(IN MY FIC HARRY IS ALREADY OF AGE, OKAY)

At the after party, a lot more of Fleur's friends and family had arrived, as well as a few other members of the Order.

Hermione and Ron had convinced Harry to barn dance with Ginny. Ginny was still angry at Harry, but she thought it would be a great chance to make up with him.

"I'm going to kill you afterwards." Harry muttered at Ron, stepping onto the dance floor reluctantly.

"Firewhisky, Harry?" Lupin asked.

"No thankyou, I'm not in the mood." he answered.

"Party pooper!" cried Belle, walking past and opening her Firewhisky, making sure some spilt on Harry's suit.

"Get lost, Belle, no-one likes you!" he yelled, and ripped his arm out of Ginny's grip.

"This suit took three hours to iron and wash last night!" Honestly, Harry couldn't care less about the suit. He just had to make sure Belle hated him, so he would never get together with her. He ran out the door (they had walked a little further to a hall, for the afterparty) and back down to The Burrow.

He wasn't going to miss the whole party, just enough to show Belle he hated her. Of course, he didn't. She was unique, special, and pretty in a weird way.

Harry paced the yard for ten or fifteen minutes then returned to the party.

Sneaking in the back door, he couldn't help but notice that at least another fifty people had arrived since he'd left. Fleur sure had a heap of friends.

Putting on an angry face incase Belle spotted him, he stormed over to the drinks table, and grabbed a Butterbeer. He whirled around to go off and find Ron, but he accidently ran into a girl. She fell over.

"I'm sorry." he gabbled, clutching her hand to help her up.

He gasped.

"Cho!" he greeted.

"Hello, Harry. I'm not surprised to see you here, seeing as you and Ron are such good friends. My family is friends with Fleur, but I never knew she was marrying Bill Weasley until I actually arrived. Sweet, isn't it?" Cho smiled.

"Yeah... very. Hey look, have you seen Ron lately?" Harry asked.

"Oh, that desperate to get rid of me, eh?" Cho laughed.

"Nah, it's okay I'll catch up with Ron later. So... how's Michael?" Harry asked.

"Michael? You mean Michael Corner? We broke up like six months ago, he's an idiot. What about Ginny Weasley, you're seeing her now right?"
"Well, sort of. We're not really together anymore... I dunno... kinda private." he admitted.

"Sorry. Well how's Hermione then?" she asked.

"Yeah she's okay."

"Well, see you later, Cho." Harry turned around to walk off.

"No, Harry, don't go!" Cho begged.

"Why not?" Harry asked.

"Well I am heading to Diagon Alley after this, just to pick up a few things. Then I might go to Hogsmeade for something to eat. Want to come with me, it'll be really boring on my own." Cho explained.

"Of course! Like only as friends right?" he said cautiously.

"Depends what you want." she answered.

"Friends. Definitely." he said quickly.

"Fine." Cho seemed a little sad or something, but Harry ignored it.

"Look, Cho, I need to tell everyone where I'm going. Won't be a minute."

Harry could only find Hermione.

"Look, if anyone is wondering I'm going to Diagon Alley with Cho." he told her.

"Cho? She's here? Does she like you?" Hermione asked.

"No, of course she doesn't like me. We're friends, Mione, like me and you." snapped Harry.

"Hey, look, before you go... Belle ran off before when you shouted at her. She's upset. If I were you I'd make it up to her."

"Well, Hermione, that's the thing, you're not me. So quit trying to make me do things I don't wanna do. Maybe I don't want to be friends with Belle, maybe I have a reason, just because I don't share every single thing with you doesn't mean I'm not feeling it. Stay out of those sort of things, okay? And she's a crybaby, god, she acts like she's two!" Harry shouted, unable to control himself.

Hermione stared at Harry.

"Something's wrong with you, Harry, I know it is. I'm going to find out as soon as you get back. Go off on your dates with Cho, leave Ginny alone with no dance partner like you did before." Hermione said coolly.

"It's not a date! Besides you were the person saying Ginny had had three boyfriends since I broke up with her! Look, Hermione, stay out of my way for the next few days, out my life!"

Harry didn't want to shout at Hermione, but he couldn't stop his mouth from pouring out the hurtful stuff. It wasn't like he was possessed, it was just weird.

Tears welled in Hermione's eyes but she wiped them before any tears fell out.

"Harry." she said softly, putting her hand on his shoulder.

"We'll talk later, if at all." he said, and rushed back to Cho.

"Sorry, Hermione was being a complete... idiot. Not that she isn't always, just a lot more today." Harry said grinning.

"I thought Hermione was your best friend." Cho reminded.

"I'm not so sure anymore." he replied.

"Well, we better get going then, we're going on the underground, right?"

"Well, it would be easier to just apparate... wouldn't it?" he suggested.

"I'm only sixteen."

"Well, I turned seventeen a few months ago, so I suppose you can like hold on to me." he suggested. It had seemed easy when Dumbledore took him, so taking Cho would be easy too.

Cho giggled, and took his hand.

His heart leapt.

He concentrated hard and they both appeared in Diagon Alley.

Cho smiled at him.

"That was weird." she laughed.

"What? Holding my hand or apparating?" he asked.

"Well, apparating. Holding your hand wasn't weird, it was well, nice." she admitted.

Harry smiled.

"Come on, let's get some cash from Gringotts."

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Cho took about an hour to get all her stuff.

Harry didn't mind, Cho was his friend and he enjoyed spending time with her.

"Okay, I've got everything. I'll just pop home and put this stuff there, and then we can go to Hogsmeade." she said with a smile.

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A few hours later, they'd put the stuff at Cho's house, which no-one was at, to Harry's dismay. He had hoped he could meet her family.

"I don't know much about your family, tell me a bit about them." Harry requested, as they apparated back to Hogsmeade. They had had to take the underground to Cho's house, seeing as Harry had never been there, so he couldn't exactly picture it to apparate there.

They appeared in Hogsmeade a few seconds later.

"Well, my mum works at the Ministry of Magic. She's an auror. My dad is a teacher, at a wizarding school in Scotland. I don't get to see him very often. My brother, Vincent, Vin, whatever you wanna call him, well he's starting at Hogwarts this year. And then there's Chi." Cho said softly.

"Who's Chi?" he asked nicely.

"My... twin sister. She's really talented at magic so she had to go to some private school thing. I haven't seen her for three years." Cho said sadly, and Harry could've sworn he saw a tear in her eye.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Harry apologised feebly.

"It's okay, there's nothing to be sorry about. So... where do you want to go?" she asked brightly.

"Three Broomsticks?" suggested Harry.

"Yeah, fine. I've already had heaps of Butterbeer already, but one more won't hurt will it?" Cho laughed and the two of them hurried down to the crowded bar.

Cho ordered two large Butterbeers, and she and Harry went and found a seat together.

"So... how has your summer been?" Harry asked.

"Good enough. I got a new owl, which has been real handy, I've been making him send messages to all of my friends." Cho grinned.

"How come I didn't get one?" he joked.

"I didn't think you and I were like... friends." Cho admitted.

"Course we are... aren't we?" he said sheepishly.

"Course." she answered.

"How well do you know Fleur and her family?" Harry asked.

"Oh, not that well. My parents and her parents went to school together, that's all. And they've stayed in touch via owl mostly." Cho explained.

"Right."

"Hello, Cho. Hello Harry." said a voice.

"Luna." Cho greeted, rolling her eyes quickly at Harry.

"Hey, Luna." Harry said softly.

She sat down beside Harry.

"I'm not interrupting, am I?" she asked dreamily.

"No, no, you're not interrupting." Cho answered.

"Are you two back together?" Luna asked hopefully.

"Ah, no." Harry replied.

Madam Selina walked over to the table. She had replaced Madam Rosmerta for a bit while she had a holiday.

"Two butterbeers." she said quickly, and handed them two bottles.

Harry fumbled to find eight sickles. Butterbeers were cheaper in the Hogs Head, but much cleaner and tastier in the Three Broomsticks.

"Thanks." he told Selina.

She walked away. She was quite cold compared to Rosmerta.

Harry popped the cork off his butterbeer.

"I needed this." he commented, taking a gulp.

"Do you mind if I can have your butterbeer corks, I'm making a bracelet." Luna requested.

Raising his eyebrows quickly at Cho, he handed Luna the cork.

"Happy to help." he said.

"Thankyou. Oh, I meant to ask, why are you wearing a suit?" she asked.

"Oh, me and Cho were at a wedding." he said simply.

Luna didn't reply, she just sipped her Gillywater.

"Sorry, guys, I better be off. Daddy is expecting me." With a last wave she flounced off.

"She's a bit weird but she's a good friend." Harry said softly.

"I know." Cho replied.

Harry nodded slowly, and took a huge gulp of butterbeer.

They drank slowly, and it was about ten minutes until they had finished completely.

"Where next?" asked Harry.

"Honeydukes? I'm dying for a chocolate frog." Cho laughed.

"Okay, my shout." Harry offered.

"Nah, I wanna pay." Cho answered.

"No, I insist. Seriously, come on."

Honeydukes was crowded, but not as crowded as usual.

Harry got a whole load of chocolate frogs, two big bags of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, a bag of jelly slugs, a packet of Pepper Imps, a slab of nougat and some other lollies and chocolates and stuff and a few cauldron cakes and pumpkin pasties.

He plonked them on the counter, and Cho raised her eyebrows. She had only got a couple of frogs and some nougat.

"I'm sharing this with you, I'm not eating it alone." he reminded.

"That is eight Galleons."

The two of them stuffed their pockets full and walked out.

"I was thinking maybe we could go somewhere private to eat. Maybe somewhere near the Shrieking Shack?" Harry suggested.

"Oooh isn't that supposed to be haunted?!"

"Didn't you know it was only a werewolf? The werewolf doesn't go there anymore to transform, so it's fine, right?"

"How do you know that?" Cho asked wearily.

"It was in the Daily Prophet months ago." Harry lied.

"Fine, come on."

They walked up the hill to the Shrieking Shack and climbed through the barbed wire fence. Choosing a nice sunny place, they sat down and started eating.

"Awww yuck look I got a grass flavoured one." Cho laughed at Harry as he spat out the Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Bean.

About ten minutes later, both Cho and Harry reached for the last cauldron cake.

Their hands touched.

Cho blushed.

"You have it." they said together, then both laughed.

"Harry, I really like you."

((WELL WELL WELL WHAT WILL HARRY DO? I WONDER!! SORRY BOUT TAKING SO LONG TO UPDATE, BEEN REAL BUSY. REMEMBER 2 REVIEW!!!))