Disclaimer: I do not own "Harry Potter". It is hereby © to J.K. Rowling. I wrote this story when I was 12 years old in the year 2003. So, "Half-Blood Prince" wasn't out yet either. It didn't exist at this point. Again, errors in spelling and grammar have been intentionally left in to preserve my skills as a young writer. This story is complete. This is a repost.
Chapter Fourteen: The Angels Prophecy
Dumbledore stood up and walked over to Cho.
"Please come with me…I think it is time for you to understand everything…you what I will tell you cannot leave my office. You can't tell anyone not even your sister. Or Harry. Or Ron and Hermione for that matter. This is very important." Dumbledore explained quietly.
"See you…" Cho said, getting up from her seat and following Dumbledore out of the Great Hall to the stone gargoyle in the wall.
"Chocolate Frog." Dumbledore said to the gargoyle as it sprung aside revealing the moving staircase.
Cho and Dumbledore ascended to the oak door with the brass knocker. Dumbledore opened it and invited Cho inside.
"Take a seat." He said warmly.
Cho sat in a seat opposite of Dumbledore's desk as Dumbledore sat down in his chair.
"Now you are in a prophecy. With another girl your age, but none of us know who she would be…there is something I must tell you…I know that your brother and Harry's godfather informed you of the finer points of the prophecy. But they forgot one thing…true forms…you and the angel of darkness have true forms. When you hear the phoenix song, the true forms are revealed. With these forms, you can use unimaginably great powers. Enough to almost reach Voldemort's strength. Using these powers take lots of energy, and you both will run out at the same time. Because you have the same amount of mental and physical energy, it's pretty much impossible for one of you to kill the other. There will be a time when you both will have to fight. I don't doubt that you'll get into fights here at school…when you do fight, once your energy is gone, you will return to your normal form, but you will have to get rid of your telepathic powers as well as your psychokinetic ones as well. Because now that you both have fought, you won't need them. And Harry won't need them either. So he will give them up in some way…perhaps the fight would be easier to explain if we had a little trip to the past…" Dumbledore explained.
Cho nodded. Dumbledore stood up again, took out his Pensieve, placed it on the desk, and put his wand to his forehead and into the stone basin. Dumbledore started to prod the bottom of the basin with his wand and motioned for Cho to do the same. She took out her wand, prodded the stony bottom of the basin, and disappeared.
They reappeared in a forest. The Forbidden Forest.
"This is the fight when Rowena Ravenclaw had to fight her opposite. My great grandfather told me of this fight, and showed me in his Pensieve and I am showing it to you. Now watch, and you will understand everything I've been trying to tell you." Dumbledore explained quickly.
Then they watched as a girl in a black hooded cloak smiled as a young Rowena came into a clearing of the trees.
"Hello Rowena…yes, I am your enemy…your friend…I was right there just waiting to strike…I can't believe you couldn't figure it out…" said the girl in the cloak.
"Rochelle! It was you, all along! I don't know what to say!" Rowena said in shock.
Rochelle took off her cloak and played with her wavy blonde hair.
"Well it has come to this…we are enemies…we must fight…it's destiny…" Rochelle said.
A phoenix had fluttered in between Rochelle and Rowena.
"Perfect timing." Rochelle said, grinning.
The phoenix song started to float to their ears and both of them started glowing. Rowena went into the sky and into a gray cloud. Rochelle disappeared into the forest. The cloud in which Rowena was in started glowing and thin rods of lighting flickered around the outside of it. The trees where Rochelle was were flickering a blood red. Rowena hurtled down towards the earth. Her raven black hair now white as winter snow. She was dressed head to foot in white lacy elven robes. Rochelle appeared, her blonde hair streaked black and red and wearing robes of pitch black.
"No wands…or weapons. Just our powers." Rochelle said.
"Deal." Rowena answered.
"Ready?" Rochelle asked.
Rowena nodded.
"Now!" Rochelle yelled.
Both pulled balls of fire from their hands and threw them at each other. Rochelle was trying to use lightning to strike Rowena, but Rowena froze the lightning and threw it back at Rochelle. Rochelle jumped into the air and tried a blizzard attack, but Rowena engulfed herself in fire, and disappeared.
"Oh now where'd you go?" Rochelle asked.
Rowena reappeared behind Rochelle, hovering and cast an ice and fire attack, which hit Rochelle and injured her slightly. Rochelle reacted and called a meteor from the heavens. Rowena called for rain. Both attacks canceled out. Rochelle summoned a massive beast. A basilisk. Rowena didn't seem the least bit frightened.
"Oh really? You think that overgrown salamander is going to stop me?" Rowena asked Rochelle sarcastically.
Rowena cast a silver orb and then split into six different images.
"Your beast cannot harm me. Because those images aren't human. They're illusions…" Rowena said.
She was hiding in tree and had summoned a samurai sword. She pulled it out of its sheath and flew into the air and came falling back down, right above the basilisk's head. The basilisk looked up and spread its jaws. Rowena fell into the basilisk's open mouth.
"It seems I have won, Rowena…" Rochelle said.
Rowena was in the basilisk's throat, had fallen into its stomach, ran to the stomach wall, and pierced it with her sword. Then she brought it in a circular motion and the basilisk's body was cut in half. The basilisk's stomach acid had melted some of her dress, and she was covered in red blood head to toe.
"You haven't won this time." Rowena said, shaking her wet and slimy hair.
"You can't beat me! Not with a sword or any spell!" Rochelle said.
"Watch me!" Rowena said.
She ran over to the basilisk and cut its fang off. She disappeared and reappeared behind Rochelle. Rowena ran up from behind, took the fang, and stabbed Rochelle in the heart. She took her samurai sword and stabbed Rochelle with it too.
"I said, no weapons. Just powers." Rochelle said.
"But I did use powers only. I summoned the sword here. And I used my power of strength to defeat the basilisk. I followed the rules." Rowena explained.
Rochelle was dying. The basilisk's poison had taken effect.
"Goodbye friend…" Rochelle said feebly.
"Goodbye sister…" Rowena said, kissing Rochelle's forehead.
Rochelle's hand twitched, as her body fought to stay alive. Then she stopped moving at all.
"Rest well Rochelle." Rowena said sorrowfully, closing Rochelle's open eyes.
Rowena started to cry. Her hair turned black again, and the elven dress disappeared and was replaced by a soft pink skirt and spaghetti top. She cried fully now, her tears hitting the soft earth, she pounded the ground with her fists, kneeling on the ground. It started raining so hard that Rowena's tears were indistinguishable from the raindrops.
"WHY??!!!!" She screamed into the night.
Lightning lit the sky and thunder boomed and rumbled. Rowena continued to sob in the rain. A boy walked over and placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Godric? What are you doing here?" Rowena asked.
"That's Godric Gryffindor?" Cho asked Dumbledore.
"Yes…now keep listening…" Dumbledore answered.
"I'm here because I saw what had happened. Rochelle was your best friend. As she was Helga's. Salazar left tonight. He said he just didn't like being here anymore. Teaching…he may be the oldest of us all, but he must agree only on the old ways…a pureblood school…yeah, we're still very young, teaching…we're as old as our seventh years…but Rowena, this prophecy had to be done. You knew it and I knew it, Helga knew it, Salazar knew it too, but he didn't like the fact that you would be going against a student that was so greatly advanced in studies…Heck, you're still attending the school as a student…Helga and I only finished our education last year…but Rowena, you're going to be a great witch…I mean, look at your parents! Your father is a Greek god! Your mother is a sorceress! You're a half-blood and so special because of what you are and what you can do." Godric said.
Rowena stopped crying and looked at Godric.
"Thank you…" Rowena said to Godric.
Godric gave her a friendly hug.
"Last time I checked, school founders don't cry. You're a professor, and professors can't cry on my watch! That'll cost you a two Galleon fine!" Godric joked.
"Oh shut up…I still need to learn a little more until I have a full magical education…but Rochelle was my best friend…and I killed her…" Rowena said.
"But you had to kill her. She was your opposite. You're the angel of light. And she was the angel of darkness. You had to destroy her or else she'd find people to join her evil legion of the dead." Godric said, chuckling at his remark.
Rowena laughed weakly.
"Come on, let's go to the castle. You might want to consider a nice, long soak in the prefect's bathroom…" Godric suggested.
Godric helped Rowena off the ground and put his arm over her shoulder as he started to talk about things that were happy as they made their way back to the castle.
"Miss Chang…Miss Chang?" Dumbledore's voice asked.
"Huh? What?" Cho asked, startled.
She looked around. They were back in Dumbledore's office.
"Do you understand what I've been trying to say now?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yes. Thank you Professor." Cho said.
"Very well. You may go and rejoin your friends. I'm sure the Christmas party is over, but you can return to your common room where house elves will continue to cater to you." Dumbledore said.
Cho nodded and went out the door.
"Merry Christmas Professor Dumbledore." She said as she opened the oak door.
"Merry Christmas to you too, Miss Chang." Dumbledore replied, smiling.
Cho went out the door and descended the moving staircase and quickly checked the Great Hall and saw it was empty. She ran to the seventh floor and reached the portrait of the fat lady and took a minute before she said the password to catch her breath, and then went inside. Harry was talking with Hermione, Cianna, Akira, Liam, and Ron.
"Hi Sis!" Akira said, waving frantically at Cho.
"Hi!!" Cho called back waving enthusiastically.
She fell into a chair next Harry, still trying to breathe normally.
"What happened to you?" Ron asked.
"I ran from Dumbledore's office…all the way here. It's very tiring running up stairs and leaping over those trick steps and running down the stone hallway turning corners, avoiding people that are walking…" Cho explained.
"So what did Dumbledore tell you?" Akira asked.
"I can't tell you. Dumbledore's orders. I'm sure you'll find out eventually." Cho answered.
"There's a Quidditch game this weekend…Gryffindor versus Slytherin. Finally we can play our first game!" Ron said, changing the subject.
"That'll be fun…" Cho said.
"You play Quidditch?" Cianna asked amazed.
"Yeah." Cho, Harry, Ron, Akira, Hermione, and Liam answered.
"Hey! Gryffindor Quidditch team, raise your hands!" Ron yelled.
Cho, Harry, Akira, Hermione, Liam, and Alexa raised their hands. Ron raised his hand as well.
"Who's captain?" Cianna asked.
"Harry." Cho said.
"Chasers?"
"Me, Aki, and Hermione."
"Beaters?"
"Liam and Alexa."
"Keeper?"
"Ron."
"Seeker?"
"Harry."
"Quite a team you've got."
"Thanks."
Cianna yawned and stretched.
"That eggnog is making me sleepy…I'm going to bed…Goodnight…" She said.
She went and hugged Harry and kissed him on the cheek.
"Uh, Cianna…I'd like it if you didn't do that…" Cho said.
"Oh my gosh!!! Sorry!!! I'm so sorry!!! I forgot!!!" Cianna apologized.
She her pale skin flushed red and she ran into the dormitory.
"Uh…ok…that was um…odd…" Akira said.
"Yeah…odd…" everyone agreed.
There was silence.
"I'm bored…" Akira said.
She checked her watch and yawned.
"'Night Mez…and everyone else…" She said, as she went over and hugged Liam.
"'Night Aki!" Liam called after her as she walked up the stairs.
The next morning all everyone could talk about was the upcoming Quidditch match. Classes were to start after the Quidditch match. The Gryffindor team was nervous. Harry was having the team meet in the common room every night so they could talk about their tactics for the match. On the night before the match, the team was having another session and Cianna was listening, interested.
"Ok, they've got two new chasers and new beaters…who happen to be Malfoy's trolls…the chasers, well one is Malfoy's girlfriend, and oh yeah, Malfoy is captain…don't know how that happened…the other chaser is Tom Felton…but we need to have an attack plan." Harry was explaining.
"Crabbe and Goyle are the new beaters? Perfect! Those two are so stupid! They can't tell the difference between a bird and a broomstick!" Alexa snorted.
"We can handle them. It'll be a cinch." Liam said confidently.
"And we can handle Rosiak and this other chaser." Cho, Akira, and Hermione said.
"And Malfoy's captain and seeker…I'd like to see you break his arm when you both shake hands at the beginning of the match!" Ron said to Harry.
"I wonder how such a dork became captain anyway…" Cianna said quietly, trying to get into the conversation.
"But wasn't that Whitney chick captain last year?" Cho asked.
"Yeah, but she gave up her captain position because she found it was too difficult to handle…so she handed it over to Malfoy. And she's still on the team as keeper…I heard it from some Hufflepuff girl who had been talking with a Slytherin…" Akira answered.
"Well it's getting late, and we want to be well-rested for the match tomorrow…Team, bed!" Harry ordered.
Everyone including Cianna went up the spiral staircase into their dormitories. Cho waved good night to Harry as she went into her dormitory. Harry walked up the staircase and into the boys dormitory and got into bed.
