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Words in italic are thoughts
Chapter 10
"Ah… this rings…" Dumbledore swept over to his bed. "These rings are from your parents Harry, passed down to your dad by his mom, your grandmother."
"My grandmother?" Harry injected. "So this is not the Potter's heirloom?"
"Yes, this is not the Potter's heirloom." Dumbledore chuckled. "This is the heirloom of the Gryffindors."
Harry heard Cho gasped. He stared at Dumbledore, who is now just beside him, mind thinking about the words that had just been said.
"You shouldn't be surprised Harry." Dumbledore continued with an amused look. "You should have known that only Gryffindor's heirs can use his sword, just like only Slytherin's heirs can open his chamber."
"Er…" Harry looked at Dumbledore. "So?" He replied lamely.
"Indeed this is not an important matter." Dumbledore chuckled again. "It's just that your parents had left you certain properties, and items inside of them, for you. And that ring is the key to all of them."
"The key has been charmed so that it can do certain interesting things that your forefathers wanted in the past." He continued. "James and Lily themselves added a tricky charm to it that makes a room transfigure itself according to your needs. That however, is only restricted only 1 room in the Gryffindor mansion."
"I have a mansion?"
"Yes of course your do. Quite a few actually, your grandfather and grandmother were both very rich in their time even before they married each other, and they passed down all to James." It was Remus who spoke this time. "The house that was destroyed at Godric's Hollow is only one of the few houses they owned. Now that you are an adult, the many properties that your dad had is passed to you. Although many where sold when he decided there's no need for so many houses, there is still 2 left, and I am sure you'll have the time so slowly explode them. I myself had a fun time exploring them with him…" He broke off; face suddenly sad, as if he remember some memories that give him pain.
"So I have no doubt you'll find out what the rings can do Harry, and I'm sure Remus will be of help." Dumbledore spoke up, covering the silence left in the wake of Remus's words. "That is all of information giving today Harry, if you have anymore questions feel free to ask me or Remus. We should be going now. Your lessons will start tomorrow after lunch and I hope you have a good rest. Good day Harry."
"Bye Harry" Remus got up and smiled at him. "Sorry you can't go to the properties yet, but due to the current situation, we feel you can't be going there alone."
"Ok" Harry replied, hiding the feeling of irritation he felt. "See you soon."
"Bye Professors." Cho quipped, and the two men disappear with a pop.
Harry sighed. His mind tearing apart with the information he just heard and the frustration of not being able to do what he wanted to do starts to surface. "Why can't I go and find out more about my family!" Harry wondered, mind desperate to feel the gaps of memories of his parents. "Why can't I just have a normal life?" Suddenly, he felt a hand on his that stopped all his thoughts and looked up to see Cho looking at him.
"Are you alright?"
"Of course I am."
"It must be hard to be an orphan."
Harry looked at Cho and unintentionally looked into her eyes. As he did so, he felt a wave of relive rush over him, as if all his troubles were taken away by those eyes. He wondered deep down why those brown eyes make him so relaxed. Suddenly he discovered he had been looking into those eyes for too long and jerked his head down.
"No it's not as hard as you think. After all, I lost them when I was a kid, and I didn't think about it back then."
"If that is the case then why is there such a hurt look in your eyes?"
"It's nothing." Harry muttered back, closing his eyes to hide whatever look he was showing. Unexpectedly, Cho hand tightens on his hand.
"So how are you feeling?" Cho suddenly changed the topic.
"I'm alright, just that I can't seem to do anything with my body."
"You should drink that potion now." Cho replied coolly, walked over and picked up the bottle of potion.
Harry made a disgusted face; he had never liked medical potions.
"Don't give me that face." Cho injected, pulling out her wand at the same time. "Professor Dumbledore told you to drink it, and drink it you shall." Cho stared at Harry intently, as if daring him not to agree.
"Fine…" Harry muttered and allowed Cho to feed him the potion, which to his surprise, tasted sweet. Cho smiled at Harry.
"Cho?" Harry started. "Can you tell me what I was doing during that time?"
A silence greeted that question. Cho's face suddenly darkened, but after awhile she sat down slowly on the bed, and gave a huge sigh.
"Remember after that guy sent you flying with his arm?" Cho started. "I took out my wand and tried to stun him but he was faster then me, and he hit me with the Cruciatus curse." She shivered at the end of the statement.
Harry's hand automatically reached for her hand and held it, remembering how painful that curse is, he wanted to take the pain off Cho's mind. It was only when Cho gave a small smile back at him that he discovered that his hand had actually moved and Cho's hand was in his hand. "That potion seems to be working well…" He thought.
"Then I saw a light hit that guy and he flew backwards, releasing me from the curse. I slowly pushed myself up and saw this guy emitting this great sense of power, like hot fire, looking down at us. It was only when I saw those green eyes then I discovered it was you… Yet it was so different, your eyes are normally so full of feeling but during that time… it was cold fury that I felt…" Cho broke off; pulling her hand away from Harry's and hugged her legs close to her chest.
Harry felt shocked at her description, so it had been as what the others have described. Has he changed so much? But the sight of Cho's frightened figure he pushed all his thoughts away.
"It's alright, I understand." Harry started. "You don't have to go on."
"I'm sorry."
"It's alright."
After a lengthy silence where Harry went back to his thoughts about himself, Cho broke the silence again.
"Harry." She started. "It's time you go to bed. You need your rest."
"You're not staying?"
"I'm not your wife." Cho chuckled back. "I need to go home for the night. I'll come back tomorrow ok?"
"Ok…" Harry replied. He allowed Cho to remove his glasses and cover himself properly with his blanket, then to his surprise; she sat down at the end of the bed, drew her legs up again and looked at him.
"Aren't you going?" Harry asked.
"I'll go after I see you fall asleep."
"Ok…" Harry replied, eyeing her wand.
After a while, Harry broke the silence.
"Cho?"
"What? I thought I told you to sleep?" Cho replied to him in a tone a mother would use to her son.
"No, it's just that I can see your underwear."
Cho blushed and immediately jumped down of the bed. Harry chuckled merrily.
"I liked white." Harry joked.
"Just go sleep." Cho muttered, still blushing crimson.
"Cho? Can you switch off the lights?"
"Of course I can."
"Good night Cho."
"Good night Harry."
"White…"
A couple of pillows fell onto Harry's head.
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Yeahz. Sorry about the late posting, was sick for the pass weak with this irritating cough. I seriously though I was going to cough my way to heaven. Anyway hope you guys liked it. Still some more information and next chapter, lessons and maybe more! Remember to Review!!!!!!!! My number of reviews seems to be dropping… ~sobx~ and my favorite author still didn't drop me a review… ~sobx~ guess my story still isn't good enough for him to review…
That's all for information giving, if you feel that there's something you are dying to know, just drop me a review and I'll try to show you the information sooner.
PhoenixPadfoot89 : So how did you like it? I dropped some hints about how powerful he looks (Not IS). Consult book 4 for answer to the hint. ^_^
indigal : There no cliffy this chapter! Thank me! Make sure you come back next chapter, or I might resolve to end every single chapter with a cliffy.
slate07 : Yes I'm sorry I gave you that idea. I assure you that training he will get before he becomes powerful. As I explained in my A/N in the previous chapter (I reposted once) He now only looks powerful. ^_^
dweem-angel : So how did you like this chapter?
I Love Cho : Thanks for the compliments! Yes there is going to be fluffiness in this story, I just hope I'm up to writing it.
psyj : hm… I guess this chapter bored you? next chapter I'm moving on, so I hope that you can tolerate me longer and last till next chapter~ ^_^
john : Thanks man! I don't think I'll make Cho that special. She will just be a normal girl forced to be 'special'… if you get what I mean…
Cho-writer : Well… I can only say they will hopefully ^_^ be together in the end. Keep on reading to find out!
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