Disclaimer: I don't own HP got it. that's Rowlings job, although I wouldn't mind the position!!! LOL!!!

A/N: I'm really relly really sorry (on knees kissing reviewers feet) my monitor broke so I couldn't even use my computer. But I'll get the next chapter out a lot quicker. Your going to see some H/C action very soon perhaps even by the end of this next chapter. Depends on the kind of reviews I get in the meantime, so you know what that means R/R

6. A new home.

After surveying the damage Harry turned to an open mouthed Cho. He shook her out of her stupor glancing back once more at the reckage.

There was a crater about fifteen feet deep and the house that once stood there was nothing more than a pile of rubble. Dust still filled the air which made it very difficult to see anything further than 15 feet away, however in the distance Harry could make out a group of people in cloaks shouting to him, whilst making their way through the wreckage towards Harry and Cho.

Harry turned quickly to Cho and told her to stay where she was while he spoke to the Aurors.

"Mr Potter can you please explain this."

Harry was about to explain himself when he saw a little man stomping towards them. It was Cornelius Fudge and he was positively purple with rage. Harry didn't find him in the least bit intimidating if he ever had at all, as Fudge only reached Harry's nose having grown 2 or 3 inches in the last few months.

"What is the meaning of this Potter!?!" Fudge growled.

"They asked for it." He replied simply

"What in Merlin's name did they do to deserve this?"

"Where should I start?" he asked.

Fudge muttered something that sounded like 'crackpot boy'

Harry could feel the anger course through his veins. But he forced his body to stay calm not daring to think what damage he could do if he lost control.

"How about psycho, mad, crackers, insane, loony. Ahh now I remember. You've already used all those terms to describe me and Dumbledore.

"Do you have any idea how big a fool you are? You're paranoid of Dumbledore when the man you really should be paranoid about has spent the last year walking about completely unnoticed by the ministry, free to recruit new deatheaters and come back to his almost full power."

"You failed to believe me and Dumbledore and you have paid the price, your own workers are in mutiny against you. You have lost what little amount of respect you had and I wouldn't be surprised if by the time the students go back to Hogwarts we have a new and more importantly competent minister. And for your information the reason this mess is here is because my uncle has been beating me all summer and he finally went a step too far, and by that I mean he tried to shoot me. Now if that's all. Good day." And with that he stalked off, Cho following closely behind. Quickly glancing around Harry saw that they were surrounded by at least a two dozen aurors, medi-wizards and members of the memory modification department. The majority of the crowd were smiling or holding back laughs, however some were looking appalled at the what Harry had said. As he tried to walk away from the crowd, four of the appalled group stepped into Harry's path looking furious.

"How dare you speak to the minister in such a disrespectful and disgraceful manner!!!" The middle of the four exclaimed. He had short flaming red hair and freckles on his cheeks just below horn rimmed glasses.

"Hello Percy." Harry replied as calmly as if he were just talking about the weather, he gestured towards the other three wizards who now had their wands pointed. "Percy, I suggest you tell your little friends to put away their wands. I would hate to have to hurt them."

Percy, though shocked at first by the calmness of Harry's tone replied mocking Harry "Harry do you really expect to be able to even put a fight against four fully trained wizards.

"No." he said simply, "There won't even be a fight. You must be almost as stupid as Fudge if you believe that I'm an ordinary wizard after facing Voldemort four times and surviving, and that isn't even the half of it."

One of the other three spoke up, his voice filled with rage "That's enough, I've had enough of your insolence boy."

All three raised their wands and muttered different spells

He had warned them he thought to himself, sighing inwardly.

Spells came towards him and with a wave his hand golden shield surrounded him. The spells rebounded off the shield back towards there casters. Harry just carried on walking towards his destination as if the four hadn't even stopped him at all. Walking quickly he reached the other side of the crater to where all his belongings sat stacked neatly in a pile. He created a blue bubble around all of his possessions, Cho (who had followed him there) and himself.

One pop later they vanished, leaving a flabbergasted crowd of ministry officials and aurors. They arrived outside a house that was a bit bigger than the Dursley's but had that very distinct wizarding feeling.

Harry stepped cautiously and slowly towards the door and was mere inches from touching the door-knob when he felt a warm hand on his shoulder. He let aout a deep shuddering breath. A small voice soon accompanied the hand. "We don't have to this, you don't have to do this straight away, you can take your time."

"No I need to get this over with."

Painfully slowly he turned the door handle, whilst it squirmed reading his magical aura, a mechanism which acted as a lock. The door opened smoothly and he stepped inside.

The house was beautifully decorated, with lots oak and mahogany furniture. The stairs swept up from the left side of the hall, whilst doors opened from the right.

The next fifteen minutes was spent silently looking around the house. The pictures on the walls in the downstairs and upstairs hallway all showed a woman with red hair and green eyes and a man with untidy jet black hair holding a baby who would giggle happily as he was tickled by his mother in the moving wizarding photographs.

Harry sighed pulling himself back to reality, and away from his depressed thoughts. He turned around and saw Cho, tears brimming in her eyes, threatening to spill over. At that moment it didn't matter that this was the girl he was in love with, or the fact that he usually turned into a bumbling idiot whenever she was within a ten mile radius of him, all he wanted to do was hold her. Harry gathered her up in his arms and she rested her head in the crook of his neck, with his chin on top of her head. He was still amazed at how perfectly the fit together, as if they were made for each other. 'A very comforting thought' Harry mused.

After a few minutes of just holding her, rubbing her back a and whispering soothing words to her she stopped sobbing and pulled away from him.

"I… I'm s…sorry." She said, looking down.

"What on earth for." Harry replied

"For crying on you like this. You should be the one who's upset not me."

"Cho look at me."

Nothing.

"Cho"

Nothing.

Harry placed two fingers under her chin and forced her to look at him.

"Cho I'm not upset, if anything I'm happy. I'm in the house where I was born and the house where my parents lived. There are so many memories here that I've never had the chance to look at.

"Come on lets go and get a drink I need to talk to you about some things, okay?"

"Okay."

"Good" he said, taking her hand and ignoring the tingling up his spin upon the contact of their skin. 'Bloody hell' Harry thought 'i'm gonna have to tell her how I feel, because I can't take much more of this tip toeing around my feelings towards her.'

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Harry sat quietly sipping his glass of pumpkin juice.

"Cho, I'm powerful."

"I know Harry." she replied.

"No, Cho you really really don't. I'm talking power that people like Dumbledore can only dream of."

"W… W… What?"

Harry proceeded to tell her the story of Berlgarath and Merlin. She sat wide eyed the whole way through, with her mouth agape

"I told you I was powerful" he said with a lopsided grin on his face.

Cho started giggling uncontrollably. 'Why does she do that, it drives me insane. Giggle bloody giggle it just bloody turns me on and makes me want to pick her up and take her upstairs and do unspeakable things to her' with those thoughts a blush steadily rose in his cheeks. 'Fantastic I can have more power than anyone witch or wizard in the fucking world but I can't stop myself from turning into a bumbling idiot in front the girl of my dreams'

"What are you blushing for?" she asked curiously.

' SHIT!!! ALERT ALERT'

He quickly tried to get up and do something, anything to get away form this topic of conversation but in his haste his glass slipped from his hand and smashed on the floor. Harry quickly bent down to clear up the big shards of glass, but sods law came into play once again and Cho bent down at the same time causing them to bump heads.

Both rubbing the sore spot on their heads they looked up and their faces were mere inches apart. 'Second time lucky he thought' their lips were millimetre's apart.

      A/N: I'm thinking of making some big big changes to the story. You see I have a great idea for the storyline but the only way I could make it happen without getting a record amount of flames would to make the current 6th years into 7th years and also put Cho in the same year as Harry. I just don't know what to do. Any way R/R and tell me what you think I should do.