Hey guys, My parents have put a lock on my computer to stop me getting on fanfiction! Major disaster. My good friend Violetsky will be posting my chapters for me and proof reading them before they go up though as I know her outside of Fanfiction it just means updates may be slower but here's the next chapter

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Chapter 9 News

After the dress rehersal Dumbledore was sat in his office waiting for dinner. His life was rather boring waiting for people to have problems and come and see him. That was why he had turned to lemon drops and he had never looked back since. Dumbledore glanced at his watch and noting that it was almost time for dinner rose reaching for 1 last lemon drop before dinner. His hand entered the bowl and grasped a sweet, no grasped air. Dumbledore gasped and turned to the bowl, it was empty, he had run out of lemon drops!

Dumbledore rurned swiftyly to the door and almost ran to the hall reaching his spot at the head table in record time and let out a sigh of relief as he saw the customary bow of lemon drops by his seat. Praise wizard god for house elves Dumbledore thought as he took a seat and began eating, not knowing that in barely half an hour he would be put through another chilling shock.

Once Harry had stalked out of the dress rehearsal he went to the room of requirement and transformwed it into a dance studio. When harry had first had the idea about recommending ginny as the main femal lead in the company he realised her dancing was not quite up to scratch and as such every morning when the two woke up early and after practise every day Harry would teach ginny to dance. It was also a great stress reliever and good after being forced to watch a practise that made you want to strangle yourself. Harry shed his outer robe and let the room turn on the music for him to warm up which he did quickly waiting for Ginny to come in. A barre materialised and harry began stretching with it. Around half an hour passed and there was still no sign of Ginny. Stopping stretching and looking at his watch Harry set off in search of Ginny. The director was meant to send his reply today, along with the letter for Dumbledore so the letter should come to him first in the next hour sometime.

He ran down to the auditorium and caught ginny just as she exited the room he pulled her towards him into the shadows against the walls muffling her mouth with his hand so she couldn't scream. He bent down and whispered into her ear

"It's me" and at those two words she stopped struggling.

As soon as she stopped moving Hermione and Ron came rushing out of the auditorium looking around

"Ginny" Hermione called. When she got no answer Hermione shook her head "I swear that girl is doing something she wants no-one to know"

"Yeah, like hanging around with her secret boyfriend" Ron said grumpily

"Oh, hush Ronald" Hermione said "she is allowed to habe boyfriends you can't control her life"

Ron simply huffed and walked off towards the gryffindor common room.

Ginny turned to Harry and smiled "thanks" she said "they've been trying to find out where I go, Hermione's convinced I'm with you and Ron's convinced I'm hanging out with my secret boyfriend"

Harry smirked "why can't they both be right?"

Ginny laughed softly and stepped out of Harry's arms "come on" she said "we have practising to do"

As they reached the room of requirements harry paced asking for a slightly different studio to what they normally had, as he opened the door he smiled at the wall of glass that had replaced the normal wall of mirrors. The scene out of the windows was beautiful, the sun was barely showing over the forbidden forest and the colours made for a beautiful backdrop to the ground of the school.

Harry walked to the other end of the glass and pulled the handle gently revealing that the glass was in fact 1 huge sliding door leading out onto a balcony. He grasped Ginny's hand and led her onto it pulling her gently onto his lap when he sat down on the soft sofa the room had conjured.

Ginny turned to him "Not that I don't appreciate it but why are we sat here and not practising?"

Harry smiled at her and gestured to the tiny black spot he could see coming from over the forest "that is why" he said simply.

Ginny looked at him then at the black dot. As it came closer it's shape became more defined and she could see wings moving up and down

"The reply!" she gasped.

Harry once again nodded and pulled her into a hug on his lap. They sat in silence as the black bird came towards the balcony and landed on the arm of the sofa.

"Hey girl" harry said softly as he gently stroked what ginny presumed to be a raven on the head. He untied 3 letters from the ravens leg and handed 1 too Ginny.

"This one is for you about that position in the company" harry said "if you could wait a minute before opening it I have something to do quickly"

Harry placed the thinner letter down and picked up the thicker letter, he then pulled out his wand and murmured a spell pointing his wand at the place where the seal would normally be on the letter. A blob of wax flew out of the end of his wand and formed into a skull and Ginny gasped as she recognized it.

"It's the way the phantom seals his letters in the play isn't it?" she asked

Harry nodded "that spell was made by one of the old male leads of BOPDT, the phantom of the opera is a favourite of the troupe and we needed a spell to create the seals on the letters quickly so we didn't have to spend ages doing it before each show. That spell is passed down from 1 phantom to another and is never told to anyone else" he explained

He attached the sealed letter to the raven who had watched attentively as harry had completed the spell and the raven seemed to nod at Harry and Ginny before flying off towards the great hall

Harry ignored the second letter he had placed down and turned to Ginny.

"come on, open it" he said gently

Ginny grasped the envelope and rubbed it gently between her fingers, she sli;ped her index finger under one end of the flap and pulled slightly. She glanced up at harry and saw the acceptance in his eyes. She knew whatever this letter said Harry wouldn't care for her less, he just wanted her to be happy.

Ginny pushed the envelope into his hands

"You open it, I can't" she explained and buried her head into his neck.

She heard the slight ripping of paper and waited whilst Harry read the letter. When he reached the bottom he placed it gently on the seat next to him and pulled Ginny up to look at him. She looked at him trying to read his expression but he seemed to be wearing a mask

"What did it say?" she asked her voice almost trembling

Harry looked into her eyes and the mask cracked breaking into a huge smile "what do you think it said?" he replied

Ginny gasped and began to laugh, laughter of happiness and relief. Harry sat with her on his lap simply watching her loving that he had some part in making her this happy. Ginny looked up at him and pulled him down by his neck for a deep kiss filled with happiness and thanks for what he had done for her. When they broke they simply smiled at each other as Harry leaned further back into the sofa and watched as the sun fully disappeared for now.

They sat for only a while longer before Harry pulled Ginny up, it was much later than thye had realised and Harry didn't want to miss dinner, it would be entertaining for sure. Ginny couldn't stop bouncing around as they walked the long trek down to the great hall constantly going on about how happy she was and how excited she was.

Harry let her have her fun, he knew that in a few weeks she'd be moaning about being tired from the rehearsals, it was probably the last time in months she'd have this much energy. As they got closer to the hall harry managed to quieten Ginny down saying that her role needed to be kept secret and her actions were fairly normal when they entered the hall. Only someone who'd know her for ages would recognize that she had an extra spring in her step she didn't normally.

As Harry and Ginny entered and sat at the Gryffindor table 3 other people all sat at the head table looked up at Harry simultaneously. Harry simply smiled and nodded and then laughed under his breath at the reactions of his watchers.

Madame Heinsoon and Madame Richeston had instantly giggled and begun talking like teenage school girls laughing making excessive hand gestures in Harry's direction and smiling a lot. Snape meanwhile had simply looked at Ginny nodded as if to say 'you'll do' and had turned back to his breakfast.

Harry sat down next to Ginny and began filling his plate along with hers passing it to her and earning a thanks in return. He loaded his fork slightly but then simply rested his hand halfway to his mouth as he sat watching the widow which owls normally came in.

Ginny watched him for a minute before shrugging and returning to her meal murmuring quietly under her breath "If you're looking at the window it's obvious that you know about it"

Harry's head snapped back to his food and he began eating properly this time earning a smile from Ginny.

Harry had finished his main meal and was moving onto dessert by the time the letter came attached to raven, the raven still. (Don't judge harry was only 9 when he named him and not particularly imaginative) The raven flew to Dumbledore and drew many eyes both because of the time of delivery and the animal carrying the delivery.

Dumbledore accepted the letter reluctantly putting a lemon drop down and reading the front of the letter. He thanked the bird which flew off, and then Dumbledore turned the envelope over and gasped in shock dropping the letter.

Harry snickered, that was why he'd wanted to be here to watch this, and he'd managed to surprise Dumbledore. By now most of the school were watching Dumbledore and Dumbledore held the letter up for the rest of the staff table to see causing flitwick to faint and McGonagall to gasp and clutch at her heart dramatically. Harry scoffed and rolled his eyes, so overdramatic. Both madams were desperately trying to suppress giggles whilst Snape's mask was beginning to crack around the edges.

"What is the meaning of this?" Dumbledore asked

"The phantom has sent you a letter Dumbledore" Snape said in a tone he normally reserved for frightening first years out of their wits that carried across the entire room causing the entire school to gasp. Of course Harry and Ginny did so sarcastically and so they didn't feel left out not from actual shock.

Dumbledore slid his un-used butter knife under the famous seal and pulled the letter open gently sliding the letter out. He then tipped the rest of the envelope out and found a pile of shiny rectangular cards in front of his seat. He then opened the letter and read aloud in a voice that carried in the silent hall.

Dear the esteemed members of this wonderful place of education

I am the opera ghost, and on behalf of my director and the cast at the British opera and performing dance troop would like to cordially and formally invite all of your teaching staff and pupils involved in your production of 'The Phantom of the Opera' to our Christmas gala on new years eve where we will be performing one last showing this year of our master piece 'The Phantom of the Opera' in aid of charity. My choreographers feel from watching you work that you deserve to get an idea of what a real, professional quality performance would look like. Enclosed are enough tickets for your teachers and pupils, I believe I have enclosed enough though more could be obtained through the choreographers I have so gracefully loaned to you for your production. I will be watching your production next week and as such I ask you to leave my box empty for my viewing pleasure. Though take note, any attempts to look upon my face will be fruitless, I know cloaking and masking spells after all, I am a master of the shadows.

I hope to see you on Christmas Eve R.S.V.P via the choreographers sat to your right laughing at the formality of this letter. I am warning you ladies, laugh again and what happened to the stage hand will look fun. The lasso will come out again!

O.G.

By the end of it the hall was still silent except for the two choreographers who true to what the phantom had written were almost falling off their chairs with laughter. They finally calmed down and turned back to Dumbledore who was still staring at the tickets which were considered like gold dust even in the magical world and yet here they were being given to them free!

"So what was that last bit? I didn't quite catch it" Madame richeston asked and Dumbledore handed her the letter. She read it and turned white before handing the letter on to madame Heinsoon.

"You wouldn't" she said seemingly to the air and earning some weird looks from the school. Harry smiled and waved his wand under the table.

"Do you really want to try me" A voice echoed around the great hall. Madame Heinsoon audibly gulped as she reached the end of the letter and shook her head in time with madame richeston.

Down the table Snape finally cracked and burst out laughing making the entire school and most of the staff scoot a few inches further away.

"Sevvie, you always ruin my fun" the deep silky voice complained echoing once again as snape continued to laugh.

"I will get you" promised the voice "All of you" it finished evily and then there was silence.

Everyone watched the choreographers who were almost white and snape who was going red in the face from laughing so hard and turned to run for it, forgetting all about dessert.

Harry and Ginny were the last 2 out and making sure none of the other teachers were watching harry turned round and glared evily at the 3 teachers in turn before stalking out of the door grabbing Ginny's hand on the way.

That's it. It's a long one to make up for me not updating in a while and it'll probably be a while before I update again as I have mock week soon but oh well I'll try my best to update regularily. Read and review Please!

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