Me & Cho Chang

Here's my entry for the Harry Potter Blogfest. I think I did it a little differently from everyone else, but here it goes...

“Do you think I let Harry down all right?” Cho asks me from across our table in the Great Hall.

I quickly pick up a piece of toast and shove it in my mouth so I don’t have to answer. Is it wrong to feel this jealous of your best friend? After all, I still don’t have a date to the Yule Ball and now Cho’s been asked by not one, but two champions! She is the prettiest girl in Ravenclaw, but still…

“Pavrati told me that she heard Dean Thomas telling Terry Boot that Harry cried himself to sleep last night!” Padma Patil interjects gleefully from among the crowd of younger girls around us. Ever since Cho started dating Cedric Diggory everyone’s been acting like she’s some kind of celebrity.

“Oh…” Cho says. I can tell she feels guilty, but I can’t work up much pity for her right now.

“We have to get going soon,” I tell her, desperate to escape her fan club. “Professor McGonagall will turn us into toadstools if we’re late for Transfiguration again.”

“Bye, Cho!” Mandy Brocklehurst calls after her as we get up. “I’ll see you at dinner!”

When we’re out in the corridor, Cho asks, “Do you think what Padma said is true?”

I laugh. “90% of what comes out of Padma’s mouth is garbage,” I say.

Cho smiles. “I just didn’t know what to say when he asked me. I was so surprised. I actually thought… that he was going to ask you.”

“Me?”

“Sure. I mean, I always see him staring at you –“

“Yeah, when we’re together!”

Cho laughs. “This whole thing, it’s just too good to be true. First Cedric and now Harry. Boys should be fighting over you, not me.”

“What are you talking about?” I roll my eyes.

“I mean, you are the prettiest girl in Ravenclaw,” she says, completely serious.

“Thanks,” I reply with a soft smile.

 I know I can’t stay mad at Cho. She is my best friend, after all.