A/N Thanks for all my reviews, even tho they seem to have disappeared at the mo! And to Alissa McMillan for the review saying that it's unrealistic that Harry would have stopped Cho committing suicide in 5 minutes, I agree, but the fact that he stopped her shows that she never had the intention and only did it because she needed a bit of attention from some one that understands what she's going thru. I hope tho that ur frend who was in the same situation is ok now.

Chapter 8: Betrayal

The days seem to have flown past since that night that they found out Cho's mind was being bewitched, and together the three of them had come up with a list of names, all in a way, as ridiculous as the next. They tried to base their ideas around Slytherins, bearing in mind Professor Trelawney's prediction and what Cho had told them about someone in Slytherin trying to hurt Harry. But no matter how hard they tried, no matter how many hours they sat by the fire of an evening trying to think who it could be, they came no closer to the truth than they were 2 weeks ago. Harry was putting on a brave face, while Ron was growing increasingly watchful and Hermione was extremely distraught, although privately happy that her obsessive book reading had come in handy once again and proved that Ron can be wrong.

"Harry are you sure that there isn't anything else that happened that night? Absolutely nothing that could help us work out who it is?" Hermione asked in an extremely worried tone.

"Well, right after I regained control over my body again, I had to find my glasses as they'd fallen off, and I was looking around and I heard someone else, they sort of grunted, trod on my glasses and hurried off. By the time I'd found my glasses and repaired them it was too late to try and see who it was, they were long gone."

"What did they sound like, from the grunt I mean? Did it sound like it could be Malfoy?" Hermione asked quickly.

"Oh come on Hermione, he'd just had the Cruciatus Curse done on him, he's not going to remember what a grunt sounds like!" Ron hissed.

"All right, all right, I'm only trying to help." Hermione defended herself. "I just thought that if Harry could remember everything, sometimes the slightest bit of detail can help."

"Well, I might remember it if I heard it again but I'm really not sure. At that point I was concentrating on getting my glasses back so that I could at least see who, apart from Cho, was trying to hurt me." Harry replied.

*

During Divinations the next day, both Harry and Ron were hoping that they would bump into Cho and question her, but they doubted that she'd actually make an appearance.

"If you do see her what are you going to say?" Ron asked rather interested to know exactly what Harry would do.

"I really don't know. I doubt I'll see her though, think about it, if she sees me she's just going to avoid me. It takes some guts to come up and actually talk to me, or worse act as though nothing has happened." Harry replied.

*

Soon enough lunchtime came and Harry and Ron met up with Hermione who had just come from her favourite lesson, arithmancy. They entered the Great Hall and they had only walked about 4 feet from the door when all three of them stopped dead at the sight of Cho coming towards them, smiling and waving, just like she normally did every day.

"I don't get it." Ron said frowning.

"No, neither do I." Harry said wondering what Cho was playing at. What should he say? Should he remind her of the pain that she put him through only the other night? It seemed obvious that she needed reminding. Harry looked at Hermione and then Ron for support but words seemed to fail both of them, as Cho grew nearer.

"Hi! How are you? I've managed to sort most of my problems out with my teachers now, so I'll have more time to chat at lunchtimes!" she said, in her usual tone only slightly happier.

"How am I? How am I? Well, where should I start?" Harry said through gritted teeth. Cho's faced looked confused and Hermione picked up on it.

"Harry, no don't." she said quietly trying to make him stop, but it was no use. Harry was too mad and the fact that Cho was carrying on as though nothing had happened made it ten times worse.

"Well, first of all, someone puts a charm on the snitch and as a result I end up in the Hospital Wing along with a bruised ego and the torments of Slytherins laughing and making sarcastic comments at me for weeks afterwards." Harry started, going red in the face and trying hard not to draw attention to himself. Cho's face looked really puzzled now.

"Then, when taking a quiet walk at night I have the Cruciatus curse performed on me for no apparent reason." Cho's face dropped.

"WHAT? Oh my god Harry, are you ok? Have you told the teachers? D'you know who it was?" she said and all three of them noticed that she genuinely looked horrified.

"YES I KNOW WHO IT WAS." Harry yelled not being able to control his anger. He didn't care that most of the hall had gone silent and turned to look at where all the noise was coming from.

"Who was it? Maybe we should go and find them. We could put some simple curses like the leg locker curse on them. Teach them a lesson." She replied. Harry Ron and Hermione all looked at each other. Hermione went forward to stop Harry but it was no good, he was too outraged now. He shook his head in disgust, eyes burning as he wanted to cry from betrayal and he cleared his throat to yell,

"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? IT WAS YOU."