Disclaimer: I wrote this when I was 12 to 13 in 2003. Harry Potter is hereby © to J.K. Rowling. Everything else is © to me, or its respective owners.

Chapter Twenty Four: The Lion and the Raven

Harry and the others had reached the dormitory and were waiting for Cho's return. It has been nearly half an hour since she left. Ron and Akira had volunteered to go searching for Cho. Anxiously, the others waited for news…

Ron was walking up the west wing of the sixth floor. In front of him he saw someone walking past. Quickening his steps, he saw it was a Ravenclaw. But what caught his attention was the scarlet-robed figure slung over his back. Cho. The Ravenclaw just passed a window, and Ron saw a clear reflection of the kidnapper's face. Josh. Without waiting, Ron ran as fast as he could to Gryffindor Tower.

Harry's head turned as the portrait hole opened, and Ron came bustling in severely out of breath.

"What's up?" Harry asked instantly.

Ron's face was red, and he was gasping for air.

"Davies…" He choked out.

"WHAT?!" Harry yelled angrily.

"Harry! I completely forgot! During the match, Cho was avoiding scoring goals. She said something, and she practically told me who's been hurting her!" Hermione said suddenly.

"Who?!" Harry demanded.

"It's been Josh all along! He's been trying to get Cho! In the hallways! When she'd disappear for a long time, then reappear with several injuries!" Hermione went on.

Before he knew it, Harry was on his feet. He wanted to cause Josh Davies as much pain as possible at that moment. Harry had never remembered being so angry before. He checked his pockets for his wand, then ignored his fellow Gryffindors who were celebrating for the win of the match around him. All the happiness and excitement that that match had held was completely gone. He was furious at himself. His mind reverted to Monday that week when Cho had run down the hallway in tears, and he had confronted Davies. Davies had lied to his face, and Harry believed him. He felt so stupid that he could kick himself. But he decided he'd waste that energy on someone who really deserved it. All Josh Davies had been since they met him was a pain in the ass and a sick perverted freak. He stormed out of the common room and up to his dormitory and took out his father's invisibility cloak and the Marauder's Map. He left Gryffindor Tower in seconds.

Worried, as Hermione, Ron, Whitney, Tom, Alyssia, Draco, and Liam watched their friend in such a rage, they followed, grabbing their cloaks.

"Liam, lead the way. I think Harry's looking for the Ravenclaw dormitory." Whitney said.

Liam nodded. Together, the group of them exited Gryffindor Tower.

Harry was scanning the Marauder's Map for Ravenclaw Tower.

"I'll never find it at this rate…" He muttered to himself.

He glanced at the map again, and saw a dot labeled 'Cho Chang and Joshua Davies' moving toward a toward a wall. The dot stopped, and then resumed movement into another room. Harry looked for himself on the map and saw that he was only a little further away. Hurriedly throwing on his invisibility cloak, he dashed over to the wall that Davies had stopped at. He approached a portrait of a young woman that Harry assumed must be Rowena Ravenclaw. He didn't know the password. As if on cue, the map showed the ink dot of himself uttering, in a minute speech bubble, 'Bibliomancy'. He threw off his cloak, startling Rowena in the portrait.

"My, my! You gave me quite a start, young man!" Rowena said.

"Look, did a boy carrying a girl pass by here?" Harry asked urgently.

"Why yes. I let them in about ten minutes ago. Young Mr. Davies said that the poor dear he was carrying had gotten ill, so he was going to tend to her until she had enough strength to go to the hospital wing…" Rowena went on.

"I seriously doubt that…now can I go inside?" Harry said, annoyed and angry.

"Yes, of course…Password?" Rowena asked.

"Bibliomancy." Harry replied.

"Very good! That's it!" Rowena said, swinging forward to admit him inside.

Harry slipped the cloak on before anyone in the Ravenclaw common room could see him. The room was a deep navy with bookshelves lining the walls. He spotted a spiral staircase and silently crossed the room and went up the stairs. A shiny plaque at the top read 'BOYS SEVENTH YEAR DORMITORY'. Harry reached out his hand and slowly turned the knob. His blood was starting to boil. Several thoughts were going through his mind about the horrible things Davies could be doing to Cho at that moment. The door was locked, but the anger filling him caused the door to magically unlock with a tiny click. The door swung silently open. The scene before him stunned his brain. Only one word came to his mind. Rape.

'Harry, you can't just stand there! You've got to help!' A voice inside his head shouted at him.

Harry silently agreed with the voice. He was about to run at Davies when he saw Cho's eyes open, and she was staring at Davies, her brown eyes filled with fear, as well as tears.

Cho was watching what was happening to her, and she was frozen with fear and too much in shock to move. She wanted to scream for help, but Davies had covered her mouth with his hand, so she couldn't scream. He had planned this carefully.

'Why are you letting him do this?! Move! Fight back!' Her brain screamed at her.

'It's not like I have a choice! I can't move! He's used a body-bind spell! So even if I wanted to move, I couldn't!' Another voice in her head answered.

Harry finally regained control of his body and his senses returned. He could feel his face fire-hot with anger, and he wiped the Marauder's Map blank and tucked his wand and the map into his pocket, and ran at Davies and threw him at the floor. Harry's cloak fell off, and Davies stood up from the floor, and looked up at Harry and licked away some blood from his face that was coming from a fresh cut in his lip.

"Oh hello Potter. Come to join us? We were having so much fun…Weren't we Cho?" Davies said.

Cho finally found her voice.

"You…bastard…" She choked out.

Josh pouted at her and turned back to Harry.

"Come to defend her, have you? You should've seen how incredibly easy it was to get her. You practically gave her to me." He said.

Harry drew back a fist and hit Josh in the jaw.

"Shut up."

"You want to fight? Well…let's match the power of Ravenclaw against Gryffindor. Let's see who will be the one left standing…the one that will be able to return to Cho." Josh said.

"You've got no right to utter Cho's name from your filthy mouth!" Harry spat.

Harry hit Josh again.

"Well, I'll take that as a yes that you do want to fight…well, bring it on!" Josh said.

Cho crawled away from them and off of Josh's bed and dressed herself, cowering in a corner, and watched, afraid as she saw Harry and Josh's fists flying, each one hitting their target. She had never seen Harry in such a rage. Finally, Harry knocked Josh to the floor with a final blow.

Cho rushed over to him and sobbed uncontrollably. Harry consoled her and gently stroked her long raven hair. Harry examined his hands and saw that his knuckles were red and swollen, and his lower lip had been cut slightly. The two embraced each other for a time.

Josh staggered as he slowly stood up and drew his wand.

"Crucio!" He roared.

The spell was aimed at Harry, but Cho took it instead. She fell over in excruciating pain.

Josh dropped his wand in shock, realizing who he had hit. The spell broke and Cho stood slowly and leaned on Harry.

"Um…I'm…I can't…" A voice began.

Harry turned around and saw standing in the doorway, Whitney, Liam, Akira, Hermione, Ron, Tom, Draco, and Alyssia in the doorway. They were staring blankly in stunned silence.

"Cho? Are you alright?" Josh asked, stepping towards her.

Harry and Cho took a step backward toward the doorway. They all raised their wands.

"Get back." Cho spat at Josh.

"Or what?" Josh asked in a mocking voice.

"Rictusempra! Aeroga Aerie!" Cho shouted, her wand pointed at Josh.

Josh fell over, disarmed, as well as knocked out. Cho fell into Harry's arms from exhaustion.

Together, they left the Ravenclaw dormitory and took Cho to the hospital wing.

"What happened?" Madam Pomfrey asked shortly.

"Ask Davies." Harry replied, his temper rising.

"Put her here. Potter, explain. Granger, get McGonagall. Weasley, get Dumbledore. Merrick, get Flitwick." Madam Pomfrey ordered.

All of them nodded, and Madam Pomfrey motioned for Harry to take a seat, which he graciously took. He began to explain everything starting from Monday when Cho had stormed into the greenhouses. When he finished, the nurse had an expression of fury and worry.

Just then, the doors of the hospital wing opened, McGonagall, Dumbledore, and Flitwick stood in the doorway with Ron, Hermione, and Liam. They stepped inside, a figure on a stretcher trailing behind them. Davies. When Cho saw who was on the stretcher, she screamed.

"What the bloody hell d'you think you're doing bringing him in here?!" She shrieked.

"We're just going to question him that's all." McGonagall said reassuringly looking at Cho's panic-stricken face.

"No! I refuse to be in the same room with him! After what he's done!" Cho retorted fiercely.

"Then, we shall have a test…We'll heal his injuries and revive him. We'll cast invisibility charms on ourselves, and make it seem to him that you're alone-" Madam Pomfrey suggested, but was cut off.

"No! No! No! I don't want him near me! I don't want him within two hundred yards of me! I just want him to go away!" Cho sobbed, clearly distressed.

"Alright…Minerva, get Severus, ask him for a Veritaserum. Take him to a private room, revive him, and give him the potion. Then ask him your questions," Madam Pomfrey said, sighing. "Clearly, my patient is too distressed to remain anywhere close to him. I will need to examine her…privately…" She turned to Harry and the others. "Which means you lot need to wait outside the door."

The group reluctantly nodded, and left the ward, just as McGonagall swept out of the wing, almost being knocked over by Tai who was running towards the door.

"Minerva! My apologies! I just got word about something happening." He said.

"Yes, well, Mr. Chang, please watch where you're going in the future." McGonagall said stiffly, waving her wand to levitate Josh.

"Davies? Who did that?" Tai asked.

"From what I heard from Miss Granger, it was Potter." McGonagall replied.

"Now why'd he do that? Harry's not that type of person." Tai said.

"Oh there was a very good reason." Harry said behind Tai.

Tai turned around and raised an eyebrow.

"And what would that be, Harry?" He asked.

The next three words Harry uttered from his mouth made Tai go from worried to fuming in less than two seconds. McGonagall gasped and turned very pale.

"He didn't really do that did he?" McGonagall asked, her throat rather dry.

Harry nodded slowly. The others stood behind Harry, and Whitney tapped him on the shoulder.

"What?" Harry asked.

"Since Cho left Lin with us before the match, I just thought you'd like to have your daughter back."

"Oh…right…"

Whitney placed Lin into his arms, then took Mercadez from Tom's arms and into her own.

"I guess we should be taking Davies off to a room to question him…" Professor McGonagall said, breaking the awkward silence.

"What do you mean, 'we'?" Tai asked suspiciously.

"You're coming with me, of course." McGonagall replied shortly.

Tai nodded, and followed the professor down the corridor. Harry and the others were allowed inside the hospital wing again, and were at Cho's side the whole time.

"My dear, you'll have to relive the encounter for us. We must know what happened." Madam Pomfrey said softly.

Reluctantly, Cho nodded, her throat closing up somehow.

"I'll start…with…Monday…" She replied.

So she explained what had happened all that week, including the encounter after the match where she and Davies shook hands. But she found she couldn't continue after she had reached the point in her story where she had left the Gryffindors to go off to the kitchen.

"Please, Miss Chang, you have to tell us." Madam Pomfrey urged.

"I c-can't!" Cho wailed. "It's just…too awful to remember…"

Even now, as the words she uttered from her lips were spoken, visions of what happened after Davies had stunned her were flooding back into her thoughts.

She was asleep. But she was moving…Someone was carrying her. But where? Her mind wondered. She heard faint footsteps, and heard a whispered password. The one carrying her was crossing a room. A common room…Was it Harry? Perhaps she had fainted outside the kitchen door from exhaustion, and Dobby found her and alerted Harry right away? Maybe he was taking her to her dormitory? She felt sheets and a velvety comforter beneath her. Then she felt her robes loosening…No…they weren't loosening…they were being taken off. She forced herself to open her eyes, and saw a blurry outline of the one before her. Her vision started to clear, and she realized her surroundings.

'This isn't my dormitory! This is…the Ravenclaw dormitory!' She thought, seeing the navy blue around her.

She finally looked around and saw a tall boy in blue robes kneeling over her. She shut her eyes again, still trying to wake herself from her slumber. Then, she felt something she hadn't felt in months. It was painful and burning. When her thoughts finally clicked into place, she opened her eyes, her vision focusing upon the determined face above her. Her eyes wide with fear, she tried to scream, but found no voice. She tried to move, but her mind commanding her to move would not listen. She was stuck. Trapped, at last. Davies had finally gotten what he wanted.

'Harry will save me.' She thought fiercely.

Upon thinking of Harry's gentle face and his emerald eyes, she found her voice again, and shrieked, hoping that someone could hear her. Davies forcefully clapped his hand over her mouth. Cho soon lost her voice again, and found no hope anywhere. He continued to work his hips furiously into her own, Cho finding all of it disgusting and full of extreme pain, no where near being semi-pleasureful.

"Potter cannot save you now. He doesn't know the way here." Josh said, his voice full of mocking and happiness.

Tears poured down her face leaving salty trails from her gorgeous Chinese eyes.

Perhaps she was imagining it, she could have sworn she heard a tiny click coming from the door. Glancing in that direction, she could've sworn it had swung open wide, then close, leaving the door ajar with a thin beam of golden light coming from the outside. She heard the swishing of a cloak. Harry. She thought instantly. She could almost see his green eyes blazing. But she searched the room frantically, unable to locate him.

'He must be under the cloak. And he found this place somehow…' Cho said to herself inside the walls of her mind.

She blinked several times, and then Davies was knocked forcefully off of her. She saw a silvery material slip to the floor and she saw Harry standing there. He put his cloak in a safe place, and Davies looked up at Harry and grinned, licking away a few drops of blood from his lips.

The two fought, and then she saw Whitney and the others in the doorway and she heard Davies utter the spell for the Cruciatus Curse, and she moved in front of Harry to protect him. Davies dropped his wand, and after catching her breath, she pointed her own wand at Davies and knocked him out cold.

"Miss Chang?" Madam Pomfrey's sharp voice sounded.

Cho blinked and was quickly drawn out of her reverie. Everyone was staring at her expectantly, and taking a deep breath, Cho told them the rest of the tale.

"He used an Unforgivable?" Madam Pomfrey asked, her eyes wide.

Cho nodded.

"And he forced himself upon you?"

Again, Cho nodded, her stomach giving an odd lurch, as she thought about how her body had been violated.

McGonagall and Tai returned with Josh walking behind them, hanging his head glumly.

"We've interrogated him. It appears the boy had a secret plan that he mapped out several days before today's event." McGonagall said stiffly, her nostrils white and her sharp eyes full of fury.

"We've come to a decision," Squeaked Professor Flitwick, who had just walked into the room with a large scroll under his arm. "We're expelling Mr. Davies." He finished, unraveling the scroll.