Billy's Bounty

By tanx © 2004

Disclaimer - I don't own Harry potter *sniffs* or any of the characters you recognise *sniffs again*. But all the characters you ain't never heard of, yeah they're mine so if ya want em' you can go eat a McPhoenix burger (new from WzDonalds - it makes you go 'what the?!'). Bribes will be accepted, then I will run away chanting 'I got your money, I got your money' to the chicken dance.

Pairings:

OC/Oliver Wood (yaya yaya!!)

Hermie/Ronnikins

Harry/Cho (damn finally!)

OC/Draco Malfoy

Plot: Ok, well thanx to hids I've discovered that ppl will think my character is a boy unless I tell you she's not. Her name is Billy, short for ...you're not gonna find out for a while, lol. It's embarrassing so not yet fannies, not yet. She's Cho Chang's best friend (and NOT a mary sue. ^_^) and she is "The New Girl" at Hoggies. She's happy and vivacious.

Story set in 4th year. Oliver Wood is back for another year coz he took a year off 'Uniwizardry' (haha get it?!) to learn how to teach quidditch, with Madam Hooch. He's only 17 or so but still as hot as ever.

Anyway, to the story!!!!

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Chapter One

~*Billy's Bounty*~

"RAVENCLAW?! RAVENCLAW?! STUPID 'BEEEEEP' SORTING HAT! I still can't believe the damn thing put me in Ravenclaw.' complained Billy, as she unfolded her clothes and lay them on her bed.

'Know why I can? Because of that humongous outburst you threw during the ceremony. Relax Bill it'll be alright. You've got me.' Billy's close friend, Cho Chang replied.

'I know Cho. You know I love you heeeeeeaps but I so wanted to be in Gryffindor. It's just that my cousin's in there and so is Harry Potter and - oh god - and Oliver Wood. And now I'll be in Ravo' for the rest of my life and...'

'Honey, you're ranting again.' Said Cho, looking up from Witch Weekly.

'Do you think he, Oliver, you know, noticed me?' asked Billy, looking over Cho's shoulder at the magazine.

'I'm SURE he noticed you, Billy. Just about every other guy in the school did.'

'Oh, you're just saying that.' Billy responded, knowing that what Cho was saying was half true. She saw loads of guys checking her out, the 'new trash' in school. They were satisfied, and Billy-Denise Knight knew it.

'Now, if we're gonna get ANYWHERE in this big old school we need to go exploring, and I have the perfect thing.' Cho said, giggling like a blushing schoolgirl. (Yes, I am quite aware that Cho is a 'schoolgirl' in case you thought that I didn't. Now, keep on reading, you!)

Cho leapt off the bed in one swoop and took Billy with her, holding her hands gently.

'Wwww...aaah!' Billy said, nearly falling off the bed. 'Where are you taking me, crazy woman?!'

'We're going somewhere only 5 people I know have ever been. Somewhere no one was ever supposed to know about. Somewhere even McGonagall never set a foot inside.'

'Snape's dressing room?'

'Oh god. Bad, scarring mental pictures. Oh god! OH MY GOD! SAVE ME FROM THE MENTAL IMAGES!' Cho shrieked.

'Shut up, Cho.'

'YOU MADE MY EYES BLEED!'

Billy and Cho stumbled out of the room in tears from laughing so much. Cho was dragging Billy by the arm.

'So where are we...?' Billy trailed off, waiting for an answer.

'You'll see.'

The girls walked for what seemed like hours. Up every stair, past Sir Cadogan the honorary knight, past Professor Trelawney's musky room and through the trap door at the top of the highest tower of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They walked in silence, staring out at the still black lake reflecting the starry sky, the giant squid occasionally dragging himself gracefully over the surface of the water.

'Ok. We're here.' stated Cho quietly, still watching the water, mesmerized by its darkness.

'What are we looking at? Where are we?' Billy whispered, trying not to ruin the moment.

Cho stretched up to the roof and tapped a piece of stray mortar on the wall. Amazingly, a small key hole appeared from behind the mortar. Cho reached under her coat and pulled out a necklace with a key on it.

'Oh my gosh. I always wandered what that key was for!' Billy was impressed.

Cho held up her hand in silence and put the key into the tiny hole. The key hole shot out of the wall like a bullet and started to spin. As it spun it lit on fire and became gold. Cho caught it in her hand. She threw it hard against the wall it had shot out of, and the wall literally melted in front of them, to reveal an arch the size of a door.

'Wow.' breathed Billy in a low whisper, unable to believe her eyes.

'This,' Cho pointed inside the arch, 'Is how I put up with being a Ravenclaw."

They walked silently through the arch, despite Billy's hesitation.

'Well.' Said Billy as she walked slowly, 'This isn't so ba- AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!'

It all happened in a flash. One minute she was walking along the tunnel, next she was sliding down a steel round slide, as fast as if she was on a speeding broom. Cho was screaming wildly behind her, but not because she was scared. Cho Chang actually sounded like she was enjoying herself.

'I love this slide!' She shouted above the noise of the clanging metal.

'I dooooooooon't!!!' Was Billy's hysterical reply.

They slid for about ten minutes, but it seemed to Billy more like forty. Then finally the slide curved out flat underneath them and they stopped skidding. They could hear loud murmurs - it sounded like a whole lot of people at a quidditch match.

'How was that?' asked Cho, sounding as though she'd just solved world hunger.

'Mgahm...' was all Billy could manage. Her head was spinning and her insides were churning like butter. Cho helped Billy up and they walked to a door the size of a small cauldron. Billy followed Cho's lead and wriggled through the entrance, which Cho had also opened with her special key. Billy looked out and what she saw amazed her.

She could not believe where she was...

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A/N - Moohoohahahaha! Wanna know where Billy and Cho are? Well you'll just have to review me and ask for it.

Here's a hint on number two, it's entitled – "The Ancient Tunnel of the Houses."

Now get reviewing!

Love you still,

Tanx. O_-