Thanks for all the reviews. I don't normally do this, but I am going to
anyway.
Master squib etc.: I don't like to give out my personal information, how do I know that you're not some crazy scary person bent on world destruction? I don't want to be a pawn in the destruction of the world. But I am happy to be your friend. ONLY ON FANFICTION!
Angelo: well, his animagi form is not a stag, but it is something INCREDIBLY predictable, because I'm really to damn lazy to change my story, and seeing as I've already written it, it makes a big dramatic scene at the end, so I can't change it. And, in the fifth book, Harry teaches the DA the patronus charm, and they all get it. Hermione's is an otter, or a weasel, or something like that. They all think they're cute. It really bugged me, because I wanted to make it really hard for all the students to get it. But I cant say 'oh, these people get it really quickly, but these don't.' you get it?
Mjk306: again, I say I don't want to make it longer because then people will pester me to put it out faster. I cant make everyone happy, I have to go with the majority. I learned that in civics class.
CHO24/7: I'm glad you liked it. It was going to be Ron who said it, but I decided it would be funnier if Hermione did, and seeing as it is the best and most original part of my entire story, I had to make it dramatic.
Well, I am hoping to get some action in soon, but it's really a lot harder than I thought to get it in. I'll try.
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Weeks went by, and Harry actually became a quite good student. He never did anything except homework and Quiddich, but somehow, he still found time to sit down with Ron and goof off.
"Okay, if you were going to ask one girl out, who would it be?" Ron asked, after Hermione had gone to the other side of the room to get away from the annoying clacking of Harry and Ron's wizard chess.
"Umm. I'm not really sure about that one. I mean, last year, it would have been Cho, but I don't know anymore. What about you?"
Ron went slightly red in the face while Harry's queen knocked out his last knight. "Well, I'm sort of sure, but I don't think she wants to go out with me. We. oh, never mind."
They were both silent for a minute, and Harry was very confused about why Ron had brought up the topic. He decided to change it. "So, excited for the Quiddich game next week?"
They talked about how easy Hufflepuff would be to beat, how much fun they were having at practices, everything. Finally, they were too tired to keep talking, and they dragged their feet up the stairs to the dormitory.
While he was waiting to fall asleep, he thought about Ron's question. He did like someone. He'd liked her for almost four years. And he wanted to do something about it. Soon, if he could work up the courage.
He didn't notice it until around Christmas, but He hadn't really talked to Cho that much. Sure, he'd said hello to her in the halls, but he hadn't had a real conversation with her since school started.
The only thing that worried him more than his Cho troubles was Voldemort. And that worried him a lot.
The wizarding world was in shambles. Hundreds of wizards had been attacked, many of them killed. None of the students at Hogwarts had parents be killed, but many knew people who had died, and the numbers were getting greater.
Harry and Cho remained the only orphans at Hogwarts.
Finally, Harry decided it was time to talk to Cho. On a nice Sunday afternoon a few weeks before Christmas, Harry found her walking down the hall. He asked her if she would come to the library with him.
"Why?" Cho asked, raising an eyebrow.
'No reason, we just haven't really talked much since school started, and we haven't seen each other at all, and, well, I thought we should."
She looked at him suspiciously, but shrugged her shoulders and agreed.
"but only for an hour, I have a date." Cho said as they walked down the hall.
Harry's stomach flipped. "A date, with who? Does he know?"
"He's Alan Deezling, (A/N heh heh.funny name.I wanted to make my own character for this.) I can't believe you didn't notice. I've been going out with him since October. That's four months, you know." She was definitely making fun of him. 'And no," She looked down. "He doesn't know. I'm not ready to trust anyone with that yet. I haven't told anyone. When a girl in my year asked me why I hadn't gotten any mail this year, I had to tell her my parents were on a muggle cruise, and couldn't bring an owl. I also had to run away to stop myself from crying in front of her."
She paused, but took a deep breath and continued. "I know he will treat me differently. I want to be ready for it, and I'm not yet."
Harry understood. It had taken him almost two weeks to tell Ron and Hermione about him teaching a class. He had wanted to make sure he was good at it before he told his friends.
"That's okay. I've had to deal with death too. A lot, and I know it's hard. You just have to hold your head high and keep yourself calm. I think it will be better for you, because you have someone to talk to, someone who understands. Of course, I have seen it so much, you could say I've been desensitized.." He was rambling. Cho smiled, and he stopped.
"Sorry." He squeaked.
"It's alright. I've been doing pretty well about my parents. I still cry a lot, but I can control it until I'm alone. Unlike last year, I can actually be happy around people."
"Cho, you don't have to hide anything here, you know that? You don't have to bottle it up."
Cho stayed silent for a minute, but then spoke. "I know, I really am doing well. It's just, well, Alan."
Harry knew this wasn't good. He felt his heart drop to his stomach. She was going to talk to him about boyfriend troubles! She couldn't think of him as more than a friend.
"He's really nice, and I really like him, but he's protective. That's why I haven't talked to you very much. If he knew I was here, he'd get mad at you. The only reason he wouldn't beat you up is because he's scared of you."
She giggled at the thought of people being scared of Harry. Harry could understand. He just couldn't see himself as the Dudley figure wandering around the halls, beating up little kids.
Cho continued. "Because of it, he thinks I'm always there just for him. He doesn't ask me on dates, he tells me to meet him somewhere. Like the Christmas Hogsmeade trip. He hasn't asked me yet. He'll probably just tell me to meet him in the common room, the night before."
They sat in silence for a few minutes, thinking. They both knew it was time for a subject change, so they started to talk about the Quiddich match, how bad Hufflepuff was without Cedric, and how much fun Cho had had in the Slytherin/Ravenclaw game. She had easily beaten Malfoy to the snitch, meaning that when the snow went away and the Quiddich games started again, Harry and Cho would quickly end up playing against each other.
After an hour of chatting like real friends while receiving angry looks from the librarian, Cho stood up to leave.
"Wait, Cho. Do you want to come to Hogsmeade with me? We can do our Christmas shopping together."
Cho smiled. "Sure. I'll see you then."
Harry floated through the rest of the week, waiting for Saturday. He messed up so many times in Potions that Hermione actually let him have some of her potion to hand in, though she swore she would never, ever, do it again.
Harry was so excited, that on Friday, he almost missed the headline of the Daily Prophet.
The only reason he thought about it was because he heard shrieks coming from various students, and saw Hermione go very white when she read the front page of her copy.
He took it from her shaking hands, and read it out loud to Ron.
"DEMENTORS TO DARK SIDE"
The dementors had joined Voldemort. This was the beginning of the end.
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Hee hee! Well, don't you just love me now? Hurray for cliffhangers! I'm sorry, but I needed to end, and this is just agreat part to do it in.
Thanks to everyone who reviewed. Oh, and the conversation with Ron was just to get Harry to want to talk to Cho. It wasn't a hint towards Ron wanting to go out with Hermione, as I KNOW all you people are going to think it is!!!!!!!!
please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh boy, 1,600 words! Hurray!!! -Emma, or as I like to be called, unolimbo!
Master squib etc.: I don't like to give out my personal information, how do I know that you're not some crazy scary person bent on world destruction? I don't want to be a pawn in the destruction of the world. But I am happy to be your friend. ONLY ON FANFICTION!
Angelo: well, his animagi form is not a stag, but it is something INCREDIBLY predictable, because I'm really to damn lazy to change my story, and seeing as I've already written it, it makes a big dramatic scene at the end, so I can't change it. And, in the fifth book, Harry teaches the DA the patronus charm, and they all get it. Hermione's is an otter, or a weasel, or something like that. They all think they're cute. It really bugged me, because I wanted to make it really hard for all the students to get it. But I cant say 'oh, these people get it really quickly, but these don't.' you get it?
Mjk306: again, I say I don't want to make it longer because then people will pester me to put it out faster. I cant make everyone happy, I have to go with the majority. I learned that in civics class.
CHO24/7: I'm glad you liked it. It was going to be Ron who said it, but I decided it would be funnier if Hermione did, and seeing as it is the best and most original part of my entire story, I had to make it dramatic.
Well, I am hoping to get some action in soon, but it's really a lot harder than I thought to get it in. I'll try.
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Weeks went by, and Harry actually became a quite good student. He never did anything except homework and Quiddich, but somehow, he still found time to sit down with Ron and goof off.
"Okay, if you were going to ask one girl out, who would it be?" Ron asked, after Hermione had gone to the other side of the room to get away from the annoying clacking of Harry and Ron's wizard chess.
"Umm. I'm not really sure about that one. I mean, last year, it would have been Cho, but I don't know anymore. What about you?"
Ron went slightly red in the face while Harry's queen knocked out his last knight. "Well, I'm sort of sure, but I don't think she wants to go out with me. We. oh, never mind."
They were both silent for a minute, and Harry was very confused about why Ron had brought up the topic. He decided to change it. "So, excited for the Quiddich game next week?"
They talked about how easy Hufflepuff would be to beat, how much fun they were having at practices, everything. Finally, they were too tired to keep talking, and they dragged their feet up the stairs to the dormitory.
While he was waiting to fall asleep, he thought about Ron's question. He did like someone. He'd liked her for almost four years. And he wanted to do something about it. Soon, if he could work up the courage.
He didn't notice it until around Christmas, but He hadn't really talked to Cho that much. Sure, he'd said hello to her in the halls, but he hadn't had a real conversation with her since school started.
The only thing that worried him more than his Cho troubles was Voldemort. And that worried him a lot.
The wizarding world was in shambles. Hundreds of wizards had been attacked, many of them killed. None of the students at Hogwarts had parents be killed, but many knew people who had died, and the numbers were getting greater.
Harry and Cho remained the only orphans at Hogwarts.
Finally, Harry decided it was time to talk to Cho. On a nice Sunday afternoon a few weeks before Christmas, Harry found her walking down the hall. He asked her if she would come to the library with him.
"Why?" Cho asked, raising an eyebrow.
'No reason, we just haven't really talked much since school started, and we haven't seen each other at all, and, well, I thought we should."
She looked at him suspiciously, but shrugged her shoulders and agreed.
"but only for an hour, I have a date." Cho said as they walked down the hall.
Harry's stomach flipped. "A date, with who? Does he know?"
"He's Alan Deezling, (A/N heh heh.funny name.I wanted to make my own character for this.) I can't believe you didn't notice. I've been going out with him since October. That's four months, you know." She was definitely making fun of him. 'And no," She looked down. "He doesn't know. I'm not ready to trust anyone with that yet. I haven't told anyone. When a girl in my year asked me why I hadn't gotten any mail this year, I had to tell her my parents were on a muggle cruise, and couldn't bring an owl. I also had to run away to stop myself from crying in front of her."
She paused, but took a deep breath and continued. "I know he will treat me differently. I want to be ready for it, and I'm not yet."
Harry understood. It had taken him almost two weeks to tell Ron and Hermione about him teaching a class. He had wanted to make sure he was good at it before he told his friends.
"That's okay. I've had to deal with death too. A lot, and I know it's hard. You just have to hold your head high and keep yourself calm. I think it will be better for you, because you have someone to talk to, someone who understands. Of course, I have seen it so much, you could say I've been desensitized.." He was rambling. Cho smiled, and he stopped.
"Sorry." He squeaked.
"It's alright. I've been doing pretty well about my parents. I still cry a lot, but I can control it until I'm alone. Unlike last year, I can actually be happy around people."
"Cho, you don't have to hide anything here, you know that? You don't have to bottle it up."
Cho stayed silent for a minute, but then spoke. "I know, I really am doing well. It's just, well, Alan."
Harry knew this wasn't good. He felt his heart drop to his stomach. She was going to talk to him about boyfriend troubles! She couldn't think of him as more than a friend.
"He's really nice, and I really like him, but he's protective. That's why I haven't talked to you very much. If he knew I was here, he'd get mad at you. The only reason he wouldn't beat you up is because he's scared of you."
She giggled at the thought of people being scared of Harry. Harry could understand. He just couldn't see himself as the Dudley figure wandering around the halls, beating up little kids.
Cho continued. "Because of it, he thinks I'm always there just for him. He doesn't ask me on dates, he tells me to meet him somewhere. Like the Christmas Hogsmeade trip. He hasn't asked me yet. He'll probably just tell me to meet him in the common room, the night before."
They sat in silence for a few minutes, thinking. They both knew it was time for a subject change, so they started to talk about the Quiddich match, how bad Hufflepuff was without Cedric, and how much fun Cho had had in the Slytherin/Ravenclaw game. She had easily beaten Malfoy to the snitch, meaning that when the snow went away and the Quiddich games started again, Harry and Cho would quickly end up playing against each other.
After an hour of chatting like real friends while receiving angry looks from the librarian, Cho stood up to leave.
"Wait, Cho. Do you want to come to Hogsmeade with me? We can do our Christmas shopping together."
Cho smiled. "Sure. I'll see you then."
Harry floated through the rest of the week, waiting for Saturday. He messed up so many times in Potions that Hermione actually let him have some of her potion to hand in, though she swore she would never, ever, do it again.
Harry was so excited, that on Friday, he almost missed the headline of the Daily Prophet.
The only reason he thought about it was because he heard shrieks coming from various students, and saw Hermione go very white when she read the front page of her copy.
He took it from her shaking hands, and read it out loud to Ron.
"DEMENTORS TO DARK SIDE"
The dementors had joined Voldemort. This was the beginning of the end.
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Hee hee! Well, don't you just love me now? Hurray for cliffhangers! I'm sorry, but I needed to end, and this is just agreat part to do it in.
Thanks to everyone who reviewed. Oh, and the conversation with Ron was just to get Harry to want to talk to Cho. It wasn't a hint towards Ron wanting to go out with Hermione, as I KNOW all you people are going to think it is!!!!!!!!
please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh boy, 1,600 words! Hurray!!! -Emma, or as I like to be called, unolimbo!