Chapter Seven
Cat Fight Version
A/N: I had only time to make a cat fight version so here you go ...
Indigal: Which ever way, tragic ending or happy ending, it is an ending and either way you'll know that there'll be protests and awes.
Dragoon Knight: The reason why this phrase came up: 'Hermione said it, my heart that belonged to Cedric said it and the look in Harry's eyes said it. As I buried my head into my hands I could only feel the mist within my dreams slowly creeping up once more.' Is that Cho realized that kissing Harry was a mistake. She was not over Cedric yet and now she was going to Harry for love. Hermione said it because she was (yep it's true) jealous, the part of her that belonged to Cedric said it because she knew she wasn't over him yet and Harry said it by the way he was shocked at what they did.
"I warned you, didn't I?" asked Hermione in a dangerously low voice. I could feel the hair on my arms prickling and my hands were wound so tightly onto my wand in my pocket that I could feel my knuckles turn pale. "I told you what would happen if you even dared to touch him." I tried to stand there as if I didn't know what she was talking about, but it was hard when her hair was frizzing up like it was powered by electricity.
"What did you say would happen to me again?" I asked, trying to sound casual. My voice was way beyond casual. "You know, what is it to you?" This happened to be the wrong thing to say to a manic girl like Granger.
Hermione gave a phony grin and prod me on the ribs with her wand so that I backed against the wall. "Don't you even play innocent with me Chang, you're not innocent."
"Wow, now that's the first time I heard that," I said coldly to her. "What's Harry to you anyway?"
"None of your business."
"Oh, but it is my business, because you see, I was the only one bold enough to make the first move." My heart was pounding hard against my chest. "While you had, how many years?"
She walked forwards and looked at me with disgust. Before I knew it, she had slapped me across my face, it tingled with tiny needles. I looked at her with absolute horror. So this is what she was left to do? Play a Muggles' fight? My cheek gave a ferocious blaze of pain but I ignored it, trying to keep my eyes only on Hermione. She was up to something; why else would she corner me in the middle of the corridors?
For a moment she looked as if she wanted to strangle me too. "First move? You made your first move on Cedric Diggory, and where did he end up?" she spat at me with poison in every tone. That hurt! I looked at her bitterly and knew that I was close to tears. I wasn't over Cedric yet and she knew that. I pang of guilt thumped against my heart. "Ah, your first and only flaw, darling old Diggory."
"Leave him out of this, Granger," I said through my teeth. A burn of hatred was scorching in my mind. Where was that knife when I needed it? I felt like stabbing it through her heart, make her feel the amount of pain I had been having for the past few months. "You never knew him; you never knew what he gave."
"His virginity?" asked Hermione mockingly and stood away from me. I gave a gasp and pulled out my wand ready to hit her first on. She looked at it with satisfaction; as if she wanted me to pull it out all along.
"STUPEFY!" I shouted. She soared back and hit the wall. What was I doing? I never let my patience get the better of me. But the hatred was coursing through my veins, months and months of it, just lying in bed and whimpering like a baby ... But Hermione was innocent, she just wanted to be loved by Harry ... But she insulted Cedric! She made my guilt go back.
Before I knew it she was back on her feet and pulling out her wand as well. "You're playing dirty!"
"Well you've got to play dirty with the one and only dirt." I spat back at her, the tip of her wand looked terrifying from the angle she was pointing it at.
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" shouted Hermione before I knew what she was doing. I was stiff as a board and fell to the ground. She walked beside me and looked at my face with great satisfaction. This was the girl I thought was innocent a few minutes ago? But I couldn't move; I could only lie down on that cold floor.
"Take that back!" Hermione shrieked right into my face. "Take that back! You're nothing but a low-scoring brainless git!"
A/N: Hehe ... I took that idea from 'Sarah' in www.harrypotterrealm.com
Hermione froze as footsteps drew near from my right and I tried to turn my head but it was rigid.
"Granger! What; is that Miss. Chang?" I heard the stern voice of Professor McGonagall. "What do you have to say Granger?" I could see Hermione turn to face me and she even smiled.
"She deserved what she got."
There was a loud gasp from Professor McGonagall and another person I couldn't see.
Professor McGonagall walked forwards, enough so that I could see her. She looked as if she wanted to cuff Hermione around the ankles. "Out of everyone in the school, I am surprised with you Miss. Granger! Fifty points from Gryffindor!" She looked at me with concern and patted my frozen shoulder. "Professor Flitwick, please carry Miss. Chang to the hospital wing, honestly, she was there only two weeks ago as well!"
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I came out of the Hospital twelve hours later, having taken about twelve potions and having been told about four stories on what had happened to me.
I knew very well what had happened. Hermione wanted revenge. When I was under the Petrificus Totalus spell, it didn't mean that I had lost my memory for goodness sakes. Paige and Rachel however didn't want to hear me say anything.
"Oh, I'm so sorry Cho!" said Paige as they led me back to the Ravenclaw common room. "I can't help but remember that the last thing I said to you was to spill if you liked Harry." Rachel smirked a little at this and Paige nudged her in the ribs. "Was it that? Was that why Hermione was after you?"
Among the four stories told about me, each of them consists of Hermione Granger. Everyone knew that Hermione had done this to me under some sort of revenge. On what type of revenge, they never knew. The first story said that Hermione was angry at me because I had spilt pumpkin juice on her 'perfect-scored' test, for some reason.
The second said that Hermione was jealous of my looks. (Told by the boys in Ravenclaw and spoilt by the boys in Gryffindor.) I later on heard that there was a major fight against Brad and Ron on this.
The third was a close one, saying that Hermione was scared I was taking up too much attention on Ron and that she wanted him for herself. Ron? That freckled face weirdo? Na huh!
The fourth was the silliest of them all spread by none other than Paige and Rachel when they said that Hermione and I were fighting against who was better, the Tornados or the Cannons. Paige said that Hermione and I had been fighting over this subject for months which is totally stupid.
"Paige, I forgive you okay!" I said weakly, trying to walk without collapsing. The potions had taken a lot out of me. "It was nothing really anyway. It was just a lot of misunderstanding." Rachel caught me as I fell backwards without warning.
"ARGHHH! Cho don't do that! You scared me!" said Rachel.
"Rachel? Where's Brad anyway?" I asked curiously. Rachel blushed deeply and fiddled with her fingers. It was Paige's turn to speak first "; Brad is in the hospital with a carrot as a nose, right beside Ron who has been making squirrel noises for the past few minutes."
"Brad has been acting as a real idiot with this Granger and Cho fight," spat Rachel angrily and stomping the ground so that the hall reverberated. "I think we should break up."
"Oh no you don't!!" Paige and I shouted together. We stuck our tongue out at each other.
"Yah, but Brad is becoming, you know – "
"Over protective?" I guessed. And Rachel gave a sigh of agreement.
"Ron insulted me once in the fight right," said Rachel animatedly. "And then Brad goes off and hits him with a Squirrel Chatter Curse." Rachel made a movement with her hands and pointed it at the space in front of us. "Then Ron goes off squirrel-talking furiously at me, probably saying how rude Brad is, and hits him so that he now has a carrot for a nose." "So that's all?" demanded Paige. "Because he has a carrot for a nose? Now he's not such a hunk, huh?"
"Of course not," laughed Rachel and caught me once more as I wobbled and fell sideways. "He's cute with or without a carrot nose." Paige and I smiled at Rachel. "Oh, Cho, are you sure you're all right? Maybe you want to go back to the Hospital wing for the rest of today?"
"No, its okay," I winced as the world spun around me. The spell Hermione cast seemed to have more than just the Petrificus Totalus Spell in it. Her anger was pushed in the spell more than anything and that was what my brain was reacting to. "I think I'll go back to the Ravenclaw common room to rest and you can go to your lessons."
"Do you need us to escort you there?" asked Paige with anxiety showing in her face.
"No, you go ahead; I think I'll be able to walk myself to the common room." Rachel and Paige exchanged nervous glances and looked at me wobbling. "Go! You'll be late." They waved goodbye and I made my way back to the Ravenclaw common room. I held to the walls for support but I had to admit that it was tough.
I counted my steps carefully as the world swung like a swing around me. On my next step around the corner I tripped spectacularly and closed my eyes for the fall.
It didn't come.
"Are you okay?" asked the familiar voice. I opened my eyes to see a blur shape of Harry.
"Yep, I'm fine," I stood up and swayed sideways a bit but held my ground.
"I'm sorry for what Hermione did," said Harry as he held my hand and we walked together. "I know what she did to you and, even though she doesn't want to admit it, she is really regretting it." I gave him a frail smile and turned a corner. My grasp on Harry's hand tightened but he didn't seem to be feeling the effects of my clutch. "She's feeling pretty terrible; she's never lost that many points in her life."
"Can you tell her that I'm sorry?" I asked as the world gave a nasty spin. But I held on.
"Why?" said Harry's voice with shock. "If there ought to be anyone who should apologize it's her."
The world spun again this time and I couldn't catch on with Harry's arm fast enough. I fell side ways and he caught me once more. "Damn it! I hate this stupid curse." I said through clenched teeth. In fact, I had been clenching my teeth through out the whole journey that my jaw was starting to be sore.
"That's one reason why Hermione should say sorry." He helped me back up and we kept walking. There was a line of stairs and I gave a gulp. What if I fell in the middle of walking up this flight of stairs? His grip on my hand tightened and we took the steps one at a time. "You look as weak as a kitten, you're face is so pale."
"Never mind that," I said, gritting my teeth. "I just want to go to bed and take a rest."
Harry nodded his jaw looked so determined that I was almost scared. "I heard she insulted Cedric."
I looked at him and almost lost my grip. "Ya."
"Well on behalf of her, I'm really sorry."
"Okay."
"You still care don't you? You still have feelings for him."
"Yes, Harry, I don't deny it, I still do."
"Would there be enough space for you to have feelings for me?"
I gave him a short smile and we climbed the rest of the stairs together. As we made our way in front of the Ravenclaw common room, I bent down close to his ear. "I'm not sure, but I'll learn, I've learnt a lot so far, and I'll learn to love again, I guess." Harry looked at me and grinned.
"I better go then," said Harry slowly.
"Ya, I better go to bed."
"See you." Why was he delaying so?
"Yep, see you later."
Harry was about to make his way down the stairs when I realized what he had been waiting for, woozily, I walked forward and called out to him "; Harry wait!" He turned around and walked up the stairs, catching me before I fell again.
"What is it?"
"You forget this." I leaned as far forwards as I dared and kissed his soft lips. There were the feelings again. Two worlds as one, the feeling you could only get when you are with a person you love. But it felt more the second time, there was something else there. For the first time, I realized that my tummy gave a shoot upwards, almost like fireworks. A feeling I only received from Cedric.
It was as if Cedric was alive in Harry. This time, it was my turn to pull out of the kiss, as nauseated as I was.
"See you then." I said dizzily.
"Ya," he said, looking as if he were about to faint himself.
I made my way lightheartedly into the common room and finally, collapsed upon my bed.
A/N: Sorry this chapter seems so short. There it is, a catfight, I should have warned you that I'm no good at cat fight, mainly all words and no action really. The next chapter should be interesting. Hermione in guilt, Cho finally making her decision, it was time that some romance should finally begin to happen. ^_^
Cat Fight Version
A/N: I had only time to make a cat fight version so here you go ...
Indigal: Which ever way, tragic ending or happy ending, it is an ending and either way you'll know that there'll be protests and awes.
Dragoon Knight: The reason why this phrase came up: 'Hermione said it, my heart that belonged to Cedric said it and the look in Harry's eyes said it. As I buried my head into my hands I could only feel the mist within my dreams slowly creeping up once more.' Is that Cho realized that kissing Harry was a mistake. She was not over Cedric yet and now she was going to Harry for love. Hermione said it because she was (yep it's true) jealous, the part of her that belonged to Cedric said it because she knew she wasn't over him yet and Harry said it by the way he was shocked at what they did.
"I warned you, didn't I?" asked Hermione in a dangerously low voice. I could feel the hair on my arms prickling and my hands were wound so tightly onto my wand in my pocket that I could feel my knuckles turn pale. "I told you what would happen if you even dared to touch him." I tried to stand there as if I didn't know what she was talking about, but it was hard when her hair was frizzing up like it was powered by electricity.
"What did you say would happen to me again?" I asked, trying to sound casual. My voice was way beyond casual. "You know, what is it to you?" This happened to be the wrong thing to say to a manic girl like Granger.
Hermione gave a phony grin and prod me on the ribs with her wand so that I backed against the wall. "Don't you even play innocent with me Chang, you're not innocent."
"Wow, now that's the first time I heard that," I said coldly to her. "What's Harry to you anyway?"
"None of your business."
"Oh, but it is my business, because you see, I was the only one bold enough to make the first move." My heart was pounding hard against my chest. "While you had, how many years?"
She walked forwards and looked at me with disgust. Before I knew it, she had slapped me across my face, it tingled with tiny needles. I looked at her with absolute horror. So this is what she was left to do? Play a Muggles' fight? My cheek gave a ferocious blaze of pain but I ignored it, trying to keep my eyes only on Hermione. She was up to something; why else would she corner me in the middle of the corridors?
For a moment she looked as if she wanted to strangle me too. "First move? You made your first move on Cedric Diggory, and where did he end up?" she spat at me with poison in every tone. That hurt! I looked at her bitterly and knew that I was close to tears. I wasn't over Cedric yet and she knew that. I pang of guilt thumped against my heart. "Ah, your first and only flaw, darling old Diggory."
"Leave him out of this, Granger," I said through my teeth. A burn of hatred was scorching in my mind. Where was that knife when I needed it? I felt like stabbing it through her heart, make her feel the amount of pain I had been having for the past few months. "You never knew him; you never knew what he gave."
"His virginity?" asked Hermione mockingly and stood away from me. I gave a gasp and pulled out my wand ready to hit her first on. She looked at it with satisfaction; as if she wanted me to pull it out all along.
"STUPEFY!" I shouted. She soared back and hit the wall. What was I doing? I never let my patience get the better of me. But the hatred was coursing through my veins, months and months of it, just lying in bed and whimpering like a baby ... But Hermione was innocent, she just wanted to be loved by Harry ... But she insulted Cedric! She made my guilt go back.
Before I knew it she was back on her feet and pulling out her wand as well. "You're playing dirty!"
"Well you've got to play dirty with the one and only dirt." I spat back at her, the tip of her wand looked terrifying from the angle she was pointing it at.
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" shouted Hermione before I knew what she was doing. I was stiff as a board and fell to the ground. She walked beside me and looked at my face with great satisfaction. This was the girl I thought was innocent a few minutes ago? But I couldn't move; I could only lie down on that cold floor.
"Take that back!" Hermione shrieked right into my face. "Take that back! You're nothing but a low-scoring brainless git!"
A/N: Hehe ... I took that idea from 'Sarah' in www.harrypotterrealm.com
Hermione froze as footsteps drew near from my right and I tried to turn my head but it was rigid.
"Granger! What; is that Miss. Chang?" I heard the stern voice of Professor McGonagall. "What do you have to say Granger?" I could see Hermione turn to face me and she even smiled.
"She deserved what she got."
There was a loud gasp from Professor McGonagall and another person I couldn't see.
Professor McGonagall walked forwards, enough so that I could see her. She looked as if she wanted to cuff Hermione around the ankles. "Out of everyone in the school, I am surprised with you Miss. Granger! Fifty points from Gryffindor!" She looked at me with concern and patted my frozen shoulder. "Professor Flitwick, please carry Miss. Chang to the hospital wing, honestly, she was there only two weeks ago as well!"
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I came out of the Hospital twelve hours later, having taken about twelve potions and having been told about four stories on what had happened to me.
I knew very well what had happened. Hermione wanted revenge. When I was under the Petrificus Totalus spell, it didn't mean that I had lost my memory for goodness sakes. Paige and Rachel however didn't want to hear me say anything.
"Oh, I'm so sorry Cho!" said Paige as they led me back to the Ravenclaw common room. "I can't help but remember that the last thing I said to you was to spill if you liked Harry." Rachel smirked a little at this and Paige nudged her in the ribs. "Was it that? Was that why Hermione was after you?"
Among the four stories told about me, each of them consists of Hermione Granger. Everyone knew that Hermione had done this to me under some sort of revenge. On what type of revenge, they never knew. The first story said that Hermione was angry at me because I had spilt pumpkin juice on her 'perfect-scored' test, for some reason.
The second said that Hermione was jealous of my looks. (Told by the boys in Ravenclaw and spoilt by the boys in Gryffindor.) I later on heard that there was a major fight against Brad and Ron on this.
The third was a close one, saying that Hermione was scared I was taking up too much attention on Ron and that she wanted him for herself. Ron? That freckled face weirdo? Na huh!
The fourth was the silliest of them all spread by none other than Paige and Rachel when they said that Hermione and I were fighting against who was better, the Tornados or the Cannons. Paige said that Hermione and I had been fighting over this subject for months which is totally stupid.
"Paige, I forgive you okay!" I said weakly, trying to walk without collapsing. The potions had taken a lot out of me. "It was nothing really anyway. It was just a lot of misunderstanding." Rachel caught me as I fell backwards without warning.
"ARGHHH! Cho don't do that! You scared me!" said Rachel.
"Rachel? Where's Brad anyway?" I asked curiously. Rachel blushed deeply and fiddled with her fingers. It was Paige's turn to speak first "; Brad is in the hospital with a carrot as a nose, right beside Ron who has been making squirrel noises for the past few minutes."
"Brad has been acting as a real idiot with this Granger and Cho fight," spat Rachel angrily and stomping the ground so that the hall reverberated. "I think we should break up."
"Oh no you don't!!" Paige and I shouted together. We stuck our tongue out at each other.
"Yah, but Brad is becoming, you know – "
"Over protective?" I guessed. And Rachel gave a sigh of agreement.
"Ron insulted me once in the fight right," said Rachel animatedly. "And then Brad goes off and hits him with a Squirrel Chatter Curse." Rachel made a movement with her hands and pointed it at the space in front of us. "Then Ron goes off squirrel-talking furiously at me, probably saying how rude Brad is, and hits him so that he now has a carrot for a nose." "So that's all?" demanded Paige. "Because he has a carrot for a nose? Now he's not such a hunk, huh?"
"Of course not," laughed Rachel and caught me once more as I wobbled and fell sideways. "He's cute with or without a carrot nose." Paige and I smiled at Rachel. "Oh, Cho, are you sure you're all right? Maybe you want to go back to the Hospital wing for the rest of today?"
"No, its okay," I winced as the world spun around me. The spell Hermione cast seemed to have more than just the Petrificus Totalus Spell in it. Her anger was pushed in the spell more than anything and that was what my brain was reacting to. "I think I'll go back to the Ravenclaw common room to rest and you can go to your lessons."
"Do you need us to escort you there?" asked Paige with anxiety showing in her face.
"No, you go ahead; I think I'll be able to walk myself to the common room." Rachel and Paige exchanged nervous glances and looked at me wobbling. "Go! You'll be late." They waved goodbye and I made my way back to the Ravenclaw common room. I held to the walls for support but I had to admit that it was tough.
I counted my steps carefully as the world swung like a swing around me. On my next step around the corner I tripped spectacularly and closed my eyes for the fall.
It didn't come.
"Are you okay?" asked the familiar voice. I opened my eyes to see a blur shape of Harry.
"Yep, I'm fine," I stood up and swayed sideways a bit but held my ground.
"I'm sorry for what Hermione did," said Harry as he held my hand and we walked together. "I know what she did to you and, even though she doesn't want to admit it, she is really regretting it." I gave him a frail smile and turned a corner. My grasp on Harry's hand tightened but he didn't seem to be feeling the effects of my clutch. "She's feeling pretty terrible; she's never lost that many points in her life."
"Can you tell her that I'm sorry?" I asked as the world gave a nasty spin. But I held on.
"Why?" said Harry's voice with shock. "If there ought to be anyone who should apologize it's her."
The world spun again this time and I couldn't catch on with Harry's arm fast enough. I fell side ways and he caught me once more. "Damn it! I hate this stupid curse." I said through clenched teeth. In fact, I had been clenching my teeth through out the whole journey that my jaw was starting to be sore.
"That's one reason why Hermione should say sorry." He helped me back up and we kept walking. There was a line of stairs and I gave a gulp. What if I fell in the middle of walking up this flight of stairs? His grip on my hand tightened and we took the steps one at a time. "You look as weak as a kitten, you're face is so pale."
"Never mind that," I said, gritting my teeth. "I just want to go to bed and take a rest."
Harry nodded his jaw looked so determined that I was almost scared. "I heard she insulted Cedric."
I looked at him and almost lost my grip. "Ya."
"Well on behalf of her, I'm really sorry."
"Okay."
"You still care don't you? You still have feelings for him."
"Yes, Harry, I don't deny it, I still do."
"Would there be enough space for you to have feelings for me?"
I gave him a short smile and we climbed the rest of the stairs together. As we made our way in front of the Ravenclaw common room, I bent down close to his ear. "I'm not sure, but I'll learn, I've learnt a lot so far, and I'll learn to love again, I guess." Harry looked at me and grinned.
"I better go then," said Harry slowly.
"Ya, I better go to bed."
"See you." Why was he delaying so?
"Yep, see you later."
Harry was about to make his way down the stairs when I realized what he had been waiting for, woozily, I walked forward and called out to him "; Harry wait!" He turned around and walked up the stairs, catching me before I fell again.
"What is it?"
"You forget this." I leaned as far forwards as I dared and kissed his soft lips. There were the feelings again. Two worlds as one, the feeling you could only get when you are with a person you love. But it felt more the second time, there was something else there. For the first time, I realized that my tummy gave a shoot upwards, almost like fireworks. A feeling I only received from Cedric.
It was as if Cedric was alive in Harry. This time, it was my turn to pull out of the kiss, as nauseated as I was.
"See you then." I said dizzily.
"Ya," he said, looking as if he were about to faint himself.
I made my way lightheartedly into the common room and finally, collapsed upon my bed.
A/N: Sorry this chapter seems so short. There it is, a catfight, I should have warned you that I'm no good at cat fight, mainly all words and no action really. The next chapter should be interesting. Hermione in guilt, Cho finally making her decision, it was time that some romance should finally begin to happen. ^_^