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BS - Chapter 37: Under My Control
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“Dialogue”
‘Thoughts’
-Author notes-
Chapter 37: Under My Control
Harry just aimed his wand in their general direction. “Accio Luna’s earrings.”
This was quickly followed by a loud cry, just as Cho Chang was pulled from her chair when the earrings were snapped from her pockets.
He caught the piece of jewelry with one hand and looked at them. They were a pair of strange carrot-shaped earrings.
“You put a bit too much power,” Hermione noted. “Unless you meant to throw her to the floor.”
Harry glanced at her. “What makes you think I didn’t mean to do that?” he said as he returned the earring to Luna.
“Thank you!” the girl said with excitement.
Harry turned to her. “Remind me to put a curse on your belongings later on, so thi—”
“Potter!” a very angry Cho Chang shouted at him as she struggled to stand back up with the help of her two friends.
Harry merely glanced at her with disdain. “I do not appreciate being interrupted when I am speaking.”
“How dare you do that to me?” Cho shouted again.
“Yeah! We are going to report you to a professor. You attacked Cho,” one of her friends said. It was a black-haired girl called Marietta.
“Attacked?” Harry tilted his head. “I was merely retrieving the possessions you had stolen. I don’t think taking this issue to a professor will be good for you in the end.”
Cho Chang’s demeanor suddenly shifted, and she glared at Luna, as well as the earring she was now holding in her hands.
“You are protecting the Loony?”
“If you are referring to Luna, the answer is yes.”
Harry placed a hand over Luna’s blond hair.
“This girl is now on my service, and as such, she is also under my protection. Any actions taken against her will be considered the same as if they were against me. And as such, I w—”
“How dare you!” Cho’s anger seemed to return in full force as she glared at Harry.
“After everything you have done already, you have the gall to come here and accuse me of stealing from that weirdo?”
“We haven’t done anything wrong.”
“That’s right! You have no proof,” the two friends added.
“Proof?...” Harry raised an eyebrow. “I need no such thing to put you in your place.”
He took a step forward. "And you have interrupted me for the last time."
The girls looked at each other with increasing concern.
Cho, however, was not really listening to his words. She held her wand firmly in her hand and aimed it at Harry.
“I know that you killed my Cedric!”
“Your Cedric?” Harry asked.
“They were dating,” Hermione informed him.
“Oh, I see… you were romantically involved with that boy who died.”
Harry nodded, now understanding better why she was so angry at him.
She was hardly the first one to blame him for that death. And he had to admit that it was a strange feeling...the one of being accused of someone's death that, for once, he had nothing to do with.
“We know you cheated to get in the tournament. And then you killed my boyfriend because you wanted to win it!” Cho shouted. “You are a murderer!”
This made Harry laugh. “A murderer? Oh… I am that, and much worse.” He walked closer to them.
“But I didn’t kill that boy, and I care not for this tournament. Fame and money have no meaning to me…”
“Stay away!” Cho’s wand hand began to tremble. She was clearly not prepared for an actual confrontation. She just wanted to shout at him for a while.
The two other girls were of little help either, as they barely knew how to use their wands to defend themselves.
Harry continued to get closer.
“You see… when there is something that I want… I just take it. No one can stop me. But you are welcome to try.”
“Stupefy!” Cho made a stabbing motion with her wand and a red spark flew out of it.
Harry moved his wand as fast as lightning and hit the charm with its tip, sending it toward one of the other girls, knocking her down in an instant.
“Hypnos.” Harry’s spell was aimed at the second of Cho's friends, who then fell asleep under the power of his magic.
“Obliviate.” He instantly followed this by wiping their minds clean of what had happened in the last hour.
“W-what are you doing?” Cho was getting concerned now. She was staring into Harry’s eyes.
She had seen the boy many times before over the four years he had attended school.
Cho had to admit that she always liked his vibrant green eyes. She saw a lot of warmth and kindness in them.
That was no longer the case.
Now, that pair of green eyes was glaring at her, and she felt the coldness hidden beneath the surface.
It was like being stared down by a predator, right before it jumped to eat its prey.
Cho’s body became frozen by fear and could no longer move, even though she wanted nothing more than to run away from here and never look back.
Harry took out his original wand, the one that had been with him during his previous life, as he didn't want to use his school wand for this.
“Imperio.”
The Unforgivable Curse washed over Cho Chang and took over her mind with little to no resistance.
Harry shook his head. “It’s a shame. I was planning on letting you off with just a warning. But you had to open your mouth…”
He ran his fingers across her face, but Cho didn’t react to his touch. Her mind was already trapped in the curse, and she had lost all autonomy over her actions.
“You have a beautiful face,” Harry commented.
“If you had better manners, perhaps I could have given you the opportunity to serve me…”
Harry sighed. He didn’t like killing young, beautiful girls, but this one had offended him in several ways already, and he did not like her attitude.
“Cho Chang… you are under my control and will do anything I say.”
“I will…” Cho responded as if she were in a trance. Her eyes were completely glazed over.
“Good… then, this is what I want from you…”
