Aloha! Chapter 12 has arrived…..Now R&R!

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"Yes." Harry repeated, letting go of her pale slender fingers rather reluctantly. "The part in the graveyard was definitely true," Harry continued. "But it doesn't make proper sense. Why am I the heir of Gryffindor? And why is it just Gryffindor and Ravenclaw? What about Hufflepuff?"

Harry was looking at Cho as if she could give him answers. He wished she had answers to this puzzle. But her willowy, delicate figure with those deep, beautiful, brown eyes, looked pleadingly back at him, she needed him to comfort and reassure her, in times like this when she was more confused than he was. His heart was beating fast with the feeling that Cho was relying on him to give answers he couldn't give, he felt like he was letting her down, he wanted to do so much for her that he couldn't do.

"I don't know," Cho said. "What are we going to do?" she asked him. Harry thought about it momentarily. Who could they tell that could help them. Hermione or Ron? No. Sirius? Harry's heart gave a small jolt, and a he felt the familiar lump in the back of his throat. No, he's dead. Lupin? No, he's got enough on his mind. Dumbledore…..Dumbledore. Of course Dumbledore could help them.

"Dumbledore," Harry said to Cho. Cho nodded dumbly. She was puzzled by the whole situation, everything was suddenly so different in her life since Harry had come back into it. She loved him so much but could she really give him everything he wanted, what did he even want from her? What could she possibly do that could be enough to show her true feelings, nothing on earth could compare to how she felt about Harry…….nothing.

"Yeh." That was all she could say. Such a small and insignificant word for everything she felt inside. She was still confused by her dream, confused about what she could truly feel for Harry, something strong, something powerful, something binding, something that her want to spend every waking moment with him, but was this true love?

"We can't go now because it's too late." Harry jerking Cho out of her thoughts, he was so business-like and formal, like they were nothing more than partners for a school project, he wasn't the sort of person Cho thought she could ever feel so, so, so, so, there were no words the describe the feeling. But her thoughts were again interrupted by Harry's echoing voice, the one that haunted her every moment of sleep, the one she longed to hear, the voice that filled her mind, body and soul.

"Cho can we meet somewhere tomorrow after dinner, we can talk to Dumbledore then," Cho nodded. "Do you know where his office is?" Harry asked. Cho shook her head. Still too many thoughts cluttering her fragile mind.

"No I've never had to go there." She replied, trying to keep her mind focused, and away from the raven-haired boy, only a few feet away from her.

"Ok let's meet here instead then?" Harry said questioningly, to Cho who nodded half heartedly. Harry stood up and Cho followed suit.

"I guess we'd better go," she said making her way towards the door. Not wanting to cause herself more pain by staying longer. She didn't want to dwell on Harry if this was how it was meant to be. Even after everything her grandmother had said, Cho couldn't help but think that Harry could never really feel the way she did. That she was bound to be lonely, drowning in her own misery, for the rest of her life.

"No wait Cho," Harry said quickly, without really knowing why. He just enjoyed being with her. Cho stopped, turned around and took a few steps back towards him. What was he going to do? Why was he putting her through this? Yet she couldn't leave, not when he was so close, it was so easy to just stay still and look at him.

Every fibre in her body tingled with happiness just as she stood looking at him. For a moment or two they simply stood in front of each other, both simply enjoying looking at the other. Then Harry took another step towards Cho and they put their arms around each other pulling each other into a kiss. A fervent, passionate kiss. Harry could help but bring Cho as close as possible and kiss her deeper and deeper. Never wanting to let go or end the moment. Cho ran her fingers through Harry's hair, making Harry's heart beat faster, (if that was possible.)

When they eventually broke apart it was with reluctance. But Harry still held Cho close, looking deeply and caringly into her eyes. His green eyes were filled with an emotion beyond belief for Cho, he felt something unexplainable for Cho, something beyond explainable, something beyond comparison.

"I love you Cho," Harry whispered, then realising what he'd just said, ran out of the room, away from what he'd just said as if that would make it go away. But it didn't work. nothing else seemed to matter now. He'd just told Cho he loved her, and it was true. Why was he hiding it from himself. He reached the portrait hole and stood outside it.

"I love you Cho," he repeated before muttering the password and going inside the common room.

Cho's POV:

Cho stood in the room of requirement, if she moved, the amazing feeling would leave her. She wanted to feel like this for the rest of her life. That had been magical. The most wonderful kiss she'd ever shared with anyone.

"I love you too Harry," Cho whispered softly, savouring the moment over and over. Then she left the room of requirement and wandering slowly back to the Ravenclaw common, all thoughts of her dream gone. All she could do was replay the kiss in her head, she would never get bored of seeing it remembering how it felt.

She could still taste Harry's lips on hers, feel his breath on her cheek, remember the touch of him as he wrapped his arms around her and she could sense his hair and she ran her fingers through them. It had been the best feeling in the world. Better than catching the snitch and winning a Quidditch game for your team. Better than getting and 'O' on an OWL paper. Nothing could compare

She automatically said the password and entered the common room. It was nearly 10pm so there were still a few people sitting by the fires doing homework, including Samiha, who watched Cho as she sat down in one of the armchairs and gazed transfixed into the fire.

"So where've you been?" Samiha asked, Cho didn't reply for a moment, she was still thinking about the kiss. At first she didn't even realise what Samiha had said. But eventually she raised her head with a sigh and knew she would now have to tell Samiha everything.

Eventually, at 11pm Samiha and Cho went upstairs to bed. Cho hadn't told Samiha everything, just bits of the dream and bits of the meeting her best friend could understand. Before going to bed, back to thinking, thanking about her love for Harry.

Love, love….. There was that word again…..love…..she wanted him to love her like she did him, but how could he? If she didn't know what love really was how could she love him? how could she know what he felt? He was Harry Potter, he had bigger things to worry about, she felt like she wasn't good enough for him, this thought made a solitary, but painful tear fall from her eye. A tear of frustration, confusion, hurt but most of all a tear filled with passion, filled with love. That unexplainable word, love…..maybe when she understood that she could truly understand her feelings for Harry…….

Harry's POV:

Harry woke early the next morning, the sun had just begun to rise, a mixture or bright oranges and yellows, lighting up the early morning sky. Harry stood by his window looking out over the grounds, thinking vaguely how beautiful it looked. But there was something, or rather someone, more beautiful, some-one that haunted every fibre of his mind, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Her entrancing, deep, brown eyes, her long, flowing, shining black hair, her slender figure. Cho……….

Harry eventually managed to drag himself out of his fantasies and he looked at his watch. 6:30am. Some memories of the previous evening were confusing, like Cho's dream. But some made his heart beat fast with excitement, like the kiss they had shared.

Harry remembered what he'd said to her and admitted to himself that night. He loved Cho. There was no way he could go back on that now. It was the truth. It made his head ache painfully thinking about it. It felt like a dream saying that to her. He knew it was true, but what did it mean to him? what did it mean to her? If he loved her then it should be simple. People always said when you meet the person you're supposed to spend the rest of your life with you'll just know, it'll be simple because you'll love that person so much nothing else will matter.

In a way Harry felt like that, Cho was the only thing ever on his mind now-a-days, she filled every corner of his existence, he dreamt about her, her face, her voice, the touch of her hand, her soft brown eyes melting his soul.

But he didn't know how he was going to handle it. He couldn't keep dating Hermione if he loved Cho, and he couldn't pretend like nothing had happened with Cho. So he had to dump Hermione. He cringed at the thought. He didn't love Hermione but they'd been dating for nearly 5 months now. How would she take it? What was he going to say?

'Hi Hermione I have to dump you because I love Cho sorry bye.' Yeh right. Maybe he would wait for the right time. So Harry got dressed and went into the deserted and silent common room. He sat in an armchair gazing into the fire grate, where he had stared into a crackling fire many evenings in the past 6 years, watching the embers burn out in the darkness.

Harry lapsed into thought. But he found that whenever he tried to concentrate on what Cho had told him about her dream and their destiny. His mind would skip past it, to the kiss. He watched it over and over in his mind's eye. Part him felt a great sense of relief of admitting that he loved Cho, but part of him thought that if he hadn't said he could have at least pretended to still want to go out with Hermione. But whatever he wanted it was done now he had to tell Hermione, it wasn't fair on her. But how, when, where? There were no ideal circumstances to dump your steady girlfriend for someone else.

He pondered over this for a while until something jerked him out of his thoughts. A constant tapping at the window getting louder and louder. Harry stood up, went over to the window, opened it and let the small bird inside. Harry grabbed 'Pig', took the letter from him and sat down to read it. Harry and Ron had been sending frequent letters to each other. Mostly about what had been going on recently at the Burrow or at Hogwarts.

They had ended their letter's about Cho and Hermione when Harry had decided to ignore everything and go back to normal. But now Harry had an over-powering desire to tell Ron about the previous evening. At least it would be someone to talk about it to even if Ron was pretty useless. Harry turned his attentions back the letter. It read.

Harry & Hermione How's Hogwarts at the moment? Burrow's pretty dull, nothing's going on, people mostly at G.P. and no-one ever tells me what's going on. Fred and George cam around the other day, managed to catch a few conversations between mum and dad on the extendable ears. Nothing worth hearing. See you soon. Only 28 days to go. Ron

(A/N: G.P. stands for Grimmauld Place) Harry placed the letter on a nearby table so Hermione could read it when she came downstairs and made a mental note to write a private reply to Ron, just from himself, that evening. Thinking about that evening, reminded Harry suddenly that he was going to see Dumbledore that evening with Cho. His heart gave a sudden and uncontrollable jolt. What was he going to say to Cho? He didn't know how he was going to handle that. He went back to staring into the fire place, still thinking, until the first people started to trickle into the common and down to breakfast.

Eventually Hermione came down the stairs. She read Ron's letter, put it in her pocket and then they went down to breakfast. Harry couldn't make eye-contact with Hermione, he avoided her gaze and made as little physical contact with her as possible. He ate breakfast quickly and left to go to get his books. Cho caught his eye as he left the Great hall and once he had glanced nervously away she stood up and walked briskly out after him.

She caught him up and put her hand on his shoulder. He nearly jumped a foot in the air when he felt this and almost screamed when he saw who the hand belonged to. He tried  to keep a normal face as he turned around to face her properly.

"You haven't forgotten that we're going to see Professor Dumbledore tonight?" she asked tentatively. Harry breathed a sigh of relief inwardly. So that was all she wanted.

"No, see after dinner tonight," he said smiling slightly.

"Ok, see you later," she said and as she turned around, back to the Ravenclaw common room she brushed the back of her hand lightly against his. Harry watched her out of site along the corridor, sub-consciously touching the place on his hand where their skin had connected. His hand felt warm and tingly as he made his way along the corridor in a dreamy fashion. He felt like his head was in the clouds when he was around Cho, she had an unexplainable effect on him, something enchanting and amazing.

Then they went their separate ways. Harry took a deep breath, not realising how fast his heart had been beating. No-one had ever done this to him before. Made him so nervous just by being there. He walked quickly up to the common room, gathered his books and walked in the direction of History of Magic.

Harry spent the rest of the day thinking about Cho, her dream, their kiss, the meeting in the corridor, everything about her filled his mind. He couldn't concentrate in any of his lesson, and ended getting extra homework in Astronomy for not listening and failing to answer any of the professor's questions.

The day soon ended and Harry found himself sitting in the Great Hall eating Shepard's Pie with the prospect of meeting Cho in less than 30 minutes. Eventually Hermione left. Harry told her he was going to do homework in the library and would see her later, she seemed satisfied with the lie but as Harry watched her out of site he was thinking 'God I need to get a new excuse she's not going to fall for that every time'. But there was no time now. He quickly finished his dinner and left the Great Hall in the direction of the room of requirement.

Cho wasn't there when Harry arrived at the entrance, so he stood looking absent mindedly around thinking about what he could possibly say to Cho when she came.

When she did eventually appear and end of the corridor, Harry's heart began to beat abnormally fast again. She drew up beside him and smiled nervously. Harry didn't have a clue what she expected him to say so he kept it simple, not wanting to do anything wrong like make her cry or something.

"Hi," he said, trying in vain to keep the waver out of his voice.

"Hi Harry," Cho replied, "So which way is it?" She asked. Harry was confused for a moment, he was so nervous around Cho, he had suddenly forgotten why he was here. He recovered quickly and mentally shook himself. 'You can't fall apart around her, you'll make yourself look like an idiot.' Harry said firmly to himself

"Oh……it's this way," he said turning to the left and beginning to lead her towards Dumbledore's office. They walked in silence for  while. Harry couldn't think of anything to say. It didn't seem appropriate to talk about something casual like Quidditch, but he didn't want to bring up Cho's dream or anything like that. So they walked in complete quiet.

Harry stopped eventually in front of the statue which led to Dumbledore's office. Harry suddenly realised he didn't know the password. He looked around for anything that could possibly help but there was no-one in site. He thought fast, now what, but he was saved the job of having to think of something to say to Cho when he heard footsteps behind him.

"Professor Dumbledore," Harry said looking up at the tall imposing figure, his long, silvery beard falling below his waist, his eyes, greyer and more troubled of late than Harry was used to. Harry knew the headmaster had been heavily burdened recently, and it pained him to add more hardship on an already worried mind, but this couldn't be ignored, it would be part of the survival of, not just witches and wizards, but Cho and Harry would play a part in saving the earth from falling into the darkness of Lord Voldemort once again.

"Mr. Potter, Miss Chang," said the headmaster regarding them both with curiosity. Cho didn't say anything. She had hardly ever talked to Dumbledore, so she let Harry do the talking.

"We need to talk to you," Harry said to Dumbledore, who stepped up to the stone statue and said:

"Lemon Sorbet," the statue leapt to one side letting Dumbledore, Harry and Cho, step onto the moving staircase and let it carry them up to the headmaster's office. Dumbledore seated himself behind his desk and gestured towards two armchairs that Harry and Cho sat at.

"I expected to see you here some time this year Harry," Dumbledore said gravely, to Harry. "But Miss Chang, this is a surprise," his eyes rested on Cho, who felt very nervous under his gaze. Harry glanced quickly at Cho as well. He couldn't help but notice how beautiful she looked which her long raven hair cascading past her shoulders and her deep brown eyes glinting in the last rays of sun as it sank beneath the horizon.

But then the Headmaster spoke again and Harry was dragged out of his daydreams. They both instead turned their attentions to the matter at which they were there to discuss.

"Now what did you want to tell me?" asked Dumbledore, peering down his spectacles at the two teenagers sitting in front of him.

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Well that was it! I dunno if that chapter was any good so please tell me if it was crap or good or whatever! Just review!