Disclaimer: I don't own "Harry Potter", it is hereby © to J.K. Rowling. I wrote this story when I was 11-12 years old and between the years 2001-2003, so the actual "Order of the Phoenix" had not been released yet. Errors in spelling and grammar have been purposely left in to preserve originality and my skill as a young writer. This story is complete. This is a repost.

Chapter Eighteen: Bound to Chains

Harry and Cho nodded nervously.

"Cho, when you sacrifice yourself, a shining light will come from your body. Harry, this light will come straight to you since you are Gryffindor's natural and only heir. This light is power. Power that you will need in order to defeat Voldemort. He is strong, but you both are stronger." Dumbledore explained calmly.

"So when I die, a light will appear and it will give Harry power to defeat Voldemort?" Cho asked to see if she understood correctly.

"Yes. Exactly. Now Harry, in order for you to use this power properly, you must summon Fawkes. He will bring you the sword of Godric Gryffindor. Godric's sword has many magical properties that even I have not yet been able to uncover. Only the heir will learn the secrets. Cho, Rowena was gifted highly in music. She is the one who invented the Phoenix Song. She sang it. Eventually, she played it on a harp and the phoenixes learned how to sing it as well. Upon the second you fall to the ground, dead, the phoenix song will play and it'll have a fierce side that even you haven't heard yet Harry. It will sound like a flute playing a fierce melody. For Rowena did play the flute and harp. Upon her birth into our world, Rowena was marked with the heart star of music. A heart star is the drop of magic in you that shows your best abilities. Harry, for instance, one of his best abilities is Quidditch. That is not his heart star. His will yet to be discovered. Cho, you have great beauty that you've inherited from Rowena. You heart star is somewhat known. Your strongest ability is to love. You have such love in your heart when you have someone to be with. No evil can harm you. Your power of love is great. That is only half of it. It is said that when the heir turns sixteen, she will find the other half of her heart star as well as new abilities that are nearly part of the heart star. Things like those are called nebular forces. With me so far Harry? Cho?" Dumbledore explained then saw Harry and Cho staring in utter bewilderment.

"Yeah…we're with you." Harry replied. "How come Cho has more abilities than I do, Professor?"

"It may seem that she does, but you both have an equal amount of abilities." Dumbledore answered.

"I see. Professor…perhaps we should leave now." Cho said.

Dumbledore glanced at his pocket watch and chuckled.

"Well it's quite late. I'll let you two go. I'll make sure Mr. Filch doesn't give you both detentions. Oh yes, I'll place a protective barrier on the grounds so that no evil may harm you." Dumbledore said. "You may go."

Harry and Cho nodded and left the room and exited into the hall where they continued walking until they reached the Gryffindor common room. Both lazily climbed the stairs to their dormitories and opened the doors. Cho went inside her dormitory, and Harry went inside his. Both took off the clothes they were wearing to the Yule Ball, changed into pajamas, and went to sleep.

The next morning Cho woke up and found a single rose in a glass vase on her nightstand. Attached was a card.

'Dear Cho,

I hope you had as much fun as I did last night at the ball. I hope that today will be a good day for you.

Love,

Harry'

Once Cho finished reading it, she smiled and put the card in her trunk. She took a shower and put on a dark pink halter-top with her favorite flare jeans. On top of it, she put on her Hogwarts robes. She came down the stairs and saw Harry smiling at her.

"Hi." She said.

"Hi." Harry replied.

"Where are Ron and Hermione?" Cho asked.

"They left early this morning for some extra 'study time' so they're probably oh…uh…around." Harry answered.

"Yeah right…extra study time…more like make out time…" Cho giggled.

"C'mon, let's go and get some breakfast." Harry said.

"Alright." Cho agreed.

Together they walked out of Gryffindor Tower, walked into the Great Hall, and sat at their regular seats. Many boys and girls turned their heads when Cho and Harry had walked by them. Akira saw her sister and Harry and motioned them over. Suddenly a roaring laugh burst out from the Slytherin table.

"I dare you to say it out loud!" whispered Alyssia Rosiak.

"Dare accepted." Malfoy whispered back.

The Slytherins were shaking with laughter.

"POTTER'S GOT A GIRLFRIEND!!! POTTER'S GOT A GIRLFRIEND!!!" Malfoy roared.

After that, Malfoy was laughing his head off. He nearly fell out of his seat. Akira was mad and she stormed up to the Slytherin table with her hands on her hips and her wand in her hand. The laughing instantly stopped.

"Akira, NO!" Cho hissed.

"What's a puny little fourth year like going to do to me? You probably can't even cast a spell! I bet you're just like Longbottom over there!" Malfoy snorted.

"YOU SHUT UP! I MAY BE A YEAR YOUNGER THAN YOU DRACO BUT I KNOW MORE THAN YOU WILL EVER LEARN IN A LIFETIME!" Akira screamed at him.

"You want to bet on that one?" Malfoy snickered.

"Yeah!" Akira replied boldly.

"Take your best shot!" Malfoy spat.

Akira charged at him and punched him hard in the face. Blood came rushing out of his nose.

"That's for opening your big mouth and teasing my sister and Harry!" She punched him again. "That's for insulting me and Neville!" She punched him again. "And this, this is for you! For your sorry ass!" Then she kicked him in between the legs. "And that, well that's for being such a jerk!"

For a minute, no one said anything. They were just shocked that a Gryffindor would even dare to try something like that. Then the rest of the Gryffindors started clapping. The Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws joined in. The Slytherins were silent.

"SLYTHERIN SUCKS!!!" Yelled Fred Weasley.

Akira walked back to her house table as if nothing had happened at all.

"Akira! You're going to cost us house points!" Cho said.

"For what I just did, I should've earned at least one hundred and twenty-five points for Gryffindor." Akira replied.

Ron clapped Akira on the back. "Way to go! You gave Malfoy what he deserved!"

"It serves him right for messing with the Changs!" Akira said smiling.

Then Madam Pomfrey walked in and saw the crumpled heap on the floor that was Malfoy. She didn't say a word or ask any questions. She merely took him to the hospital wing. The rest of the professors entered ten minutes later, unaware of what had just happened.

Everyone in the hall fell silent and innocently ate their breakfasts. There were small whispers here and there, and then some students from other houses would compliment Akira for beating up Malfoy. Each time she would flush scarlet and continue eating her breakfast. Cho and Harry finally finished their breakfast and went off to their first lesson.

In the Herbology classroom, Professor Sprout instructed that they would be catching a nymph in its womanly form. Most of the boys were in awe at the nymph that they were supposed to catch. But Harry didn't care about the nymph. Cho was happy that he wasn't drooling over it like the rest of the boys in the class were.

"You're even more beautiful than a nymph or a veela." Harry whispered in Cho's ear when it was his turn to catch it.

Cho grinned and gave his hand a quick squeeze of luck. Harry raised his wand and just as the nymph was trying to seduce him. He tried to summon the nymph. It had no effect. Then he thought for a second. Of course! He stunned her and she fell down asleep.

Professor Sprout applauded Harry. She turned and scolded the other boys. The bell rang and it was time for Transfiguration. They hurriedly left the greenhouses and walked to the Transfiguration classroom.

"Today we will do something very difficult. Miss Granger I believe that you will find some difficulty in it. Miss Chang will probably have the easiest time…ask her or me for assistance. We are going to take this sheet of aluminum foil and I want you to use your wands to turn it into a work of art. Your choice of what you want it to be. You have the entire class period." Professor McGonagall said.

Hermione looked at the sheet of foil and started to shape Hogwarts with it. Ron was trying to make his favorite player of the Chudley Cannons. Cho was making a frame for a picture and she was adding detail in the middle of the frame. Harry glanced at it and saw that Cho was making a picture of herself. Cho cast a spell to turn the foil to a metal. Silver to be more specific. On the back, she engraved the words "To Harry, my heart is yours forever more. Keep it safe for me. Love, Cho" Harry made a foil locket and changed it to silver. He engraved a rose on one side and shaped the locket in a heart. Inside, he put a small photo of himself on one side and engraved, "To Cho, I shall keep your heart safe if you keep mine safe as well. You now hold it in this locket. I love you. Harry" on the other side.

The class had a minute until it ended and everyone finished their projects. Professor McGonagall examined Cho and Harry's works of art. She was most pleased by them. She read the engravings and was quite touched. She excused the class and went back to her desk.

Harry, Cho, Hermione, Ron, and the other Gryffindor fifth years were headed for Charms when they saw Professor Flitwick's office. Everything was cluttered and things were torn to shreds. Someone was looking for something. Harry and Cho turned around and saw Dumbledore and Professor Flitwick.

"Class is cancelled! Go to your next lesson!" Flitwick squeaked.

So everyone went to their next lesson. The field was muddy and the grass was had been pulled out and its roots were scattered everywhere.

"Go to your next lesson! The field is in much too bad a shape to practice on. Potions is cancelled as well. As well as your last three lessons of the day." Madam Hooch said.

Harry and Cho went to Gryffindor Tower and sat in the common room. Cho looked out the window and saw rain clouds.

"Harry…look at the sky…it's going to rain…hard." She said.

Harry looked and nodded. For half an hour they sat in the common room doing nothing. They just wondered who was terrorizing the classrooms. Lunch arrived and it started raining very hard. Everyone ate quickly then returned to their dormitories.

It was later in the evening and Harry looked outside at the window. He saw the storm. But he also saw…

"The Dark Mark!" He exclaimed.

Cho sat up with a jolt.

"Where?!" She asked.

"Let's go!" Harry hissed.

Cho nodded. Harry opened the door out of the common room. They went downstairs and saw a glowing light coming from the Forbidden Forest and both ran towards it and got even closer. They saw Voldemort casting a spell.

"Now I can walk upon these grounds. The spell that the headmaster placed upon the ground doesn't affect me at all." Voldemort said.

He turned around and saw Harry and Cho. His eyes narrowed. Harry and Cho ran as fast as they could then they ran up to Dumbledore's office and knocked so hard on the wall with the stone gargoyle that the wall nearly collapsed. The wall slid open and Harry met Dumbledore's strong gaze.

"You saw him, didn't you?" Dumbledore asked.

"Yes. He was in the forest. He's figured out a way to get on the grounds." Harry replied.

"Come, to the Great Hall…" Dumbledore said.

They went downstairs to the Great Hall and Harry and Cho sat down nervously. In ten minutes, the doors of the Great Hall burst open. A dark cloud of inky blackness came through the door. When the cloud cleared, Voldemort was standing there and he was looking right at Harry and Cho.

"Voldemort! I demand that you leave this school immediately!" Dumbledore roared, his twinkling eyes ablaze.

"Albus Dumbledore…we meet again…" Voldemort said in a snake-like voice.

The students screamed in terror. Harry and Cho remained. Akira, Ron, and Hermione tried to drag Harry and Cho to safety, but they stayed there at Gryffindor table. Voldemort snapped his fingers and Death Eaters appeared at his side.

Sirius had heard all the students screaming and shouting in the halls upstairs and came down to see Harry, Cho, Dumbledore, the teachers, the Death Eaters, and Voldemort. He charged down the stairs and stood by Dumbledore's side.

"You will not hurt them!" He yelled at Voldemort.

"Ah, Sirius Black…I remember you…Thank you for telling Peter everything…" Voldemort replied.

The teachers rose from their table and formed a chain that blocked Harry and Cho from view.

Voldemort took out his wand and the teachers' chain was broken.

"Grab the girl…and Potter too…" Voldemort hissed.

Two Death Eaters strode forward and grabbed Cho's arms.

"Let me go!" Cho screamed.

"If you hurt her, you're dead!" Harry yelled.

Another pair of Death Eaters strode forward and grabbed Harry as well. They took out their wands and tied both Harry and Cho up.

The teachers tried to hit Voldemort with spells but the Death Eaters stood in front of him or used Cho and Harry as shields. The teachers finally gave up and put their wands away.

"You can't just give up, Albus!" Sirius roared, outraged.

"I'm afraid we have to. There is nothing we can do. If were could do anything, it would put Harry and Cho's lives at stake." Dumbledore answered.

"Well, seeing that I'm free to go, I'll take my chances…" Voldemort said.

Then Cho screamed, struggled, and tried to get free, but the Death Eater hit her in the back of her head. Harry got mad and tried to kick the Death Eater. The Death Eater saw his move and made the ropes around Harry tighter. Harry stopped and instead called Cho's name. She didn't answer. Voldemort knocked Harry out and then in a burst of jet green flames, they disappeared.