Chapter 9

"That kid that you know what! I could strangle him!" Hermione said, after Harry told her what happened.

"You think he'll tell, Harry?" Ron asked.

"Well, I threaten him with Expellirumus, so he's not saying a word, I hope, unless he wants all the bones inside him broken." Harry said.

"Harry! I know he's your archenemy, but you can't just go around hurting people when you want to!"

"But, He might have saw you too!" Harry said.

"In that case, punch him, sock him, kill him if you want to!"

"I wouldn't go that far as to kill him, Ron."

"Well, as long as he keeps his mouth shut.."

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the famous Harry Potter, the boy who walks the corridors with HIS GIRLFRIEND!" Draco turned up behind him.

The hall was suddenly extremely quiet.

"Malfoy, I told you, one word and I.."

"And you'll what, you hex me! I'm not afraid of you, Potter, never have, never will be!" Harry reached for his wand.

"You wouldn't dare!"

"Oh, I think I would, Potter!"

"STOP NOW!" Cho yelled, stood up, and walked over.

"Oh, now Potter, you've got your girlfriend here to stick up for you! What she gonna do? Nothing. A weakling she is." Draco got his wand out. "EXPELLIRUMUS!"

Harry flew twenty feet back into the wall, and slammed into the stone wall of the Great Hall. He screamed in pain, Cho ran and jumped over the Gryffindor table to comfort him. Madam Pomfry ran towards Harry and Cho, and got a stretcher for Harry so she could take him to the hospital wing.

"Look at that, Harry Potter has lost to a duel!"

"He most certainly has not!" Dumbledore yelled. "Everyone will report to their next class except Hermione, Ron, Draco and Cho. NOW!"

Harry felt Cho's hand in his hair, and could hear her crying.

"What was the meaning of this! I DEMAND you to explain yourself Draco!" Dumbledore said.

"Well, you see, I caught Harry and Cho, walking through the halls last night, and Potter did expellirimus to me last night!"

"Ron, Hermione, do you know that this is true?"

"Ron, Cho, Harry and I were having a discussion in Harry's room about the DA club, sorry Professor, it was just, Harry was working, so.."

"Thank you Hermione. Draco! Detention for hurting a student for 2 months!"

"Yes Professor.." Draco muttered something that sounded like "my father."