I have just watched the phantom of the opera and began searching for harry potter fics about it. I decided that I could do better so this will be my attempt. Parings will be canon and I apologise to any other authors who have written similar stories in advance if they believe I am stealing their ideas it wasn't my intention.

Disclaimer; I don't own the harry potter series or the phantom of the opera screen play or book. This honour belongs only to Jk Rowling, Andrew Lloyd Weber and Gaston Leroux

Chapter 1 the announcement

It was the first day back and at dinner Dumbledore stood to make an announcement.

"IT is my pleasure to announce that the Hogwarts board of governors has decided that this year to try and raise moral we will be putting on a musical. This has been chosen to be the Phantom of the Opera" Dumbledore announced.

If you had listened very carefully you would have heard a slight banging sound coming from the Gryffindor table as harry potters head slowly and gently banged on the table in front of him.

Regardless of this Dumbledore carried on "This play has been chosen because the governors believe we will be able to do it justice, signup sheets will be on your notice boards for the entirety of this week and song and script booklets are available from your heads of houses. I hope we will all make the most of this experience" And with that the students were dismissed.

Harry slowly trudged up the grand staircase a couple of feet behind his friends who were all talking animatedly about Dumbledore's recent announcement. Hermione noticing that harry wasn't joining in turned to face him.

"So aren't you excited?" she asked "just imagine, a muggle classic being performed by wizards it's going to be fantastic!"

"No it won't" harry snapped "have you ever seen The Phantom of the Opera? Because if you had seen one, actually seen it live then you would not be excited about this!"

Hermione rolled her eyes and mumbled under her breath "I doubt you've seen it either" and with that she turned back round.

"I haven't seen it" harry replied so that only he could hear "But I've done something much better.

Once they reached the common room harry watched as person after person placed their name on the list followed by who they wanted to be and the song and monologue they would perform. Harry simply stormed up to bed and sat waiting for the other guys in his dorm to come to bed.

When they did come in they were all still talking about the play and harry sighed. He may as well get this over with.

"So who are you all auditioning for?" he asked

Dean spoke first "Monsieur Firmin"

Seamus was next "Monsieur Andre"

Neville was next "I refused to try out, I can't sing. But I offered to help these guys practice" he explained

Harry smiled; at least someone was trying to steer clear of this musical even if it was for his own reasons

Ron was last "I decided to try out for Raol"

Harry choked, "You know that's one of the main parts" he said

"I know" replied Ron "Hermione's trying out for Christine"

Harry nodded that explained it.

"So is Ginny trying out" he directed this question to Ron as the others were getting ready for bed.

"Yeah she'd trying out for Christine too so we better be careful there" Ron answered

Harry once again nodded, he'd seen what girls were like when they were fighting over roles it wasn't pretty, all previous friendships fell out of the window and it became all about the part.

Harry rolled over and closed his eyes.

This was going to be hell.