The Truth is Out

"What do you mean?" Harry asked starting to get a little worried.

"Well, I'm not going to tell you what Cho said until you tell me your side of this. You might not tell the full truth," Dumbledore explained.

"For God sakes! Don't play along with his little scheme! We have evidence against him! Just fess up boy!" Fudge roared as he slammed his fist against the desk.

"FOR WHAT?! AS FAR AS I KNOW, I HAVEN'T DONE FUCK!" Harry yelled.

"FUCK IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!" Fudge yelled back.

"H'uh?" Harry asked stunned.

"I think that perhaps I should handle this, gentlemen," Professor McGonagall said seeing that there was finally a break in the 'discussion'.

Fudge grumbled and Dumbledore was oddly silent, but she didn't notice or else she didn't care. "Now Harry, please explain what happened last night, and don't skip any details."

"Well, I had plans to go to Hogsmede with Cho and the agreement was that we were to meet in the Great Hall. I was a bit on the late side, so when she wasn't there I went to check if she had gone back to her dormitory. When I got there, I noticed a note on the door saying to meet her on the third floor. There, was another note that directed me to a secret room. And then--"

"A secret room?! A chain of notes?! What the hell are you trying to pull here, Potter?!" Fudge yelled banging his fist on Dumbledore's desk again.

"Cornelius, I remember agreeing that I would deal with Potter. Now, please stop interrupting!" Professor McGonagall said with a raised voice. "Back to what you were saying, Harry..." she said more calmly.

"Well, anyway, there was a note that directed me to a secret room. And when I got in... er... someone," he said as he looked at Cho wondering whether he should just be blunt about it. "well... they took the wand right out of my hand and used a drugging charm on me and then... well..." Harry didn't really know how to say it.

"Continue, Harry," said Professor McGonagall.

Harry took a deep breath. "Then...she raped me."

Professor McGonagall gasped, Cornelius Fudge sat there dumbfounded, and Dumbledore kept opening his mouth to say something, but promptly closing it again.

Harry sank back into his chair with the relief that he'd finally told someone. He chanced a look at Cho, not sure how she was reacting; continuing to pretend she was the victim of the situation, or getting reeeeaaallyy angry. She was visibly gritting her teeth and glaring at Harry with such hatred in her eyes that, if looks could kill, Harry would have been long dead. He quickly looked away and turned his attention back to the shocked McGonagall, Dumbledore, and Fudge, who were starting to calm down.

"So, this is the truth, Harry?" Dumbledore asked.

Harry nodded.

"Well, it's not exactly what Miss Chang, here," he looked at Cho warily, "told us. Now is it, Miss Chang?"

Cho remained silent and quickly left Dumbledore's office.

"Well that certainly proved her innocence," Fudge grumbled sarcastically as he sighed.

"So what exactly did she tell you?" Harry asked.

"Pretty much what you said except that she was the one raped."

"Oh... figured."

"Well, Harry, you'd better leave, we have things to discuss," Dumbledore said.

With that, Harry went back to his room.