Author's Note: Hey all!! It's been awhile. This is because of a hectic schedule, waiting to see if certain reviewers would review, and because many seem to support my slowing down on updates in order to make the story last longer. Congratulations to Saz for her new son. Christopher James is such a cute name!! CAUTION: Lets just say, if you like Cho Chang, you may want to skip this chappy. I don't want to insult anyone, except for Cho. :)
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"Wake up, Harry! It's Hogsmeade today!" Harry swatted at the hand that was trying to shake him awake.
"Go 'way Ron," he mumbled into his pillow.
"I don't think so, mate. We're not going to miss breakfast and be late for the Hogsmeade trip. Now I'm giving you to the count of three to get out of this bed. One…Two…" Harry just groaned and buried himself further in his covers.
"Three. All right, you asked for it," Ron said. He then grabbed the edge of Harry's mattress and yanked it upwards. Harry tumbled out of bed landing with a loud thud. He stood up rubbing his hip, with a glare at Ron, who was laughing uncontrollably.
Harry couldn't help himself. He started laughing too. He grabbed his pillow off the floor and chucked it at Ron.
"Thanks for the lovely wake up call," he said sarcastically with a yawn. Ron tossed him his school robes.
"Anytime, mate," he laughed "I'll wait for you in the common room."
Harry groaned and made his way off to the bathrooms for a quick shower.
Ron found Hermione in the common room and kissed her good morning.
"Did you have to pull Harry out of bed again?" she asked. Ron nodded sadly. Though he joked about it with Harry all the time, they both knew that his constant fatigue wasn't a good sign. Ron always felt guilty denying him his much-needed rest, but at the same time he knew he couldn't let Harry just sleep through the day.
"I know he appreciates it, Ron, even if he doesn't say it," Hermione said quietly. Ron smiled softly at her.
"What would I do without you, 'Mione?" he asked, playing with her hair.
"Hmm…fail your classes, get into many more fights, not even know we have a library, and probably be perfectly fine with it all," she teased with a warm smile.
"Perfectly fine? Without you there? Impossible."
Hermione smiled joyfully at him. She wrapped her hand around his head and kissed him. He gladly returned the favor.
When Harry came down, fully dressed and significantly more awake, he found Hermione and Ron snogging on the couch, oblivious to anything else. Harry didn't want to interrupt them and wasn't sure what to do. He started quietly going back up the stairs, but stopped when he heard Hermione calling his name.
"Harry, come on back down."
Harry turned around shyly. "Er, I don't want to interrupt you guys. I'll just go on ahead and you guys can catch up," he said making his way to the portrait.
His two friends raced up to him, Hermione linking her arm through his. "Don't worry about it Harry. We want to walk with you to breakfast as always!"
"Yeah, mate, 'Mione and I can snog anytime. What? What?"
Hermione had reached over and hit Ron's arm, blushing. Harry laughed at his friend's antics.
After breakfast, all the students who were allowed, made their way down to Hogsmeade. The trio first went to the Quidditch shop, to appease Harry and Ron, and then went to the bookstore, for Hermione of course. They went to Honeydukes and bought enough sweets to last them through the rest of the year. Of course, with the way they ate sweets, it was quite possible they wouldn't last through the end of the week.
After a while, Harry told them that he was going to go find Neville or Eloise, to give them some alone time. They protested, but Harry grabbed Hermione's hand and put it in Ron's and told them to have fun.
"Now remember," he called back, "they have that whole 'you must wear clothes and keep them on' policy at the Three Broomsticks so you two might want find somewhere el—AHH!" Harry ran off laughing as his two best friends started chucking sweets at him.
He set off trying to find Eloise, Neville, or his other dormmates. He rounded a corner to the main street and saw what looked like a mob of people. He looked at them curiously.
"There he is!" One of them shouted, pointing straight at Harry. Harry looked all around him to see who they would be talking about, but no one was near him. He began to back away, but the mob quickly trapped him against a wall.
'Oh no,' he thought as he saw the many Quick Quotes Quills and cameras, 'reporters.' There were flashes coming from everywhere and people were shouting questions at him.
"Harry, is it true you've finally found the love of your life?"
"Over here, Harry. Can you tell us about your girlfriend?"
"How did you two meet?"
"Big smile over here, Harry!"
"Is it true you're planning on marriage right after your schooling?"
"How far have you two gone physically? We've been told about the kissing, but your girlfriend wouldn't tell us more."
Harry was flabbergasted. Girlfriend? Kissing? Marriage? What the hell was going on?
"Huh?" he asked, quite overwhelmed. "Girlfriend? I don't have a girlfriend."
"She told us you'd try to deny it. We're lucky one of you isn't trying to hide it," one reporter said with a wink.
"Who are you talking about? I don't have a girlfriend!" he insisted desperately. He glanced around for a way to escape, but he was surrounded with his back up against a wall.
"Of course you do! The lovely Ravenclaw Seeker, Cho Chang!" another reporter shouted. Harry's mouth dropped open and was soon replaced with a scowl.
"I am not dating Cho Chang, so if you please, just leave me alone." He tried pushing his way past some reporters, but they refused to neither let him through nor believe him, it seemed.
Suddenly, an arm slid onto his shoulders. He looked to his side to find Cho, beaming flirtatiously at the reporters. Harry grabbed her hand and flung it off his shoulder.
"Hello sweetie!" she said brightly. "I know that your concerns about my safety have stopped you from telling people about us, but we're both so in love it seems a shame not to tell the world!"
Harry glared at her. "We are NOT dating!" he shouted at her and then at the reporters.
"You're so sweet to try and protect me, honey," she said to him before turning to the reporters. "If you want proof, I can tell you about a scar he has on his stomach. It's a few inches long. Now how would I know about that if I haven't seen under his shirt? Oh whoops!" she giggled. "I think I'm giving a little too much information about the depth of our relationship."
Harry gaped at her. How did she know about the scar? She must've been spying on him in the locker room or while he was asleep in the Hospital Wing or something. He shuddered slightly at the thought.
"Cho, what are you doing? Take all that stuff back, you liar! Tell them it isn't true!" he growled. The reporters were squirming with glee.
"Show us your stomach, Harry! Prove her wrong! If it isn't true, you shouldn't have a scar!" a reporter shouted, camera ready.
"No! Leave me alone! I'm not taking off any of my clothes for you!" he screamed. He had put concealing charms on the scars on his back as always, but as usual, he hadn't bothered with the one on his stomach since it wasn't as obvious. He cursed himself for not doing it on that one too. It would be obvious if he cast a concealing spell now.
"Yeah, he doesn't take them off for anyone else but me!" Cho giggled.
"Come on Harry, let us see!" they begged.
One pointed her wand at him and the next thing he knew, his shirt and sweater was in her hands rather than on his body where they belonged. Harry gasped in horror and wrapped his arms around his bare chest and stomach as the cameras started flashing away. These people were crazy!
"Leave me alone!" he yelled, running right through them, knocking into a few of them as he raced by. It seemed, however, that they weren't listening to his requests and they began to chase him, snapping photographs and screaming questions.
This was a nightmare come true. He was being chased through Hogsmeade without a shirt on, turning onto random side streets to try to lose them. Many of the other students laughed or stared at him as he ran by, the pack of paparazzi close behind.
"Harry? What in the name of Merlin?"
Harry looked up to see Fred and George staring at him in confusion.
"Help!" he pleaded. They saw the mob of reporters turning the corner to follow him.
Fred ran up and grabbed his arm. He led Harry to a shop nearby where George had ran and unlocked the door. They quickly led him to a counter and shoved him behind it right before the door slammed open.
"Have you seen Harry Potter run through here or by here?"
"Yeah, I saw him heading that way, back toward the castle, why?" George said pointing in the direction of Hogwarts.
The reporters didn't answer his question of why, but just ran off in that direction. One stopped briefly enough to wave Harry's shirt and sweater around with a gleeful, "Look! I got his clothes!" she said proudly, hugging the two items to her chest with a huge smile before leaving.
When they were safely out of sight, they pulled Harry to his feet. Fred took of his cloak and handed it to Harry, who gratefully put it on, pulling it closed over his bare chest.
"What was that?" George asked.
Harry quickly relayed the story. The two clucked sympathetically.
"That's rough mate," Fred said with a sigh.
Harry finally realized that he'd never seen this store before. He hadn't seen what it was called in all the earlier rush. It looked like it wasn't even open, as there were many boxes and empty shelves.
"Where are we?" he asked curiously. Fred and George both grinned broadly.
"Ah, Harry, we've been meaning to show you," said Fred.
"You see, last year an anonymous investor gave us some money to start up a little joke shop," George said wistfully. Harry grinned.
"Aw, must've been an awfully nice bloke."
"Now, as we said before, he's totally anonymous, this black-haired person."
"Now Fred, don't give too much away. Don't tell him about the glasses or anything."
"Of course not dear brother, as long as you don't mention the lightning bolt shaped scar."
"Hmm…sounds quite dashing," Harry said in mock thoughtfulness.
"Nah, he's really just a scrawny little fifth year with messy hair," Fred said, mussing Harry's hair with a laugh.
"'Course, he is getting his clothes ripped off by reporters and all." George added. The three laughed.
"Wow, so you guys really are getting started! This place is going to look great when you get it all ready!" he said enthusiastically, much to the delight of the twins.
They showed him around the shop and told him how they planned to decorate. It was to be called Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes and would be opened by summer. They told him that he would be their honorary customer for life. He could get free stuff there anytime he wanted.
They demonstrated their new pranks and told him about some of the ones they were working on. Despite his protests, they stuffed his pockets with some free pranks and told him to use them to advertise.
"This place is going to put Zonko's out of business!" he told them excitedly.
When he told them that he had better get back to the castle, they volunteered to walk him there.
"We can't let our investor get eaten alive by reporters!" Fred insisted when Harry told them that he'd be fine on his own.
They walked back to Hogwarts, Fred's cloak wrapped tightly around Harry, talking about the joke shop and such.
"So, our young prank tester, there isn't anything going on with you and Cho then? She's really making it all up?" asked Fred curiously.
"Yup. She's just psychotic and obsessive as far as I can tell."
"Hmm…that's good to hear," George mused. Fred nodded in agreement, thinking back to Ginny happily dancing with Harry.
"Why is that good to hear?" Harry asked suspiciously.
"Now we get to do some advertising!" George exclaimed.
"Using the obsessive psychotic as our…er…spokesperson," Fred chimed in with an evil grin. Harry sniggered.
"Don't you mean victim?" Harry asked with a laugh.
"I'd be nice there Harry, 'cause I can always ask for my cloak back," Fred teased.
"Oh I meant it as a compliment," he said with an innocent smile.
They walked through the doors to the castle.
"You coming to the Burrow this summer, Harry? We couldn't believe you couldn't come all last summer!" said George. Harry was suddenly uncomfortable.
"Er…I don't know. It depends on some things," he murmured, trying to sound casual. The twins exchanged confused looks as Harry seemed to almost squirm uncomfortably under their gaze.
"What sort of things?" Fred asked.
"Just some things. Don't get me wrong, I really want to! It just depends on how much time I have." It wasn't a lie! They would just probably take it in a different way than the truth.
"Busy summer, then? Now that Sirius is free, I'm sure you two will have plenty of catching up to do," said George.
"He's been visiting the castle a whole lot, huh? I've been seeing you two walking around all the time. I mean you're spending the whole summer with him! Can't he wait 'til then or is he really that eager to see you?" Fred asked with a smile. A sad look crossed Harry's face. Fred's smile vanished.
"Harry are you okay? Did I say something?" Fred asked with concern.
"Yeah, what's wrong?" George asked.
Harry gave them a weak smile. "Oh nothing. It's nothing."
"Does this have anything to do with what Kota was upset about when she was here? You never did tell us what that was about," George pointed out worriedly.
"Oh that, yeah er…it's fine. It was no big deal," Harry said looking sadly down at the ground.
"Harry, listen, we know something's wrong. Ron's been acting strangely and so have you," Fred said, more serious than Harry had ever heard him. He put a hand on Harry's shoulder. "You know you can tell us anything, right?"
"Yeah, you're our brother in everything except blood," added George.
"And hair," Harry added with a weak smile, but neither of the twins laughed.
"Harry, tell us what's going on," Fred said seriously.
"I can't. I just…it's nothing. I have to go. I'll give you back your cloak tonight, Fred. Thanks again for the help!" he said, all the while backing away from the twins before turning and running off toward the Gryffindor tower.
"George, I think something is really wrong," said Fred.
"Yeah, but practically everything Harry gets into is seriously wrong," George said, shaking his head.
"You think it's something with You-Know-Who?"George sighed. "I hope not. I'm praying it's just normal teenage problems for once. But I think we should use some of our most humiliating pranks on that horrible Cho girl. It looks like Harry could use a laugh," George said sadly.
The two walked off toward the kitchens plotting their revenge on Cho Chang.
That night at dinner, there was a sudden cry from the Ravenclaw table. A bunch of girls were shrieking and pointing as others looked and laughed. Harry looked up to see Cho who was flipping out for a very obvious reason. Her skin was currently covered in green scales and her hair had turned into a silver mohawk of feathers. Her eyes alternately flashed green and silver. The Slytherins clapped and whistled loudly in seeing their colors on the Ravenclaw.
Cho was screeching like a banshee as she looked in horror at a small makeup mirror.
"Who did this?!" she screamed at the hall as Professor Sinistra tried to calm her down. "Oh, my beautiful hair," she moaned as she fingered the feathers.
"Miss Chang, calm down. Madam Pomfrey can surely fix a silly little prank like this," Professor Sinistra said soothingly, trying to lead her out of the great hall.
"My silky skin! Gone! Whoever did this, I warn you! You will pay!" she screamed.
"Miss Chang, calm down this instant and come with me."
"I'll figure out who did this!" she said, pointing a finger toward everyone. "And when I do, I'm going to rip out your heart and make you eat it, you filthy little…"
"ENOUGH!" Professor Sinistra yelled, slamming her hand down on a table. "Fifty points from Ravenclaw for this appalling behavior. You really must find a sense of humor Miss Chang, for this is ridiculous. Now come with me right now or I will have you suspended. If you ever threaten another student like that, I will expel you. Now come."
Cho sneered at her but followed her silently from the hall. As the door closed, the hall erupted in applause, whether for the prank or for the removal of the bitchy girl, Harry wasn't sure. He looked up at the twins who both winked at him and began passing business cards around the table.
"Opening this summer," they quietly informed the Gryffindors. They usually would have just stood up and announced it to the Great Hall, but in light of Cho's drastic reaction to their little prank, they weren't so keen to be punished for it.
As
Harry was leaving the hall, Fred passed him.
He slowed momentarily to whisper, "That one was for you, Harry. Just to prove your money was well
invested."
Harry had to agree. At that moment, he
didn't think he'd ever spent his money so well.
The next morning at breakfast, Harry walked in to find the hall alive with chatter. Many looked up at him and giggled. Some girls looked at him and sighed with disappointment. Others made catcalls and wolf whistles as he walked by.
Harry groaned. It could only mean one thing. Sure enough, as he reached the Gryffindor table, Hermione tried to hide a copy of Witch Weekly.
Ginny looked up at him sadly and then turned away to avoid his gaze. Fred and George shot him looks of sympathy.
"Harry, what the bloody hell is this about you and Cho? And why were you romping around Hogsmeade without a shirt on?" Ron asked. Hermione smacked him with the magazine.
Harry groaned and held his hand out to Hermione, who reluctantly put the magazine in his hand.
"Now Harry, it's not as bad as it looks, really." Harry's stomach dropped as he saw the front cover. It was a picture of Cho, who was kept flipping her hair over her shoulder and flashing a huge smile, and Harry, who was looking very taken aback and kept gawking at the reporters and then Cho. The headline read "Harry Potter in Love?"
He flipped open to the page to find a large picture of Cho. She had obviously posed for photographers.
THE-BOY-WHO-LIVED NOW THE BOY-IN-LOVE?Harry Potter, hero of the wizarding world, is loved by us all, but it seems he may have finally found someone to love in return. So who is the lucky girl? Cho Chang, a sixth year student of the Ravenclaw house at Hogwarts. This strikingly beautiful girl met Harry soaring above the castle on their broomsticks. As we know, Harry is the Seeker for his house's Quidditch team and has proved himself to be gifted in the sport. Cho is the Seeker for her own house.
"Sometimes when we play against each other, it's really difficult because we're supposed to be competing but when we're flying alongside each other, we sometimes forget all about the Snitch we're supposed to be looking for," says Cho. "It reminds us of the first time we met. I was out for a nighttime fly, when I nearly crashed into someone else. I fell off my broom and would have died, if he hadn't caught me. When he got me to the ground, I opened my eyes and he was looking down at me with those gorgeous green eyes, and I nearly drowned in them. We spent the night together, talking under the stars. We've been together ever since."
A romantic first meeting has spurred a long-lasting and passionate romance that has Harry Potter fan clubs everywhere in tears. Apparently, Harry wanted to keep their relationship a secret to protect his true love from You-Know-Who along with the hardships of being in the public eye. Cho, however, has decided to make the news of their love public, saying that she loves him too much to keep it a secret.
The pair was seen in Hogsmeade together on a school outing, but Harry seemed quite camera-shy as usual. The slight twist to this love affair? Harry is denying the whole thing. Is it a desperate attempt to protect his loved one from You-Know-Who or is there still hope for the many adoring fans who would love to be on his arm?
His alleged sweetheart gave reporters information about a scar on Harry's stomach, but the Boy-Who-Lived would neither confirm nor deny its existence. On his day in Hogsmeade, some reporters got out of hand and tried to verify this information for themselves by charming off his shirt. This action resulted in nothing but more mystery as Harry got away before anyone could see. Some say a slight mark on his stomach that is mostly covered may be this alleged scar, while others insist that it's a shadow. There are no clear pictures of it to end this debate. (See photos on next page and decide for yourself!)
It is easy to see that the boy who's life the wizarding world has followed since he defeated the Dark Lord as a one-year-old, is turning into quite a dashing teenager. Girls want to date him, boys want to be him, as can be seen with the mere number of fan clubs dedicated to the Boy-Who-Lived. So the question remains, has Harry Potter finally found love, or is it another crazed fan with no truth to her claims? Only further evidence can tell.
Harry's face turned red and he pursed his lips. He turned to the next page to find pictures of himself running from reporters trying to cover his bear stomach, the bottom of the scar showing in such a way that it could be seen as the shadow of his finger. His naked back was showing and Harry thanked anyone who was listening that he had cast a Concealment Charm on it. There were other pictures of Cho posing, Cho and him in Hogsmeade, with her smiling flirtatiously and him looking flabbergasted. He closed the magazine and rolled it up. Many in the hall were watching him, gauging his reaction.
Harry stood up and walked stiffly over to the Ravenclaw table.
"Cho," he said quietly but menacingly, "I need to talk to you. Outside. Now."
She looked at him slightly reluctantly but then flashed her friends a great smile. She stood up. Harry grabbed her wrist and pulled her after him out of the Great Hall and outside the back doors.
The students in the Hall looked at each other momentarily, before everyone broke out in excited grins and ran out after them, leaving only the staff members, who liked to stay out of stupid quarrels when there was no risk for it to break out in violence.
Harry dragged Cho out a little ways from the castle. They were surrounded by Hogwarts students minutes later, but Harry found he didn't care. "What the hell is this?" he growled showing her the cover of Witch Weekly.
"I just offered our story to the press, Harry. We shouldn't hide it anymore," she said cheerily.
"This garbage isn't true and you know it! Everyone knows it Cho! I can't believe you fed some fake story to the press for attention. Well it doesn't only affect you, Cho! I'm trying to get away from the bloody newspapers and you think this helps?" he yelled waving the magazine in the air before throwing it to the ground.
"Stop denying it Harry. I have proof. How else would I know about the scar on your stomach if you didn't show me?" she said, more to the crowd around them than actually to the boy in front of her.
"That's another thing. What the hell were you doing spying on me? Were you watching me while I was changing or something? Why won't you leave me alone?"
"Because we love each other, Harry," she screamed. "We're dating in case you didn't know. Just look at the magazine!"
"I DO NOT LOVE YOU! Hell, I don't even like you, as I thought I made clear before. I hate the way you think you're the best thing to ever grace the halls of this school. I hate how you think everyone is beneath you! I hate how you trash people, especially my own friends! And I always hate two-timing rats who would sell their supposed friends down the river for their own benefit. That's what you are, Cho, as you've made apparent with this little stunt you pulled," Harry ranted with a glare at Cho who was obviously getting angry, her face twisting further into a scowl with each sentence.
The crowd was eating up the drama of the argument. The females looking especially happy to find out the two were obviously not together. Ginny was practically beaming. Many of the guys looked equally delighted that Cho wasn't taken. Everyone looked at Cho to see what her response would be.
She looked furiously into Harry's eyes. She suddenly smacked Harry in the face with all her might, her long fingernails leaving four scratches that immediately turned red with blood. She pointed an accusing finger right in his face and glared at him.
"We will be together, Harry, at least in the eyes of the public. Don't try to stop it or I'll humiliate you so badly you won't know what hit you," she hissed quietly so that only Harry could make out what she was saying.
Harry glared at her and swatted her finger away, out of his face. "Don't worry about humiliating me, Cho, you're doing a perfectly fine job of humiliating yourself," he said calmly, but loudly enough for everyone else to hear. Fred and George cheered at this and were soon joined by a majority of the crowd.
Harry turned away from Cho and walked away, the crowd parting to let him through. Many girls ran after him asking if he was all right. Harry politely told them that he was, but didn't pursue conversation. He finally found Ron and Hermione, who were each glaring daggers at Cho's retreating form, surrounded by her own friends and male admirers.
Hermione wanted to drag him up to the Hospital Wing to heal his cuts, but Harry absolutely refused. He only wanted to go eat breakfast before his classes. Plus, Harry was advanced in his knowledge of medical spells and knew how to heal the scratches himself, which he did, leading to another congratulatory rant on Hermione's part for all his studying. She didn't mention the reason why Harry had been studying medicine in the first place, much to his relief.
Ginny came in and sat next to him, seeming in a much brighter mood than she had been in before.
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A/N: Phew, long chapter there! I always wonder why Harry doesn't get hounded by reporters and fans more often, since he's been in the newspaper and magazines and they know what he looks like. I mean, he never gets stopped when walking around Diagon Alley or Hogsmeade, both which are Wizarding places!! So I decided to make one myself to get it out of my system. Hope you all enjoyed. Please review! I love to hear your feedback and reviews make me so happy!! Will write for reviews!!
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Terence: Ah, my accomplice in crime, well sort of. Author of hilarious fanfics. It smells like gum and I don't know why. How are you? I wish I had baby English cousins with baby British accents!! I love English accents! The other day, I was in Target with my sister and a guy passed us who was speaking with a British accent. My sister and I stalked him around the whole store, being very stealthy I might add, trying to hear his accent! Thank you for all your wonderful compliments! They make me blush so much! Hope you liked the chappy!
BratPrincess-187: Drama and angst forever!! OMG you are my new best friend. Moulin Rouge is the best movie ever and I LOVE the tango dancing scene. I also love the seen where he's walking away from the stage, and then Nicole Kidman starts singing and then, HE STARTS SINGING!! Oh man, I love his voice there. I actually do like slash, as comes for a bit of a shock for many, but I'm not into the whole cross-dressing deal. But I did check out that fic and I really liked how it was put together with the flashbacks. I just couldn't deal with the cross-dressing thing. C'est la vie!! Thank you for recommending it, though! It's so fun to meet another M.R. fan! You rock!
PussyKat: Thank you for reminding me! I honestly hadn't realized it had been 9 days! I'm glad you liked the part with Ron finding out! I like to think its randomness is somewhat surprising. When this fic is over, it'll be so sad! It's my baby! Of course, I'll just go onto the next one, but I really put my heart and soul into this one, which is why I'm writing more and more scenes into it, to stretch it out and make it better. Anyways, it will still be a while until the end. Hope you liked the chapter! LizhowHP: I'm glad you understand the confusing things I try to say. Man, Sev just doesn't want to let loose! Someone should really get him drunk or something. Hahaha Hope you liked the chappy! Fantagal: lol AHHH!! You do not realize how terrified I am of tickling, no joke!! I probably would piss my pants, right before dropping dead of lack of oxygen! And then where would you be with no one to finish this fic!! Lol, whether Harry will live or not is still the great mystery isn't it? Jouve25: Hermione probably won't be finding out about the abuse. We can all guess what her reaction would be anyways! I'm glad I've been able to make this whole cancer and spell thing make sense! The ending will be very ...fun ...if I do say so myself. I love Harry so it would be fun to make him live, but I love angst, so it would be fun to make him die. The mystery lives on!Saz: Congratulations!! I love the name you gave your son! How's he been this last week? Are you losing a lot of sleep? Don't worry, I'll remember about the twists!
Shadowarwen: Thank you! Whether Harry will die or not is a mystery to all besides myself! Muahahahahaha....uh...nevermind. I can't believe I made you cry so hard! That's wonderful news! LOL well for me at least! I read your stories "Don't fall Away" and "HP and the Keeper of Power," which combined to be an awesome story. Very entertaining!! I'm going to read "the Pain Seeker" next, probably this weekend when all my tests are done. You're a great author!
Dra: Thanks! I love your penname for some strange reason!! I'm not sure about how many chapters are left, but I'd guess about eight maybe. I hope more though! I'm trying to stretch it by adding more scenes and such. I guess we'll see! Oh, and I can't give you any hints about the ending of course, but stick around and find out!!
RileyRiddle: Thank you. I'm so sorry that you're suffering from Leukemia. I've never been through cancer myself, but have known many people that have had several types of it as it runs in my family. My good friend is in remission from it which has made me so happy. I hope the same happens for you. Hope you continue to enjoy this fic!
o Hell o Kitty o: Moulin Rouge is the best movie ever. I don't have time!! LOL. I've already written this entire story. I squeeze in time to write more scenes, fix it up, respond to reviews, and post, by leaving my homework until about midnight. I also write out scenes while babysitting and during class sometimes. It's worth it when I get reviews. Now you know how important they are to me!! What grade are you in? Anywho, hoped you liked the chappy.
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SiriusWolf: Lol, I have the Lizzy McGuire soundtrack. I love #4. Thanks for the compliments. They always mean a lot coming from you since you're definitely harder to please than most, which is a good thing. Keeps me in check and all and makes me feel extra proud when you tell me I did a good job! I'll have to check out those other fics you mentioned when I'm not overwhelmed with tests and homework.
Catiechan: Guess what. I just wrote your scene!! I hope it's okay!!! I think it'll be in the next chapter! In fact, I think it pretty much is the next chapter. Lol. Thank you so much for telling me to write it because I think it definitely adds to the story!!
LilynjamesAAF: lol. You know why I love you? I don't either. Lol. Kidding. It's cool that you read this fic despite the H/G, R/H and make it be known that you're not a fan of that couple. It makes me want to either convert you or write you an H/Hr story. (Don't get your hopes up, that's one couple I think I'd have a hard time writing!) Well you rock!! Hope you liked the chapter!!
ParanoiaIn2005: Harry and Snape are far from pals, but there's a kind of mutual respect growing there, possibly. Voldie's greed is very useful, I must say! Yeah, that would be sad if Sirius has a dying godson in his house. It would also be sad if Harry dies before summer. Then again, I've been told a majority of my fic is sad, so it kind of falls into the trend, huh? Then again, he may live by some miracle! Only time will tell muahahaha!
Ckat44: Your fic is so fun! Very very creative! I can't tell you what will happen of course, but you'll see. I was thinking of doing a very angst ghost Harry short story, where Harry comes back for one day after he dies (keep in mind, totally different fic here.) I know, I hate when it says someone's updated and you can't get to their new chapter.! Anyways, I hope you liked the chapter.
Theauthorthatwrites: Lol. Trust me, I try, I really do. But it takes so long to respond to reviews and such, not to mention the homework, the studying, the school, the friends, the family, the random stuff I must do. Actually, many people are telling me to slow the fic down so it'll last longer. I'm doing better than most of my fav authors though who update about once a month if even that much. Lol. Yes, Harry is the-boy-who-lived, but he's also the-boy-in-love apparently! We will see!!
Thundering Lights: I'm so sorry!! I just never got your review that time!! I would never just skip over you! You rock!! I did notice though. It made me sad. I'm glad you actually did review though!! It just got messed up. I can totally relate to whacko computer happenings. Er...Hermione probably won't learn about Harry's summer. *Ducks behind chair* Sorry! But I will be putting some more of her into the fic. I just realized there's not enough of her in here, so poof, I'm writing a sick Harry scene with Hermione there. I love being the author. Hope you liked the chapter!
Also thanks to: leaps (good idea, too bad my Eng. teacher's an asshole and doesn't exactly appreciate creativity), Romm (Nah, one word boosts aren't enough to keep up my ego!), leigh, Arctic Wolf2, ginnyNharrysecretlove (love the username), Shawn Pickett (Snape...human? you're right, the apocalypse is here!), EriEka127 (you got it!), angel74 (u read the chapter 3 times? Thanks!! I'm glad you like it!!), Rain Warrior, rhinemjr, Maikafuniel (Thank you! I hope you continue to like it!), tati1 (thanks! Don't have an aneurysm! Just keep reading and reviewing!!)
ALRIGHT, SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH THE REVIEW RESPONSES THAT I CAN'T FIX. SOME OF YOUR NAMES AREN'T BOLDED AND SOME OF THEM WON'T GO INTO A NEW PARAGRAPH. LIZHOWHP, LOOK IN PUSSYKAT'S REVIEW RESPONSE FOR YOURS IF YOU CAN'T FIND IT. FOR SOME REASON, THEY SEEM STUCK TOGETHER.