Harry versus Cho

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters. They are the property of JK rowling. I only own the new OC's which appear in the following chapters.

The summer was becoming increasingly more boring as each day went by. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were not allowed to leave the safety of Grimmauld Place at all, due to the fact they were all still very much underage. Though, Harry had to admire Lorena's boldness. She occasionally snuck out under Harry's cloak to buy food for the rest back at the house. Harry enjoyed this, but felt increasingly angry he couldn't leave and enjoy the outside world. Simply going for a walk in the park became something he could only dream of. Ron and Lorena's relationship was on edge constantly. Ron blamed Harry's bad mood on Lorena and got extreme satisfaction out of annoying her. Ron couldn't believe Harry even let her have his invisibility cloak. Ginny and Hermione tried their best to force Ron and Lorena to be friends, but nothing worked.

Ron noticed how every girl who was living at Grimmauld Place seemed to adore Lorena and were constantly clinging from her. Ron used the excuse that the Patils and Lavender never seemed to leave her alone, and if they were around, he wouldn't be around. Personally, Harry had no problems with Lorena, he was sure she was a lovely person to be around, but he just could not face the fact that Sirius had kept this a secret from him, the secret being Lorena and her siblings, so he dare not look them in the eye or speak with them for too long. Sirius noticed the tension and had no idea what to do about it. The introduction of Lorena Valdez and her siblings, Carlos and Taina seemed to turn everything upside down in Grimmauld Place. Sirius, badly wanting to help fix the mess he started, brought in Ron and Hermione one morning to help.

'What exactly is going on?' Sirius asked, 'Since when has everyone been so moody?'

'Well obviously it starts with Harry. As soon as he is, he converts everyone else too.' Ron said bitterly.

'He's… um…He's just kind of angry about this whole Lorena thing-'

'Pff, angry. And so he should be, she's right annoying.'

Sirius looked incredibly surprised, ' But, why is he mad? What'd she do?'

'…Nothing. Its you.' Hermione said, giving Ron a reproachful look.

'Me?! Why on earth is it me?'

'You never told him about it.'

'I explained that to him the night he arrived-'

'Yea, he told us what happened.' Hermione said quietly, 'Something about how you regret spending so much time with him and his parents because you could have helped Lorena and her mother instead.'

Sirius suddenly slapped a hand to his forehead. 'Shit, that sounds bad…'

'So, you did say that?' Ron asked, not exactly expecting this to be entirely true.

'Well, yea. But I didn't mean it like that. Trust him to turn it into something against him.'

'Harry has nothing against Lorena… For some reason Ron does.' Hermione said slowly, turning to Ron who rolled his eyes at her.

'What do I do?' Sirius asked Hermione.

Hermione merely shrugged, not knowing what exactly to say to Sirius. He obviously hadn't been very tactful when it came to talking with teenagers, which Hermione found quite surprising seeing as he himself found it so hard to grow up.

'Maybe I'll just tell Harry what happened… Though I'm not sure if he'll believe me. He has this incredibly annoying way of thinking I'm always wrong and he's always right.' And with that Hermione left the living room, leaving Ron to stretch out on the rug before the fire, with Sirius gazing into it. Ron had basically met all the new families who had come to stay at Grimmauld Place, except for one apparently. Cho Chang had just entered the living room, clutching a book in her right hand. Obviously she had been looking for some solitude, and not realising there to be people in here, entered. Initially she looked shocked, glancing from Sirius to Ron, who had both looked up at her entrance. Then gazing coolly at Ron, as she retreated and swiftly shut the door.

'Ooh, what's going on there?' Sirius asked. 'She seemed mad at you.'

'Hmm, yea. She was a hell of a lot of trouble last year. More trouble than she was worth but…She's Harry's ex-girlfriend.' Ron stared with a grimace at the door through which Cho had just entered and quickly retreated.

'Ex? Really?'

Ron laughed rather coldly. 'You obviously don't really know Harry do you?'

'Er what do you mean?'

'Well, basically everyone is his ex-girlfriend. He's pretty much the biggest whore around honestly. He's lucky he's a guy and can get away with it.' Ron lay back down with a glance at Sirius, 'She was one weird person, Sirius.'

Meal times at Grimmauld Place were always on edge. Ron snapped at Lorena, and when this happened Hermione started to snap at Ron, and eventually Harry would get involved to tell the two of them to grow up. Though there were some who found these events rather amusing, such as Tonks, Fred and George who often tried to provoke an argument, leaving Mrs Weasley completely livid. Though, all that was nothing compared to how breakfast that morning would be. With the arrival of Cho, there would be much more to argue about. Ron forgot to mention to Harry that his ex-girlfriend would be dining with them that morning, and conveniently enough she had been placed in between Harry and Ron, with Lorena on Harry's other side. Fred and George, who had obviously influenced Mrs Weasley's initial seating plan, grinned down the table at Harry and Ron. Knowing the whole 'sneak' business from last year, they turned to Tonks and eagerly whispered the story in her ear.

'Harry dear, you've barely eaten anything since you came here. Anything the matter?' Mrs Weasley asked from the other end of the table.

'No, Mrs Weasley, I'm completely fine.'

Cho reached over Harry to pick up a saltshaker.

'Excuse me, I was using that.'

'No you weren't, it wasn't even near your hand.' Cho replied icily. 'You're probably not even planning on eating, are you?'

'Yes he was using it excuse me, and I had bagged it next for your information.'

The entire dining room went quiet to look at this, quite unusual argument which had started over less than all the others did.

'Um…' Lorena started, looking around at her plate and the table, 'Could I have that next? My potatoes are a bit too dry for my liking.'

'Of course,' Ron said, 'Lorena has it next.'

'Er… Did he take something this morning?' Lorena whispered rather loudly.

'No.' Ron said indignantly, 'I did not take something this morning. I just understand unlike some people, the importance of having a rota for the saltshaker. There are many people here, we can't be so selfish, Cho.'

'Or you could have just asked for it.' Lorena added, taking the salt from Ron, 'I mean, how long are you here? And you're already just snatching things out from other peoples noses.'…Everyone looked at her slightly confused, 'I don't know exactly what's going on, but I don't what to have to be against those two. They seem to be pretty possessive...' Then she deliberately passed the saltshaker down the opposite way towards Ginny, not taking an eye off her food. Everyone kept deadly silent. Unsure of exactly what to say next. Unfortunately for the Order, they would have to endure another one of these arguments, however the next would be slightly more personal.

'Are you going to tell on me?' Harry asked in a mock innocent voice which made Cho blush furiously and look down at her plate for the rest of the meal.

The living room had become a place for the youth of Grimmauld Place to congregate, along with Sirius and occasionally Lupin. Following an incredibly boring day, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Lorena and Ginny were by the fire. Hermione was showing Lorena an ancient runes book, which seemed to be much more complex than the average schoolbook. 'Its so fantastic to talk to someone about runes!' Hermione was saying happily. Ginny sat nearby stroking Crookshanks, and lazily browsing through a teenage magazine.

Harry and Ron were talking silently. Both expressing their mutual dislike for all the girls huddled in the opposite corner, Lavender, Parvati, Cho and Padma, all just giggling to their hearts content. Sirius and Remus were also enjoying the serenity of the room. Sitting in armchairs by the bookshelf they were both reading todays Daily Prophet, however, Sirius was slightly more interested in watching his Godson. He had a feeling another argument was going to start and he definitely did not want to miss it.

'Sirius, please could you stop staring.' Remus said quietly.

Sirius just ignored him. He saw all the girls in the corner walk over to the fireplace and take a new seat there.

'Hi Ron.' Lavender smiled sweetly.

'Er, hi. Do you want something?'

'We're just bored on our own. No one to talk to around here. Don't know how you stuck it last year. This place is so boring.'

'Well, I suppose that lack of bitches to hang out with can get pretty annoying. But we're perfectly fine here.' Harry wasn't saying this in anyway coldly. In complete truth he really thought this to be fact. Parvati, Lavender and Cho usually had lots of girls to hang out with, and what else would girls do other than bitch? He didn't know Padma at all, but she was probably the same.

'Why is it you always seem to think you're right in being able to insult me?' Cho asked, not harshly, but more sadly.

'Because I am right.' Harry didn't look away from the fire as he said this, hoping that he would not witness any tears. He really wasn't in the mood for it. 'Have I actually ever been wrong in anything I've said yet?'

'In fact yes.'

'Refresh my memory.'

'Marietta.'

Ron and Hermione just looked at Harry, in a kind of a tortured way.

'Well, actually Cho, he was right. If it was you who had to keep something a secret, you wouldn't particularly like it if say, Ron or myself went to Dumbledore or something, would you?'

'I explained already to you about Marietta, Harry.' Ignoring Hermione.

'Yea, and it honestly wasn't that good.' Harry turned away from her, rather bored of the nights proceedings.

'You know what?' Cho said rather shrilly, 'You think you're so great and brilliant, with your stupid DA which you couldn't even control.'

'I actually think we controlled it quite well.' Harry grinned, 'Took a few weeks for Marietta to get those spots off her face didn't it. Might teach her to be a sneak in the first place.'

'You know, I didn't even learn anything there.'

Harry grinned and in a high pitched girly voice he said, 'Ooh, you're a wonderful teacher Harry. I've never been able to stun anything before.'

Ron burst out laughing and Hermione was clearly trying to suppress a giggle. Lorena looked from Cho to Harry, not exactly sure what was going on. She was biting her cheek looking very cute and Harry suddenly felt a kind of a pang in his stomach. He turned away from her swiftly as she caught his eye.

'Yea well… Maybe I say that to every guy-

'Hey, I never doubted you did.'

Cho blushed scarlet, she seemed flustered and possibly on the verge of crying. 'I don't know why I even wanted to talk to you in the first place. You're so conceited and not funny.' She waited for him to say something similar… 'What, don't you have anything to say to me?'

'Nope. I'm a guy Cho, sex is sex.' Harry shrugged, 'I was hardly paying attention to any of your personality traits enough to make fun of them later.'

Ron started howling with laughter. 'Wow. That was really mean.'

Cho turned on her heel and left the room, no doubt on her way to the nearest bathroom. Not followed by her newfound Gryffindor friends, Parvati and Lavender.

'Yes, Harry that was a bit too mean. I'm sure she doesn't want to hear you calling her a slut right now.' Hermione said in a quiet voice.

'I was just telling the truth about her. Its not something she doesn't know already so it shouldn't come as a big shock.'

Overall, their stay at Grimmauld Place hadn't been as exciting as it had seemed from the outset. With Cho being around, all the bitterness Harry felt about Marietta just kind of enveloped him and that was all he could think about. Perhaps he was slightly angry with himself in a way. He had made friends with Hermione and Ron in first year, and they proved to be excellent loyal friends, how on earth could he have chosen a girlfriend who could end up to be so… different to himself. Unable to do a simple stunning spell, always crying about the slightest thing and being a traitor.