Ok chapter 16 has arrived! Hopefully the real plot starts now Ron is back! *grins* R&R!
Captain Sebz Sparrow: Happy now! I used you're 'real name' Geez! Harry is not a confusing Hobo, you're just a freak! Anyway, I guess we should get moving or the clown Mafia will catch us! *shakes uncontrollably* I'm heading to Yemen! You coming?!
Indigal: Yeh, sorry I didn't go more into Ron, but I guess I'm just lazy, anyway everything goes weird with Ron in this chapter! Dammit! Why did I say that?! I should really stop giving stuff away, so I'll shut up and let you read this chapter, after I've said: Thanks for reviewing and glad you still like this fic!
Aer_Terra: Yay! A new reviewer! It's always great to get new reviewers! Glad you liked my fic so much! *hugz you* you're too kind! Sorry if I keep you waiting too long. Sometimes it takes me a while to post my chappies! But I would never stop writing! Anyway, I'll shut up and let you read the fic!
Dragoon knight: hmmm……..what will Harry do? Actually I already know so haha! Lol! you'll just have to read on and find out, all I'm saying is that it gets worse! Dun, dun, dun!
Zou-Chang: Yup Ron is back! But how will the Hermione thing work out????? It's not gonna be easy, trust me! No! I'm giving stuff away! Dammit! I'm gonna shut up and let ya read on!
Rachellah: Yup! Ron's back! And no everything gets worse! But you'll have to read on and find out about that! hahahaha! Glad you liked that chapter! And hope you keep reviewing!
JkReviewer: Yeh well, hope you're not too sad, cos it gets worse, god! Hope many times have I said that?! Or typed it?! Anyway! Glad you liked it! And the break-up unfortunately, won't be bloody, but it'll be all yelling, screaming, crying and stuff like that! you get the picture!
Foxysquid: Glad you liked it, though you don't get it do you???? Admit it…..oh well I don't care as long as it's a review! So thanks for reviewing! And I love your latest Harry Potter fic! Ahahahahahaha! It's sooooooooo funny!
Harald: Ok……….Geez get a life! If you're gonna say that about my fic, you're gonna have to say it about a whole lot of others, there are some of us out there, who like Harry/Cho as a couple, just cos you don't doesn't mean it's wrong! I think it's really sad that you are flaming me just because I think Harry/Cho goes well! And you're a coward, you haven't even signed you're review! I was going to ignore you, but then I realised, someone had to tell you what a freak you were! So I'm telling you to piss off and I'm just gonna delete your review so it was a complete waste of your time!
Jazzy D: Thanks! I'm glad you think my fic is so great! *gives you more cookies* Sorry you had to go away, I miss my story, I feel your pain, why can't the whole world have computers?! Anyway! Thanks for the great review, I kinda missed your hyperness! Is that even a word??????? Oh well! I don't care!
Alyssa: You liked it? Yaysies! That's not even a word! But I don't care! Thanks for reviewing, and I agree, Harry and Cho always seemed right to me, even after their break-up!
Erika: Yeh! Isn't it great! I have sooooooooo many reviews! :)! Ron is back! Yeh! But……..wait, I'm not telling you anything! Must restrain, you'll have to read it yourself! Glad you still like my story, and thanks for your e-mail! I love e-mails! *grins* Hope I didn't keep you waiting for the update for too long!
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Wingsofsilver: Sorry it was sad, *comforts you* it's ok it will be a happy ending! But not for a long time! Glad you liked it anyway! And I thought after the evil cliffy last time, it was too evil to use another one!
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LogicalRaven: Yeh, I thought it was about time Cho realised what Harry was doing! Thanks for reviewing! And hope you like chapter 16! When stuff actually starts to happen, and it gets a lot more confusing! Hope I don't keep you waiting for updates!
Pinkee: Thanks for reviewing, glad you didn't think I rushed it, I just kinda wanted Ron to finally come back, it was too slow. Hope I didn't keep you waiting too long for this update, it's been hard over Christmas, anyway. Thanks again for reviewing and hope you like this chapter!
Ipso Facto: Thanks for reviewing, glad you like my fic so much. It must have taken to a while to read it if you read it all at once. hope you like this chapter!
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Harry, Ron and Hermione stayed up long into the night catching up on things around Hogwarts. Although nothing had really happened that could be shared between all three, they seemed to go on forever. Harry was desperate to get Ron alone so he could tell him about Cho and what she'd said about Voldemort all those weeks ago. But he knew it would have to wait maybe a few days.
In the mean time Harry was working up all his courage to dump Hermione. He decided to do it at the end of the week when she'd calmed down about the return of Ron. To stop himself thinking about telling Hermione he wrote to Cho.
ChoI need to see you, can we meet somewhere on Friday evening about 9pm, please don't do this to me, please don't keep avoiding me, I love you too much. Reply soon
Love Harry
As Harry stood in the owlery watching Hedwig fly away into the distance. He felt like crying at the thought of never being able to hold Cho in his arms again of kiss her lips, or feel her soft, tender skin. He couldn't let it end like this. No-one should have to feel the way he felt right now. He felt empty, yet he was filled with regret, pain and remorse.
Cho's POV:
Cho needed to get out of her dormitory. She had spent so many hours there. She'd shed even more tears than when Cedric had died.
She left the common room early one morning and headed out of the castle into the huge, deserted grounds. She walked to the edge of the massive lake and sat in the shade of tree on its banks. It was still late February, so the ground was cold and hard but Cho sat there for longer than she could recall.
She let all her emotion out. Tears of pain and sorrow, tears of anger at herself, for doing this to herself, frustration, sadness, hate for life. Everything that had been building up inside her poured from her heart.
She didn't know how long she'd been there before an owl swooped to the ground beside her. And held out a letter. Cho automatically recognised the owl and felt her heart leap with anticipation. She tore open the letter and read it over. her heart started beating fast, Harry wanted to meet her. Maybe they could finally be together again. Or did he just want her back in secret? Cho knew she couldn't do that. she read the letter over again stroking Hedwig absent-mindedly.
"What should I do?" she asked to no-one in particular. Hedwig hooted sympathetically at her side. Cho looked into the owls captivating eyes and sighed.
"I do love him Hedwig, but does he love me in the same way? Can it ever be right between us?" She asked, the owl did nothing but look deeply back at Cho. Cho wondered what Hedwig would say if she could talk. Would she say that Harry truly wanted her back, or would she say that Harry could never love her like she did him.
After a lot of thought Cho scribbled:
HarryI can meet you in the usual place at 9pm on Friday evening, see you then
Love ChoCho wrote it quickly and let Hedwig fly away before she could change her mind. She was still debating with herself over whether it had been the right thing to do as she went back up to castle.
Harry's POV:
Harry was delighted to have Ron back and as far as Harry could tell Ron was happy to be back. He'd been questioning them none stop about anything that gone on at Hogwarts since he'd been gone. The only problem was that Harry hadn't had time to get Ron alone, to talk to him about Cho and Voldemort without Hermione.
He hoped he would get the chance that evening. All he had to do was get Hermione to go to bed early, leaving himself and Ron in the common room alone. But Harry had no time to plan anything. Whenever he tried to concentrate his mind drifted to Cho and his heart sank. He hoped she would reply soon. He had to meet her. He just had to. It was like the fate of the rest of his life depended on it.
As well as all this Harry still hadn't figured out how to dump Hermione. So by the time he returned to the common room that evening, with Ron and Hermione his brain hurt from all the thinking he'd been doing about Cho, when he should have been concentrating on Ron and Hermione.
All three sat in chairs by the fire enjoying, (Or in Harry's case pretending to listen whilst really actually thinking about Cho) their last hours before the weekend ended and Monday came around, along with more lessons, more homework, more Snape and more Umbridge. Harry was lucky that evening Hermione seemed tired and went upstairs to her dormitory early, leaving Harry and Ron in silence not really knowing how to start the conversation.
"So……is there anything else been going on whilst I've been away?" Ron asked after several moments of uncomfortable silence. Harry sat and thought how to begin to tell Ron everything that happened recently.
"Well……..." he began slowly. Then deciding to not care what happened, launched into his story. "Like I said in my last letter I've been meeting Cho, cos she had this…….dream, about……Voldemort." Harry paused to see Ron's reaction. He looked very interested in what Harry was going to say.
"And what did she say? What happened?" Ron demanded, smiling slightly. Harry knew he was going to be here a long time, if he was going to tell Ron everything that had been happening. So he took a deep breath and began to tell Ron everything.
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Over an hour later Harry and Ron made their way upstairs to the dormitory, in complete silence. Ron had insisted on asking so many questions about Cho, Hermione and Voldemort that Harry felt like he'd been on a quiz show. But eventually they both climbed into their beds and lay in silence.
"You know we have to tell Hermione sooner or later," Ron said into the darkness. Harry sighed.
"I know, I can't hide stuff much longer, but I don't know how to tell her." He replied, biting his lip.
"Well you have to do it soon, you're meeting Cho at the end of the week," Ron said. Harry thought this sounded weird coming from Rom. 1) He'd just returned from being suspended for having muggle alcohol and 2) Ron had never really been one for caring about other people's feelings, whoever they were.
"Yeh I guess, I'll do it soon," Harry said turning over, wanting to end the conversation before he got himself in too deep.
"Ok goodnight," Ron said, seeming to sense Harry wanted to end the discussion.
"Night," Harry replied, sighing again and closing his eyes, hoping in vain to drift off to sleep.
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Harry got up the next morning having got about 2 hours sleep. He had tossed and turned all night, wondering how he could possibly dump Hermione. He had been sucked in so far he was sinking into a world of lies. If he didn't do something soon, he would spend the rest of his life dating Hermione and Cho.
He climbed reluctantly out of bed and dressed in his black school robes. It was going to be a long day. Harry looked over at Ron's bed. But Ron wasn't there. 'He must be downstairs in the common room' Harry thought. He went downstairs but Ron wasn't waiting in the common room. Only Hermione was there.
"Have you seen Ron?" Harry asked, frowning slightly. Hermione shook her head.
"Is he not with you?" she asked, looking confused
"No," he replied, looking around as if Ron was hiding in a corner. So Harry and Hermione went down to breakfast alone. When they went through the doors of the Great Hall the first thing that caught Harry's eye was Cho, who was sitting with her usual group of friends.
Then Hermione nudged him on the elbow and nodded toward the breakfast table where Ron was sitting alone eating a plate of toast. They went to him and sat beside him.
"er…….Ron why didn't you wait for us?" Harry asked.
"I was hungry, I came down by myself, what's it to you?" Ron asked. Harry was taken aback by Ron's tone of voice.
"Nothing…..we just normally go down to breakfast together." Harry said, wondering what had made Ron talk like that.
"Well I'm sorry," Ron said sarcastically retuning to his toast after throwing Harry and Hermione leave-me-alone-it's-nothing-to-do-with-you looks. Harry looked, bemused, at Hermione who just shook her head and shrugged. Harry decided to ignore Ron's strange attitude, 'maybe he was just tired or something' Harry thought.
The three 6th years ate the rest of their breakfast in silence and walked to Charms without really knowing what to say.
Harry glanced at Ron all through the lesson, and when they were asked to get into groups, Harry noticed again that Ron was still acting differently.
"Ron it's your turn," Hermione said to a daydreaming Ron. Ron wasn't listening he was staring in the other direction. Harry cleared his throat.
"Ahem, Ron," he said raising his voice slightly. Ron threw him a fleeting glance.
"What?" he asked bluntly.
"It's your turn," he said, pretending not to notice Ron's abnormal tone.
"Whatever," he said shrugging. Then he turned around and recited the spell. Nothing happened. "Stupid spell," Ron muttered, then went back to staring into space. Harry looked at Hermione who looked non-the-wiser.
By the end of the lesson both Harry and Hermione, (along with most of the class) had managed to master the Charm but Ron had spent the entire lesson doing absolutely nothing.
The rest of their lessons that day were pretty much the same. Ron would sit doing nothing. Eventually Harry and Hermione gave up trying to make him copy his notes or practice the spells and let him do what he liked.
By dinner time Harry had taken to simply ignoring Ron. But it still puzzled him why Ron would act like this. Was it something to do with being away for so long. Harry could tell Hermione was thinking the same thing as she picked at her plate of pasta.
That evening Harry returned to the common room with the prospect of homework on his mind. He knew he should do it now, before he got too much and ended up panicking. So he gathered his books and was about to head out of the common room, and decided to give it one last try.
"Ron, are you coming?" he said to Ron who was sitting in a chair by the fire still in a dream. Ron jerked his head suddenly in the direction of Harry and Hermione.
"No," he said sharply and promptly went back to ignoring them. So Harry sighed and went out of the portrait hole. Well maybe Hermione would have some idea as to what was up with Ron, and more importantly he could finally tell her that he didn't want to be with her.
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Cho's POV:
Cho was sitting by the lake again. It had become one of her favourite places to spend time away from all her friends. It was quiet and peaceful, she could relax and sort out her feelings inside her head.
Since she'd replied to Harry's letter she'd felt considerably happier. Just the prospect of being able to talk to him openly, tell him everything that had been going on in her head. Made her feel so much better. He was part of her life now, being without him was like being without half of her soul. Only 4 days to go until they could sort everything out and hopefully get back together. That was all that mattered to Cho now.
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Hmmmm what's up with Ron? Mwahahahahahahaha! You'll just have to wait and find out! Now review all you wonderful people! Or you'll never find out