Karaoke Fun
A/N: Sorry for how late this one is! My internet ran out and I had my first exam last Friday so I had to revise, I've still got more to go but I will try and keep up with demands for new chapters, just a warning! Well done to CasaCan for guessing Hermione's friend correctly! 20 points to your house! And thank you! I'll certainly try my best!
Anyway...on to the ball!
-x-
"Oi, Ginny! Mione! Breakfast is ready!"
Hermione groaned at the sound of Ron's voice waking her up for breakfast before rolling over and getting out of bed, her foot crumpling something. Hermione picked up the parchment and read who it was from, just in case it was one of her letters. Skipping over the letter, she noticed words such as 'great chaser' or 'can't wait to see your next training session' and finally the letter ending with 'Oliver Wood.' Hermione gasped with a smile on her face before looking over at Ginny.
'Time for a bit of fun...'
Hermione tiptoed over to Ginny's bed, leant down and whispered into her ear, "Ginny...Ollie's here to see you..."
Ginny woke up with a start, gasped and rolled over, right out of her bed and hitting her head on the bedpost. She rubbed her head before looking up at Hermione. "That was not funny Mione."
Hermione sat down as she laughed to prevent herself from falling over. After about 5 minutes of laughter, Hermione composed herself. "So, Oliver Wood, how did that come about?"
"How do you know about that?" Ginny frowned.
Hermione simply waved the piece of parchment in front of the redhead. Ginny gasped and reached out to snatch it from Hermione, but failed as she moved it out of her reach.
"May I have my letter please Hermione?" Ginny asked politely, batting her eyelids.
"Hmmm..." Hermione thought about it before smirking and running to the door. "No."
"Give me my letter Hermione!" Ginny laughed as they ran down the stairs.
Hermione ran through the kitchen, past a few confused Weasleys and one amused Potter and out into the garden, closely followed by Ginny. The girls ran around for a bit before Ginny finally caught Hermione and tackled her to the ground. Ginny grabbed the letter from Hermione, folded it up and placed it into her pyjama pocket before the girls headed back to the house, laughing with their arms wrapped around each other's shoulders.
"What was that all about?" Ron asked with a mouthful of food.
Hermione scrunched up her nose at Ron and Ginny replied, "Morning exercise to work up an appetite."
Everyone at the table laughed at this and carried on with their breakfast as Ginny and Hermione sat down to start theirs.
Hermione turned to Ginny and whispered, "You're telling me about Oliver later."
Ginny gave Hermione a look that said 'Of course' before she tucked into her breakfast.
Hermione shook her head and smiled before she also tucked into her breakfast.
Once everyone had cleared up their plates, it was time to get their things ready to return to Hogwarts and for the ball. Of course, the boys were the last ones to be ready.
"Ron, Harry! Boys, we're going to be late if you don't get a move on!" Molly scolded them from downstairs.
"We're coming!"
"You better had be! Me and Hermione have been waiting for ages!" Ginny bellowed.
"Oh, I almost forgot! Viktor sent me a letter!" Hermione gasped.
"What?! Why didn't I know anything of this?" Ginny raised her eyebrows.
"I completely forgot about it!" Hermione laughed.
"Well, what did it say?"
"Just saying that he was going to the Easter ball, and that he had taken English lessons so he could speak to me properly the next time he saw me."
"Who's seeing you?" Ron groaned, lugging the luggage down the stairs.
"Viktor Krum." Ginny said smugly.
Harry dumped the trunk on the floor and looked up, "What? I didn't think you were still in contact with Krum?"
"Of course I am Harry; I'm not one to just stop talking to someone." Hermione gave a knowing look to Ron who had stopped talking to Harry in the past. Ron gave the look back to Hermione.
"Come on everyone! Into the car!" Arthur shouted cheerfully, trying to forget the events that had happened the past few months.
Everyone packed their trunks into the magically extended Ford Angela and piled into the car. Arthur turned on the engine, turned on the newly updated invisibility booster and flew off into the sky until they reached a safe point to land and turn off the invisibility on the car.
Ten minutes later found the group in King's Cross station, running through the wall to Platform 9 and ¾.
Molly hugged each of them individually before letting them get onto the train.
"Have a nice time! Don't get into too much trouble!" Molly shouted after them.
"We won't mum!" Ginny shouted back before closing the window and following the others to find an empty compartment.
-x-
"So Draco, I found costumes for us!" Pansy squealed, finding Draco on his own in a compartment.
Draco sighed, "What is it Pans?"
Pansy pulled the costume for Draco out of her bag and gave it to him before pulling out her own.
"Are you being serious? You stuck with Katniss and Peeta?" Draco gaped.
Pansy looked worried, "Is it okay?"
Draco didn't want her to be upset, plus he sort of liked the movie so he replied, "Of course it is Pans, I just thought you would have changed to Gale instead of Peeta." Draco joked, winking at her.
Pansy fake scowled at him, placing her hands on her hips, "That was not funny!"
"Oh I think it was." Draco smiled, getting up from his seat.
"No it wasn't." Pansy returned the smile.
"It totally was Pansy, and you know it." Draco's turned into a smirk before he grabbed Pansy by her waist and sat back down, tickling her until she had tears in her eyes.
"Mercy! Draco, let me go!" Pansy giggled. She loved it when he showed his genuine side as it was living proof that he wasn't all evil, even though it was only a handful of people that could see it.
Blaise Zabini walked into the compartment just as Draco let go of Pansy. "Did I miss something? Do you want me to leave?"
Pansy stopped giggling, her face turning serious, "Of course not Blaise, come in."
Blaise closed the door behind him and sat down next to Pansy, wrapping his arm around her waist. "So have you decided what you're going as Pans?"
"Yes actually, Draco and I are going as Peeta and Katniss from The Hunger Games." Pansy smiled at Blaise.
Blaise turned to Draco but spoke to Pansy, "You and Draco are going together?"
Draco answered before Pansy could open her mouth. "Yes, seeing as you couldn't take her."
Blaise took his arm from Pansy's waist and narrowed his eyes. "And what's that supposed to mean?"
Draco stayed calm, "I'm starting to get a little tired of entertaining your girlfriend all the time when it should be you doing that job."
Blaise paused for a moment before replying, "Well maybe you should leave it up to her friends to sort things out with her." Before getting up and leaving the compartment.
Draco looked back at Pansy who looked at the door that Blaise had just closed, tears close.
"Hey Pans, it's okay. You're going to have a good time tonight okay? I'll make sure of it, even if it has to be with Granger." At this Pansy laughed.
"She has actually helped me through a lot, more than anyone could understand."
Draco decided it was best not to pry but just went over to sit next to Pansy and wrap a friendly arm around her shoulder. "It'll all be okay."
-x-
"Come on Hermione! It's nearly time to go!"
Hermione heard Ron's voice travelling up the stairs into the girls' rooms, Hermione was the last one to get ready as she wanted her costume to be a surprise. Harry had somehow, miraculously, changed Ginny's mind to go as superheroes, but were now going as a villainous Robin Hood and Maid Marian.
"Okay, I've just got to finish my make up then I'll be down!" Hermione added the touches of blacks and browns to her eyes before bronzing the edges of her face and adding the black nose. Putting the headband with her ears on, she headed downstairs.
Everyone in the common room looked up and stared at Hermione. Lavender noticed Ron staring and slapped him before slapping a scowl on her face.
"Wow! Hermione, you little minx why didn't you tell me this was your costume?" Ginny smirked, bringing her curled, fiery hair over her shoulder.
"I wanted it to be a surprise." Hermione shrugged, returning the smirk.
No one seemed to move as Hermione made her way towards the painting. "Well, are we going to this ball or not?"
Ginny instantly moved to catch up with Hermione and linked her arm with hers. One by one, everyone else seemed to follow. There was a mix of everything with the Gryffindors, a few gender swaps of the characters and a few plot twists of the heroes being villains and vice versa.
Hermione stopped as soon as they reached the doors to the Great Hall, music already blasting with the sound of what sounded like, a few possibly Ravenclaws or Hufflepuffs on karaoke.
Taking a deep breath, Hermione turned to Ginny, "You ready?"
Ginny gave Hermione the look that she had taught her from America, a 'bitch please' look. "I was born ready!"
"Well let's go then!" Hermione pushed the doors open and walked in.
Time seemed to stand still as everyone turned to face Hermione and the Gryffindors.
"Is that Hermione Granger?"
"She looks so different."
"Maybe she's trying to be Attention Seeker of the Year."
"Black suits her better."
"What is she wearing? It makes her look hot!"
One person that Hermione seemed to catch the attention of was a one Draco Malfoy.
"Pans? Did you tell her to dress like that?"
Pansy turned to look at 'Peeta'. "No, she asked how it sounded to me and I said it sounded fine, why?"
"No reason."
Theodore Nott made his way over to the duo. "Whoo! Hey, Parkinson, why didn't you introduce me to your friend sooner?"
Pansy turned to Draco, "You told him? Who else knows?!"
Draco held his hands up, "I didn't tell anyone!"
Pansy was about to reply when they were interrupted by the chanting of the crowd.
Hermione, Ginny, Hermione, Ginny.
Draco looked up to see if it was a fight over Potter, but those thoughts went when he saw She-Weasley on the karaoke stage and Granger nowhere to be seen.
Hermione took a deep breath. "They're chanting for us to do our song Gin!"
Ginny nudged Hermione and winked, "Well let's give them what they want eh?"
Hermione nodded and Ginny made her way to the stage while Hermione disapparated to a high ledge. The anti-apparition wards had been taken down for the one night for qualified students only.
Suddenly, the upbeat tune of their song came on and Ginny found her hips moving to the beat, just like they had rehearsed and Hermione found herself getting even more nervous. As she looked down, she saw the familiar brown eyes of Pansy on her who winked, Hermione smiled back. Ginny, who had had her back turned to the audience turned and started singing.
"I left a note, on my bed post, it's enough to repeat yesterday's mistake."
Hermione smiled to herself as she watched Ginny repeat every step they had choreographed together, and before long, the chorus came.
"Ooh, ooh I can't remember to forget you, ooh, ooh I keep forgetting I should let you go."
The belly dancing moves that Hermione had taught Ginny as well as the ones she had learnt during the classes.
"I can't remember to forget you, ooh, ooh."
Suddenly, the repeat of the drums told Hermione it was her turn, she switched on the microphone headset that she and Ginny had set up for the song and started singing, everyone looking up at her.
"I go back again, fall off the train, land in his bed, repeat yesterday's mistake." Hermione's hands were on the wall behind her as she stood and sang. On the words fall off, she did a flip off the ledge, with a little help from a spell of course, and landed on a table. There were cheers of appreciation from the audience.
The song carried on, with Hermione and Ginny doing their simultaneous choreography, falling to their knees, slamming their hands on the stage, rocking their hips sideways back to back with each other until, it was the time for them to sing to members of the audience.
Ginny went off in the direction of Gryffindors while Hermione, who was feeling daring by this time, headed over to the Slytherins, but more so to Pansy and Draco.
Hermione twirled over to Pansy and started dancing around her, Pansy knowing about this whole thing, went along with it. Draco, was a whole different story, he couldn't keep his eyes off of her. Before he knew it, she was in front of him and dancing in front of him. However, in a few seconds it was over, well so he thought. He felt a hand on each shoulder turn him around to face the devious Gryffindor. Keeping her hands on his shoulders, she went down in front of him and came back up again, turn around once again before whispering in his ear, "Maybe we should do this more often" before twirling away once again.
Ginny and Hermione made their way back up on to the stage to sing the final lines of the song, Ginny singing the main line with Hermione in the background singing the "Ooh, ooh, ooh" before they both fell to their knees and lifting their heads back up and singing in unison "I can't remember to forget you." and flicking their heads back.
Cheers erupted from the audience as well as a few wolf whistles from their fellow Gryffindors, the only Gryffindor that wasn't cheering was Lavender who had placed a scowl on her face as Ron cheered, whooped and clapped for Hermione as well as his sister.
The only other person who didn't clap was Draco Malfoy, who was rooted to the spot with what just happened.
-x-
So, so...did you like it? I enjoyed writing this scene even though it took me a while to do. I'm not very good at writing choreography, I'm better at actually doing it! xD I also liked Hermione's bit with Draco, that was really devious of her to say that and walk off, especially seeing as she's meant to be Miss Prim and Proper! The song I used (if you didn't know it) was Can't Remember to Forget You by Shakira ft. Rihanna, that song belongs to them not me!