Yay I updated! And I stand corrected, there are wonderful people out there who reviewed my work. And thankyou I find constructive comments helpful! Now I realised that my first chapter had a million errors ( the story was written ages ago) so I didn't edit it and I dunno how to go back to edit it - anyone wanna help me there? I hope some questions are answered in this chapter, keep reviewing so I know I'm actually updating to people who want to see my story to the end!
Oh and another thing I left out in my first chapter - a Disclaimer (pfft???!!) Okay here we go!
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Chapter 2 – The Truth is Revealed
Cho entered the Great Hall as the student's were mid-way through their lunch, students from each house looked up and some - save Slytherin, greeted her as she passed their way. Cho nodded and acknowledge them with a friendly smile, she made it no secret that she enjoyed being well-known and on good terms with many people despite house difference. As she passed Gryffindor she was hailed by Ginny who had become a good friend of hers.
'Hey Cho' the young Weasley greeted.
'Hey Gin' Cho replied affectionately messing her long fiery hair, 'how's Quidditch treating you?'
'Great, were in top shape this year' Ginny exclaimed and brashly ran a hand through her long red hair to smooth out the kinks.
'Well don't get too cocky, Ravenclaw will give you a run for your money now that I'm captain, I have yet to settle that score with you' Cho laughed referring to last year's match when Ginny filled in as Seeker and out of sheer luck had caught the snitch from under her nose.
Ginny cackled loudly, 'good luck'.
Cho chortled and caught a glimpse of Harry and his two close friends making their way towards the table, her smile faltered as she caught Harry's eyes.
'I got to go, see you around Ginny' she said and hastily weaved her way towards the Ravenclaw table and slid into the seat between Marietta Edgecomb and Michael Corner.
'Finally, hurry and eat your lunch, it'd be over in...fifteen minutes' Marietta urged after giving her wrist watch a quick glance.
Cho obediently began piling her plate up with sandwiches and muffins, as Marietta poured her a cup of pumpkin juice.
'What did Snape want to talk about?' Michael enquired as he spread a generous amount of raspberry jam on his bagel.
'Um nothing much, except detention' Cho replied around a mouthful of pumpkin pastry, 'anyway what's our next lesson?'
'What?!' Marietta exclaimed, 'perfect Cho got a detention, what for?'
While eating her lunch she began explaining her run-in with Harry which led to their duel followed by Snape's appearance.
'Oh My God!' Michael blurted incredulously. 'You dueled with Potter?'
'Yeah don't remind me' she grumbled.
'He's dangerous! Why would he -' Marietta began.
Cho cut her off abruptly, 'I don't know and right now I rather not discuss it any more'.
Marietta and Michael shared a puzzled look and Marietta turning around in her seat to glare at someone in Gryffindor's table - Cho could warrant a guess to who that person was.
Swallowing a gulp of pumpkin juice she gaze over the rim of her cup moodily, and realized she was glowering at Harry himself without knowing it, she gave a start when he glance her way, looking mildly smug. That prat!
'C'mon Cho were going to be late for Transfigurations' Marietta said hauling her friend to her feet.
'I'm needed at Divination, catch you chicks later' he winked and sauntered away.
'Arrogant git' Cho muttered observing a group of younger Ravenclaw girls swoon as he sauntered passed them.
'Oh don't be so judgmental' Marietta scolded and began pushing her forwards.
'Excuse me?'
'Oh don't pretend I don't know. You're the most popular and the prettiest girl in Hogwarts and there's not one guy who hasn't fell for your charms, and yet you still contradict Corner!'
Cho scowled, she had broken up with Michael just a month after dating him, as it turned out she just didn't have the heart to deal with any more romance and its drama's. Luckily Michael was fine with it, he himself was still recovering from his break up with Ginny and they resolved to become friends instead. Cho would never have dreamt they would end up becoming best friends. They made quite a trio, but sometimes it took a while to get use to his behavior.
'Well I don't go around making an exhibit of myself, do I?' Cho pouted.
Marietta pushed a lock of her unruly hair aside, 'I know, but let's hurry were late already'.
Cho rolled her eyes and let Marietta drag her from the crowd towards their next class. Her friend can be the most anxious and bossiest girl alive. Cho noticed that Marietta had been fussing all over her like a mother hen ever since they got back from their break. She felt it was Marietta's way of showing her appreciation for sticking up for her after last years humiliating experience.
Later that evening, after tackling Transfigurations, Care of Magical Creatures and a bit of additional homework, Cho had time for a lightning - quick shower and a chance to change out of her school uniform into her favorite chunky blue knit, red skirt and boots. She was hastily brushing out her freshly washed ebony-colored hair whilst hurrying towards the Great Hall for dinner. She met Hufflepuff Hannah Abbot and Gryffindor Seamus Finnigan on the way to dinner.
'Hey Cho, heard about the detention with Snape' Hannah said sympathetically.
'Yeah, how did Miss Perfect land herself a detention?' Seamus asked blushingly.
'Long story' she replied curtly wondering how word leaked out, and then a thought crossed her mind. That Harry better not be been going around bragging about landing her in detention, she silently began to fume. He was so dead!
She ate her dinner without her usual gusto; she was counting the minutes and dreading her detention with the two people she detested most at the moment.
'It won't be that bad, think about Quidditch' Michael advised sympathetically, 'I hope you've reviewed your tactics for us, we haven't won in ages, and last year's match was close'.
Cho nodded heavily, 'I know, don't forget to remind the other's about practice I won't go easy on you for being the first female captain' she warned.
'Good!' Michael exclaimed, 'we knew we made the right choice for choosing you for captain, I can sense victory already'.
Cho nodded feeling slightly guilty for neglecting her duties as Quidditch coach; she was determining to go over it soon. She was still feeling the humiliation of letting Ginny grab the snitch before she did. Although the team told her not to worry over it she still felt as if she let the team down, and was both delighted and horrified to be elected as their captain.
After dinner she decided she had stalled and wallowed long enough and with heavy steps she made her way reluctantly towards Snape's dreary dungeon. She knocked and entered without waiting for a reply, Snape was there alone.
'Miss Chang, you are late and Potter is not even here yet' he began in agitation, 'I have pressing business to attend to, this is why I trust you to inform Potter of your tasks tonight. I need you to clean out the utensils I have laid out and label the bottles on the table to your right. Oh and inform me how late Potter is since tardiness deserves punishment don't you say?'
Cho nodded and said nothing of her own tardiness; she decided she rather not start until Potter arrived, seeing as she would be doing more work than what was fair. So she sat on a ledge near the window to wait whilst mentally reviewing Quidditch tactics. Five or ten minutes passed and she decided she might as well get started, she dragged herself towards the bottles and began to label the first one, printing in her neat handwriting: eyes of newts.
She picked up the second bottle when suddenly and quite startlingly someone who must have been standing behind her for a while enquired...
'Where's Snape?'
Cho whirled around and uttered an oath of startlement, consequently the bottle slipped from her hands and smashed into pieces.
'Do you mind?' Cho exclaim in exasperation. She pointed her wand at the mess and quickly said, 'reparo'.
Harry Potter glance at her, amusement dancing in his brilliant jade eyes, 'not really no, I was standing behind you for three minutes and you didn't seem to object then'.
Her brows knitted in bewilderment, 'yeah right more like breathing down my neck, and your fifteen minutes late' she scolded, "Snape's gonna deduct fifteen points from your house'.
'Yeah he would wouldn't he?' Harry quipped knowingly. 'So where is the fruity bat?'
Cho tried to keep her features stern but it slipped for a second, 'he had business to attend to, however we are to clean those things out and label these bottles'.
'Well I see your doing the labeling I'll get started on the cleaning then' he announced and drifted over to the table where various utensils awaited him.
She said nothing and busied herself with the labeling, whilst furiously revising the quidditch tactics and memorizing the sequence once again.
After fifteen minute of industrial silence Harry spoke out, 'how was your day?'
Cho paused in the middle of printing and glared at him, he had to be kidding her right?
'All I have to say to you is grab that pestle you're cleaning and shove it up your ass'.
Harry did a double take and his glasses almost fell off his face, but to her chagrin he burst into loud raucous laughter.
Her grip on the quill tightened and she felt her cheeks turn a shade of red, 'shut up!'
Harry only doubled over laughing harder, his face was turning an interesting shade of red, and the quill snapped in two. 'Stop it!' she fumed.
A few minutes later he calmed down and wiped the tears of mirth that was rolling down his cheeks, 'oh God!' he gasped, 'I haven't laughed that hard since...'
For a second, the same troubled expression she saw earlier that day crept back into his eyes.
'Since what?' she demanded curiously despite herself.
The humor in his expression turn swiftly into something quite different, something sad and angry at the same time. 'Never mind, anyway what's with the attitude?'
Cho fixed him with a hostile glare, 'last time I checked we weren't on good terms. You think I'm not angry at you for picking a fight and landing me in detention? How dare you! My friends probably think your mentally unstable! And not to mention I'm going to be behind on my homework thanks to you! '
'Oh' Harry shrugged looking a little sheepish, 'well I had to test you'.
'Excuse me?' she demanded thinking she had heard wrong.
Harry ran a hand through his hair, Cho noted distractedly that it had grown a little longer than usual and now the strands were sticking on its ends.
Harry hesitated and gaze at her seriously as if thinking very hard, 'I'm not sure if I should tell you...'
'Tell me what?' she snapped in irritation.
Harry grimace, 'well you might not like it or you might appreciate it but anyway I've discovered something'.
'Explain' Cho said reasonably.
'Let's sit down first' he suggested.
So they move towards the desks and Cho slid into a seat and Harry opted for the desks as his seat. He cleared his throat.
'Okay first of all do you know what has happened last year with the ministry and all?' he asked.
'What that Cornelius Fudge announced You-Know-Who is back?' Cho responded.
'There's more to it than that' Harry took a deep breath and recounted everything that happened to him last year. He told her about his Godfather, the death eater's attack and the prophecy.
Cho listened quietly the whole time with her lips parted in an "O" of shock; her eyes were kinder and she was sympathetic when he had finished.
'So what does any of this have to do with me?'
Harry grimaced, 'there is another prophecy, remember the new sorting hat song?'
'Yeah something to do with the houses loosing it's bond?' Cho queried crinkling her brows in confusion.
'Well the sorting hat was giving us a warning of sorts and here's another thing...do you know who the past founders of each house were?' Harry asked leaning in closer - so that Cho could see how the specs of hazel in his serious green eyes.
'Of course, Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw' Cho quoted quickly.
Harry leaned in closer, so close that he was close enough for her to smell the scent of his aftershave.
'What if the heir to each house is alive and living in Hogwarts now?' he asked cautiously.
'So?'
'Don't freak out or anything but let's say...Cedric was Hufflepuff's heir?' Harry said anxiously, 'now he's dead'.
'You're saying Voldemort is trying to kill the heir to each house?' Cho murmured in disbelief.
'Yes, and I have reason to believe from the prophecy that I'm Gryffindor's heir, Malfoy - typically is Slytherin's heir and you...are Ravenclaw's heir'.
Cho was about to leap to her feet and protest loudly but the door slammed open and Snape swooped in with a look of fury. Harry and Cho jumped apart, from Snape's point of view it looked like we were just caught making out.
'Miss Chang, Potter detention again tomorrow night now return back to your dorms' he snarled frighteningly.
Under normal circumstances she would have been flustered and angry for being given another detention; but she was still digesting the shocking news. What on earth was Harry blithering about?
Harry nodded and said, 'yes sir'.
Since she was still stuck in a daze, Harry grabbed her wrist and led her out under Snape's furious gaze.
'Oh Miss Chang how late was Potter?' he demanded to know.
Cho shook her head, 'um he was fifteen minutes late sir'.
'Fifteen points from Gryffindor - now leave!'
Once outside, Cho shook her arms free and turn on him ready to bombard him with questions.
'No not here' Harry said furtively, he grasp her arms again and led her out of the dungeons.
Once out of earshot Cho finally burst, 'are you outta your mind, what makes you think I'm the heir to Ravenclaw? You're going nutters!'
'I know it's hard to believe me, but it all adds up' Harry gave her an imploring look. 'And I'm telling you this because if you are Ravenclaw's heir than you have to be careful, Voldemort's after you. He won't strike Malfoy because his father's a death eater and their not on our side and he wouldn't attack me before attacking you first'.
Cho looked flustered, 'look Harry you can't blame me for being dubious I need to know for sure'.
'Fine' Harry said reasonably, 'we'll ask Dumbledore'.
'Now?'
'No it's too late, when are you free?' Harry asked.
She frown, 'how about tomorrow before our detention with Snape, we'll meet straight after dinner'.
'Fine, I'm sorry for springing this on you but you had to know' Harry blushed suddenly, 'I'm sorry for forcing you to duel with me'.
Cho cracked a grin, 'it's okay, well it's kind of late and I have homework. Night Harry'.
'Good night Cho' Harry said quietly and watched the raven-haired girl hurry down the hall and disappear around the corner.
Okay the ending wasn't very I'm-dying-to-know-what's-going-to-happen-next-chapter-ish! But I just came back from clubbing, my ears are ringing and I'm feeling quite drained! So what did you think? Review! Offer me tips on ideas, point out if I made an error! Okay?
Till next time!