Harry Potter and the Gang of Giggling Girls

by Glee-chan

Chapter Eleven

"…but when dealing with Lord Voldemort…."

"Ah-ha!" Ginny grinned. "Got'cha!"

"What?"

Ginny smiled then whispered. "You mean You-Know-Who don't you?"

Harry suddenly felt the warm go out of his face. He gave himself away. How to recover? "I didn't say that?"

"No you said Lord Voldemort." Ginny smiled.

Harry forced himself to shake. "I can't believe I said that!" He was a bad actor, he knew it. Ginny was not buying it.

"C'mon, I caught on way before then… Hermione's acting strange, the way you look at me, how you were flying, and when you didn't shake the first time I said Voldemort. It didn't even phase you."

"I… I don't know what you're talking about."

"What is it that you and Hermione are doing that you can't tell me? You know something about Harry don't you? There's something odd about you. See I have this theory: One - you are an Auror in disguise here to watch Ron, Hermione, and me to make sure we don't go off and do something rash, or Two - you ARE Harry. Personally I choose that latter on the simple fact that no one those faces the way Harry does, and yesterday some girl I just met was giving me that same looks."

Harry rubbed his eyes. He really was bad at keeping his secret. Cho was catching on and Ginny was on the verge. "Perhaps we should go see Professor McGonagall. Let's get Ron and Hermione..."

The journey to McGonagall's office was quiet, as Ginny was unsure what to except. Harry really didn't know what to expect either. But on opening the door, and seeing both their face's the Transfiguration teacher caught on right way without Harry even saying anything. She motioned for him to close the door and take a seat.

"I must say, Potter, your friends are more intelligent than I gave them credit for." Professor McGonagall looked astonished from behind her desk. On saying those words, suddenly Ron's looked white in the face, as if he were going to vomit any moment. "Either that or you're really bad at convincing everyone that you're a different person."

Harry groaned. "It might be both, Professor. I think Cho might figure it out eventually as well. She's already caught me looking at girls and has told me she feels so comfortable with me even though she can't figure out why."

"You were looking at girls?" Ginny quickly asked.

"Not too often." Harry lied.

Ron groaned. "I can't believe I actually asked him out…"

"Clearly you were able to fool one of your friends." McGonagall smirked. "As for Ms. Chang, if you think she is about to discover the truth, perhaps we should let her in on our secret and ask her not to tell anyone. If she should find out on her own, she might do something rash and tell others."

Harry sighed. "The whole point in me wearing this ring is so no one knows I'm here. Now all my closest friends know and an ex-girlfriend know."

"This is true."

"You know… I did warn you about this before, Professor." Harry had to point out. "I told you this wouldn't work."

"It is working, just not in the way we originally planned." She told him curtly. "If your friends can help you keep the secret then everything will still go smoother from now."

"Wait. Can someone, and I don't care who, explain to me why Harry is dressed up like a drag queen?" Ron interrupted.

"I'd like to know myself." Ginny looked at Hermione.

After a brief explanation from Professor McGonagall, finally everyone was in the loop.

Harry sighed. "I don't see how Cho can keep the secret…or even speak to me again after she finds out that I've been in her dorm room all this time. She'll hate me, even though I've tried my best not to look at her when she's changing. She's shared her feelings to me that she thought she was sharing to a close friend. I can't see how she would be able to keep a secret like this."

"Wait, you saw Cho change?" Ron looked slightly less sick.

Harry groaned. "I had no choice… Nanette and Marietta started noticing I was looking away after a while."

Ginny got red in the face and kept quiet. Ron followed up with a question on Harry seeing the others naked.

"Mr. Weasley, let's try to focus on the subject at hand." McGonagall saw the look of embarrassment on Harry's face and the jealous look coming from Ginny. "I don't see another option. Mr. Potter. You'll have to bring Ms. Chang here. If she completely loses control over herself, then I'll just have to wipe her memory of the event."

"Can't we just do the wipe memory thing now…." Harry asked hopefully.

"Absolutely not. Memory adjustment is only for a last resort for a witch or wizard! Only when the situation calls for nothing else. And they have to be Ministry approved, or accidents like Professor Lockhart would be happening all the time."

Hermione smiled warmly. "Sorry Harry."

"I'll….I'll find Cho and bring her here…" Harry grumbled. "But I'd rather only me and Professor McGonagall were here when I tell her. She'll be upset as it is, and I don't want her to be embarrassed on top of that."

"Very considerate of you, Potter. I'll send an owl this instantly to let the Ministry of Magic know of our current situation. Off you go, everyone."

Walking out of the McGonagall's office the four made their way back outdoors. Hermione said, and rightly so, that Naomi suddenly hanging around Gryffindors would look odd. When they got to a secluded area they started to talk again.

"All this time you were here at school." Ron muttered. "I thought it was fishy about what the Prophet said. That and you never wrote us."

"I wanted to tell you all before I came to school, but Professor McGonagall told me I wasn't supposed to. I even told her that you'd figure it out, but she didn't believe me."

Ron smirked. "Shows her for doubting you. Well, I'm off."

"Wait, why?"

"Ron Weasley is not in the league of Naomi Hanson, whoever she is. I shouldn't be talking to you."

"Oh."

Ron took off without another word. Hermione smiled slightly at Ginny then ran off after Ron. Harry knew it was clear that Ginny must have stressed that she wanted to talk to Harry alone somehow. Once it was just the two of them, she quickly turned and faced him.

"So you saw Cho and the others naked, have you?"

"Not completely…" Harry had no clue the conversation was going in that direction.

Ginny looked upset. "I can't believe this."

"I'm sorry, I had too…the situation made it impossible not too-"

"I'm not upset at you, Harry. I'm upset at Cho." Ginny crossed her arms underneath her chest.

"What?" Harry once again was completely blown at this.

"She beats me in everything with you."

"Err." Harry really wasn't sure how to respond to that. During this point in time, Ginny had never openly stated her feelings for him, thought it always had been obvious. It seemed her jealousy of Cho was making her more bold.

"This is bad! I wanted you to see me naked first… not her…"

Harry felt his face get warm at the thought of that. "Look Ginny, I know it's weird that I saw those girls, but it shouldn't upset you that much, should it? I mean, you don't think I wanted to see them like that do you?"

Ginny paused then said a soft no. Then after a few moments she asked a quiet questions. "You… Did you… did you think they were… I mean… did you want too…"

"No." Harry finally got what Ginny was upset about. "I didn't feel like the luckiest guy on the earth seeing three pretty girls undress in front of me. I felt mostly nervous and scared that they might figure out I was a guy. There was no unpure thought going through my mind simply because I was to scared to have them. The thought of them finding out after exposing themselves to me is just… well I wouldn't want to find out that Ron, Dean, Seamus, and Neville were all girls and peeping on me…"

"Really?" Ginny smiled a small smile.

"Really."

"What if you had to dorm with me, and I had undressed, what would you feel like?"

Harry once again wondered why girls acted so weird. "I'd be scared, still. I'd be afraid that if you found out you'd beat me to a pulp."

Ginny slapped his arms playfully. "You would not!"

"Would too."

"You wouldn't want to look, just a little?" Harry took to long to think of something and Ginny smiled. "So you would want to look?"

"I didn't say that."

"It's okay if you want to. I don't care…"

Harry rubbed his forehead. "You tell me this now?" His emotions were all over this place. Who was this Ginny? It wasn't the cheating wife her knew. Did being jealous change her this much? He couldn't recall her ever being jealous before, except one time. And now that he recalled it, he was amazed he hadn't seen it before. At the Battle of Hogwarts, Cho had offered to take Harry to Ravenclaw Tower. But Ginny promptly told Luna to take him. That was the one time. The only time she was jealous was when Cho was involved.

"Err… well anyway I probably should find Cho and get this all sorted out." Harry tried to back away from this situation. Not only was he unsure he wanted Ginny to fall for him all over again, but it looked wrong that she was suddenly interested in Naomi.

"Yeah… I guess." Ginny pouted. "Go on then."

Leaving Ginny was harder than he thought it would be but finding Cho seemed even more difficult. The girl was simply no where to be seen. Harry thought it might be a good idea to find his Maunders Map and search that way. But that search proved unnecessary for when he reached the dorm room, Cho was already inside reading a book.

"Oh. Hello Naomi."

"Hey Cho." Harry replied watching the girl read her potions book. "What are you looking up?"

"Polyjuice Potion. Sounds interesting, you know."

"Err, yeah." Harry looked nervously at the floor. "Actually Cho, I wanted to talk to you about something related to that."

Cho looked up and smiled. "What do you mean?"

"Well… I need to tell you something really important, but Professor McGonagall said I have to take you in her office first."

"Why? Does this have something to do with the Hogwarts Championship?"

"I don't know. Probably not…" Harry felt that he shouldn't lie to her anymore. "I think it's about Harry Potter."

Cho suddenly looked more alert. "Harry? What do you mean?"

"I can't say until we're in Professor McGonagall's office."

"Let's go then." Cho pushed herself off the bed, discarding the book she was so enthralled with before.

The journey to the Professor's' Office was a quiet one, minus Cho giving small worried moans under her breath. Each step closer to the office Harry dreaded telling her that he had been in her room this whole time, allowing her to expose herself to him. He tried to work over in his mind on how to tell her, hoping that she wouldn't hate him for life, or that Professor McGonagall didn't have to wipe her memory.

When they entered the office, only the McGonagall was present, looking just a grave as Harry felt. "Please, take a seat you two. I believe that you have something to tell Miss Chang."

Cho looked at Harry with a worried look on her face. "This is about Harry, isn't it? Somehow you know about him, don't you?"

Harry nodded.

"Please, is he okay? He isn't fighting Death Eaters, is he. That's dangerous! I just can't stand the thought of him injured… or … or even dead."

"Harry… err… He's okay. More than okay. In fact you an say you've had your eye on him this whole time, making sure he was safe." Harry looked down at his feet.

"Have I?" Cho blinked.

"See… the thing is…" Harry started quietly but Cho interrupted.

"You're not really who you say you are, are you?" Cho bit her bottom lip. "Oh… and I went and just opened up to you and everything…"

"No, it's nothing like that. I mean I'm not Naomi Hanson, but I'm not a complete stranger either."

Professor McGonagall continued. "It's going to sound strange but you've been helping keep Harry Potter safe from He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named this whole time, Ms. Chang."

"Me?"

"Yes." McGonagall said. "The truth of the matter is that Harry has been in school in disguise all this time."

"Oh! May I see him?" Cho stood up.

"Cho…" Harry stood up also and faced her. "I… I am Harry."

Cho gave an unbelieving blink as if she didn't get it, then shook her head as if the idea finally took hold but wouldn't sink in. "You… but you can't be…"

"Can't I?" Harry felt embarrassed. "You said it yourself. You felt close to me, but you didn't know why. That's because you already know me. Also you saw that I was interested in girls. I'm sure if you saw me flying for longer than a second you would have realized who I was…"

Cho looked white in the face. "You… when you're nervous I noticed that you look just like Harry when he felt uncomfortable. A-And when everyone was changing, you looked awkward and refused to look at everyone…" Harry saw she was getting it, but still having trouble buying it. "But you're a girl. No illusion spell can make you look like you do. I've seen you… you can't be him."

"Polyjuice Ring." Harry said simply. He held up his ring finger.

Cho's eyes widened. "So if you were to take that off, you would look like Harry?" Harry nodded. "I understand now."

"I'm really sorry about everything. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings or anything, or embarrass you. But it was just part of the plan to trap Voldemort." Both Professor McGonagall and Cho jumped at the mention of the name.

"That's definitely him." Cho whispered to herself, then addressed Harry. "But why? Why tell me all this? You could have stayed hidden and I wouldn't have found out."

"Yes you would. You were getting closer everyday we spent together. You would have figured it out on your own. I wanted to tell you… so you wouldn't hate me."

Cho's cheeks went slightly pink. "Oh! Oh, I couldn't hate you for just that. You didn't do anything wrong!"

"You told me your deepest feelings, not knowing who I was… plus I've seen you…err… well exposed."

Cho's face went even redder. "I… well I suppose I would have told you all that sooner or later… So you know how I feel about you… I mean I feel like I could hide in a corner for the rest of my life, but it's okay. And you seeing me half naked… I… well I don't mind, I guess."

McGonagall rolled her eyes at the teen drama in front of her. "Back to the matter at hand. Now that you know about Potter's secret, are you willing to help him keep it? You will tell no one about him being here, and help him maintain his secret identity?"

Cho looked at McGonagall and nodded her head. "I'll be honored to help as much as I can, Professor."

"So… you're not mad at me?"

Cho shook her head. "No. I should be, but I'm… I'm just relieved you're okay and not hunting Death Eaters."