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Disclaimer: Ms. Joanne Kathleen Rowling is the owner of Harry Potter, not I.

Rating: Should be PG-13 anyway

LOVE IN THE STARS - CARRIE

Love in the Stars

Chapter Two

Harry caught himself as it was Cho who called, but too late. Harry's face burned fiercely and so did Cho. However, Cho spoke slowly, "I'd love to go to the dance with you, Harry, but um, I was just telling you that Krum is looking for all the seekers of the Quidditch teams."

"You — you will?" Harry breathed a little startled.

"Yeah sure," she gave him a warming smile. There was a tense moment as they stared at each other, then Cho flipped her dark hair and nodded towards the exits, "well, Krum?"

"Oh yeah," said Harry and he followed her. I have to think of something to say to her, thought Harry, this cannot be happening at the dance, just us silently sitting around. He thought no more as Krum waved to them calling out, "Hey guys, come on!"

Harry and Cho hurried across the field joining Malfoy and Jonas Tomkins, a 5th year Hufflepuff seeker that replaced Cedric.

"Ok, there will be several new things coming up this year. First of all, it will be you four who will be training up two amateur Quidditch teams from the Sheffield Orphanage. You will be working with kids around 10 and 11 years old and will be joined by a professional to help you from the office. Now, I've been told to put the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw seekers together and the Slytherin and Hufflepuff seekers together. Your regular Quidditch will be put off this year and what will happen is, we'll have the two teams you guys trained up compete against each other at the end of the year. The winner will give the Quidditch cup a tie between the trainers that trained the winning team. Got it all now?" Krum spoke.

Harry could hardly believe his luck. To the dance with Cho, and as if that's not enough, he's going to be working with her all year long, though with little kids, but that's hardly anything. His heart gave a leap. I suppose it's true I am in love with her, thought Harry as Cho turned her pretty black eyes at him.

"The kids will be arriving in 3 days on Saturday morning at 9, so I don't expect you to gather up a training plan already with your partner because it's the dance on Friday. Anyway, just be prepared though, alright?" Krum finished, "you may go back to your common rooms as classes should be ending now."

They started walking back to the castle. Malfoy and Jonas were already chatting very quickly about what they are going to do. Malfoy kept throwing looks at Harry as if to say that he will not lose to him if his life depended on it. Harry threw him back the same look, then turned to Cho, "so I guess we'll be working together on this till the end of the year, eh?"

"Yeah," Cho gave him a smile, "I'd love to work with those kids, and I wonder who's the person that will join us to train them."

Harry gave a nod and then said suddenly, "He didn't say when the professional will be arriving."

"Maybe with the kids," said Cho, "or the dance."

Harry went beetle red and said, "Ah, the dance, I guess we can meet at the bottom of the marble steps outside the hall?"

"Ok," said Cho, "well, I'll be going to the Ravenclaw common room now, I'll see you then, alright?" She grinned and walked off the other direction.

"Ok," said Harry feeling like he just jumped over the moon. Nothing, nothing at all could ruin this perfect year.

He rushed back to the Gryffindor common room and rushed to the corner where Ron and Hermione were. "Hey guys, guess what happene?" He said happily, "I thought Cho was you, Hermione, and I said that I was going to ask her to the dance, and then since it was her, she said yes!"

"That's wonderful!" said Hermione as Ron laughed.

"Shut up Ron," said Harry, "and also, Krum told us that we'll be working together to train some kids from the —"

"Yeah, he told me," Hermione cut him off, "and I explained it to Ron already."

"Yeah, but I kinda wish Quidditch was back," said Ron, "still, I guess we have one game to look forward to in the end, right?"

Harry nodded and then said, "I guess I'll be coming to the dance with you guys."

"I'd have dragged you along anyway," said Ron, "I just learned how to do the Drag-Along spell!"

"Well, now you won't be needing it," said Harry a little shocked, but now relieved.

"Hey, want to go to the Puko Hupo? I've gotta help Fred and George sell their stuff. They made me the advertiser for them at Hogwarts. Their stuff's great actually they got some of these really cool new sweets, one called Balloon Mint. Blows up your head that one of course, it's just a few spells your head restores to normal after you pop it" Ron beckoned them to follow him.

"Hey Ron, Harry, Hermione!" roared Fred the moment they touched the door, "we've got a crazy bunny lose! Let's catch it!"

They gasped as a bunny indeed gaped at them for a second before it disappeared again. Fred laughed watching Harry and Ron running around after it in his joke shop. Hermione panicked and wasted no more time as she grabbed the nearest wand ready to cast a spell, but it gave a squeak and turned into a fluffy monkey. Of course, thought Hermione as she grabbed her own wand out and pointing to the crazy bunny, casting a freeze charm. The bunny froze immediately and then after five seconds of Harry and Ron catching their breath and laughing, it slowly formed into a human.

"George!"

"Ron," said George breathlessly, "Fred transfigured me."

"You made me a frog earlier," said Fred accusingly his eyes glittering with excitement.

"Woah, it's so great you guys managed to pin your location at Hogsmeade," said Harry.

"Yeah, after a year of wandering around, we thought we could never find the perfect location for our joke shop," said George.

"But good old Zonko's is letting us taking over this place," said Fred, "they on the other hand are retiring."

"Good people, decides to sell a few of their old products to us," nodded George.

"Plus they are helping out," said Fred, "misses this place of course."

"Almost reluctant to change the name," said George.

"But we finally succeeded," finished Fred.

"Wow," breathed Hermione.

"So our little Ronnikins got himself a girlfriend eh?" Fred sniggered.

"Kissing," said George.

"All summer," said Fred.

"In the bedroom," said George.

"And bathroom," said Fred.

"Kitchen," carried on George.

"Everywhere," they said in chorus.

Ron's ears went pink and he shouted, "Oh shut up! Not like you and Angelina didn't fool around, Fred, while you were goofing with that Christine, George."

Quite unabashed, Fred answered, "We don't make out everywhere."

"And you are still little Ronnikins," said George, "here's a toilet seat."

"For your potty training!" Fred and George carried on sniggering.

When they finally got away back to school pocketfulls of toys and joke items, they were in a very good mood. It was hard to visit Fred and George without comming back full of smiles. However, Professor Snape's appearance made their smiles waiver. He stared at them suspiciously.

"Good evening, Potter, Weasley, Granger," he said in his usual oily voice, "the feast has already began, why aren't you there? It is rather suspicious to be wandering around like this"

When he finally left, Ron swore angrily, "Us? We didn't do a thing! And why is HE wandering around?"

"He's hateful as ever, alright," Harry agreed.

They headed off to the Great Hall quickly not wanting to miss the feast.

The dance for everybody came almost a little too fast. As Hermione rushed 3 hours early to get ready, Ron and Harry were playing the Wizard chess. Harry had gotten much better at it, but was still no way as good as Ron and still to date has no beaten him once. People all around them were chattering endlessly about the dance. Girls were giggling and showing each other dresses and jewelries. Harry knew that this was an informal dance, but he thougt that it would be ridiculous to wear his school robes, so he decided that he was going to wear the green dress robe he had gotten. Ron, as promised by his twin brothers to Harry when he gave them the money, had gotten new dress robes from them and was pleased with his new clothing. After a few games of chess, they went up to the dormitory to change.

They left with Dean Thomas, but left some others who couldn't find a date. Then, they went searching for their dates. Ron met Samantha — who was wearing a pretty pink dress - right outside and he glowered as he gave a small kiss on the cheek whispering, "Beautiful."

Harry left them and hurried to the marble steps. The sight made him catch his breath. Cho was wearing a wondefully light blue dress with something blue in her long black hair that looked like it had some kind of sparkly charm put on it.

"You look nice, um, really great," muttered Harry uncertainly. He couldn't believe it when Cho said "Thanks" and put her arms around his, then started walking towards a table. Harry grew a burning red though enjoyed it very much and was slightly disappointed when Cho took her arm away and sat down. He sat down next to her and he couldn't keep his eyes off her.

"So, um," trying desperately not to have a silent evening, Harry spoke, "What are you planning to do after you leave Hogwarts?"

"Oh, I'm thinking about studying more Herbology, for the purpose of creating medicine, though I'm not really sure if I should study the history of it instead," said Cho lightly, "What do you think I should do, Harry?"

"Well," Harry tried to prick at his own brain, "I'd say creating more cures would be a slight more important, wouldn't it?"

Cho gave a smile, "Oh I suppose so, but my grandfather studied the history you see. Of course, you are right. Anyway, what about you, Harry? Any plans?"

"Well, Quidditch is right up in my alley," said Harry, "but then, I guess an Auror wouldn't be too bad either, except that after Voldemort, what dark wizards are left out there?"

Cho gave a small gasp at the name, and Harry quickly said, "I'm sorry Cho, I know a lot of people don't like the name"

"It's alright, Harry, after all," said Cho, "you are the hero who saved us all."

Harry blushed at Cho's smile.

They talked about many things, and then as a slow music came up (C.N: By the way, muggle and witch music were pretty similar stuff that they used both), Harry screwed up all his courage and blurted out, "Would you like to dance?"

"Wha-?" (They were just talking about art) Cho blinked, "Oh yes, sure."

Harry stood up and took out a hand. Cho took it and stood up too. Harry led her to the dancefloor were other couples were already swaying lazily. Harry's heart gave a leap as Cho put one arm around him, another hand with his, and placed her chin on his shoulder. Harry placed a hand around her waist, a hand to hers, and laid his head against hers. They swayed lazily eyes closed. It was as if the whole world has swept away and they were alone on the planet. It was the most wonderful feeling in the world being so close together. It was like in heaven with angels cheering for them till all too soon a silky voice said, "Good evening, Ms. Cho Chang."

Harry and Cho broke apart and stared at this man of light brown hair, light brown eyes, and smooth features. "Ah, Harry Potter," continued the man smiling, "I'll be joining with you two to train the kids tomorrow."

"Terry!" Cho gasped.

"Ah, you do remember me," he said still silkily though his smile waivered a little.

"You know him?" Harry questioned.

"Yes," said Cho sadly, "Terry Larkam, my ex-boyfriend."

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