Second chapter. I'm sad cause I posted the first chapter and only got 5 hits and 1 review. So Please Review!!!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER OR HAIRSPRAY. I'M NOT THAT COOL.

Chapter 2

Something to Sing For

During the train ride everybody chatted about their summer holiday. Ginny just kept to herself. Hearing everybody laugh didn't change the fact that everything was different. She looked around the cabin, seeing Ron telling some story, and Luna Lovegood and Dean Thomas laughing about it. Harry wasn't there. Nobody really knew where he was.

The sliding glass door slid open and Hermione stepped in and plopped down next to Ginny.

"Guess what?" she said to the whole group.

"You just saved a bunch of money on your car insurance?" Ginny muttered. Hermione shot her a look.

"No" She said her eyes wide, "There's a rumor that Hogwarts is going to be doing a musical."

"When?" Ginny said sitting up, intrigued.

"Soon" Hermione said, "Sometime this year."

Ginny got excited. She had always wanted to be in a musical. She suddenly frowned. 'What am I thinking?' She thought sadly, 'what part would I get looking like this?'

"Any clue what they're planning on doing?" Dean asked.

"Nope." Hermione replied.

"A musical would be fun." Luna said dreamily.

"I agree." Hermione said sitting up strait, "I find theater fascinating."

Ron snorted and rolled his eyes. Hermione saw this and glared at him.

"What?" Ron said.

Hermione shook her head. Ginny tried to keep from laughing. 'After all they have been through' she thought, 'they still act like children.'

"We should change into our robe." Hermione said standing up.

As Ginny and Hermione changed into their robes they were silent.

"Hermione?" Ginny asked quietly, "Have you heard anything from Harry?"

Hermione stopped what she was doing and straitened up. She turned slowly towards Ginny. "Not really." she sadly. "Anything I do hear is always very vague." She sat down and took a deep breath.

"Do you think he'll come back to Hogwarts?" Ginny asked.

"I don't know." Hermione said quietly. She looked up at Ginny, "Ron thinks he will, but I'm not so sure."

Before Ginny could respond the train came to an abrupt stop. She looked out the window at the Hogwarts ground.

'C'mon Gin' She told herself, 'You can do this.'

She fallowed Hermione out onto the platform. She got into the carriage with her friends and watched as the landscape passed by. She saw the castle ahead, fast approaching, and she tried to ignore the empty feeling inside of her.

She was the last one out of the carriage. She walked with her friends into the Great Hall and tried to avoid her classmates eyes.

As she sat down at the long Gryffindor table she saw McGonagall sitting in the large chair that Dumbledore usually sat in. She frowned. 'Change is good?' She thought, 'Yeah right.'

She watched as more students filed in. She saw some people she didn't recognize, which struck her as weird. She spotted a tall heavy set boy with light brown hair coming towards the Gryffindor table.

"Can I sit here?" He said motioning to the empty seat next to Ginny.

"Um, yeah." Ginny replied quietly.

"Damian Blitz." He said holding out his large hand, "I'm a transfer case." He said dryly.

Ginny shook his hand, "I'm Ginny Weasley. Where did you transfer from?"

"Trust me honey," he said, "you don't want to know."

Before Ginny could say anything more McGonagall stood up and the room went quiet.

"Hello everyone. Before we start with the sorting, I would like to say thank you all for being brave enough to return. Let the sorting begin."

The huge double doors opened and Hagrid entered fallowed by a short line of first years. Ginny was taken aback at the small number, but she wasn't really surprised.

As she listened to the sorting hats speech she thought about how things had changed. She looked at the first years and remembered when that was her. As each one put on the hat and had a house name called out Ginny watched them walk to the tables with great relief. After the last first year was sorted McGonagall stood up and simply said "Let's Eat."

As the food appeared Ginny introduced Damian to her friends

"Damian" She said, "This is Hermione Granger," Hermione waved hello, "And Dean Thomas." Dean nodded, "And this is my big brother Ron."

"Hey." Ron said his mouth full of food.

Hermione rolled her eyes.

After all the food was gone from the plates McGonagall stood up and cleared her throat.

"Before we all retire for the evening I have a announcement. We have quite a few new older students this year, and as a way to get to know each other better, Hogwarts will, for the first time in many, many years, be putting on a musical."

The room instantly started buzzing.

"Calm down, Calm down." McGonagall said, "We will be putting on a production of the muggle musical Hairspray."

Ginny couldn't believe it. 'They WERE doing a musical!' she thought. She looked around the room. Many other people were wearing the same shocked, happy expression that she herself was sporting.

"Auditions will be next week. Please come prepared with a song, there are music books in the library. Now off to bed."

Hermione, Ginny, Ron, Dean, and Damian chatted about the musical as they walked up to the Gryffindor common room.

"I can't wait!" Hermione said.

"yeah," said Damian, "It should be fun." He turned to Ginny, "You're auditioning, right?"

"I don't know." Ginny replied, "I don't think people want to see me on the stage."

"I think you'd be perfect for the lead in this show." Damian said.

"You know this show?" Ron asked.

"Yeah." he replied, "The last school I was at was in the states, and the show is huge there."

"Stardust." Hermione said as the came up the fat lady.

They stepped in through the portrait hole and then stopped abruptly.

"Why are we stopped?" Ginny asked as she pushed her way to the front. What she saw made her heart almost stop.

"Harry?"