Written 2005, © Erica 2005
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'The Boy Who Lived': Boggarts and Broomsticks
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Character Information
Name: Cho-Mei Chang
Age: 20 (b-day July 03)
Sex: Female
Place of Birth: Tibetan monastery near Sakya, China
Blood: Pureblood
Year: 2nd
House preference?: Consilium
Physical Appearance:
Standing only a mere 1.65 meters (5' 5") Cho is hardly an imposing figure. Her slight weight of 52 kg (114 lbs) and short, willowy build make her almost appear to be a delicate Chinese doll rather than a mostly mature young woman of 20. Appearances easily fool however, and Cho is far from fragile. Quidditch training from almost seven years of playing the game as well as a lifetime of varied martial art study has earned Cho a physique that is gently toned. She has very little body fat and is secretly proud of the femme six-pack that is her stomach. The snappy reflexes she developed in her childhood from martial arts led quite naturally into the flying ability and split second reactions that were necessary in a top notch Seeker.
Almond shaped and tilted upward at the outer corners, Cho�s eyes are a deep brown and have a slender rim of black around the outer edge of the iris. Framed by short but striking lashes and topped off with slender arching eyebrows, her eyes are set in a round face with clear, light toned skin. Cho's eyes hold a haunted look that is very hard to detect if you don't know her well. Her lips are narrow and are generally pressed together in a neutral straight line, but if she's in a good mood Cho smiles quite easily. It doesn't really take much to make her smile, just the right person. And Cho has quite a pretty smile.
Framing her face and just barely brushing her shoulders, Cho�s hair is a deep midnight black, the absolute absence of color. Soft and almost feathery in texture, Cho�s hair has a glossy sheen, the result of a hair potion she uses regularly. If she didn�t use the potion, her hair would be dry and horribly uncooperative. Cho used to wear her hair in a long braid that reached her waist until her fifth year. But after Cedric�s death, she cut it off as a sign of mourning. The long braid of her early school years now lies inside a small wooden box in her old bedroom at her parent�s home.
Cho has various scars from assorted Quidditch accidents, as it�s practically impossible to get through a year without some sort of catastrophe. A slender scar runs up the outside of her right upper arm, a slightly wider scar runs down the back of her right calf, and a jagged scar rests on her inner left forearm. The first she got from flying broom shards during a mid-flight collision early in her third year. The second Cho received from a broken piece of beater bat that had hurtled her direction during her fourth year. And the third she got when her broken bone jutted out of her skin after her arm was broken by another mid-flight collision in her seventh year. And while these scars could have easily been charmed away, Cho likes to think they give her a bit of character.
A bird shaped birthmark graces her right shoulder blade, looking something like a swan with its wings outstretched. The matron that was in attendance at her birth, who had a touch of the Sight, proclaimed that it was a sign the babe would be swift of mind and pure of heart. The flat silver amulet scribed with Chinese runes that Cho always wears on a blue silk cord tucked underneath her blouse was a gift from the matron. The only other item of jewelry that Cho constantly wears is a silver filigree ring with a small sapphire on the middle finger of her left hand. Cedric gave the ring to her only a week before his death.
A conservative dresser, Cho dresses more for comfort and efficiency than trendiness. She has a certain fondness for her blue work robes and tends to wear those quite often. While pureblooded, Cho is not above wearing Muggle attire if she finds if comfortable and functional enough. After a few lessons from some of her muggle-born friends, Cho quickly learned how to pick out a stylish Muggle outfit that would blend in properly. Cho likes muggle jeans and simple blouses, and she sometimes wears them in the wizarding world, though usually with her favorite blue work robes over the ensemble.
Family:
Mother�s mother: Bian Xui-Mei - Healer/Potion mistress (dead, would be 68)
Mother�s father: Long Chen-Ye � Unspeakable (70)
Father�s mother: Kwan Zuan-Yi � Herbologist (68)
Father�s father: Chang Tai-Lin � Auror (71)
Mother: Long Zi-Yan � Healer/Auror [field medic for aurors] (48)
Father: Chang Li-Long � Auror (51)
Personality:
First impressions of Cho are generally that she's shy, innocent and naive, which is quite far from the truth. Cho hasn't changed much since her years at Hogwarts except in a couple aspects. At Hogwarts she'd been one of the more popular Ravenclaws and well liked by pretty much everyone. At ASU she had to start over in the social cast. But Cho had already decided that she was going to be careful whom she made friends with. During her Hogwarts years, Cho could be so fiercely loyal to her friends that she was blind to their shortcomings. This became evident to her after her argument with Harry over Marietta. Once Cho realized how she�d allowed herself to be blindsided she tried to be more conscious of how others might view a situation.
More quiet and subtle than she used to be, Cho usually doesn't bring attention to her self in overt manners. She prefers, instead, to watch what others are doing, a habit formed back in her childhood from when she would simply sit at her window and watch the world move about below. Because of this, Cho can often notice something most people don't, and depending on what it is, she may or may not share her finding. Cho picks up on information very easily and retains it well. She doesn�t have a photographic memory, but she knows how to engrain information in her mind.
Despite the fact that she's not as outgoing as she used to be, Cho is still a devoted friend. She's an attentive listener and is often more willing to help her friends with their problems than she is to deal with her own. Cho believes in being straightforward with her friends. If she�s concerned about something, she�ll try to inform them. She knows the truth can hurt and she tries to word her concerns as tactfully and gently as possible. She has goofed up a few times though, seeing things that weren�t really there. But even her good friends have problems breaking past the barrier she puts up when she's having problems of her own. When she's in a down mood, she'll shut herself up inside and avoids talking about her troubles to the point she�ll actually deny she has any at all. It�s just her way of trying to deal with crisis. Eventually she simply snaps with all the tension she�s built up and ends up sobbing all over the nearest person�s shoulder while she blubbers on an on until her system is flushed.
Cho does have one serious character flaw. She has temper, which most wouldn�t expect from the usually demure and polite Asian young woman. Cho�s outbursts are brief, and usually it doesn�t take her too long calm down, it doesn�t really take too much to set her off. Something as simple as a frustrating assignment on a bad day can make her throw her textbooks across the room, and Cho has been known to throw down her beloved Comet 260 after losing a particularly important quidditch match. And while she tries really hard to see something from other points of view as well, if she has strong feelings on a certain subject, trying to change her mind will only anger her. Someone insulting one of her friends or someone she really respects (and really insulting them) is probably one of the worst things a person can do in front of Cho. Someone once made a degrading comment about Cedric (something along the lines that he was dead because he was careless) and Cho completely lost her head. She very much considers the detention she was giving as result of her retaliation completely worth her actions. ((I am building the fact she has a temper off canonical evidence, so shush about the �everyone has a temper� issue.))
But besides being highly emotional at times, Cho has a good sense of humor and is able to laugh at herself if needed. Possessing a witty tongue, Cho is quick with clever comebacks though she knows better than to face off a Dolosus. Cho has always possessed a thirst for knowledge and a somewhat random curiosity. Her mind can jump from one tidbit to another rather quickly and if it weren�t for the discipline she�d learned as a child Cho would probably be quite scatterbrained. Cho is willing to learn just about anything, except Dark Magic. Cho loathes Dark Magic with a passion for several reasons, the primary ones being what happened to her father and Cedric. An ambitious girl, Cho has several goals and dreams. She wants to become an Auror, to become an animagus, and with those abilities avenge Cedric's murder. But Cho also wants to live without fear again, to settle down to a quite, peaceful life, and to raise a family. But Cho knows that she can�t consider the world at peace until all traces of Voldemort are gone.
History:
Long Zi-Yan was born to Bian Xui-Mei and Long Chen-Ye in the small wizarding village of Tian-rui, in western China. Chen-Ye was an Unspeakable with the Chinese Ministry of Magic and Xui-Mei was the healer for the village as well as being a talented potion mistress. Villagers would come from kilometers away just for some of Xui-Mei�s potions. Xui-Mei and Chen-Ye�s marriage had been arranged at their birth, but luckily they had become good friends while attending school. Zi-Yan was their only child and at her birth a marriage was arranged with some family friends that had moved away a few years before. Since Chen-Ye spent most of the day at the Ministry of Magic, Zi-Yan followed her mother as she went about her healer duties in the village. Gradually Zi-Yan learned the basics of healing and determined that she wanted to be a healer when she grew up. When Zi-Yan was eleven, she received her letter from the Zheng-wen School of Magic in the Chinese Himalayas. Zi-Yan enthusiastically went of to school and there met her future husband.
Chang Li-Long was born to Kwan Zuan-Yi and Chang Tai-Lin in the small wizarding town of Dian-rong, in southwestern China. Zuan-Yi was an herbologist and grew many potion ingredients that were difficult to obtain in China. The members of the Kwan family are some of the premier herbologists in China and therefore conduct business with some of the top healers in the country. Zuan-Yi was childhood friends with Xui-Mei and the two became business associates after graduation. Zuan-Yi grew the herbs and Xui-Mei bought the herbs to brew her potions and make her healing salves. Zuan-Yi married Tai-Lin a few years after she had finished school. Tai-Lin was an Auror with the Chinese Ministry and bumped into Zuan-Yi in the lift when she went to turn in some paper work so she could obtain a license to grow some highly controlled herbs. Tai-Lin was smitten at first sight and asked Zuan-Yi to dinner. She turned him down as she had a girls� night with Xui-Mei, but the next time she was at the Ministry, Tai-Lin managed to track her down and asked her again. She finally gave in and a few years later they were married. Li-Long was born a few years after Zuan-Yi and Tai-Lin married. The small family of two moved shortly before Li-Long�s birth. And when Zi-Yan was born a few years later to Zuan-Yi�s friend, it was only natural that a marriage was arranged. Li-Long didn�t quite know what to make of the idea of marrying a girl he�d never met, but will willing to get to know her. Like several traditional Chinese wizarding families, Li-Long was trained in the martial arts and weaponry. By the time he left for Zheng-wen School of Magic at eleven, Li-Long was rather advanced at both.
At first Li-Long and Zi-Yan didn�t quite get along. Besides being smaller than Hogwarts, the Zheng-wen School of Magic didn�t have houses. There were simply male and female dormitories. And like any young boy, Li-Long was prone to trying to sneak into the girls� dormitory and actually made it inside twice before being caught and thrown out on his ear. After deciding rather juvenilely that the little slip of a girl wasn�t wife material, Li-Long teased Zi-Yan mercilessly, even though their mothers were good friends. Zi-Yan put up with it quietly, always wondering how her mother could have been foolish enough to arrange a marriage for her with such a mean boy. It wasn�t until Zi-Yan turned fourteen that Li-Long began to reconsider his attitude toward the young girl. Zi-Yan was beginning to turn into a beautiful young woman and was quite popular. She had a small group of intelligent girls friends, and even the older boys commented on her beauty and intelligence. During his final year at the school, Li-Long managed to patch up his relationship with Zi-Yan, at least to the point where she didn�t loathe him any more. As Zi-Yan continued her schooling, Li-Long followed in his father�s footsteps and entered Auror training.
Three years later, Li-Long finished his training and Zi-Yan finished her schooling. While her parents would have wished for something else, Zi-Yan entered Auror training as well. Because of her background in healing and potions, Zi-Yan also underwent training to become a field medic for the Aurors. During Zi-Yan�s second year of training, Li-Long went out with the other full Aurors to investigate some rumors of Dark Wizards along the coast of Eastern China. It was discovered that a group of wizards were smuggling dragon eggs and other dragon products out of China. However, they needed more information before they could take down the ring, so Li-Long went undercover for about a six-months in Shanghai since he had cousins that owned a dragon reserve in Western China and therefore had the most knowledge about dragon products. Eventually the smuggling ring was taken down and Li-Long and the other Aurors were given a small raise. With that raise, Li-Long bought a ring and formally proposed to Zi-Yan. And while it seemed like more of a formality to their families, since their marriage had been arranged at Zi-Yan�s birth, the two young adults had, over the past couple of years, developed real feelings toward each other.
The wedding was a simple but traditional one, held on the following Halloween. Only about fifty people attended, consisting of Li-Long and Zi-Yan�s parents, close relatives, and friends from the Auror Division of the Ministry. Zi-Yan�s Maiden (wizarding maid-of-honor) was Sung Cho-mi, her mentor from the Auror Division. Li-Long�s Gaurdian (wizarding best-man) was his co-Auror Zhao Shang-de. With Li-Long�s raise, the newlyweds were able to move into a small, but modest flat in Tianjin. As Zi-Yan finished her Auror training over the next year and Li-Long continued working for the Auror Division, it seemed everything was right. After passing her training, Zi-Yan was partnered with her mentor, a slighty older Auror, Cho-mi. Unlike the other Aurors in the Division, Cho-mi was not Chinese but Korean. She was basically on loan to the Chinese Ministry while she investigated a series of murders that seemed similar to some that had happened in Korea. Zi-Yan and Cho-mi had become very good friends while Zi-Yan had undergone her training, and neither could be happier when they were assigned to work together.
However, as the muggle government began to stabilize, the wizarding one began to fall apart. In the early seventies, only a few months after Zi-Yan had finished her Auror training, somehow, the entire wizarding council suddenly died in the middle of a legislation session. A temporary council was set up until a new council could be selected, and an investigation was started on the deaths. The temporary council was too weak though, and when it was determined that the old council had been murdered by a strange poisonous gas, dissention grew. After a few months, two groups had formed, the Old Council supporters, those that believed in the old ways of the elders council, and the Nationalists, those that believed the elders council was out-dated and weak and that a new, stronger government should be formed. The temporary council refused to give up power, and the Nationalists accused them of being the ones to plot the deaths of the previous council. The Old Council supporters threw back that perhaps the Nationalists had been the ones to kill the previous council. For a few more months only accusations flew back and forth but eventually a civil war broke out that was nearly noticed by the Chinese muggles, which is a lot of muggles.
The Aurors were right in the thick of it all. Most of the Aurors supported the Old Council�s views though a few supported the Nationalists. Li-Long and Zi-Yan tried not to take sides, even though they both believed in the Old Council, especially at first when things were only tense. Demonstrations in front of the Ministry building, small riots in the streets and markets of the wizarding enclaves, pamphlets and underground newspapers became daily occurrences the Aurors would have to deal with. But in early 1973 however, the civil dissention turned into civil war. A group of Nationalists attacked a team of Aurors that were out on patrol. This soon became more and more frequent, and the attacks branched out to other Divisions of the Ministry. But as the Ministry workers and Aurors began fighting back, things only got worse. In late 1974 Cho-mi was killed while out on a routine riot control. When she attempted to pacify an incensed wizard, he hit her with such a hard repelling curse that she flew into the corner of a building. The wizard left her there, not knowning the blow had cracked her skull and injured her internal organs. Cho-mi bleed to death in less than an hour. In 1975 Xui-Mei was killed when a demonstration in front of the Ministry building turned into a riot. It was one of the few days a year she went to the Ministry to file paper work. And the enraged throng couldn�t tell the difference between a Ministry worker and an innocent bystander.
Zi-Yan couldn�t take anymore. She took a long-term leave from the Auror Division and went to Tibet to stay at one of the monasteries where a distant cousin of hers was a monk. The Auror Division couldn�t afford to lose Li-Long as well, so he stayed in China to continue helping, visiting Zi-Yan every weekend. But in early 1976, after several years of internal fighting, the Nationalists displaced the traditional elders council and replaced it with a dictatorship. And supporters of the council were not held in favor with the new government. The Aurors that had been ardent supporters of the Old Council, along with other Old Council supporters, were marked as traitors and a price was laid on their heads. The Aurors were loath to leave their beloved country, but when the arrests began, they realized they wouldn�t be able to help their people from prison. So the fled to Tibet like Zi-Yan had a the year before.
Unlike muggle Tibet, wizarding Tibet had maintained its independence. And it was to wizarding Tibet that most of the Old Council supporters fled when the new dictatorship put warrants out for their arrest. As the Aurors fled, the dictatorship installed it�s own policing force of poorly trained wizards who weren�t really meant for law enforcement. They were too trigger-happy with their wands and as they botched one investigation after another, the crime rate in wizarding China began to rise at a steady rate. The exiled Aurors were heartbroken with the state of their country, but the few that returned to help were captured and imprisoned. One by one the Aurors lost hope of saving their people from the inept dictatorship, until only a small group remained striving to think of a way to tear down the dictatorship. While some of the people might support them, the Nationalists had more manpower.
When the Nationalists learned the �traitorous� Aurors were only over the southern border in Tibet, a task force was sent to retrieve them. The Tibetan Ministry was not happy with this, but was unable to restrain the task force. A few of the Aurors were captured and the rest scattered to the wind. Zi-Yan and Li-Long fled to Great Britain, which was in the midst of it�s own war. They settled in Caerleon, Wales, and after a few weeks, joined with the British Aurors and tried to forget the dismal state of their homeland. The two Chinese Aurors soon came to care about the British people around them, and what they were fighting to protect. Not all was lost for China though. After many years of careful planning, the Aurors that remained hopeful snuck back into China and began setting up a resistance. By the early 1990�s the Nationalist dictatorship had been topped and a new council had been installed. However, Li-Long and Zi-Yan were not part of this movement, for in late 1978 Zi-Yan discovered something that changed how she viewed the world. She was pregnant.
Zi-Yan and Li-Long hadn�t exactly planned to have a child yet, due to first the political turmoil of China and then the war they became involved in England. But things happen and the baby was beginning to grow. Zi-Yan realized that with the state England was in she was vulnerable while pregnant. She couldn�t return to China, but the Tibetan monastery her distant cousin was at could hide and protect her. Li-Long was reluctant for his wife to flee again, but agreed that perhaps it would be best for her to spend the last few months of her pregnancy in Tibet. Li-Long stayed in England to continue fighting against the Dark Lord with the British Aurors. So in late May of 1979, Zi-Yan took leave of the Aurors and traveled to Tibet. And on July 3rd of 1979, Chang Cho-Mei, or Cho-Mei Chang as she is known in Great Britain, was born to Long Zi-Yan and Chang Li-Long, in a Tibetan monastery near Sakya, China. Cho was named for her mother�s friend, Sung Cho-mi and her grandmother Bian Xui-Mei, in honor of their bravery and love.
After Cho�s birth, Li-Long returned to Great Britain (he�d only been allowed a day off work to witness his daughter�s arrival) and Zi-Yan stayed a few more months in Tibet as she recovered from the birth. It had been a difficult one and had nearly cost both Cho and Zi-Yan their lives. The matron in attendance stated rather matter-of-factly that Cho would grow to be a strong girl but that Zi-Yan should not try to have more children. Bestowed with a touch of the Sight, the matron also proclaimed that the bird shaped birthmark on the babe�s right shoulder blade was a sign Cho would be swift of mind and pure of heart. In December of 1978 as Zi-Yan prepared to return to Britain, the matron gave her a package to give to Cho on her eleventh birthday.
For the next two years, Zi-Yan lived in fear of the night her husband wouldn�t come home. It never came though, and on October 31, 1981 the Dark Lord was defeated by the baby Harry Potter. Li-Long and Zi-Yan couldn�t be happier. Finally they could stop worrying about Cho�s future in their adopted country. After the initial clean up of Voldemort�s followers, Li-Long decided to transfer to the Magical Law Enforcement Squad, but Zi-Yan decided to stay as an at home mother, though she remained on the reserve lists for the Aurors. Zi-Yan remembered the matron�s words about not trying for another child, so Zi-Yan decided to pour all of her attention into her one little girl. And while Cho grew up with lavish attention, Zi-Yan was careful to disciple her when necessary, like when Cho slipped an herb in a neighbor boy�s tea which caused the boy to break into hives. Yes, the boy may have called Cho a mean name, but that didn�t make it right for Cho to be mean back, as Zi-Yan explained to her daughter, after reversing the effects of the herb.
Cho displayed that she was quite an advanced child very early on in her life, and it was one of the reasons she was sorted into Ravenclaw. She learned to talk before she could walk and by the time she was three and a half Cho had learned to read. As soon as she could talk, Cho started asking questions. Why this? How does that work? Do cats go to heaven? When she couldn't find an answer for her questions, she tried to look it up. (The cat question never was really answered.) Cho's father began training Cho in martial arts and weaponry at age four. She took fairly well to both and is now quite skilled at them. When they realized how bright their daughter was, and how willing she was to learn, Li-Long and Zi-Yan enrolled Cho at Hecate Academy, an all-girls school in Newport for young gifted witches, which she attended from age 5 until she entered Hogwarts. Every morning during the school week, Li-Long would kiss his wife and daughter good-bye before apparating to work, and then Zi-Long and Cho would Floo to Hecate.
At the age of six, Cho became a faithful fan of the Tutshill Tornados, which is entirely understandable as Caerleon is not far from where the team is based. Cho politely asked her parents for a broom for her birthday, and for her seventh birthday she received a toy broom, which she promptly took outside to begin flying on. When she discovered it would only hover high enough to where her toes brushed the ground, she took the broom inside and stated to her parents that they should return it as it was defective. When Li-Long and Zi-Yan realized their little girl wanted a REAL broom, they sat Cho down and explained that REAL brooms were too dangerous at the moment and that a toy broom would be easier for her to learn to fly on for now. Realizing in a rather mature way that her parents were not going to give in, Cho went back outside and proceeded to play with her broom. The fact they she managed to get her toy broom to do things more other wizarding children couldn�t didn�t surprise her parents the least.
Even though she knew it had been coming, Cho was nevertheless trilled when her Hogwarts letter arrived. While her grandparents back in China would have liked for her to attend Zheng-wen, which they believed was the best wizarding school in existence all biases aside (yeah, right), Li-Long and Zi-Yan had been pleased with what they�d heard about Hogwarts and Dumbledore through friends and co-workers. And it was no surprise to Cho or her parents that she was sorted into Ravenclaw, the house of wisdom and learning. Upon sitting at the Ravenclaw table, Cho quickly made friends with Marietta Edgecombe, who was sorted shortly after her. For a while, Cho worried that her mother must be very lonely during the day without her, but then she received a letter in which her mother told her she�d taken up a position as a nurse at St. Mungo�s.
Cho was very surprised when she was selected to be the Ravenclaw seeker in her second year. Sure she loved flying and worshiped quidditch, but she'd never owned a proper broom. However, when her friends and parents suggested she try-out, she did. As it turned out, she was somewhat of a natural when it came to playing seeker. Though it had taken her a long time to master as a child, Cho is able to guide her broom with her knees and still stay balanced. And her sharp eyesight certainly helped with locating the snitch. When they received word that Cho had been accepted onto the team, Li-Long and Zi-Yan surprised Cho by sending her a brand new Comet 260 broom. Cho was ecstatic. Finally, after years of following the Tornados, she too could play quidditch. It was in fact over the Quidditch pitch that Cho and Cedric first met, during the Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff game in her second year. Even though she was on an older broom, she was lighter and was able to outmaneuver Cedric.
When she was sorted into Ravenclaw, Cho took it as a sign that she should study hard (like she'd do anything else). And she did. As one of the top students in her year, Cho had no doubts about what people expect from her. For her first four years at Hogwarts, life was wonderful, despite all the chaos that seemed to start after Harry Potter came. Cho was pretty much not affected by anything that happened, except for when Penelope Clearwater was petrified. Cho was pureblood so she knew she wouldn't be attacked, but she didn't understand why anyone would want to hurt Penny, who had often tutored her when she needed help. When Cho finally met Harry over the Quidditch field her fourth year, she was almost surprised that the scrawny boy (even though he was taller than her) was indeed The Harry Potter. But she found him to be a good opponent.
Cho's fifth year however, was not so wonderful. Cho reasoned she should have guessed the year wasn't going to be good after the appearance of the Dark Mark at the Quidditch World Cup, but she hadn't even been keen on divination. With the added stress of the OWLs and the coming of the Triwizard Tournament to Hogwarts, Cho's stress level was beginning to rise. The stress was alleviated somewhat when Cedric asked her to the Yule Ball. Like most girls, she's harbored a small crush on the Hufflepuff boy for his good looks, but Cho had also liked him for his humbleness and kindness. Cho tumbled head over heels for Cedric and a week before the Third Task he gave her the silver filigree ring she still wears. Had Cho known the outcome of the third task, she might have never gone out with Cedric. When Harry, Cedric and the Triwizard cup reappeared outside the maze, with Cedric dead, Cho's world collapsed. Dumbledore's words at the end of the year sunk deep into her heart, though she was hardly hearing them at the time. The Dark Lord was back. Shortly after returning home, Cho suffered a nervous breakdown and was still on the road to recovery when her sixth year began. She almost complied with her parents' wishes for her to stay home a bit longer, but Cho knew that if she did, she'd never leave.
Cho put up a brave face for most of the year, though she was still grieving over Cedric. She tried not to show how much she was hurt, but little things around Hogwarts kept setting her off, leaving her in a pool of tears. It didn't help that Umbridge was teaching DADA. Cho had planned for Defense to be her main focus that year, so she could someday right the wrong of Cedric's murder. Even if it hadn't been the Dark Lord, like the Ministry was trying to say, Cedric was still dead and someone had killed him. And Cho wanted to make them pay. When she heard about the Defense group Harry Potter was putting together, Cho dragged her friend Marietta to the meeting so she wouldn't have to go alone. She would later rue this decision. Being in the DA helped Cho focus herself that year, and she found she was starting to develop feelings for Harry. Eventually she worked up the courage to kiss him under the mistletoe, but then immediately felt guilty because of Cedric. After her final fight with Harry about Marietta, Cho started going out with Michael Corner, but he ended the relationship by the time they got off the Hogwarts Express at the end of the school year because she was still �being a bit mopey� over Cedric. After looking back on her and Harry's failed relationship, Cho can see she wasn't ready for another relationship and that Harry might not have been mature enough. Cho also later felt bad for parting on bad terms with Harry after their argument about Marietta, but can now see she had been somewhat biased.
By the time her seventh year rolled around, Cho had pretty much come to terms with Cedric's death. While she didn't having any long-term relationships that year, she went on a couple dates with a few guys. Once again she focused on DADA, firmer in her goal to become an auror. Cho had planned to apply for Auror training that year, but something changed her mind. Cho had begun to experience some strange fluxes in her magic. Whenever she was extremely angry random things would start happening. Knowing that in moments of extreme emotion a wizard/witch's magic could sometimes get a little out of control, Cho though she could handle it, by just keeping her temper. But after butting heads with a boy in her house in Herbology and setting part of the greenhouse on fire, Cho realized she needed some help. She was too old to have her magic leaking out when she was angry, plus, when she was younger she'd never had her magic leak out so severely. And now whenever she was mad something would happen, whether it was something catching on fire, flying into the wall, exploding, etc. After writing to her parents, Cho went to the Headmaster. Using a few tests, Dumbledore determined that it wasn't the exact same sort of leak in her magic that she used to have as a child. Cho was simply going through a slight growth spurt with her magic, and would have to learn to control a slightly higher amount of magic than she was used too.
Cho had hoped the Headmaster would be able to help her get a grip on her magic, but Dumbledore felt that a more advanced institution than Hogwarts would be better equipped. So after some research on the various advanced magical institutions, Cho decided to apply to Aeternus Sapientia University. She reasoned that she might as well further her education while she learned to either control her emotions or put the leaking magic to better use. Plus an advanced wizarding degree would look good on her application to the Aurors� Academy. Cho still plans to apply for Auror training, but until she gets a grip on her magic (and in that her temper), that will have to wait. Her excellent scores on the NEWTs though were very encouraging.
Cho's first year at Aeternus Sapientia University was a little bit of a shock. After finding the type of workload to be vastly different from Hogwarts, it took Cho most of her first semester to adjust to it. She spent the second semester adjusting socially. Cho went on a few dates, but nothing long-term. And while she could sense she was starting to understand her new power level a bit better, she knew she still had a ways to go before she could control it properly. Toward the end of the year, under the stress of exams, Cho found she was loosing her grip on her magic a bit too much. Completely frustrated and angry over a concept she was failing to grasp, she accidentally trashed half of her room without lifting her wand. Horrified, Cho now lives off-campus in a small flat in Diagon Alley. Yes, she could live with her mother, but Zi-Yan likes to encourage independence in her daughter and pays half of Cho�s rent. Cho pays for the other half with her wages from her part time job at the Apothecary. Yes, the place smells, but after smelling some of the stuff her mother brews from time to time, Cho has become somewhat desensitized to odd smelling potions and potion ingredients.
Another blow came to Cho toward the end of her first year at ASU, the battle at Hogwarts. When Voldemort's return became evident toward the end of her sixth year, both Li-Long and Zi-Yan were called into active duty with the Aurors. Cho had known there was a chance her parents could be hurt, even killed. But knowing the risk never lessens the blow. While Zi-Yan survived the final battle with Voldemort and his Death Eaters with only minor injuries, Li-Long was not so lucky. A Death Eater�s stunner had slammed Li-Long into the outer wall of the ancient school. The blow knocked Li-Long unconscious and broke several of his ribs and an arm and leg each. Laughing, the Death Eater prepared to finish Li-Long up when Zi-Yan saw what was happening. After dispatching the Death Eater with a simple stunner to the neck, she bent over to examine her husband. Zi-Yan had been horrified to find she could not rouse him, even by casting a strong Reviving Charm. Using a preset Portkey that only needed the activating time set, Zi-Yan transported Li-Long to St. Mungo�s then returned to the battle fray. Soon after arriving at St. Mungo�s the healers determined that the massive blow Li-Long had taken had sent him into a coma. Zi-Yan and Cho were devastated.
Cho spent nearly a week at her father�s bedside, waiting for him to wake up, before Zi-Yan managed to drag her away long enough to explain she wasn�t helping. Zi-Yan sent Cho to spend a week with her father, Chen-Ye, after which Cho came back considerably calmer. At the end of the summer, Cho returned to ASU and Zi-Yan once again took leave of the Aurors to take up her nursing position at St. Mungo�s once again. Cho spends a few hours each weekend sitting with her mother at her father�s bedside. And while his physical injuries have healed, there�s no sign of Li-Long waking up any time soon.
Only a few incidents have marred Cho�s somewhat peaceful second year at ASU. In mid December Cho fell from the roof of the school. It was simple carelessness on her part, but it nearly cost Cho her life. Thankfully Harry happened to be nearby and saved her, though Cho isn�t entirely sure how. A rather embarrassing article followed, but Cho managed to laugh it off. The knock Cho took to the head caused her to temporarily go blind, something that scared her greatly. While she can see just fine now, every once in a while she�ll have a momentary blackout. After spending the winter break with her mother and grandparents in China, Cho returned to ASU and was drafted to fill the recently vacated seeker position on the Consilium house quidditch team. While she had been planning to concentrate solely on her studies while at ASU, she couldn�t deny that she was glad to be playing quidditch again. However, the incident with the old History of Magic professor, Marianne Harper, and Macha�s Token and then the destruction of Azkaban have started to worry Cho. It seems Voldemort�s old supports are rallying once again. It was starting once again.
Special Magical attributes/added extras?:
Apparation License
Corporal Patronus: swan
Cho is quite skilled in Defense Magic as she wishes to enter Auror training once she has furthered her education in Defense Magic and gained a better control over her magic.
Cho desires to study to become an animagus, but so far hasn�t even approached the Transfiguration professor.
Pets: Tawny Owl- Xing (a Chinese name that means �star�)
Wand: Rowan, phoenix feather, 9 1/2 inches. Slim and quite whippy. Excellent for Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts
Classes: Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Potions
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