Well I think I did quite well with this chapter, I dunno if you'll like it, but I managed to get it written a lot quicker, I actually found it quite interesting to write. Don't worry if you're bored by this though, cos there'll only be a couple more chapters after this, then an epilogue, which I hope you read. Now R&R. After my thankyou's that is:

FS1: I'm so glad you love my story, I hope I didn't take too long updating for ya. I'm glad you think I'm a talented writer. I didn't put much Harry and Cho in this chapter, it's quite hard with dramatic stuff and then aftermath. Well enjoy.

Zutzi Alias Susi: Hey, thanks for another great review, very much appreciated. Sorry for all the explaining, but I had to get it all over with, so I didn't get any more reviews asking me questions, it was hard not telling people stuff. I did wonder about Harry and the Cruciatus curse but he did try using it against her in the OoTP so I thought it would be ok. I hope I didn't keep you hanging onto my cliffy too long. I'm looking forward to reading the next chapter of your fic soon!

Blackfyreassassin: Sorry for the cliff hanger, but hey! I managed to get this chapter up pretty quickly, so I thought you wouldn't mind too much. I never had any intention to kill anyone off, I hate it when that happens, I cried when Sirius died as well, sniff evil! So I thought I'd keep everyone alive and happy…well not necessarily happy, but you know. Glad you liked my chappie! PS: You're British aren't you?

Ghetx2o: Hey! Sorry for taking so long, I've given you so many excuses, so I'm not gunna go over them again, I just hope you forgive me since I didn't take too long with this one. I would NEVER quit fanfic, not even if the world ended! cries at thought I love all my peoples, I could never leave a fic unfinished, especially this insanely long one! Glad you weren't too disappointed with my chappie, hope you like this one too!

xAkix: Wow! You read the entire 29 chapters, you must either like it, or my fic is some sort of mind control device, or you're completely mad! It must have taken you forever, thanks for taking the time, I'm so glad you liked it so much, I love that kind of review, makes me feel so special. Lol. Anyway, good luck being a ninth grader, I hope your speech went well and you enjoy this chapter!

Portiachang: Yay! I'm so glad you like my fic so much! grins I can't tell you how much I loved it when you said I was gifted with great ideas, I only doubt myself sometimes because, I've never been confident with showing people stuff I've written, but my reviewers always make me feel so much better. So thankyou so much for the great review! I'll definitely be writing more Harry/Cho, I love the couple too much to stop writing about them.

Tylah: Hey! I'm so glad you're still reading this fic, thanks for the great review! It's good to hear that some of my old reviewers had persevered with me so long with this fic. I hate it when people die in fics, so I won't kill anyone off, I never planned on it, don't worry, the only people I kill off are deatheaters and other generally evil people. Well, enjoy this chapter! :)

FrostQueen4Eva: Yup, SATs are VERY evil! They're so pointless as well, but hey! I think I did ok, and I'll never have to do them again! Yeh, I'm English, and wouldn't want to be anything else! I suppose you're American? Anyway. Glad you liked my fic, I hope this chapter is better than to last, I had a bit more motivation to write it, I actually enjoyed producing it. Enjoy…

Hipsterflick: I suppose you think I'm hurt and depressed by your review, I suppose you think I'm seriously going to care what you say. Can't you see I've got plenty of people out there supporting me. Your just an immature little girl with nothing better to do than put people down, so go back to your sad little life and leave me, my fic and my writing, alone. Because if so many people out there think my writing is good and my fic is good, why should I believe should stupid little weirdo who probably has no idea about writing herself.

The Boy Who Lived: I'm so glad you liked my fic, did you read my entire fic in one day?! If you did, congratulations, because I think it would probably bore me to death, reading 29 chapters which probably could have been put into about 10 chapters where stuff actually happened in each chapter. So thanks, I tried to get this chapter written ASAP for ya. Enjoy…

WaHooligan08: I can't believe you read my story before you posted your own. I love your fic, it feels great to have someone whose fic I love so much review my own story, which is no way as funny or cool as yours! So, Yay! Thankyou so much for bothering to review! XD. I do have quite a few reviewers (I don't know how) and I love 'em all! :) Now write more of your fic!

MystikalMagic: Well, if you got to the end, you've probably found out that I got them back together. and you know everything about Ron and Kieran ,I hope my story line didn't disappoint you. I often find Cho annoying cos of her dramaqueenishness, sorry random non-existent word. Anyway, I still think she and Harry belong together. Hope this didn't take too long for ya!

Miss-Aurelia: Hey! Sorry I took so long, I'm just glad you didn't forget me, I love your reviews so much. I'm glad you didn't think the chapter was good, sorry about the cliff hanger, you can find out what happens now, I hope it's to your liking. I can't believe you've started your own fic! I will of course R&R, after all your reviews for me hope could I not, let me no when it's posted, I bet it's great!

Lara: Well, if it isn't you again. Lol. just kidding. Howz you? Told ya I'd nearly finished this chapter, when are you going to write more humour fics! cries desperately PLEASE! Well I gotta blast! Enjoy another chapter, you should hopefully understand what I'm going on about now that you've finished reading OoTP. Sayonara!

Gorav1: I might get Ron and Hermione together, haven't decided yet. You'll have the chance to vote at the end of the chapter. Well glad you liked the chapter, enjoy this one! XD

"I suppose you think that now you've found your girlfriend you two can fight me?" Voldemort asked. Still neither spoke. "You're united and together you can get through anything," Voldemort said sarcastically and mockingly.

Harry felt his blood raise to boiling temperature, but he knew better than to let his emotions run wild around Voldemort. Everyone knew Harry's weakness was often his anger, he couldn't let himself fly off the handle around Voldemort.

"Well, Potter, you may be stronger than I expected, you've kept me away several times, I underestimated you to begin with, but there's no chance of you escaping me this time." Voldemort flicked his wand and everything froze. The order members and the deatheaters froze in mid duel. The whole room was silent, even the curtains froze. "This way no-one can help myself, you or Miss Chang now." Voldemort said. Harry brushed fingers with Cho comfortingly, but she seemed perfectly composed, though Harry knew she was hiding her fear.

He didn't have a plan. He had no idea how this night would end, but he knew he and Cho would be together, alive or dead, they'd be together. Voldemort took up his duelling stance, Harry did too and saw Cho follow his lead out of the corner of his eye.

"Let's start simply shall we?" Voldemort suggested, smirking. "Crucio." Harry braced himself for the pain, but none came, he hadn't aimed the curse at him. he'd sent it to Cho. Harry gasped as he heard Cho's screams pierce the atmosphere. He stepped between her and Voldemort and yelled:

"Reducto!" the curse stopped immediately and Voldemort stumbled backwards slightly, but Harry's spell wasn't strong enough to completely knock back Voldemort. Harry put his shield charm around himself and Cho just before Voldemort could fire something else at them. In the few seconds they had before the shield charm died away Harry asked:

"Are you ok?" Cho nodded, she was breathing heavily from the effort of holding off the curse, but she wasn't harmed.

Then the shield surrounding them faded away. Voldemort grinned maliciously at the pair.

"If that's the way you want to play it, fine." He said, in that harsh, piercing voice. Voldemort made a large, dramatic, sweeping movement with his wand and a ring of fire appeared in front of him. It swirled before him for a moment, before shooting straight towards Harry and Cho, encircling them in a ring of fire. Although the flames, leapt up around them, nothing burned, the carpet did not become charcoal and the fire did not spread or go out.

Harry frowned, why was Voldemort doing this? Why didn't he just kill them? Why was he playing games? Imprisoning them, in some sort of magical fire? Was that what this was to him? Some sick game, try to torture and terrify them, before killing them off? But Harry wasn't scared, he burned with anger, there was no room for any other emotion.

Harry was about to use a spell to get rid of the fire closing in on himself and Cho when. Voldemort flicked his wand and the fire disappeared from around them, it swept itself into a small ball of fire, no larger than a golden snitch, and flew into Voldemort's outstretched hand. It sort of hovered a centimetre above Voldemort's hand, who left it there for a couple of seconds before closing his hand around it, and extinguishing the bright flames.

"Had enough games yet Potter? Chang?" Voldemort sneered. Harry just glared at him. Cho had recovered from the Cruciatus curse and now stood beside Harry, hate burning in her heart. "Aren't you going to answer?" Voldemort asked. Still neither spoke. "Do you want me to kill you now, or do you want to play some more games?" Harry could tell Voldemort was enjoying this, but he also knew Harry wasn't going to answer, so eventually he spoke once again. "Well, I suppose it's my choice," he paused momentarily, then without warning he swished his wand and spoke the words Harry had lived to hear so many times.

"Avada Ke-"

"Expelliarmus!"

The two jets of light met half way between their casters, and ricocheted off in different directions. But it wasn't Harry's wand raised inline with Voldemort's, it was Cho's. She was breathing heavily again, more from anger, than actual tiredness. Voldemort raised an eyebrow.

"I thought it was your job to protect your girlfriend Potter?" Voldemort smirked. Harry took a step closer to Voldemort, so he was level with Cho. "Now let's try that again."

"Ava-"

"Expelliarmus!" Harry and Cho's voice sounded simultaneously. One green jet of light and a stronger red jet of light met. Harry and Cho's spells were working hard against Voldemort, their spells combined did what one could not, they fought against Voldemort and pushed him back.

But that was not all. Another light was beginning to glow, but it did not come from a wand, it came from Cho. Or rather, from Cho's ring. It was a bright, white light growing gradually larger. The light engulfed the two teenagers, glowing brighter than Harry could ever have imagined, but yet it did not blind himself or Cho.

The light became stronger, it travelled down the red beam of light between the couple and Voldemort. Voldemort was stunned, he had never seen anything like this before. Was it some sort of protective shield around them? What was it going to do when it reached him? Voldemort had to make the choice. Keep the beam of light going between them, and try to hold off the light, or break the connection and see what happens, or run.

Voldemort tried to fight it off, but it was stronger than he knew, it kept inching toward him relentlessly. Voldemort couldn't hold it, he broke the chain, maybe not the best idea. As soon as the path way for the bright, white light was gone, a sound like a massive explosion echoed around the room. The white light engulfed everything. Neither Harry nor Cho could see anything, all they felt was each other by their sides all they could see was light.

Eventually it died away, Harry and Cho were still stood in the middle of the room but only half the people were there, Voldemort and all his deatheaters were gone. Everything began to move again. Order members came back into life. There was about half a minute where everyone came to the terms with the fact their opponents who had been there a spilt second ago were now gone and they saw Harry and Cho standing in middle of the room, still with a fading light around them. As the light grew fainter the Order members gathered around and the minute it had fully gone everyone embraced Harry and Cho.

They asked them so many questions. What had happened? Did they know where the deatheaters and Voldemort had gone? What was the light around them? Were they ok? But neither could say a word, they stood motionless staring into space, trying to digest what had happened. Eventually Lupin sent some purple sparks into the air with a loud crack and everyone except the two teenagers turned to listen.

"Please can everyone stop crowding them, they need some space, we will take them back to Headquarters, they need to be alone, they need to rest." He said firmly. So, under Lupin and Moody's orders, most wizards apparated and the ones told to stay, (Lupin, Moody, Tonks, Mr. Weasley, Mrs. Weasley, Ron and Hermione,) took Harry and Cho outside (They walked, but in some sort of trance or state of shock without saying anything,) to where the three brooms used to get Harry, Hermione and Cho to the Riddle Mansion stood. Lupin climbed onto Harry's broom and Harry went on behind him, Tonks took Cho and her broom, whilst Hermione helped, a still injured, Ron onto her broom. The other three apparated. (after putting a disillusionment charm on everyone who was staying.)

It didn't take as long to get from the Riddle mansion to the Order of the Phoenix headquarters and soon enough Lupin, Tonks and Moody managed to get everyone else in the Order to shut up and let them take Harry and Cho up to bed. Hermione and Ron wanted to stay with their friends, but they were told to let Harry and Cho get some sleep, and that they could see them in the morning when they woke up.

Harry opened his eyes groggily. He blinked several times as if it would help clear his aching head, but it didn't work so he reached out for his glasses which were immediately pushed into his hand by someone. Harry put them on and tried to sit up, but the same person pushed him back down gently.

"Stay lying down, you need to relax," said the calm soothing voice. Harry recognized it as Hermione's. He looked up at her and gave her a half smile.

"Are you ok? Can I get you anything?" she asked smiling back, but looking concerned.

"Cho?" Harry managed to say in a croaky voice. He felt like he'd been at some sort of rock concert, blood pounded in his ears, his head ached, and his voice felt like it had been screaming all last night…last night. What had happened last night? It all began to come back, Voldemort…

"Cho's next door, she's still asleep," Hermione said handing Harry a glass of water to try and cleanse his throat.

"Is she ok?" Harry asked after a couple of swallows of water.

"She's fine, no injuries, just exhaustion from whatever happened last night." Hermione replied taking the water from Harry. Harry closed his eyes remembering the details of the previous night. Questions immediately flooded his mind, making his head hurt even more, he put a hand to his forehead trying to get some of the pain to go away. Hermione handed him a potion.

"Try this, it should help clear your head." Harry drank the potion, and immediate relief swept over him. the questions about Voldemort were gone, and the pain began to diminish, his brain was empty, all he could feel was exhaustion, he felt Hermione take off his glasses, then he fell back to sleep.

Harry didn't wake again until the afternoon. As he put his glasses on he saw the clock on the table beside him show 14:36. Harry yawned and sat up. This time no-one pushed him back down. He sat up and stretched out his aching muscles. He looked up and saw Lupin watching over him, he smiled at him, not wanting to speak unless his voice failed him. Lupin returned the smile and propped up the pillows behind Harry. As Harry's vision adjusted to the full area of the room he was in, he saw Ron sitting in the corner with Mr. and Mrs. Weasley either side of him. Ron's leg was bandaged and he had bruises on his face and up his arms, but he hobbled over, with some help, to Harry.

"How are you mate?" he asked, smiling.

"I'm ok, that looks painful." Harry half croaked nodding towards Ron's leg. Ron shrugged.

"It's fine, Healer said it would be ok in a about a week, it's not broken, just twisted." He replied. Harry nodded. Lupin stood up and left the room with Ron's parents.

"How's Cho?" he asked, suddenly remembering his girlfriend. Ron grinned.

"I knew you were about to ask that," he said.

"Predictable, am I?" Harry asked in almost his normal voice. Ron half laughed.

"She's fine, just tired, Hermione's with her now, she woke up about an hour ago, first thing she asked was for you." Ron replied.

"Can I go see her?" Harry asked hopefully. Ron bit his lip.

"The Healer said you have to stay in bed for a couple of days, sorry mate." Ron said.

"So I can't see Cho for at least a couple of days?" Harry asked feeling slightly frustrated.

"Looks like it," Ron said sympathetically.

"Fun…" Harry said sarcastically, "I'm confined to my bed, with nothing to do, and I can't see Cho," he sighed heavily.

"Well at least you can talk to me and Hermione…and all the other Order members." Ron said. Harry smiled.

"Thanks Ron."

The two best friends spent the next hour or so just generally talking, they both avoided the subjects of the previous night, and Ron putting Harry in the hospital wing all that time ago. After a while, Ron was ushered out and Mrs. Weasley fussed over him until Lupin suggested Harry needed some rest.

Harry wanted to talk to Lupin, he had always thought of Lupin as someone he could talk to, but he hadn't had a minute alone to ask him what he thought about last night, or even just to talk to him. So Harry was left alone, he slept until the evening, when he was brought some soup which he ate whilst talking to Hermione and Ron.

The next day was pretty boring. Visitors came in and out leaving chocolate and cards until all Harry could see around his bed was 'get well soon.'

Eventually though, he did get to talk to Lupin. Lupin didn't seem to want to say much, he told Harry he had no idea what had happened last night, only he and Cho could tell them anything about that, and that no-one was going to ask them anything until they felt they could talk about it, and definitely not until they had fully recovered. Then he left telling Harry he needed more rest so he could get his strength back.

On his third day back at the headquarters, Harry woke early and, without waiting for anyone to tell him he could or couldn't, he got out of bed, threw on an old pair of jeans and a faded blue t-shirt before going next door into Cho's room. He still felt a bit bruised and headaches came and went irregularly, but he didn't care, anything was worth seeing Cho again.

She was still sleeping when he entered her room, her long black hair was tangled, and some strands were lying across her face. She had a few bruises too, but it didn't matter to Harry, she still looked beautiful to him. He walked over to her bed and sat on the edge. He hesitated momentarily, not wanting to wake her up, but then stretched out his hand and stroked her hair. He brushed the stray stands from her face and smoothed out her raven coloured hair.

Not long later Cho's eyes fluttered open and she looked up at Harry. As soon as she saw him, she sat up straight and threw her arms around him. Harry returned the hug, with a feeling of joy in his stomach. Just to be so close to her again was one of the best feelings Harry had ever experienced.

When they broke apart Cho's smile faded and she looked very seriously at him.

"Are you ok?" she asked, taking his hand as he moved closer to her. Harry smiled reassuringly.

"I'm fine, I bit tired and a few bruises, but pretty much ok, it was you I was worried about." Cho squeezed his hand and smiled again.

"I'm all right, I dunno why their making me stay in bed so long," Cho replied.

"I know the feeling, no-one knows I'm here at the moment, they'll probably send me back to bed when they find out, but they did say I would be ok today," Harry said.

The couple sat together for a while, no-one came into Cho's room until 9am, and even then it was only Ron and Hermione. The four of them sat on Cho's bed. Conversation began light but they could not stay away from the topic of what had happened at the Riddle Mansion for too long. Surprisingly, Harry and Cho found it quite easy to talk about it. Although the memories were fresh in their mind and it was sometimes hard to keep talking. They told Hermione and Ron everything they could remember, and they sat in awed silence as they recounted their story.

When they had finished telling their piece all four sat in silence, contemplating their own thoughts about what they knew. It was Hermione who eventually spoke, suggesting that they get something to eat, since they'd had no breakfast and it was getting on towards lunch time. Then she left with Ron, who was still on crutches, and Harry followed, although he was reluctant to leave Cho alone.

He knew he still had to talk to her, he had so many questions he wanted to ask her, about them as a couple, about where they were going to go from here. But they would have to wait, they'd talked a lot today, bringing everything back had been draining for Harry, he couldn't imagine how much harder it had been for her. This was the most dramatic thing that had ever happened to Cho, it was sure to be quite a shock, no matter how well she hid it.

So Cho was left alone, and she drifted back into sleep. Hoping for a relaxing, dreamless sleep. No such luck, there was still more thing Cho needed to know from her grandmother.

I know I gave away the beginning of the next chapter, but hey! I hope you're not sick of Cho's dreams and her grandmother, just one last time. If anyone's wondering about Hogwarts and whether Harry and Cho will go back to finish the year since Cho has NEWTs and stuff, that will be explained in the next chapter or two. Don't worry.

One final thing, I have a poll for you, should I get Ron and Hermione together at the end of this fic. Give me your vote in a review or something. Well…gotta blast!

Oh damn! One more thing, just so you all died of boredom, I know there was a problem when I first uploaded this chapter, It should be fixed now, thankyou for not bombarding me with reviews all saying the same thing.