TO DRACO AND SAY YES!"

"MAYBE I WILL!" Cho yelled as she ran into the castle.

Harry went up to the castle and went to dinner. He sat between Ron and Hermione.

"So, is she going?" Hermione asked.

"No! Her and I have broken up! Thank bloody god!"

"Oh."

They sat in silence until they started heading to Gryffindor tower.

"So, what happened?" Hermione asked.

"We just, broke up. Okay? She wanted to know if I would go to her parents' house with her over the Christmas holidays. I told her that I didn't know, that it was far away, and I wanted to think about it. She kept on badgering me about it, and it was downright annoying! So she got all upset and started crying, then she flipped her lid! So did I, but...anyway, I told her that she should run over to Draco and tell him yes. So she said that she was going to, and then she ran off into the castle."

Neither Ron nor Hermione said anything. Harry ended up going to bed silently. He could not go to sleep so he pulled out the special parchment and began to write:

This is Harry Potter again. Cho and I broke up. It was all because I wouldn't answer her right away as to whether or not I would go to her parents' house for the Christmas holidays. I told her that I didn't know, that I wanted to think about it, and that I usually stayed at Hogwarts. She told me that her parents didn't need an answer right away, and that if I had a house, she would go there with me. Is this kind of argument normal, or is it just plain stupid?

The reply took a while:

Well, I have had to give advice on something such as this before. But I must ask you a few questions before I can give you very much advice.

1.) Do you love her?

2.) Does she love you?

3.) Do you have a lot of arguments?

4.) Do you consider these arguments also to be stupid?

Harry read this over, then began to reply:

1.) Yes

2.) I believe so

3.) We did last year

4.) Yes

Then the reply came:

Well my boy, this seems to be a problem of communication. You love her, but are not sure as to whether or not she loves you. You've had a considerable amount of arguments in the past, which seems to be repeating themselves, and you think they're all petty arguments. Funny as this may sound, I recently have received a question from a Cho Chang, although I can not disclose what it was about. The only thing I can tell you is that you and her must talk to each other if you want your love to last. If you don't care, don't talk to her.

Harry wrote back:

Thank You!

Then the reply said:

No problem, Good luck!