The wizarding world's got talent!
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to J K Rowling.
Author's note: This fic is for the genious (and my very good friend) Morphox. She loves Harry Potter (the book/film not the actor) and Britain's got talent so I combined them and got this!
It shall contain the auditions of all your favourite Harry Potter characters and when we reach the finals, you can vote when you review and the least voted for character will leave! Woo! I hope you all enjoy it as you can take part!
Also thanks to Morphox for her information on Cassandra Trelawny. She didn't know what this fic was about but I hope it is a nice surprise and she likes it. (crosses fingers)
And please review people because I would love to know what you think. I think the later chapters will be better because then you can vote!
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"Hello and welcome to the very first episode of The Wizarding worlds got talent! Where three of the best witches and wizards in the country are united to try and find five acts of pure talent to perform exclusively to our minister Mr Cornelius Fudge! Just through that door there are over one hundred nervous wizarding folk waiting to give it their all but before we see them lets go and meet the Judges!"
The pretty blonde-haired presenter led the way through a glass door and onto a big stage. At the far side of the room was a raised table and seated behind it were some very strange characters. The first had a very long white beard and electric blue eyes. The second only had one normal eye and the other span around alarmingly and the third was normal yet was so pretty that it bypassed normal. You got the feeling that she was very clever as well. Jas leant on her mop in the wings of the stage and listened to the presenters breathy voice. She wished she could be like that, but she was just a lowly cleaner.
"The three marvellous judges who have kindly volunteered to judge for us are the following.. Professor Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of the legendary Hogwarts, Order of Merlin first class and defeater of Grindelwald!"
Jas had to cover her ears as the live audience burst into enthusiastic applause.
"And also the head of the auror department, the acclaimed Alastor Moody!
The audience seemed shocked for a minute as they gawped at the dishevelled figure slumped in the middle seat but finally burst into applause.
"And finally the very talented and beautiful healer Lauren Message creator of the time travel potion and proved genius!"
The audience applauded louder than they had for both of the previous judges put together, Lauren was very popular. Jas stared enviously at her, she would never be that beautiful or that clever. The presenter was still talking in her rather irritating voice and waving her hands around in a very distracting manner she tuned back in to what she was saying.
"and now lets go and meet some of the competitors!"
She led the way out of the doors once again but this time Jas crept after her after all why should she miss out? The woman led the way into a very crowded waiting room and shoved her mic under a very anxious looking boy.
" And if my sources have told me correctly you are going to go first, aren't you?" She asked cheerfully.
"Ummmm y-y-yes" the boy stuttered nervously. "But I didn't want to! I didn't want to come at all but Gran's making me, she says its time I upheld the family honour"
"Yes, yes" The presenter brushed this off quickly. "And what's your name?"
"N-n-Neville Longbottom" the boy answered looking nervously at the rather formidable older woman next to him.
Suddenly a voice boomed over the loudspeaker. They judges were ready for the first contestant. The presenter was actually shaking with excitement as she hurried back the way she had just come. Jas hurried back herself, she was going to watch every minute of this! Back in the wings of the stage it was at least ten minutes before the nervous boy made an appearance and even then he was pushed on by the woman who Jas guessed was his Grandma.
"Let's hope your act doesn't need good timing because you certainly haven't got much of that" Moody said scathingly he detested being kept waiting.
Neville shook his head and looked desperately at the stage wings for an escape route. Jas hurried to look busy, she didn't want to catch his eye.
"You may begin" Dumbledore said solemnly.
Well, ummm. I grew a Mimbulus Mimbletonia" The boy said carefully retrieving a peculiar looking plant from a rucksack slung over his shoulder.
"Really? They are supposed to be really hard to grow!" Dumbledore said encouragingly.
"Yes well it was" Neville began to warm up to his subject. "I had to keep it in 50 degree heat so my gran's wand had to be on it all the time and the soil had to be just the right moisture, not too dry not too wet and it needed all different-"
"Stop!" Moody ordered putting one hand up in a signal. " I am absolutely FALLING ASLEEP listening to this and it is hardly something the minister is going to want to see. It's very nice, well done for growing it but its not interesting and so I am going to say no"
Neville gulped.
"Well I disagree!" Lauren said quickly "I think that growing this rare plant shows true talent and it is very unusual. I am going to say yes"
Moody spluttered but there was little he could do. The cameras focused on Dumbledore, the decision was left with him.
"Well, I think it needed pure talent to grow this plant so I am going to say yes" Dumbledore said after a short pause.
Neville's face lit up as the audience began to clap, some a little reluctantly.
He positively skipped out of the room and Jas watched him enviously, she wished she could make her family proud like that.
The second Neville left the door opened again and a very curious character took his place. She was wearing massive glasses and gave the overall impression of a rather large insect. Her hair was curly and very messy and she tottered slightly as she crossed the stage. She seemed to have been drinking and sherry by the smell of it. Dumbledore's eyebrows rose slightly, what talent could Sybil Trelawney possibly have?
"Name?" Moody asked gruffly.
"Sybil Trelawney" She answered in her very best mystical voice which sounded to Lauren as though she had a bad cold.
"And what are you going to do for us today?" Lauren asked brightly. She was very fair and never judged on first impressions after all perhaps this strange woman had a great talent.
"I am going to look in my crystal ball and predict your fortunes" She drawled.
"That will be interesting!" Lauren said enthusiastically "I have always wanted my fortune told!"
Moody snorted, his life ambition obviously was not to have his fortune told in fact if someone asked him right now then it would probably to leave the stadium before he had to hear one more word from this woman.
"Why don't you try and tell us something about ourselves first so that we know the full extent of your cough talent" Dumbledore suggested, he knew she was a fake.
"Well, you are a headmaster" Trelawney started confidently after all she had known Dumbledore for years. "and Moody is an auror and Lauren is a…. ummmm… wait its coming to me I see a…. healer. Lauren is a healer!"
Trelawney tried her best with her performance but it was apparent to all three judges that she was a fake after all you didn't need to be a seer to know the things she had just mentioned.
"So you know everything?" Lauren asked suddenly.
Trelawney confirmed this with a nod.
"Then when's my birthday?" she challenged.
Trelawney blinked at her startled, she hadn't expected a challenge which she didn't know the answer to and couldn't make up.
"Well, the art of Divination is not precise dear so I can't pinpoint an exact date…"
"So what's the month? Actually lets make it easier. What season was I born in?" Lauren was determined to catch her out.
"Well, errrrrr" Trelawney hesitated.
Moody and Dumbledore watched in amusement.
"Summer! You were born in Summer" Trelawney guessed wildly.
"Wrong!" Lauren said triumphantly "I was born in January and that's winter!"
"I am much better at telling the future!" She pleaded.
"Well, Hurry up I'm starving!" Moody growled.
"Now… ummm you Lauren will marry a very rich handsome man" She sucked up to them in the hope of still getting through.
"I'm married" Lauren sniffed.
"You will get divorced and then marry again!" She altered wildly.
"What!" Lauren exclaimed.
Seeing she had made a mistake Trelawney quickly changed her prediction again.
"No I do see you going to a wedding but its not yours, its umm….your daughter's!"
"Are you saying my son is going to have a sex change!" Lauren demanded, she was enjoying making the woman squirm.
Trelawney quickly decided to move on.
"Ahhhh Dumbledore yours is very clear. You have a highly talented witch at your school yet she is seriously undermined and underpayed"
"Who McGonagall?" Dumbledore asked though he knew she was referring to herself.
"No, no" She corrected quickly "She teaches high up, right in a tower"
"I can't think of any highly talented witches who teach in a tower" Dumbledore said hiding a smile.
Trelawney glared at him. "there is only one teacher who teaches in a tower and she is very talented"
"Really? Have I met her?" Dumbledore's eyes were twinkling.
Trelawney gave him a glare that looked most out of place on her normally quite gentle face.
"She is your school's Divination teacher" She snapped.
Dumbledore's eyebrows raised but he didn't say anything more although he disagreed with her description very much.
"You should give her a rise and a promotion" She finished coldly and then turned to Moody before the aged man could reply.
"Ummm Moody I think you are going to solve a big case later this week"
"I doubt it, I retired over the weekend"
The audience began to laugh. Trelawney blushed and was about to try again when she was cut off.
"Out"
"Out"
"Out"
She turned in defeat and walked back towards the exit.
"Well you missed out because I am the Great-great-granddaughter of the very famous, very gifted Seer Cassandra Trelawney." and with that parting shot she was…gone.
"Who was that?" Moody asked inquisitively.
"A Trojan seer gifted with true prophecy, but cursed by Apollo so that no one would ever believe her. The people of Troy ignored her warnings not to allow the Trojan Horse within the city's walls, a mistake that allowed the Greeks to capture Troy." Lauren answered before Dumbledore could even open his mouth.
He was just about to comment on Lauren's extensive knowledge when someone entered who was much more welcome.
Dark hair, emerald green eyes and a big (but currently rather nervous) smile.
"Harry Potter" Dumbledore said smiling at the boy.
"Sir" Harry greeted with a nod of his head.
Lauren leant forward eagerly, this was the one member of the wizarding world that she had always wished to meet but never had.
"And what are you going to do for us today?" Moody asked slightly friendlier then he had before.
Harry waved his wand and a broom flew down into his outstretched hand.
"Guess!" He said cheerfully.
"Oh you are going to sweep the floors for us! That is kind" Lauren joked.
Harry laughed before swinging himself up onto his broom.
What followed was simply amazing. He dove, he swooped, he loop-the-looped. He flew around the room so fast that the judges could only see a blur. He finished with a flourish, doing a loop the loop and then diving back to the floor and leaping off just before a collision. None of the judges really knew what to say except
"Through"
"Through"
"Through"
Harry smiled.
"Thanks" he said happily and then he left, broom swung over his shoulder. The presenter hurried to follow him but he brushed her away easily although she managed to get the answer to one question.
"How did you feel?"
"Very very nervous"
And then he had disappeared into the crowds to find his friends.
"You didn't show it" she shouted in the direction she hoped he was. Back in the audition room another contestant had entered. Jas hadn't seen him before but she had heard of him and was horrified! He had blonde wavy hair, very blue eyes, a big smile and very even pearly white teeth.
"Oh you must be the judges!" The man exclaimed "I expect you all know exactly who I am! If you haven't read my book then perhaps you have seen my picture in Witch's weekly. I won their most charming smile award five times in a row!"
Jas inwardly groaned it could only be…