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Written for the January Event over on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)

Pairing: Harry/Cho

Gringotts: Pairing: Same Gen Het – Harry/Cho; Nouns – Bed, Person, Lips, Life, Moment, Sleep, War, Memory; Adjectives – Fiery, Uncomfortable, Several, Another; Verbs – Talk, Think, Listen, Stop; Prepositions – Against

Pining

Harry tossed and turned in his uncomfortable, makeshift bed. They had been hunting for the Horcruxes for several weeks now, and his mind was on only one person, and it wasn't the person that anyone would expect, especially given the terms that they parted under.

Anyone who knew Harry would have expected his every thought he had to spare to be of the fiery redhead, but no, all he could think about was Cho Chang.

All he could think about was how her lips had felt against him and how much he desired to press his against hers just one more time.

He wondered, not for the first, how different life would have been if he had only asked her to the Yule Ball before the Hufflepuff.

There would have been no Cedric to get between them. She would never have been grieving so much for him. They would have been able to talk about everything and anything, and his name would never have come up.

They could have had a happily ever after, or at least as close to one as he could have hoped for given who he was.

He couldn't talk to his friends about her and how he was feeling. Sure, Hermione would listen and understand, but there was never a moment that they could be alone without the chance of Ron hearing.

If Ron ever heard him talk about how much he was pining for another girl, so soon after he had broken up with Ginny, he would probably come close to killing him and think he never cared for her.

And so Harry pined in secret, and as he finally drifted off into dreamful sleep he decided that as soon as the war was over he would declare his love from the rooftop for Cho Chang and no one – not even the memory of Cedric – would stop him.

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