A.N./ Hello, and thank you for reading at least the first chapter of Magically Musically Talented! The Nicole am a beginning writer, and this is her first 'published' story. Please feel free to help the Nicole in any way you see fit! With Love!
The Nicole does not own any of the Harry Potter characters, places, or things… however much the Nicole may want Draco Malfoy and a younger Sirius Black or James Potter she will never have them… *sniff*
Nor does she own the songs or bands that are used here… The Nicole is merely a fan!
Chapter 1
Narrator
We're going down, down
(Down, down)
Down, down
(Down, down)
We're going down, down
(Down, down)
A loaded Gun complex, cock it and pull it
We're goin' down, down in an earlier round
(Take aim at myself)
And sugar, we're goin' down swingin'
(Take back what you said)
I'll be your number one with a bullet
(Take aim at myself)
A loaded Gun complex, cock it and pull it
As Hermione heard the music fade she shook her head, smiling at the music she heard. Her cousin's taste was certainly strange, not many people listen to anything like that in Hogwarts. Her cousin had given her an ipod full of songs from the good old US of A as she so fondly called it. Hermione had only listened to about eight hundred songs and there did not seem to be any end in sight. Looking at the screen, she saw that she was on shuffle with song number seven hundred and eighty-seven of two thousand seven hundred and twelve. 'What did she do? Copy all the songs she could get her hands on? How could she possibly know this many songs?' Hermione thought smiling remembering how happy her cousin had been when she gave Hermione her gift. Hermione had worked hard at finding a spell that would allow her to use this present at school. Quite pleased that it could now work in the magic world as well as the muggle one she never leaves it behind. Added among her small messenger bag that always hung on her shoulder. Wand, notebook, pencil, ipod and she is ready to go.
She found herself looking again to the clock, wishing it would only go a little faster so that tomorrow would come. She knew that if she did not get a good sleep she would be difficult to wake in the morning, but that did not do anything to make her sleep. See Hermione was the kind of person that if something exciting was going to happen the next day she could not sleep. Who could? Really? It was the most exciting time in her mind, well not including exams of coarse. This was even her last year! She was going back to be Head Girl, a very honorable position at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Quietly the little excited bookworm pulled out her favorite books, and grabbed a flashlight so that she could read for a while, 'hopefully' making sleep become easier. Hogwarts, A History was more of a textbook then a little worn paperback romance most of her friends favored, but she had no preference for those… or at least not a huge one anyway.
The song in her ears now changed to a softer one, opening with a guitar and bass… one she actually remembered from when she was younger. Her parents had loved this song when she still had them, before she had made them 'forget' her. She had to send them away a while ago to save them from a dangerous person called Voldemort. He was gone now, but he'd only been defeated a month ago, and the attacks on muggles were only just settling after his army went on a rampage for their fallen leader. Most had been round up, thankfully, and most of the world was now at peace, but Hermione still had not gotten her parents back.
And I'd give up forever to touch you
'Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven than I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now
And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
'Cause sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight
And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
As the song faded she looked down at the unopened book on her lap and didn't feel anything… she just remembered how her parents would sit around the living room playing this song and smile as they both sang the words, however off key for her father, and soft but true from he mother. While she sat between them, humming what she did know, while reading or watching TV with her cousins. She put the book away and slid the flash light back under her pillow.
She looked around her shared room in the Weasley house and felt sad that she could be in her own house with her parents there to share in her excitement. Looking over at Ginny, who was dear to her like a sister she knew that this place was a home to her, but it just was not the one she wanted…
She closed her eyes and an odd half dream started to bubble up as she continued to listen to the song… Hogwarts students, coming around, running up and down the corridors… No, dancing up and down the corridors, singing this song. Acting as though they just wanted whoever they were with to love them. Out of all the people there, she saw a flash of blonde hair again that was wrong, not just any blonde-haired… Platinum blonde over grey, blue eyes… the face that the eyes belonged to smiled at her. Why was Draco Malfoy singing to her that he did not want anyone to know him quite as she did?
The whistle from the train was near deafening as Hermione stepped up to the door. She absently placed a hand over her ear before dragging her heavy trunk up the steps of the train and into the compartment that she saw Harry and Ron dragging their trunks into. Looking in she saw that Ron and Harry were both trying to shove Harry's over sized trunk up onto the rack above a seat, both grunting and swearing as they finally got it up there.
"One down" Harry said letting out an exasperated breath.
"Now mine… Should we do yours too, 'Mione?" Ron asked his hands on his hips as he looked at her.
"Please" she said smiling, she had no idea how she would have even attempted putting such a heavy case up there if it was not for her two best friends. If she were to really choose she would have probably left it in the hallway and let everyone else sort it out on his or her own… No that is not true; she would drag it in here instead of get in trouble with a prefect or the other head. Well, yeah that sounded more like her.
"I'm going to head to the prefects cabin, and see who I will be leading this year" Hermione said, she tried to sound blasé about the whole thing but you could see how she was looking at the door like she was going to run and know that she was over the moon excited. Harry shared a knowing glace with Ron before nodding at Hermione.
"Go on Hermione, we've got this!" Ron said starting to lift her trunk as she turned out of the compartment the door had only just shut when she heard a loud thud that was followed by Hedwig's calls of unhappiness. Hermione gathered that the sound had either been the trunk hitting the ground or the trunk hitting Ron. Peeking back in she saw that it had actually been Harry trying to pick up Ron's trunk and having it crash into hers as they both tried to fit it into the same space. Observing that her friends, and possessions, were indeed safe she stepped back and closed the door again. Straightening her shoulders she looked ahead and let out a small breath she was not aware she was holding. Her hand rested on the top of her bag and her thumb went around holding the strap there. Feeling reassured that everything was going as it should she started forward until she reached the door that held the prefects and possibly the other head just behind it.
"Time to start the year" Hermione said smiling as she felt the train kick into gear under her feet.
A.N./Ok, so this is the Nicole's first story! The Nicole sorry that the first chappy is like this… to be honest the Nicole thinks she might tear it down and start over already…
But here we go! Where no little Capricorn has come before! Well that's probably not true but that's what already typed! Please tell the Nicole what she's doing wrong/right/anything?
The songs used so far were:
Sugar We're Going Down – Fall Out Boy
Iris – Goo Goo Dolls