Disclaimer: I just own this fanfic. Everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling, no copyright intended!

Author's note 1: This will be a series of one-shots where a variety of girls help Harry in pranking Rita Skeeter as punishment for her slandering Harry in the Daily Prophet during the Triwizard Tournament. Partly AU, each one-shot will start shortly before the end of Harry's fourth year, so Cedric won't get killed. Natural bashing of Rita Skeeter. Rated T, with humor and romance. This story was requested to me by the anonymous reviewer 'Eddie' a while back. Hope you enjoy it!

Rita's Comeuppance

Fanfic by Brockster550

Cho Chang

A woman with blonde hair in elaborate curls and wearing a gold-coloured jacket and glasses with red frames, was sneaking around Hogwarts School of Witchcraft And Wizardry. She had a mischievous grin on her face, trying to decide when it was the right time to transform into her beetle animagus form. She wanted to spy once more and get another story written and published in The Daily Prophet. Before she had a chance to do so, she heard someone behind her clearing their throat. Rita turned around and spotted an asian girl in a uniform that had Ravenclaw house colours, blue and bronze.

"Well, hello!" Rita greeted the girl in mock friendliness.

"Don't you 'well, hello' me, you egotistical bitch!" snapped the girl. "How dare you slander Harry in The Daily Prophet!"

"Oh, come now, missy!" said Rita in an overconfident voice. "Everybody wants the truth, you know…"

"Don't give me any of your ass-backwards thinking!" the girl growled. "The real Harry is nothing people like you make him out to be!"

"That's right, Skeeter!" Harry sneered as soon as he walked up to the confrontation going on. Then he pointed a finger in Rita's face and began ranting, "I don't appreciate anybody who slanders me, whether in The Daily Prophet or not, and you should be ashamed of yourself for allowing your ego to take over you. Cho Chang and I have been seeing each other secretly since the day after the champion selection for this wretched tournament."

"That's right, filthy bitch!" Cho angrily scolded Rita. "Harry was already having a hard enough time dealing with all the attention he desperately tries to avoid and I've been helping him out."

"How?" Rita demanded.

"I ain't gonna tell you!" Cho sneered. "Harry and I have something better in mind for you anyway."

Harry and Cho grabbed the egomaniacal journalist by the arms and started dragging her back inside and over to an abandoned classroom. Once they were in, Harry and Cho locked the door heavily with advanced locking spells before facing Rita with mischievous grins on their faces.

"W-What are you g-gonna do?" asked Rita in a frightened voice.

Neither Harry nor Cho answered, instead they incantated some spells that were unknown to the selfish writer. All of a sudden, Rita found herself in some kind of void with stars. The starry void started moving at such a speed that it seemed to be traveling at light speed. Rita was starting to turn green and when she was nauseated enough, the starry void disappeared and she found herself back in the classroom and back in front of Harry and Cho. The two teens started laughing when Rita barfed all over herself, twice! She couldn't do anything without feeling nauseated again, allowing the teens to glare at her again.

"If you ever slander Harry again," Cho warned Rita in a no-more-nonsense voice. "And I may just slip to Madam Bones about it and see what she has to say!"

"Precisely!" Harry sneered at Rita. "And I doubt you'd want somebody slandering you in any way, shape or form, now be thankful that you weren't injured. Now get lost before we're tempted to change our minds!"

Rita nodded her head uneasily before the teens unlocked the door. Rita immediately tried running out, but she was still a little green and she found herself having thrown up for the third time. Now all she could do was wobble her way outside the school wards. Once the egotistical journalist was out of sight, Harry kissed Cho on her cheek, but then she pulled him toward her and kissed him on the lips, for a full minute. When they were finished, both teens had ecstatic grins on their faces.

"Well, my sweet Cho, shall we go to Hogsmeade for some butterbeer?" Harry offered.

"Why yes, my handsome Harry!" Cho agreed. "A great way to celebrate giving Rita a taste of her own medicine."

So she and Harry started heading down to Hogsmeade, hand in hand, where the Three Broomsticks tavern was located. The two potential lovebirds felt their respective mouths watering at the thought of drinking butterbeer, thus it increased their determination to get to the Three Broomsticks as soon as possible.

The End!

Author's note 2: Well, that's the first one-shot for this story completed. Which girl would you like to see Harry paired with in the next one-shot? Please let me know in a review or a PM. If you also have any prank ideas you think could work, don't hesitate to let me know. Happy reading!