Dating Dungbombs
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A/N: A big hello to you all! I've finally been bothered to update so you wont email me with death threats. This is NOT a real chapter, just something to keep you entertained and keep you missing the real Dating Dungbombs until the REAL new chapter comes up. I've simply entitled it 'Easter Extravaganza' and it is in nobody's PoV. I needed a change from the very different personalities. This is just something very weird, so I do hope you accept it. :)
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the characters. And perhaps your soul! Mwahahahahahha ....
Until the next chapter ...
--Blue
P.S. HUGE apologies going out to everyone who was waiting for AGES for the chapter. Hope this will satisfy and give heaps of laughs.
P.P.S. Nobody will be kissing, snogging, hugging, sweet talking, being romantic, etc in this chapter. People would kill me if I did put it in. --cough-- Courtney and Karla --cough--.
P.P.P.S. I am well aware that Easter is long gone, but I would still like to put this up. :)
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Easter Extravaganza
Easter time had finally hit Hogwarts, and the kitchens were in overload to provide the school with many different treats and meals. House elves were bustling back and forth carrying trays of food, wishing each other hurried exchanges of "Happy Easter". The elves worked hard and took no breaks (even though they barely took breaks in the first place).
However, there was a different story for the students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Everybody (except perhaps the house elves) was relaxed and kicking back, celebrating the welcomed shortage of homework. The teachers were having fun, for they were not once buried in a stack of work, waiting to be marked.
As our story begins, our 8 heroes were sitting at the Gryffindor table, sampling some of the new foods being served at breakfast time.
"This is better than any food that I've had before!" Ashlee attacked part of a chestnut-stuffed chicken.
"Can't talk, eating." Rachel spooned another egg.
Little did they know that mischief was about.
"Happy Easter!" Joeline was walking around the Great Hall happily, handing out giant Easter eggs from a large purple sack.
"I want some of that!" Lara said, her fork falling onto the table with a clunk. She got up and headed straight for line. Courtney and Karla watched in dull amusement - everyone else was eating.
"Sure you can have an egg!" Joeline gave Lara an egg wrapped in yellow foil.
Louise leaned over to Linda. "Don't you think that it's a bit suspicious that Joeline's suddenly happy and springy, and is handing out Easter eggs at no particular cost?"
Linda blinked. "What did you say?"
Louise closed her eyes. Wrong person to start a conversation with. She leaned over to Elizabeth. "Don't YOU think that it's weird that Joeline's suddenly happy and handing out free Easter eggs?"
"Yeah, it is." Elizabeth raised an eyebrow. "Well, maybe it's got to do with that huge parcel that Joeline got a few days ago. Probably filled with chocolate eggs to give to everybody. That's my bet."
"Oi, Louise, try one of these!" Lara handed Louise what seemed like a red hard boiled sweet. She popped it in her mouth and smiled as a thanks.
"Hiya, Louise!" Joeline walked over to her. Louise stopped smiling and choked a bit on the sweet.
"H-Hi, Joeline." She said as soon as she was able to construct a sentence. Joeline shoved a purple covered egg under Louise's nose.
"Would you like one?" she asked sweetly, shaking the egg a little bit with her hand.
"Erm .." Louise looked around. "No, thanks."
"Aww, why not?" Joeline asked, the egg shaking once more.
"Louise is -" Elizabeth cut in, "on Wizard Watches. The Easter treats are very filling, you know."
"Oh, yeah." Louise laughed nervously. "Yum, yum!" she said fakely, picking up another hard boiled egg.
"Oh, OK." Joeline set off, handing eggs out to more people.
Louise turned to Elizabeth with disgust. "WIZARD WATCHES?" Elizabeth shrugged.
"It was the first thing I could think of." Elizabeth chomped down on some pancakes.
"Great!" Louise mumbled angrily. "Think of Louise and the first thing that you associate with it is 'fat'!"
"What is with you?" Elizabeth asked. "Normally you'd be fine about it!"
"How could I be fine when somebody thinks I end up weighing like I'm carrying a tire under my robes?!" Louise said louder than she had intended. A few heads turned and she kept her voice quiet. Elizabeth looked at her incredulously.
"I think you've had too much egg yolks, Louise." Elizabeth grabbed Louise's plate.
"Give that back!" Louise went to grab Elizabeth.
"Sieve that sack?" Linda asked as she stopped eating. Courtney patted her back and Linda shrugged, returning back to her food.
"Stop being stupid, Louise!" Elizabeth snorted. "It was a joke. Something that you laugh to. You know .. 'hahaha?' "
"I know what it means!" she snapped back irritably.
"Calm down, Louise!" Lara said, chucking a blue hard boiled lolly over to Louise. Louise frowned, but took the lolly anyway. Maybe a sugar rush would help.
"Ahh ... behold the miracle of weekends." Ron smiled, lazily staring at his chicken leg. (A/N: No, it isn't tuna! ---For further reference, look up Jessica Simpson, chicken and tuna)
"Yep." Harry covered the piece of spongecake he was holding with some honey.
"I'm looking forward to doing nothing." Ron sank his teeth into the leg.
"Guys, I'm sorry for being so mean to you before." Louise said.
"It's OK." Elizabeth smiled, stacking her plate with pancakes.
"No, I'm sorry." Louise repeated.
"It's OK." Elizabeth repeated.
"No, I'm really sorry." Louise said, a pleading look in her eyes.
"I said it's OK." Elizabeth said, looking at Louise for a few seconds.
"You don't understand!" Louise said, looking like she desparate to apologise even though she already had - three times.
"I don't?" Elizabeth said uncertainly.
"I'm REALLY sorry." Louise looked like she was on the verge of tears.
"OK ..." Elizabeth looked around for any signs of help.
"I'm REALLY REALLY SORRY!" then the tears came.
"Gee ... did they spike the water here or something?" Elizabeth laughed uneasily.
"You've got to understand that I'm SO sorry for what I did!" Louise cried, tears spilling everywhere.
"But I do." Elizabeth said tonelessly.
"Please understand!" Louise said.
"I DO UNDERSTAND!" Elizabeth shouted. This, however, seemed to be falling onto deaf ears. And this wasn't about Linda.
"Louise, I think another sugar rush will bring you down." Lara threw over a white boiled sweet. In between sobs, Louise sucked onto the lolly.
Elizabeth leaned over to Lara and asked her what was wrong with Louise. Lara merely shrugged and mumbled something about 'PMS'.
"Darn, I just ran out of eggs." Joeline said, peering down into her empty purple sack. "I'll be right back!"
At this point, Professor Dumbledore stood up and gave a wrinkly smile to all the students looking back at him.
"I have an announcement to make." Dumbledore eyed them and gave a few random students some winks. "Tonight, we're having an Easter party to celebrate nothing else but Easter. It will be just a normal function so feel free to wear muggle clothing. The party is in the Great Hall and will start at 7.00pm sharp and will end at midnight. I hope to see you all there." He smiled, winked at some students again, and sat back down.
Chatter immediately broke out after Dumbledore sat down. What would be happening? What were they going to wear? What were they going to do? What were they going to eat?
"This is going to be great!" Ashlee said, waving her fork in the air.
"Do you seriously mean that?" Karla looked at Ashlee in horror.
"Yes." Ashlee's brows furrowed. "I think."
"It's bad enough going to class with them, but imagine actually having fun at your own expense with BOYS." Karla said, making it sound like the word 'boys' was the most disgusting swear word on the planet.
"I can imagine it." Linda said off-handedly, poking some food with her fork.
"WHAT?!" Courtney and Karla screamed in unison. Linda looked like she was a deer caught in headlights.
"What?" she said, looking around, fork still in mouth. Courtney grabbed the fork, yanked it of Linda's mouth and hit her over the head with it.
"You DEFINATELY weren't thinking clearly, Linda!" Courtney said, placing the fork back onto the table.
"I WAS EATING THAT!" Linda protested, piercing another bit of food with it.
"Why would you want to be around BOYS, anyway?" Karla asked, as if she was asking why you would get your teeth removed when you didn't have to.
Harry and Ron both coughed.
"EW!" Courtney and Karla both got up immediately. Linda raised eyebrow and Ashlee's fork stopped halfway on it's journey to her mouth.
"What?" Harry and Ron both looked at each other and to where Courtney and Karla were sitting before they got up in horror. "Did you sit on a bug or something?" Harry looked down.
"NO!" Courtney and Karla said in unison. "YOU COULD HAVE GIVEN US BOY GERMS!" Linda muttered something about 'clone freaks' to Ashlee, whose fork had finally reached her mouth.
With that, Courtney and Karla both stormed out of the Great Hall.
"Well that was certainly interesting." Rachel said mildly, returning to her food.
0---0 Later, that very same day in the library... 0---0
"You sure that this will work on Saint Potter?" Malfoy drawled as he picked up the book and skimmed where Lara's fingernail had pointed.
"Yep." Lara said. "You cast this, he won't be able to stop singing until you say so yourself. Or in the very least, won't stop rhyming."
"Impressive." Malfoy said. He picked up the book and turned a few pages. "Where did you find this?" Lara tapped her abnormally large nose.
"I have my sources." she said mysteriously. Malfoy scoffed and turned another page.
"This could certainly come in handy." He stayed on one of the pages. "Jellyfish Transformation, Bubble Burper, Malicious Moments ..." he continued to list off. "By the time we finish with Potter, he'd be a jellyfish with boils burping bubbles."
"Genius." Lara said rather egotistically. "Even if I do say so myself." Malfoy sat down on one of the couches and started reading. Lara frowned. "You seem to be getting cosy."
"So it seems I am." Malfoy said faintly as he read a section entitled 'Environmnt Enemies: From Wizard to Wasp - How to turn you enemy into an insect'.
"When are we going to cast the spell, then?" Lara asked, crossing her arms as she sat on the arm of a nearby squashy purple armchair. Malfoy stopped reading, looked up from the book and sighed. He flipped a few pages until he reached the singing spell.
"Fine, we'll cast it now." Malfoy cleared his throat.
"I like your way of thinking." Lara smirked.
"OK, here we go ..." Malfoy took a breath in. "Sonorous Melodis Dwellbrum Sinus!"
As soon as the words had left Draco's mouth, the entire castle started to rumble.
"DRACO!" Lara said angrily. "WHAT DID YOU DO?!"
"I don't know!" the walls of the library were turning a freaky shade of electric blue.
The whole castle countinued rumbling. Sounds of stones moving could be heard, and students ran out of the library in fear. Even Madame Pince had retreated to the safety of under her desk. The bookshelves were teetering dangerously, books falling off in every direction. More screaming. Lara fell off the armrest and landed on the floor of the library with an "Oomph!" Malfoy covered his head with the book and ducked next to Lara. He looked at his rumbling surroundings. Everything had a tinge of blue to it. They were glowing. What was happening? What had he done?
All of a sudden, a flash of a blinding white light, and then nothing but the blue-ish tinge.
After a few seconds, Malfoy got up and brushed his head off. He looked around.
"What did you do?!" Lara scolded, rising from her spot next to the armchair. "What did you turn us into?"
"Nothing! I don't know!" Malfoy said, picking up his coat. He had sensed that he had done something wrong, and he wasnt going to be there when Lara figured out what it was. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go."
Lara caught Malfoy's arm. "To where are you going to travel?" her voice was weirder than usual. More ... melodic. "I thought together this spell we would unravel!" she looked confused at what she had said.
"Not today, there's someone I need to find." Malfoy lied, and pulled his arm away from Lara. "Now, if you would be so kind ..."
"Draco! Don't walk away!" Lara said. "I figured out what you had to say."
"What are you talking about, do tell?" Malfoy raised an eyebrow. For some reason, he felt happy. Alive. Jumpy. Daresay ... happy? He wanted to sing! "That spell - off the couch I almost fell!"
---You're so stupid, Draco.--- Lara struck a solid sing-song note. ---Stupider than the average joe!--- (A/N: --- is a substitute for ". This is used when people sing. Yes. I typed sing.)
---You're still not making any sense.--- Malfoy sang. ---What is it? You're making me tense!---
---You cast the WRONG SPELL!--- Lara sang. ---Oh, couldn't you tell?---
"Why are we rhyming so?" Malfoy suddenly asked.
---You tell me, Draco!--- Lara shouted, angry once more. She shoved the book under his nose. ---Which spell did you read?---
"It was this one that did the deed." Malfoy pointed to the spell on the page.
"Oh you idiot! Why did I become friends with you?" Lara slapped her forehead.
"Because you'd rather not worship St Potter too." Malfoy shot back.
"It was a rhetorical question, smarty pants!" Lara snapped.
"Here we go - raving and rants ..." Malfoy rolled his eyes.
"Don't you know what you have done?" Lara asked viciously.
"My my, aren't you having fun." another eye roll.
"You cast the spell on the entire school!" Lara screamed.
"Well don't call me the bumbling fool!" Malfoy defiantly, rising out of the chair.
---It's your fault the entire castle is singing now.--- Lara's face darkened.
---And do tell why. I'm asking how!--- Malfoy said, striking a dramatic pose.
---How long does it take to reach your brain?--- Lara asked, exasperated.
---Say that again and you'll be in paaaaaain!--- Malfoy struck a high note.
"OK, OK! Everyone at school is singing right now." Lara said slowly, so that Malfoy could process it. He seemed to have gotten the drift.
"Including St Potter? To me you shall bow!" Malfoy sang triumphantly.
"Stop with the stupid rhymes, Draco." It was Lara who rolled her eyes this time. "How to reverse this spell, we need to know." She picked up the book and started flipping.
"I just say that we go with the flow." Malfoy suggested, picking up his cloak in an attempt to get out of the firing line.
"To suggest that, you really are slow." Lara mumbled, pulling him back onto the couch without looking up from the book.
"Did you find anything at all?" Malfoy smirked, obviously already knowing the answer.
"Shut up, Draco, you're making me stall." Lara snapped irritably.
"Fine then, have it your way. I'm going outside to see what other people have to say."
---Or even ... siiiiiiiiing!--- Lara held the note, her entire arm pointing towards the ceiling. They both looked at each other. Lara's arm flopped back down.
"You do that again and out the window you will fling." Malfoy drawled. Lara frowned. "You work on the book." Malfoy picked up his coat and put it on. "I'm going outside to take a look."
With that, Malfoy walked out of the library, humming a random tune.
0---0 What has befallen the school? How will they sound and will it be cool? Our story continues with our heroes. What will happen? Who knows! Why am I rhyming? Has it to do with timing? I thought with rhyming I would fail ... Anyway, on with our tale! 0---0 (A/N: 0---0 means Narrator is speaking)
Ashlee, Courtney, Karla, Elizabeth, Linda, Louise, Rachel, Harry, Ron and Hermione (A/N: Lara is still in the library) were sitting on the lawns when the shaking had begun. They had all started screaming and flung themselves onto the grass. They were all equally scared when the grass they were on had a faint tinge of blue in them. Then a sudden burst of light, and they all screamed. Nothing. Everything was back to normal - or so they thought.
"What just happened there?" Ashlee asked as she sat up.
"You tell me! It could have ruined my hair!" Elizabeth pulled out her comb and started combing.
"That was just not right." Harry said, rubbing his head.
"Hats were going to fight?" Linda sat up and looked confused.
"Don't worry, Linda dear." Rachel patted Linda's back.
"Guys, I think we have something to fear." Hermione said, looking nervously at the school grounds.
"Why are we talking this way?" Ron asked, an unreadable look on his face.
"Maybe it's just today." Courtney shrugged.
"I don't think so." Karla sad as she picked some blue-tinged grass out of her hair.
"Tell me, what is your woe?" Louise asked.
"Why are we all rhyming?" Rachel asked.
"Can't you see the silver lining?" Ashlee asked.
"What does that mean?" Everyone except for Ashlee asked.
"I'll sing it to you all, you silly bean!" Ashlee got up and struck a dramatic pose. Out of nowhere, a piano melody began to sound.
"This is really weird." Linda muttered.
"This is something that we really feared." Courtney whispered.
"What, us rhyming now?" Elizabeth asked.
"No; Ashlee singing you stupid cow!" Courtney rolled her eyes.
An argument was about to break out when Ashlee cleared her throat.
"Oh no." Karla closed her eyes.
"How could she sink so low?" Louise asked, shaking her head.
The piano melody was slow. A soft, tinkling song it was. It was a slow jazz song. Ashlee struck a pose, while everyone was in a state of horror.
---My good friends, can't you see?
Can't you see things like me?
Before we couldn't hold a tune,
But to good music, we weren't immune.
In the past, we couldn't do a thing,
But now ... we can siiiiiing!--- Ashlee 'sing' note was strong, high, long and controlled.
All of a sudden, there was a stirring upon our heroes. They were empowered. Inspired. The jazzy soft melody of the piano was haunting, and it was luring them to the music. It felt horrible to resist. They wanted to join in, to sing, to move with the music.
Then they could bear no longer. Harry, Louise and Rachel jumped up. They joined in the song with Ashlee.
---This is indeed a blessing in disguise!--- Harry sang, his left arm rising into the air as he did so.
---Obviously, now we realise,--- Louise's left arm rose into the air as well.
---That we were born to siiiiiiing!--- Rachel's left arm rose into the air, clenching as she hit the hight note surprisingly well.
---Oh, but where's your bling bling?--- Harry and Louise crooned.
"We're in a alternate universe." Ron said, mouth gaping.
"This has got to be a curse." Hermione nodded, her mouth opened slightly.
"Rachel can't normally sing." Linda said feverishly.
"Normally she can't do anything." Elizabeth agreed.
Suddenly, Ron sprang up with Linda.
"What are you two doing?!" Hermione cried desparately.
"If they sing, I'm suing." Elizabeth said wryly.
---How can you resist the urge?--- Ron fingers clicking to the beat.
---I know you're on the verge!--- Linda clicking her fingers in unison.
---Come join in!--- Ashlee, Harry, Louise, Rachel, Ron and Linda all sang. Harry and Louise then both started dancing around. Louise twirled out and Harry struck yet another pose. Louise twirled back in and kicked up her leg. All this while Ashlee, Rachel, Ron and Linda were singing ---Ooh...--- softly.
---The situation's win win!--- Harry and Louise sang, just after Harry dipped Louise down.
Like zombies, Elizabeth and Karla got up and walked to the singing (and in Harry and Louise's case, dancing) troupe.
"No! Fight it guys!" Hermione yelled. "The urge - it's all lies!"
---How can you fight such a gift?--- Karla sang, both arms rising into the air. Hermione watched in horror. Eveybody else singing were being back-up singers. This included Harry, who was still dancing around, this time with Ashlee. It also included Ron and Rachel, who were doing crazy jazz moves.
---Singing gives us this wonderful LIFT!--- Elizabeth sang, Harry and Ron lifting her up into the air as she sang the last word in the sentence, her arms in a 'Y' shape.
"No, Hermione, fight this!" she muttered to herself as she felt the urging side slowly take over. "Please, just give this urge a miss!"
---Hermione, Hermione Granger,--- Linda sang, this time to a more upbeat piano melody.
"No! Stop!" Hermione clamped her hands over her ears, but she still heard the music.
---Somebody fighting music, is there anything stranger?--- Linda continued singing, her fingers clicking.
Then the internal war of Hermione stopped. The urge to sing had gotten to her. She stood up and her fingers started clicking. This felt good ... it felt right.
---No, definately not.--- Hermione sang softly.
---Obviously I have proved to you...--- Ashlee sang, finishing her dance with Harry. ---That singing shouldn't be so poo-poo!--- the music was getting stronger, indicating the final notes.
---Muuuusic shouldn't die ...--- Ashlee held the notes and the music grew fierce. ---It should make you wanna flyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!--- The high notes pierced the ears of everybody listening. Ashlee's eyes were closed from singing such a draining note.
The music flourished, finished and everybody struck a dramatic pose. Ashlee was carried into the air by Harry and Ron, doing the same thing as Elizabeth had done seconds before.
They held the pose for a few seconds, breathing heavily, before blinking then and then finally resuming life as normal.
"Good to get that out of me." Ashlee was breathing heavily.
"Your point I can now see." Harry nodded. There were murmers of agreement, while some people took time out to nurse the stitch they had in their sides.
"Something is going on in this school." Hermione said, again surveying the school and its blue-ish tinge.
"Yeah, yeah, but wasn't singing just SO cool?" Courtney asked, jumping up and down.
0---0 Something had happened at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (obviously; students don't burst randomly into song). Was this a blessing or a curse? Who knows? We only know that today was a Hogsmeade day, so singing, dancing students would be invading Hogsmeade, bringing with them their infectious songs. 0---0
"This is going to be great!" Hermione said as the group (A/N: Including Lara) were approaching the entry of Hogsmeade.
"Going to Honeydukes is something I will never hate." Courtney sighed, heading straight for the sweet shop.
The giant pile of students dispersed into many of Hogsmead's shops. Many of them went to Madame Malkins Robes for Occasions, which had recently opened a Muggle clothing section. Others travelled to the Three Broomsticks. Some went to Zonko's Joke Shop and the rest walked randomly along the patch of shops and the Shrieking Shack.
"I wonder what's going to happen tonight." Rachel remarked off-handedly to Ashlee while they walked around the muggle clothing section of Madame Malkins.
"Maybe there's going to be a big fight." Ashlee shrugged, browsing around the t-shirt section.
"Hopefully. That would spice up any party." Rachel smirked, flipping the coat hangers of the skirt rack.
"My, my, to that you seem to be hearty." Ashlee remarked, smirking as well.
"Hahahaha." Rachel said sarcastically, picking up a denim miniskirt with candy stitching. "What about this one?"
"I don't think so, hun." Ashlee picked up an acid yellow mini and brandished it at Rachel. "This is better to your style." Rachel looked offended.
"You're just in a period of denial." Linda interrupted, before Rachel could say anything. Rachel nodded in thanks.
"Really, now?" Courtney cut in, before Ashlee could say a word.
"I think this one is more 'wow!' " Karla laughed, cutting off Linda without a worry. She was holding an aqua mini with fluro orange dots.
They all had a good laugh (except for Rachel), until Courtney decided to make a statement.
"Why do you want to buy clothes for tonight, anyway?" she asked, her nose wrinkling.
"Tonight is an occasion - there isn't a party every day." Lara said simply, picking out a black t-shirt that had 'The Weird Sisters' written in silver with also silver spider webs in the background.
"But you're dressing up for BOYS!" Karla joined in, crossing arms. She eyed the black t-shirt disdainfully, as if it should be burnt and never return to the Earth.
"Oh shut up about your stupid ploy!" Lara rolled her eyes.
"It is not a SUPID PLOY! It's a fact!" Courtney interrupted angrily, as Karla seemed too shocked to say anything at all.
"And I suppose to prove this you took some pact?" Louise raised her eyebrows.
"How would you know, you weren't even there!" Karla seemed to have recovered from her bout of shock.
"Are you four going to do anything else but rhyme and stare?" Elizabeth asked. They all looked at her, simply asking her to answer their unspoken question."You all need to worry about my hair!" she said simply, taking out her pocket mirror and comb.
They rolled their eyes.
"Can't you see the boy germs?" Courtney asked.
"Courtney - there are NO boy germs." Rachel had held onto the candy stitch denim mini and was about to try it on.
"How can you be sane on those terms?" Karla asked, her voice rising a bit.
Again, another piano melody sounded. This time, it was more up-beat and modern. A guitar riff. Some drums.
"What are you going to do?" Lara asked, even though she already knew the answer.
"We're going to sing to prove to you ..." Courtney and Karla sang together. Another guitar riff.
"Oh, please goodness no." Linda shut her eyes.
"Why must they torture us so?" Louise gulped.
---All my friends can't seem to see ...
The same things as me.
Can't they see those horrible germs?
To us, boys are ugly little worms!--- A few more beats on the drums. Another guitar bit. Piano also played violently.
"This is sooo not funny." Hermione said, looking on.
"I think I need the dunny." Ashlee got up and headed for the back of the shop.
"We really needed to know that!" Louise said.
"She's gone to spew, you stupid prat." Linda rolled her eyes.
Yet another fight, if it hadn't have been for Courtney and Karla, who decided to continue their song.
---Who needs a boy in their life?
It would probably put you in more strife.
Boys, boys - they suck their thumbs,
Boys, boys - so little they only have gums!
Boys are ugly, crazy baboons!
A girl is stupid if to a boy she swoons.
Boys, boys, boys, boys!
So immature they still play with their toys.
They always act like they've had too much rum,
Only because boys are always DUMB!--- More guitar riffs and piano melody. The drum was silent as there was an instrumental interlude. During this, Louise got up.
"Louise, no, fight the voice!" Rachel screamed as Louise went to join Courtney and Karla.
"Sorry, Rachel, but I have no choice." She took her place behind Courtney and Karla.
"Fine - if you're going down, I'm going with you!" Rachel jumped up and stood next to Louise.
"I think I'm going to need the toilet too." Linda rolled her eyes and ran off.
The drums began to play once more and the piano and guitar started the melody again.
---Who would ever want a guy?
To this I am asking why!
All they ever like is Quidditch, (to this Elizabeth protested "I like Quidditch!")
Their brain system must have a glitch!--- Louise rolled her eyes.
"Elizabeth doesn't even have a brain to glitch."
Rachel and Louise pushed both Courtney and Karla out of the way, taking centre stage.
---Who needs, who needs them guys?
All they ever do is cheat and spread lies!
They stink and think only of themselves,
And as if they'll ever work as hard as house elves!--- At the mention of the word 'house elves', Hermione got up and joined in the song. Lara also got up and joined in.
At this point, Ashlee had come back and were watching with despair, shaking their heads.
---Boys stink like dung.
And they're as pleasant as a snake tongue!
They care only of what THEY do,
So much so that they forget that girls exist too!
Why did they invade this Earth anyway?
Now, they're going to pay!--- Hermione and Larakicked up their legs and went off and started dancing with Courtnet and Karla.
Linda and Ashlee got up and started dancing, shoving Rachel and Louise off.
---I don't care for them!
Without them, the world would be a gem.--- Linda sang, with Ashlee clicking.
---Insensitive prats they are,
I just wish they would travel far...---
---And never come back!
Because ... of everything they lack.--- Ashlee and Linda sang together.
The rest of the troupe joined together to finish the song.
---Boys have no class!
They just don't care if they pass their gas.
No manners!
We need BOY BANNERS!
Keep them away from me,
Because of those germs that you cannot see.
They smell!
That's something you can't repel!
They're dumb!
Why oh why did boys have to come?
Go away!
And there you can stay!--- The last note of the song sounded long, controlled and high. Once again, they finished in a pose.
After a few seconds, they turned around to find Harry and Ron with wide open mouths.
"You know, if you didn't want an ice cream, you could've just told us." Harry said, forehead wrinkling.
"You didn't have to sing and make such a fuss." Ron nodded.
"Ice cream?" Lara's ears perked up and ran towards Harry and Ron. "Suddenly, boys aren't what they seem ..." With that, the three of them went off to get ice cream. Courtney and Karla struck dramatic poses.
"The traitor!" they both said in shock. Everyone else rolled their eyes.
"Maybe their brains have a huge crater ..." Louise winked. They laughed and waited for Rachel to pay for her mini and then set off.
As they walked along the strip of Hogsmeade, they heard random students asking why they couldn't stop rhyming or singing. At one point, they saw the rest of a routine from a couple of fourth years.
They found Lara, Harry and Ron talking over some bowls of sundae. Sitting down, our heroes started some conversations as well. They ordered some ice cream themselves. Everything was going well until Draco Malfoy approached them. They all inwardly flinched except for Harry (because he'd met Voldemort so Malfoy was a practical walk in the park) and Lara (because she's Lara).
"We need to talk, Lara. Now." Malfoy grunted, Crabbe and Goyle standing next to him like burly bodyguards.
"What a surprise. Look I'm shocked. Wow." Lara said tonelessly, leaving her ice cream to go join Malfoy.
Malfoy shooed Crabbe and Goyle away to Quality Quidditch Supplies.
"Have you figured out how to reverse the spell?" he asked, crossing his arms.
"No, not yet. There's nothing to tell." Lara said, mimicking him.
"Why can't we just tell it to stop?" Malfoy asked, his brow furrowing.
"Because you cast the spell on too big an area for it to go pop." Lara explained. "So if you read the RIGHT one, nobody would be rhyming insanely."
"Just Potter, mainly." he smirked, but it soon vanished. "But wait - what happens if we don't reverse it?"
"It's going to magically reverse itself, you git!" Lara said sarcastically, rolling her eyes at Malfoy's face when he thought that it would actually happen. "I was joking! If we don't reverse it, we won't stop, you twit!" Malfoy scowled.
"OK, OK. We'll reverse it tonight." he planned, ready to leave.
"AFTER we go grab a bite." Lara insisted. Malfoy snorted, nodded, and left.
Lara went back to the group and finished her ice cream in silence.
"Come on, we'd better go." Ashlee wiped her mouth with her napkin and got up.
"Yeah, she's right, you know." Rachel said. They got up, paid for their ice cream and headed back for Hogwarts.
0---0 And so our heroes leave for Hogwarts. Will Lara and Draco fix the spell? Or will they be doomed to rhyme forever? We're going to find out, so let's fast forward to the night ... 0---0
"This is going to be soo cool!" Elizabeth combed her hair again for the 50th time and sprayed it with her new bottle of glitzer for the 64th.
"With all that glitzer, you could have filled a pool." Linda snorted.
"I'm surprised her hair hasn't fallen out yet." Rachel said.
"You wanna make a bet?" Ashlee walked over to Elizabeth, ran her fingers through her hair and pulled out her fingers to reveal some strands of black hair in her hands. Everyone started laughing, except for Elizabeth who had proceeded to scream at Ashlee for ruining her hair with her (Ashlee's) so-called 'contaminated hands'.
Everybody was dressed already and they were only still in the dormitory because Elizabeth was still primping herself continuously for the past 15 mintues.
"Come on, hurry up!" Lara moaned, picking at her top.
"Nup." Elizabeth said, spraying some glitzer onto her hair painstakingly slowly. "Beauty takes time."
"Then why are you still here and looking like a lime?" Ashlee smirked, crossing her arms. Elizabeth scowled at her and applied some more glitz.
0---0 Yet another 15 minutes later ... 0---0
"OK! THAT'S IT!" Louise screeched, grabbing the now nearly empty glitzer bottle and chucking it across the room into the open arms of Rachel. "YOU FINISH NOW OR THE LIPGLOSS GETS IT!" Louise scrambled over and picked up Elizabeth's favourite Magical Wet Shine Diamontes (As the ad would say, "Charmed to stay on longer, glossier and wetter than wet") lipgloss and held it over the edge of the windowsill. Elizabeth yelped in horror. She was torn between looking good for the night or her Magical Wet Shine Diamontes!
"You heartless, evil creature! How could you do such a thing?!" Elizabeth yelled.
"Choose now or this-" Louise shook her hand holding the lipgloss, "- will take wing."
"OK, OK!" Elizabeth sobbed, careful not to produce any tears for the fear of ruining her mascara. "I'll save the ... lipgloss."
"Good then - no big loss." Louise handed Elizabeth her lipgloss and glitzer. Elizabeth glitzed her hair twice and then got up.
"OK then, let's go." they went for the door. All except for Courtney and Karla.
"We're not going, you know." They both crossed their arms and sat down on their beds, preparing for a fight.
"Good for you, then." Linda said, closing the door. Courtney and Karla were shocked - they couldn't believe that they chose somewhere with BOYS over THEM.
Linda sighed. "Sometimes I just get this huge urge to draw on Courtney and Karla's face the words "BOYS DO NOT HAVE COOTIES" with a blue pen." Everyone started laughing as they headed for the Great Hall.
0---0 Dating Dungbombs will return .... right now. 0---0
The Great Hall looked especially different that night. The tables had been replaced with smaller, circular ones that fit about 10 people on each one. On each plate on the tables, there was a glowstick that was charmed to glow different colours after being snapped in the middle. There were chips, cheese and crackers, dip, biscuits, chocolate, fruit, lollies and possibly every well known Wizard soda in Britain as well. There were streamers, balloons and little lights attached to the tables as well. Loud muggle music was being played in the background. If it wasn't for the ageing teachers (Dumbledore and McGonagall), giant (Hagrid), dwarf (Professor Flitwick) and an absence of shampoo (Snape), then it would have seemed like a very cool school dance.
Our heroes sat down at a table and started eating. Everything was delicious - the house elves had outdone themselves. Even the cheese and crackers tasted gourmet (if that is possible).
"Hey, Louise, pass me the Corke." Rachel said, her arm leaning across the table, indicating for the sweet almost black liquid.
"Wait! I just dropped my fork." Louise ducked under the table.
"Fine, pass me the Pepseye." Rachel leaned over to a different direction. Linda picked up a light yellow drink and handed it over to Rachel. "Linda! This is Solow! Can't you see?" Rachel put the drink down a little too hard just as Louise got up from the desk.
Since Rachel had decided to release her anger upon the bottle of Solow, the table shook a bit and that was all for a cup to come crashing down and spill its contents.
A cup of Fantsa had spilled and was now pooling onto Elizabeth's white skirt.
"RACHEL! IS THERE NO BRAIN THERE?!" Elizabeth screamed, pulling over a napkin and wiping her skirt hastily.
"Oops. And, I DO have a brain, to accuse me like that is not fair!" Rachel said blankly while the rest of the group muffled their laughter.
"NOT FAIR?! I DON'T CARE!" Elizabeth continued yellow, wiping crazily.
"I'm surprised she isn't talking about her hair ..." Lara mumbled, pulling over the Spright and pouring herself some. Elizabeth scowled.
"My skirt is horrible now!" she uttered melodramatically.
"What will you do, Elizabeth? Who, what, when, where and HOW?" Ashlee looked into ceiling in a similar manner.
"Oh shut up!" Elizabeth said irritably.
"NUP!" Ashlee retaliated. Elizabeth rolled her eyes and grabbed more napkins. "Oh for crying out loud ... Repairo!" The stain on Elizabeth's dress immediately disappeared. Elizabeth blinked.
"Repairo?" she muttered to herself. "Why didn't I think of that?" she reached over and grabbed the bottle of Sunblist.
"Because your brain's batteries are flat." Lara snorted and ate some more crackers and dip.
"They've always been that way." Ashlee said simply.
"What did you say?" Linda asked, leaning over.
"Erm .. don't worry." Ashlee said.
"OK then .. Oops, sorry!" Linda had knocked a bit of cheese off Lara's plate.
The conversation had started once again until Karla and Courtney had come down.
"Ahh, it seems that you've decided to become normal again ..." Lara muttered.
"We are normal, thank you. We were just ..."
"I'm guessing that hunger is not a must?" Louise raised her eyebrow.
"Exactly. You know me too well." Karla sat down and started eating some chips.
"I suppose ... but anybody could tell." Linda said.
A few minutes later, Harry and Ron came down and sat down at the table with Hermione.
"This looks great!" Harry said, looking around at the Great Hall. Music was still pumping and some people were dancing.
"You mean this is something that you don't hate?" Courtney moved a few positions over so she wouldn't be close to Harry.
"It's cool! Look at all the effort put in." Harry said, still looking around.
"Is it just me, or should Harry's head be in a bin?" Courtney asked, picking up a biscuit and biting into it.
Everybody except for Courtney and Karla said "It's just you."
"Oh what am I going to do?" I looked at them all. "You're all contracting boy germs!"
"And I suppose to you that boys are all worms?" Ron asked, suppressing a smile. Harry snorted. Courtney scowled.
At that moment, Dean Thomas came over to the table.
"I was just wondering ... Karla would you like to dance?" he asked really quickly, turning a shade of pink afterwards. Everybody looked at Karla and felt pity for Dean. He would never stand a chance.
"EW! NO! YOU'RE A BOY! I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY CHANCE!" Karla eyed him as if he were an ugly parasite and returned to her drink. Dean looked rejected and walked off to ask Lavender Brown to dance. Seamus Finnigan obviously didn't see any of this because ...
"Karla, would you like to dance with me?" he asked, taking a deep bow. Karla made a face of disgust.
"And what do you think my answer would be?" Karla asked.
Seamus looked hopeful, but then saw the expression on Karla's face, and so he walked off.
And so the night wore on, with people asking our heroes for a dance (with many accepted) and many not (by Karla and Courtney). Halfway through the entire night, Joeline came into the Great Hall in what seemed to be a Playboy bunny suit. Powder puff and all. If it could happen, the entire Hall became silent. Some were shocked that Joeline was wearing that. Some were horrified that this was what Joeline defined as muggle clothing. Joeline took one look at the Hall and looked shocked. But only for a few seconds, because ...
Drums began to play in a rock beat. A bass guitar and a lead guitar twanged their way in to form a hard rock song. A slight indication of a tambourine. The lights in the Great Hall stopped lighting, plunging everybody into darkness for a few seconds, before turning on again to form a spotlight on Joeline, who had taken a position on the make-shift stage. Everywhere else was filled with a soft light. The music died down only a little bit to a quiet rock song. Joeline grabbed the microphone that had magically appeared and started singing Evanescence style to the entire school.
--- Being an older student here,
You'd think that fresh news would be near.
But no ... Nobody tells me anything.
To me news they will not bring.
Because I'm ... Miss In-formed,
To me, news is ne-ver warmed. (A/N: If a word that isn't supposed to be hyphenated has one, then it's either a type-o or you're supposed to pause ever so slightly there)
I never get any news ad-mis-sions,
It's like I have no rec-og-nitions.---
The band played louder and harder and Joeline was still singing into the microphone. Students were jumping up and down as if it were a mosh pit.
--- Im little Miss Informed, never told anything,
Heck, in fact, I didn't know that I could sing!
Why oh why didn't anybody tell me the news?
That bit of info I was going to use!
Now look at me ...
Can't you see?
That I'm all Bridget Jones because of that?
In fact ... do you think I look fat? ---
It was then that the crowd cheered no. Joeline smiled and went crowd surfing while still holding the microphone. The students yelled louder and became even rowdier. Joeline finished crowd surfing them jumped back on stage to perform the last lines of the song which were quietly sung.
--- Cuz I'm Miss Informed of everything,
The bearer of all news does not bring.
I'm left being Miss Informed all alone,
Everything in my mind a numbing drone ... ---
The drums faded off and the guitars sounded their last note. The song had finished and the entire school was clapping and whistling.
"JOELINE! JOELINE! JOELINE!" they all chanted. Joeline smiled at them all, took a bow, then got off the stage. Immediately, she was flanked by at least 20 male Hogwarts students who wanted a dance.
Things were going great for Joeline and everybody else until ...
"BRUCK, BRUCK, BRUCK!" chicken noises echoed in the hair. There was a scream after a poof.
Everybody stopped and became silent. Lavender Brown was screaming - Dean Thomas who she had previously danced with - had suddenly disappeared. And had turned into nothing else but a chicken. Literally.
"DEAN!" Lavander screeched, picking up the chicken that was frantically shaking its wings. "DEAN, COME BACK! COME BACK, YOU SILLY BEAN!"
"What was that?" Lara asked as she leant behind her seat to get a better view.
"Dean's going to get eaten by a cat." Ashlee remarked off-handedly.
"WHAT?!" Lara asked in shock.
"Dean's going to get eaten by a cat ... NOT!" Ashlee giggled. Lara seemed to have recovered from her sudden heart attack.
"Dean turned into a chicken just then." Rachel said, leaning over her chair as well.
"Into a delightful little hen?" Linda smirked.
"I'd laugh if he did ... Dean IS a male, after all." Louise said, getting up to join the crowd.
"OH MY GOODNESS - PAUL!" there was another scream and another student disappeared with a poof and was replaced by a bird. However, this time it wasn't a chicken. It was ...
"A CANARY?!" Janice Hartfield, of third year, screamed out loud. Her boyfriend Paul had rather unexpectedly turned into a canary. The group couldn't help but laugh a little bit out loud, except for Hermione who thought this was a serious problem.
"Nah, Janice, Paul's a fairy!" Kylie Plum, of third year as well, snorted. She didn't really seem to be showing much sympathy.
"Canary?" Ron's ears perked up. "As in ... Canary Creams?"
"Cream? Mmm ... cream is the stuff of dreams ..." Lara said, popping another chocolate into her mouth.
"CANARY CREAMS! THAT'S IT! Paul must have eaten one of those!" Ron said, standing up suddenly.
"And he did that by how ... you propose?" Hermione asked, leaning forward.
"I don't know ... you can't really buy canary creams for a long time ... they go off after a while." Ron said, stroking his chin.
"Well, whoever did it pulled it off with style ..." Harry said, his bright green eyes misting over in thought.
No sooner had Harry said this that about 5 Fillibuster Fireworks were released into the air and exploded, showering the students with light.
"Oh yeah, they did it with style, all right." Hermione concluded grimly.
"Wait, I think there's going to be another fight ..." Ashlee, Elizabeth, Linda, Louise and Rachel got up to check what was going on. Courtney and Karla remained at the table.
As Ashlee, Elizabeth, Linda, Louise and Rachel got closer, they saw that Neville Longbottom had released the fireworks, most probably by accident or a bad discovery - Neville wasn't one to voluntarily attract attention to himself. There was a cloud of smoke surrounding him, that had presumably come from when he had released the fireworks. And in his hands, there was ... A LARGE PURPLE FOIL COVERED EGG.
The group of 5 looked at each other. They knew perfectly well where that had come from. Ashlee and Elizabeth looked around frantically, but she had gone and disappeared from view. They were about to say something when ...
"ALISON!" another chicken victim. (A/N: The next few lines will probably be the only none rhyming dialogue after the spell was cast.)
"NATHAN!" another canary victim.
"JAKE!" more fireworks.
"LEE-ANNE!" somebody turned into a rabbit.
"HANNAH!" a girl grew some rabbit ears, canary wings and chicken legs.
"ARGGH! SAM!" fireworks went off.
This happened for about 10 minutes straight, random students turning into animals, combinations of animals, and unintentionally setting off Fillibuster Fireworks.
Afterwards, a loud of hiss of smoke rose from around the Great Hall; after all, so many Fillibuster Fireworks had been set off. Silence had settled over the hall. Before, the students at Hogwarts seemed normal and happy, before the whole turning into animals thing.
"Guys, I think you'd better see this ..." Harry called. The group of 5 walked back.
"Hey, where's Lara? Where's Little Miss -" Rachel was cut off.
"Lara kind of ... had a furry transformation." Ron said, after giving Harry a hurried glance.
"Like what? I need more information!" Louise said.
"How about ... miniture playboy bunny?" Hermione pointed over to a jet black rabbit whose nose was twitching. The 5 looked at each other in shock.
"THAT'S Lara? Well ... I find that kind of funny." Linda snorted, picking up Lara the rabbit. It wriggled its legs uncomfortably.
"Hi, everyone!" Joeline appeared suddenly, still in her Playboy bunny outfit and crunching onto a biscuit.
"OK, Joeline, you've had your bit of fun." Ashlee said.
"Yeah, I suppose so." Joeline leant down to look at the black Lara rabbit. "Oh aren't you so cute! Too bad you're a bit black though ..."
"That's Lara." Linda said, brandishing the bunny at Joeline. It's eyes narrowed (as much as a bunny's could) and started moving uncomfortably again.
"Lara, Schmara." Joeline patted Lara between her big floppy ears. "I always said that you were my mini-me. And look - people are thinking that you're, dare I say it, cute!"
"If I were you, I'd suddenly become mute." Courtney said suddenly, pointing at the angry Lara rabbit. "She doesn't look very good."
"She wouldn't look good even if she could." Elizabeth rolled her eyes.
"Joeline, what did you do to those eggs?" Ashlee asked as she patted one of Lara's floppy ears.
"Ahh, 'What did you do?' she begs ..." Joeline smiled rather evilly.
"Tell us!" Ashlee said, a little louder.
"Well, nothing major. I just ... cast a little spell. So don't fuss!" Joeline said, picking up another chocolate biscuit and crunching on that.
"When will they be back?" Linda asked, patting Lara's back.
"After midnight. As I see ... sharp as a tack." Joeline finished the biscuit and reached for a slice of fruit.
Linda set Lara the rabbit onto the table and thrust some fruit at her. The bunny seemed to want chocolate and moved off in that direction, but Linda stopped it and kept on shoving the fruit at it. Eventually, Lara gave up and settled for the fruit.
0---0 Just before midnight ... 0---0
"OK, here we go." Rachel said after gulping down some watermelon.
"If Joeline was telling the truth, we will now know." Ron nodded. Lara the bunny had stopped eating and was waiting in anticipation.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1." Harry counted down. There was a shaking, and then ...
"OUCH! Well that was fun ..." Lara had turned back to her human form, and had fallen off the table.
People fell off tables, chairs and even people after they had transformed back. Lara had immediately gotten up and stormed out of the Great Hall.
"Why are you going to the front?" Karla called out, referring to the front of the school. Lara pulled up her sleeves.
"I'm on a Joeline witch hunt."
0---0 15 mintues later ... 0---0
"OK, OK!" Joeline yelled as Lara pulled her into the Great Hall by the ear. "I apologise! Forgive me!" Everybody who had turned into animals and back stared at her mercilessly.
"Please, just let me be!" Joeline begged. After a few seconds, everybody looked at each other nodded. Joeline let out a relieved sigh and got up.
The party was now over, and everybody was ready to leave. However, Lara ran to Draco (or something like quickly walking; Lara isn't capable of running) and suggested a plan. They agreed, and Lara cast the Sonorous charm on herself.
"EVERYBODY, LISTEN TO ME!" Lara said. Everybody stopped and looked at her. "NORMAL, NON-RHYMING PEOPLE WE CAN BE!" Everyone was genuinely interested and stopped to listen. "ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS SAY: I DO BELIEVE IN BROKEN TUNES, I DO, I DO!"
Everyone looked at each other as if Lara was insane, but decided to try anyway. Anything to get them normal again.
"I DO BELIEVE IN BROKEN TUNES, I DO, I DO! I DO BELIVE IN BROKEN TUNES, I DO, I DO! I DO BELIEVE IN BROKEN TUNES, I DO, I DO! I DO BELIEVE IN BROKEN TUNES, I DO, I DO! I DO BELIEVE IN BROKEN TUNES, I DO, I DO!" After saying this, the entire castle started rumbling. Everyone screamed and ducked under the tables. The enchanted ceiling was rumbling and the fake night sky was flickering. Another glow of blue, and another blinding white light, then ... nothing.
After a few seconds, everybody got up and looked at each other.
"Are we-we cured?" Elizabeth asked, looking around the Hall.
"Let's see ..." Courtney rhymed. "I think we are!"
"YEAH!" everybody gave each other high-fives while the rest of the student body were cheering and hugging each other.
"Man, I wish that would never happen to us ever again." Louise said.
"I agree." Karla said, nodding her head. "I was SO sick of rhyming."
"Yeah." Hermione smiled. "It feels so good to be normal again."
"Ahhh ..." everybody let out a relieved sigh and then headed for their dormitories in high spirits.
It certainly had been one big Easter.
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A/N: WOOHOO! Yet another chapter churned out - I hope that you loved it! Review, review. I am soo happy to be updating again, but I might not have time for another one anytime soon - school is horribly mean and I'm getting overloaded with homework. So I hope that this will keep you satisfied until the next one.
Happy reading!
--Blue - Who is currently buried under a pile of homework.
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Review Answers? There are no review answers! This is just a special chapter to keep you all going until the REAL chapter comes out.
A/N: A big hello to you all! I've finally been bothered to update so you wont email me with death threats. This is NOT a real chapter, just something to keep you entertained and keep you missing the real Dating Dungbombs until the REAL new chapter comes up. I've simply entitled it 'Easter Extravaganza' and it is in nobody's PoV. I needed a change from the very different personalities. This is just something very weird, so I do hope you accept it. :)
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Until the next chapter ...
--Blue
P.S. HUGE apologies going out to everyone who was waiting for AGES for the chapter. Hope this will satisfy and give heaps of laughs.
P.P.S. Nobody will be kissing, snogging, hugging, sweet talking, being romantic, etc in this chapter. People would kill me if I did put it in. --cough-- Courtney and Karla --cough--.
P.P.P.S. I am well aware that Easter is long gone, but I would still like to put this up. :)
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Easter Extravaganza
Easter time had finally hit Hogwarts, and the kitchens were in overload to provide the school with many different treats and meals. House elves were bustling back and forth carrying trays of food, wishing each other hurried exchanges of "Happy Easter". The elves worked hard and took no breaks (even though they barely took breaks in the first place).
However, there was a different story for the students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Everybody (except perhaps the house elves) was relaxed and kicking back, celebrating the welcomed shortage of homework. The teachers were having fun, for they were not once buried in a stack of work, waiting to be marked.
As our story begins, our 8 heroes were sitting at the Gryffindor table, sampling some of the new foods being served at breakfast time.
"This is better than any food that I've had before!" Ashlee attacked part of a chestnut-stuffed chicken.
"Can't talk, eating." Rachel spooned another egg.
Little did they know that mischief was about.
"Happy Easter!" Joeline was walking around the Great Hall happily, handing out giant Easter eggs from a large purple sack.
"I want some of that!" Lara said, her fork falling onto the table with a clunk. She got up and headed straight for line. Courtney and Karla watched in dull amusement - everyone else was eating.
"Sure you can have an egg!" Joeline gave Lara an egg wrapped in yellow foil.
Louise leaned over to Linda. "Don't you think that it's a bit suspicious that Joeline's suddenly happy and springy, and is handing out Easter eggs at no particular cost?"
Linda blinked. "What did you say?"
Louise closed her eyes. Wrong person to start a conversation with. She leaned over to Elizabeth. "Don't YOU think that it's weird that Joeline's suddenly happy and handing out free Easter eggs?"
"Yeah, it is." Elizabeth raised an eyebrow. "Well, maybe it's got to do with that huge parcel that Joeline got a few days ago. Probably filled with chocolate eggs to give to everybody. That's my bet."
"Oi, Louise, try one of these!" Lara handed Louise what seemed like a red hard boiled sweet. She popped it in her mouth and smiled as a thanks.
"Hiya, Louise!" Joeline walked over to her. Louise stopped smiling and choked a bit on the sweet.
"H-Hi, Joeline." She said as soon as she was able to construct a sentence. Joeline shoved a purple covered egg under Louise's nose.
"Would you like one?" she asked sweetly, shaking the egg a little bit with her hand.
"Erm .." Louise looked around. "No, thanks."
"Aww, why not?" Joeline asked, the egg shaking once more.
"Louise is -" Elizabeth cut in, "on Wizard Watches. The Easter treats are very filling, you know."
"Oh, yeah." Louise laughed nervously. "Yum, yum!" she said fakely, picking up another hard boiled egg.
"Oh, OK." Joeline set off, handing eggs out to more people.
Louise turned to Elizabeth with disgust. "WIZARD WATCHES?" Elizabeth shrugged.
"It was the first thing I could think of." Elizabeth chomped down on some pancakes.
"Great!" Louise mumbled angrily. "Think of Louise and the first thing that you associate with it is 'fat'!"
"What is with you?" Elizabeth asked. "Normally you'd be fine about it!"
"How could I be fine when somebody thinks I end up weighing like I'm carrying a tire under my robes?!" Louise said louder than she had intended. A few heads turned and she kept her voice quiet. Elizabeth looked at her incredulously.
"I think you've had too much egg yolks, Louise." Elizabeth grabbed Louise's plate.
"Give that back!" Louise went to grab Elizabeth.
"Sieve that sack?" Linda asked as she stopped eating. Courtney patted her back and Linda shrugged, returning back to her food.
"Stop being stupid, Louise!" Elizabeth snorted. "It was a joke. Something that you laugh to. You know .. 'hahaha?' "
"I know what it means!" she snapped back irritably.
"Calm down, Louise!" Lara said, chucking a blue hard boiled lolly over to Louise. Louise frowned, but took the lolly anyway. Maybe a sugar rush would help.
"Ahh ... behold the miracle of weekends." Ron smiled, lazily staring at his chicken leg. (A/N: No, it isn't tuna! ---For further reference, look up Jessica Simpson, chicken and tuna)
"Yep." Harry covered the piece of spongecake he was holding with some honey.
"I'm looking forward to doing nothing." Ron sank his teeth into the leg.
"Guys, I'm sorry for being so mean to you before." Louise said.
"It's OK." Elizabeth smiled, stacking her plate with pancakes.
"No, I'm sorry." Louise repeated.
"It's OK." Elizabeth repeated.
"No, I'm really sorry." Louise said, a pleading look in her eyes.
"I said it's OK." Elizabeth said, looking at Louise for a few seconds.
"You don't understand!" Louise said, looking like she desparate to apologise even though she already had - three times.
"I don't?" Elizabeth said uncertainly.
"I'm REALLY sorry." Louise looked like she was on the verge of tears.
"OK ..." Elizabeth looked around for any signs of help.
"I'm REALLY REALLY SORRY!" then the tears came.
"Gee ... did they spike the water here or something?" Elizabeth laughed uneasily.
"You've got to understand that I'm SO sorry for what I did!" Louise cried, tears spilling everywhere.
"But I do." Elizabeth said tonelessly.
"Please understand!" Louise said.
"I DO UNDERSTAND!" Elizabeth shouted. This, however, seemed to be falling onto deaf ears. And this wasn't about Linda.
"Louise, I think another sugar rush will bring you down." Lara threw over a white boiled sweet. In between sobs, Louise sucked onto the lolly.
Elizabeth leaned over to Lara and asked her what was wrong with Louise. Lara merely shrugged and mumbled something about 'PMS'.
"Darn, I just ran out of eggs." Joeline said, peering down into her empty purple sack. "I'll be right back!"
At this point, Professor Dumbledore stood up and gave a wrinkly smile to all the students looking back at him.
"I have an announcement to make." Dumbledore eyed them and gave a few random students some winks. "Tonight, we're having an Easter party to celebrate nothing else but Easter. It will be just a normal function so feel free to wear muggle clothing. The party is in the Great Hall and will start at 7.00pm sharp and will end at midnight. I hope to see you all there." He smiled, winked at some students again, and sat back down.
Chatter immediately broke out after Dumbledore sat down. What would be happening? What were they going to wear? What were they going to do? What were they going to eat?
"This is going to be great!" Ashlee said, waving her fork in the air.
"Do you seriously mean that?" Karla looked at Ashlee in horror.
"Yes." Ashlee's brows furrowed. "I think."
"It's bad enough going to class with them, but imagine actually having fun at your own expense with BOYS." Karla said, making it sound like the word 'boys' was the most disgusting swear word on the planet.
"I can imagine it." Linda said off-handedly, poking some food with her fork.
"WHAT?!" Courtney and Karla screamed in unison. Linda looked like she was a deer caught in headlights.
"What?" she said, looking around, fork still in mouth. Courtney grabbed the fork, yanked it of Linda's mouth and hit her over the head with it.
"You DEFINATELY weren't thinking clearly, Linda!" Courtney said, placing the fork back onto the table.
"I WAS EATING THAT!" Linda protested, piercing another bit of food with it.
"Why would you want to be around BOYS, anyway?" Karla asked, as if she was asking why you would get your teeth removed when you didn't have to.
Harry and Ron both coughed.
"EW!" Courtney and Karla both got up immediately. Linda raised eyebrow and Ashlee's fork stopped halfway on it's journey to her mouth.
"What?" Harry and Ron both looked at each other and to where Courtney and Karla were sitting before they got up in horror. "Did you sit on a bug or something?" Harry looked down.
"NO!" Courtney and Karla said in unison. "YOU COULD HAVE GIVEN US BOY GERMS!" Linda muttered something about 'clone freaks' to Ashlee, whose fork had finally reached her mouth.
With that, Courtney and Karla both stormed out of the Great Hall.
"Well that was certainly interesting." Rachel said mildly, returning to her food.
0---0 Later, that very same day in the library... 0---0
"You sure that this will work on Saint Potter?" Malfoy drawled as he picked up the book and skimmed where Lara's fingernail had pointed.
"Yep." Lara said. "You cast this, he won't be able to stop singing until you say so yourself. Or in the very least, won't stop rhyming."
"Impressive." Malfoy said. He picked up the book and turned a few pages. "Where did you find this?" Lara tapped her abnormally large nose.
"I have my sources." she said mysteriously. Malfoy scoffed and turned another page.
"This could certainly come in handy." He stayed on one of the pages. "Jellyfish Transformation, Bubble Burper, Malicious Moments ..." he continued to list off. "By the time we finish with Potter, he'd be a jellyfish with boils burping bubbles."
"Genius." Lara said rather egotistically. "Even if I do say so myself." Malfoy sat down on one of the couches and started reading. Lara frowned. "You seem to be getting cosy."
"So it seems I am." Malfoy said faintly as he read a section entitled 'Environmnt Enemies: From Wizard to Wasp - How to turn you enemy into an insect'.
"When are we going to cast the spell, then?" Lara asked, crossing her arms as she sat on the arm of a nearby squashy purple armchair. Malfoy stopped reading, looked up from the book and sighed. He flipped a few pages until he reached the singing spell.
"Fine, we'll cast it now." Malfoy cleared his throat.
"I like your way of thinking." Lara smirked.
"OK, here we go ..." Malfoy took a breath in. "Sonorous Melodis Dwellbrum Sinus!"
As soon as the words had left Draco's mouth, the entire castle started to rumble.
"DRACO!" Lara said angrily. "WHAT DID YOU DO?!"
"I don't know!" the walls of the library were turning a freaky shade of electric blue.
The whole castle countinued rumbling. Sounds of stones moving could be heard, and students ran out of the library in fear. Even Madame Pince had retreated to the safety of under her desk. The bookshelves were teetering dangerously, books falling off in every direction. More screaming. Lara fell off the armrest and landed on the floor of the library with an "Oomph!" Malfoy covered his head with the book and ducked next to Lara. He looked at his rumbling surroundings. Everything had a tinge of blue to it. They were glowing. What was happening? What had he done?
All of a sudden, a flash of a blinding white light, and then nothing but the blue-ish tinge.
After a few seconds, Malfoy got up and brushed his head off. He looked around.
"What did you do?!" Lara scolded, rising from her spot next to the armchair. "What did you turn us into?"
"Nothing! I don't know!" Malfoy said, picking up his coat. He had sensed that he had done something wrong, and he wasnt going to be there when Lara figured out what it was. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go."
Lara caught Malfoy's arm. "To where are you going to travel?" her voice was weirder than usual. More ... melodic. "I thought together this spell we would unravel!" she looked confused at what she had said.
"Not today, there's someone I need to find." Malfoy lied, and pulled his arm away from Lara. "Now, if you would be so kind ..."
"Draco! Don't walk away!" Lara said. "I figured out what you had to say."
"What are you talking about, do tell?" Malfoy raised an eyebrow. For some reason, he felt happy. Alive. Jumpy. Daresay ... happy? He wanted to sing! "That spell - off the couch I almost fell!"
---You're so stupid, Draco.--- Lara struck a solid sing-song note. ---Stupider than the average joe!--- (A/N: --- is a substitute for ". This is used when people sing. Yes. I typed sing.)
---You're still not making any sense.--- Malfoy sang. ---What is it? You're making me tense!---
---You cast the WRONG SPELL!--- Lara sang. ---Oh, couldn't you tell?---
"Why are we rhyming so?" Malfoy suddenly asked.
---You tell me, Draco!--- Lara shouted, angry once more. She shoved the book under his nose. ---Which spell did you read?---
"It was this one that did the deed." Malfoy pointed to the spell on the page.
"Oh you idiot! Why did I become friends with you?" Lara slapped her forehead.
"Because you'd rather not worship St Potter too." Malfoy shot back.
"It was a rhetorical question, smarty pants!" Lara snapped.
"Here we go - raving and rants ..." Malfoy rolled his eyes.
"Don't you know what you have done?" Lara asked viciously.
"My my, aren't you having fun." another eye roll.
"You cast the spell on the entire school!" Lara screamed.
"Well don't call me the bumbling fool!" Malfoy defiantly, rising out of the chair.
---It's your fault the entire castle is singing now.--- Lara's face darkened.
---And do tell why. I'm asking how!--- Malfoy said, striking a dramatic pose.
---How long does it take to reach your brain?--- Lara asked, exasperated.
---Say that again and you'll be in paaaaaain!--- Malfoy struck a high note.
"OK, OK! Everyone at school is singing right now." Lara said slowly, so that Malfoy could process it. He seemed to have gotten the drift.
"Including St Potter? To me you shall bow!" Malfoy sang triumphantly.
"Stop with the stupid rhymes, Draco." It was Lara who rolled her eyes this time. "How to reverse this spell, we need to know." She picked up the book and started flipping.
"I just say that we go with the flow." Malfoy suggested, picking up his cloak in an attempt to get out of the firing line.
"To suggest that, you really are slow." Lara mumbled, pulling him back onto the couch without looking up from the book.
"Did you find anything at all?" Malfoy smirked, obviously already knowing the answer.
"Shut up, Draco, you're making me stall." Lara snapped irritably.
"Fine then, have it your way. I'm going outside to see what other people have to say."
---Or even ... siiiiiiiiing!--- Lara held the note, her entire arm pointing towards the ceiling. They both looked at each other. Lara's arm flopped back down.
"You do that again and out the window you will fling." Malfoy drawled. Lara frowned. "You work on the book." Malfoy picked up his coat and put it on. "I'm going outside to take a look."
With that, Malfoy walked out of the library, humming a random tune.
0---0 What has befallen the school? How will they sound and will it be cool? Our story continues with our heroes. What will happen? Who knows! Why am I rhyming? Has it to do with timing? I thought with rhyming I would fail ... Anyway, on with our tale! 0---0 (A/N: 0---0 means Narrator is speaking)
Ashlee, Courtney, Karla, Elizabeth, Linda, Louise, Rachel, Harry, Ron and Hermione (A/N: Lara is still in the library) were sitting on the lawns when the shaking had begun. They had all started screaming and flung themselves onto the grass. They were all equally scared when the grass they were on had a faint tinge of blue in them. Then a sudden burst of light, and they all screamed. Nothing. Everything was back to normal - or so they thought.
"What just happened there?" Ashlee asked as she sat up.
"You tell me! It could have ruined my hair!" Elizabeth pulled out her comb and started combing.
"That was just not right." Harry said, rubbing his head.
"Hats were going to fight?" Linda sat up and looked confused.
"Don't worry, Linda dear." Rachel patted Linda's back.
"Guys, I think we have something to fear." Hermione said, looking nervously at the school grounds.
"Why are we talking this way?" Ron asked, an unreadable look on his face.
"Maybe it's just today." Courtney shrugged.
"I don't think so." Karla sad as she picked some blue-tinged grass out of her hair.
"Tell me, what is your woe?" Louise asked.
"Why are we all rhyming?" Rachel asked.
"Can't you see the silver lining?" Ashlee asked.
"What does that mean?" Everyone except for Ashlee asked.
"I'll sing it to you all, you silly bean!" Ashlee got up and struck a dramatic pose. Out of nowhere, a piano melody began to sound.
"This is really weird." Linda muttered.
"This is something that we really feared." Courtney whispered.
"What, us rhyming now?" Elizabeth asked.
"No; Ashlee singing you stupid cow!" Courtney rolled her eyes.
An argument was about to break out when Ashlee cleared her throat.
"Oh no." Karla closed her eyes.
"How could she sink so low?" Louise asked, shaking her head.
The piano melody was slow. A soft, tinkling song it was. It was a slow jazz song. Ashlee struck a pose, while everyone was in a state of horror.
---My good friends, can't you see?
Can't you see things like me?
Before we couldn't hold a tune,
But to good music, we weren't immune.
In the past, we couldn't do a thing,
But now ... we can siiiiiing!--- Ashlee 'sing' note was strong, high, long and controlled.
All of a sudden, there was a stirring upon our heroes. They were empowered. Inspired. The jazzy soft melody of the piano was haunting, and it was luring them to the music. It felt horrible to resist. They wanted to join in, to sing, to move with the music.
Then they could bear no longer. Harry, Louise and Rachel jumped up. They joined in the song with Ashlee.
---This is indeed a blessing in disguise!--- Harry sang, his left arm rising into the air as he did so.
---Obviously, now we realise,--- Louise's left arm rose into the air as well.
---That we were born to siiiiiiing!--- Rachel's left arm rose into the air, clenching as she hit the hight note surprisingly well.
---Oh, but where's your bling bling?--- Harry and Louise crooned.
"We're in a alternate universe." Ron said, mouth gaping.
"This has got to be a curse." Hermione nodded, her mouth opened slightly.
"Rachel can't normally sing." Linda said feverishly.
"Normally she can't do anything." Elizabeth agreed.
Suddenly, Ron sprang up with Linda.
"What are you two doing?!" Hermione cried desparately.
"If they sing, I'm suing." Elizabeth said wryly.
---How can you resist the urge?--- Ron fingers clicking to the beat.
---I know you're on the verge!--- Linda clicking her fingers in unison.
---Come join in!--- Ashlee, Harry, Louise, Rachel, Ron and Linda all sang. Harry and Louise then both started dancing around. Louise twirled out and Harry struck yet another pose. Louise twirled back in and kicked up her leg. All this while Ashlee, Rachel, Ron and Linda were singing ---Ooh...--- softly.
---The situation's win win!--- Harry and Louise sang, just after Harry dipped Louise down.
Like zombies, Elizabeth and Karla got up and walked to the singing (and in Harry and Louise's case, dancing) troupe.
"No! Fight it guys!" Hermione yelled. "The urge - it's all lies!"
---How can you fight such a gift?--- Karla sang, both arms rising into the air. Hermione watched in horror. Eveybody else singing were being back-up singers. This included Harry, who was still dancing around, this time with Ashlee. It also included Ron and Rachel, who were doing crazy jazz moves.
---Singing gives us this wonderful LIFT!--- Elizabeth sang, Harry and Ron lifting her up into the air as she sang the last word in the sentence, her arms in a 'Y' shape.
"No, Hermione, fight this!" she muttered to herself as she felt the urging side slowly take over. "Please, just give this urge a miss!"
---Hermione, Hermione Granger,--- Linda sang, this time to a more upbeat piano melody.
"No! Stop!" Hermione clamped her hands over her ears, but she still heard the music.
---Somebody fighting music, is there anything stranger?--- Linda continued singing, her fingers clicking.
Then the internal war of Hermione stopped. The urge to sing had gotten to her. She stood up and her fingers started clicking. This felt good ... it felt right.
---No, definately not.--- Hermione sang softly.
---Obviously I have proved to you...--- Ashlee sang, finishing her dance with Harry. ---That singing shouldn't be so poo-poo!--- the music was getting stronger, indicating the final notes.
---Muuuusic shouldn't die ...--- Ashlee held the notes and the music grew fierce. ---It should make you wanna flyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!--- The high notes pierced the ears of everybody listening. Ashlee's eyes were closed from singing such a draining note.
The music flourished, finished and everybody struck a dramatic pose. Ashlee was carried into the air by Harry and Ron, doing the same thing as Elizabeth had done seconds before.
They held the pose for a few seconds, breathing heavily, before blinking then and then finally resuming life as normal.
"Good to get that out of me." Ashlee was breathing heavily.
"Your point I can now see." Harry nodded. There were murmers of agreement, while some people took time out to nurse the stitch they had in their sides.
"Something is going on in this school." Hermione said, again surveying the school and its blue-ish tinge.
"Yeah, yeah, but wasn't singing just SO cool?" Courtney asked, jumping up and down.
0---0 Something had happened at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (obviously; students don't burst randomly into song). Was this a blessing or a curse? Who knows? We only know that today was a Hogsmeade day, so singing, dancing students would be invading Hogsmeade, bringing with them their infectious songs. 0---0
"This is going to be great!" Hermione said as the group (A/N: Including Lara) were approaching the entry of Hogsmeade.
"Going to Honeydukes is something I will never hate." Courtney sighed, heading straight for the sweet shop.
The giant pile of students dispersed into many of Hogsmead's shops. Many of them went to Madame Malkins Robes for Occasions, which had recently opened a Muggle clothing section. Others travelled to the Three Broomsticks. Some went to Zonko's Joke Shop and the rest walked randomly along the patch of shops and the Shrieking Shack.
"I wonder what's going to happen tonight." Rachel remarked off-handedly to Ashlee while they walked around the muggle clothing section of Madame Malkins.
"Maybe there's going to be a big fight." Ashlee shrugged, browsing around the t-shirt section.
"Hopefully. That would spice up any party." Rachel smirked, flipping the coat hangers of the skirt rack.
"My, my, to that you seem to be hearty." Ashlee remarked, smirking as well.
"Hahahaha." Rachel said sarcastically, picking up a denim miniskirt with candy stitching. "What about this one?"
"I don't think so, hun." Ashlee picked up an acid yellow mini and brandished it at Rachel. "This is better to your style." Rachel looked offended.
"You're just in a period of denial." Linda interrupted, before Rachel could say anything. Rachel nodded in thanks.
"Really, now?" Courtney cut in, before Ashlee could say a word.
"I think this one is more 'wow!' " Karla laughed, cutting off Linda without a worry. She was holding an aqua mini with fluro orange dots.
They all had a good laugh (except for Rachel), until Courtney decided to make a statement.
"Why do you want to buy clothes for tonight, anyway?" she asked, her nose wrinkling.
"Tonight is an occasion - there isn't a party every day." Lara said simply, picking out a black t-shirt that had 'The Weird Sisters' written in silver with also silver spider webs in the background.
"But you're dressing up for BOYS!" Karla joined in, crossing arms. She eyed the black t-shirt disdainfully, as if it should be burnt and never return to the Earth.
"Oh shut up about your stupid ploy!" Lara rolled her eyes.
"It is not a SUPID PLOY! It's a fact!" Courtney interrupted angrily, as Karla seemed too shocked to say anything at all.
"And I suppose to prove this you took some pact?" Louise raised her eyebrows.
"How would you know, you weren't even there!" Karla seemed to have recovered from her bout of shock.
"Are you four going to do anything else but rhyme and stare?" Elizabeth asked. They all looked at her, simply asking her to answer their unspoken question."You all need to worry about my hair!" she said simply, taking out her pocket mirror and comb.
They rolled their eyes.
"Can't you see the boy germs?" Courtney asked.
"Courtney - there are NO boy germs." Rachel had held onto the candy stitch denim mini and was about to try it on.
"How can you be sane on those terms?" Karla asked, her voice rising a bit.
Again, another piano melody sounded. This time, it was more up-beat and modern. A guitar riff. Some drums.
"What are you going to do?" Lara asked, even though she already knew the answer.
"We're going to sing to prove to you ..." Courtney and Karla sang together. Another guitar riff.
"Oh, please goodness no." Linda shut her eyes.
"Why must they torture us so?" Louise gulped.
---All my friends can't seem to see ...
The same things as me.
Can't they see those horrible germs?
To us, boys are ugly little worms!--- A few more beats on the drums. Another guitar bit. Piano also played violently.
"This is sooo not funny." Hermione said, looking on.
"I think I need the dunny." Ashlee got up and headed for the back of the shop.
"We really needed to know that!" Louise said.
"She's gone to spew, you stupid prat." Linda rolled her eyes.
Yet another fight, if it hadn't have been for Courtney and Karla, who decided to continue their song.
---Who needs a boy in their life?
It would probably put you in more strife.
Boys, boys - they suck their thumbs,
Boys, boys - so little they only have gums!
Boys are ugly, crazy baboons!
A girl is stupid if to a boy she swoons.
Boys, boys, boys, boys!
So immature they still play with their toys.
They always act like they've had too much rum,
Only because boys are always DUMB!--- More guitar riffs and piano melody. The drum was silent as there was an instrumental interlude. During this, Louise got up.
"Louise, no, fight the voice!" Rachel screamed as Louise went to join Courtney and Karla.
"Sorry, Rachel, but I have no choice." She took her place behind Courtney and Karla.
"Fine - if you're going down, I'm going with you!" Rachel jumped up and stood next to Louise.
"I think I'm going to need the toilet too." Linda rolled her eyes and ran off.
The drums began to play once more and the piano and guitar started the melody again.
---Who would ever want a guy?
To this I am asking why!
All they ever like is Quidditch, (to this Elizabeth protested "I like Quidditch!")
Their brain system must have a glitch!--- Louise rolled her eyes.
"Elizabeth doesn't even have a brain to glitch."
Rachel and Louise pushed both Courtney and Karla out of the way, taking centre stage.
---Who needs, who needs them guys?
All they ever do is cheat and spread lies!
They stink and think only of themselves,
And as if they'll ever work as hard as house elves!--- At the mention of the word 'house elves', Hermione got up and joined in the song. Lara also got up and joined in.
At this point, Ashlee had come back and were watching with despair, shaking their heads.
---Boys stink like dung.
And they're as pleasant as a snake tongue!
They care only of what THEY do,
So much so that they forget that girls exist too!
Why did they invade this Earth anyway?
Now, they're going to pay!--- Hermione and Larakicked up their legs and went off and started dancing with Courtnet and Karla.
Linda and Ashlee got up and started dancing, shoving Rachel and Louise off.
---I don't care for them!
Without them, the world would be a gem.--- Linda sang, with Ashlee clicking.
---Insensitive prats they are,
I just wish they would travel far...---
---And never come back!
Because ... of everything they lack.--- Ashlee and Linda sang together.
The rest of the troupe joined together to finish the song.
---Boys have no class!
They just don't care if they pass their gas.
No manners!
We need BOY BANNERS!
Keep them away from me,
Because of those germs that you cannot see.
They smell!
That's something you can't repel!
They're dumb!
Why oh why did boys have to come?
Go away!
And there you can stay!--- The last note of the song sounded long, controlled and high. Once again, they finished in a pose.
After a few seconds, they turned around to find Harry and Ron with wide open mouths.
"You know, if you didn't want an ice cream, you could've just told us." Harry said, forehead wrinkling.
"You didn't have to sing and make such a fuss." Ron nodded.
"Ice cream?" Lara's ears perked up and ran towards Harry and Ron. "Suddenly, boys aren't what they seem ..." With that, the three of them went off to get ice cream. Courtney and Karla struck dramatic poses.
"The traitor!" they both said in shock. Everyone else rolled their eyes.
"Maybe their brains have a huge crater ..." Louise winked. They laughed and waited for Rachel to pay for her mini and then set off.
As they walked along the strip of Hogsmeade, they heard random students asking why they couldn't stop rhyming or singing. At one point, they saw the rest of a routine from a couple of fourth years.
They found Lara, Harry and Ron talking over some bowls of sundae. Sitting down, our heroes started some conversations as well. They ordered some ice cream themselves. Everything was going well until Draco Malfoy approached them. They all inwardly flinched except for Harry (because he'd met Voldemort so Malfoy was a practical walk in the park) and Lara (because she's Lara).
"We need to talk, Lara. Now." Malfoy grunted, Crabbe and Goyle standing next to him like burly bodyguards.
"What a surprise. Look I'm shocked. Wow." Lara said tonelessly, leaving her ice cream to go join Malfoy.
Malfoy shooed Crabbe and Goyle away to Quality Quidditch Supplies.
"Have you figured out how to reverse the spell?" he asked, crossing his arms.
"No, not yet. There's nothing to tell." Lara said, mimicking him.
"Why can't we just tell it to stop?" Malfoy asked, his brow furrowing.
"Because you cast the spell on too big an area for it to go pop." Lara explained. "So if you read the RIGHT one, nobody would be rhyming insanely."
"Just Potter, mainly." he smirked, but it soon vanished. "But wait - what happens if we don't reverse it?"
"It's going to magically reverse itself, you git!" Lara said sarcastically, rolling her eyes at Malfoy's face when he thought that it would actually happen. "I was joking! If we don't reverse it, we won't stop, you twit!" Malfoy scowled.
"OK, OK. We'll reverse it tonight." he planned, ready to leave.
"AFTER we go grab a bite." Lara insisted. Malfoy snorted, nodded, and left.
Lara went back to the group and finished her ice cream in silence.
"Come on, we'd better go." Ashlee wiped her mouth with her napkin and got up.
"Yeah, she's right, you know." Rachel said. They got up, paid for their ice cream and headed back for Hogwarts.
0---0 And so our heroes leave for Hogwarts. Will Lara and Draco fix the spell? Or will they be doomed to rhyme forever? We're going to find out, so let's fast forward to the night ... 0---0
"This is going to be soo cool!" Elizabeth combed her hair again for the 50th time and sprayed it with her new bottle of glitzer for the 64th.
"With all that glitzer, you could have filled a pool." Linda snorted.
"I'm surprised her hair hasn't fallen out yet." Rachel said.
"You wanna make a bet?" Ashlee walked over to Elizabeth, ran her fingers through her hair and pulled out her fingers to reveal some strands of black hair in her hands. Everyone started laughing, except for Elizabeth who had proceeded to scream at Ashlee for ruining her hair with her (Ashlee's) so-called 'contaminated hands'.
Everybody was dressed already and they were only still in the dormitory because Elizabeth was still primping herself continuously for the past 15 mintues.
"Come on, hurry up!" Lara moaned, picking at her top.
"Nup." Elizabeth said, spraying some glitzer onto her hair painstakingly slowly. "Beauty takes time."
"Then why are you still here and looking like a lime?" Ashlee smirked, crossing her arms. Elizabeth scowled at her and applied some more glitz.
0---0 Yet another 15 minutes later ... 0---0
"OK! THAT'S IT!" Louise screeched, grabbing the now nearly empty glitzer bottle and chucking it across the room into the open arms of Rachel. "YOU FINISH NOW OR THE LIPGLOSS GETS IT!" Louise scrambled over and picked up Elizabeth's favourite Magical Wet Shine Diamontes (As the ad would say, "Charmed to stay on longer, glossier and wetter than wet") lipgloss and held it over the edge of the windowsill. Elizabeth yelped in horror. She was torn between looking good for the night or her Magical Wet Shine Diamontes!
"You heartless, evil creature! How could you do such a thing?!" Elizabeth yelled.
"Choose now or this-" Louise shook her hand holding the lipgloss, "- will take wing."
"OK, OK!" Elizabeth sobbed, careful not to produce any tears for the fear of ruining her mascara. "I'll save the ... lipgloss."
"Good then - no big loss." Louise handed Elizabeth her lipgloss and glitzer. Elizabeth glitzed her hair twice and then got up.
"OK then, let's go." they went for the door. All except for Courtney and Karla.
"We're not going, you know." They both crossed their arms and sat down on their beds, preparing for a fight.
"Good for you, then." Linda said, closing the door. Courtney and Karla were shocked - they couldn't believe that they chose somewhere with BOYS over THEM.
Linda sighed. "Sometimes I just get this huge urge to draw on Courtney and Karla's face the words "BOYS DO NOT HAVE COOTIES" with a blue pen." Everyone started laughing as they headed for the Great Hall.
0---0 Dating Dungbombs will return .... right now. 0---0
The Great Hall looked especially different that night. The tables had been replaced with smaller, circular ones that fit about 10 people on each one. On each plate on the tables, there was a glowstick that was charmed to glow different colours after being snapped in the middle. There were chips, cheese and crackers, dip, biscuits, chocolate, fruit, lollies and possibly every well known Wizard soda in Britain as well. There were streamers, balloons and little lights attached to the tables as well. Loud muggle music was being played in the background. If it wasn't for the ageing teachers (Dumbledore and McGonagall), giant (Hagrid), dwarf (Professor Flitwick) and an absence of shampoo (Snape), then it would have seemed like a very cool school dance.
Our heroes sat down at a table and started eating. Everything was delicious - the house elves had outdone themselves. Even the cheese and crackers tasted gourmet (if that is possible).
"Hey, Louise, pass me the Corke." Rachel said, her arm leaning across the table, indicating for the sweet almost black liquid.
"Wait! I just dropped my fork." Louise ducked under the table.
"Fine, pass me the Pepseye." Rachel leaned over to a different direction. Linda picked up a light yellow drink and handed it over to Rachel. "Linda! This is Solow! Can't you see?" Rachel put the drink down a little too hard just as Louise got up from the desk.
Since Rachel had decided to release her anger upon the bottle of Solow, the table shook a bit and that was all for a cup to come crashing down and spill its contents.
A cup of Fantsa had spilled and was now pooling onto Elizabeth's white skirt.
"RACHEL! IS THERE NO BRAIN THERE?!" Elizabeth screamed, pulling over a napkin and wiping her skirt hastily.
"Oops. And, I DO have a brain, to accuse me like that is not fair!" Rachel said blankly while the rest of the group muffled their laughter.
"NOT FAIR?! I DON'T CARE!" Elizabeth continued yellow, wiping crazily.
"I'm surprised she isn't talking about her hair ..." Lara mumbled, pulling over the Spright and pouring herself some. Elizabeth scowled.
"My skirt is horrible now!" she uttered melodramatically.
"What will you do, Elizabeth? Who, what, when, where and HOW?" Ashlee looked into ceiling in a similar manner.
"Oh shut up!" Elizabeth said irritably.
"NUP!" Ashlee retaliated. Elizabeth rolled her eyes and grabbed more napkins. "Oh for crying out loud ... Repairo!" The stain on Elizabeth's dress immediately disappeared. Elizabeth blinked.
"Repairo?" she muttered to herself. "Why didn't I think of that?" she reached over and grabbed the bottle of Sunblist.
"Because your brain's batteries are flat." Lara snorted and ate some more crackers and dip.
"They've always been that way." Ashlee said simply.
"What did you say?" Linda asked, leaning over.
"Erm .. don't worry." Ashlee said.
"OK then .. Oops, sorry!" Linda had knocked a bit of cheese off Lara's plate.
The conversation had started once again until Karla and Courtney had come down.
"Ahh, it seems that you've decided to become normal again ..." Lara muttered.
"We are normal, thank you. We were just ..."
"I'm guessing that hunger is not a must?" Louise raised her eyebrow.
"Exactly. You know me too well." Karla sat down and started eating some chips.
"I suppose ... but anybody could tell." Linda said.
A few minutes later, Harry and Ron came down and sat down at the table with Hermione.
"This looks great!" Harry said, looking around at the Great Hall. Music was still pumping and some people were dancing.
"You mean this is something that you don't hate?" Courtney moved a few positions over so she wouldn't be close to Harry.
"It's cool! Look at all the effort put in." Harry said, still looking around.
"Is it just me, or should Harry's head be in a bin?" Courtney asked, picking up a biscuit and biting into it.
Everybody except for Courtney and Karla said "It's just you."
"Oh what am I going to do?" I looked at them all. "You're all contracting boy germs!"
"And I suppose to you that boys are all worms?" Ron asked, suppressing a smile. Harry snorted. Courtney scowled.
At that moment, Dean Thomas came over to the table.
"I was just wondering ... Karla would you like to dance?" he asked really quickly, turning a shade of pink afterwards. Everybody looked at Karla and felt pity for Dean. He would never stand a chance.
"EW! NO! YOU'RE A BOY! I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY CHANCE!" Karla eyed him as if he were an ugly parasite and returned to her drink. Dean looked rejected and walked off to ask Lavender Brown to dance. Seamus Finnigan obviously didn't see any of this because ...
"Karla, would you like to dance with me?" he asked, taking a deep bow. Karla made a face of disgust.
"And what do you think my answer would be?" Karla asked.
Seamus looked hopeful, but then saw the expression on Karla's face, and so he walked off.
And so the night wore on, with people asking our heroes for a dance (with many accepted) and many not (by Karla and Courtney). Halfway through the entire night, Joeline came into the Great Hall in what seemed to be a Playboy bunny suit. Powder puff and all. If it could happen, the entire Hall became silent. Some were shocked that Joeline was wearing that. Some were horrified that this was what Joeline defined as muggle clothing. Joeline took one look at the Hall and looked shocked. But only for a few seconds, because ...
Drums began to play in a rock beat. A bass guitar and a lead guitar twanged their way in to form a hard rock song. A slight indication of a tambourine. The lights in the Great Hall stopped lighting, plunging everybody into darkness for a few seconds, before turning on again to form a spotlight on Joeline, who had taken a position on the make-shift stage. Everywhere else was filled with a soft light. The music died down only a little bit to a quiet rock song. Joeline grabbed the microphone that had magically appeared and started singing Evanescence style to the entire school.
--- Being an older student here,
You'd think that fresh news would be near.
But no ... Nobody tells me anything.
To me news they will not bring.
Because I'm ... Miss In-formed,
To me, news is ne-ver warmed. (A/N: If a word that isn't supposed to be hyphenated has one, then it's either a type-o or you're supposed to pause ever so slightly there)
I never get any news ad-mis-sions,
It's like I have no rec-og-nitions.---
The band played louder and harder and Joeline was still singing into the microphone. Students were jumping up and down as if it were a mosh pit.
--- Im little Miss Informed, never told anything,
Heck, in fact, I didn't know that I could sing!
Why oh why didn't anybody tell me the news?
That bit of info I was going to use!
Now look at me ...
Can't you see?
That I'm all Bridget Jones because of that?
In fact ... do you think I look fat? ---
It was then that the crowd cheered no. Joeline smiled and went crowd surfing while still holding the microphone. The students yelled louder and became even rowdier. Joeline finished crowd surfing them jumped back on stage to perform the last lines of the song which were quietly sung.
--- Cuz I'm Miss Informed of everything,
The bearer of all news does not bring.
I'm left being Miss Informed all alone,
Everything in my mind a numbing drone ... ---
The drums faded off and the guitars sounded their last note. The song had finished and the entire school was clapping and whistling.
"JOELINE! JOELINE! JOELINE!" they all chanted. Joeline smiled at them all, took a bow, then got off the stage. Immediately, she was flanked by at least 20 male Hogwarts students who wanted a dance.
Things were going great for Joeline and everybody else until ...
"BRUCK, BRUCK, BRUCK!" chicken noises echoed in the hair. There was a scream after a poof.
Everybody stopped and became silent. Lavender Brown was screaming - Dean Thomas who she had previously danced with - had suddenly disappeared. And had turned into nothing else but a chicken. Literally.
"DEAN!" Lavander screeched, picking up the chicken that was frantically shaking its wings. "DEAN, COME BACK! COME BACK, YOU SILLY BEAN!"
"What was that?" Lara asked as she leant behind her seat to get a better view.
"Dean's going to get eaten by a cat." Ashlee remarked off-handedly.
"WHAT?!" Lara asked in shock.
"Dean's going to get eaten by a cat ... NOT!" Ashlee giggled. Lara seemed to have recovered from her sudden heart attack.
"Dean turned into a chicken just then." Rachel said, leaning over her chair as well.
"Into a delightful little hen?" Linda smirked.
"I'd laugh if he did ... Dean IS a male, after all." Louise said, getting up to join the crowd.
"OH MY GOODNESS - PAUL!" there was another scream and another student disappeared with a poof and was replaced by a bird. However, this time it wasn't a chicken. It was ...
"A CANARY?!" Janice Hartfield, of third year, screamed out loud. Her boyfriend Paul had rather unexpectedly turned into a canary. The group couldn't help but laugh a little bit out loud, except for Hermione who thought this was a serious problem.
"Nah, Janice, Paul's a fairy!" Kylie Plum, of third year as well, snorted. She didn't really seem to be showing much sympathy.
"Canary?" Ron's ears perked up. "As in ... Canary Creams?"
"Cream? Mmm ... cream is the stuff of dreams ..." Lara said, popping another chocolate into her mouth.
"CANARY CREAMS! THAT'S IT! Paul must have eaten one of those!" Ron said, standing up suddenly.
"And he did that by how ... you propose?" Hermione asked, leaning forward.
"I don't know ... you can't really buy canary creams for a long time ... they go off after a while." Ron said, stroking his chin.
"Well, whoever did it pulled it off with style ..." Harry said, his bright green eyes misting over in thought.
No sooner had Harry said this that about 5 Fillibuster Fireworks were released into the air and exploded, showering the students with light.
"Oh yeah, they did it with style, all right." Hermione concluded grimly.
"Wait, I think there's going to be another fight ..." Ashlee, Elizabeth, Linda, Louise and Rachel got up to check what was going on. Courtney and Karla remained at the table.
As Ashlee, Elizabeth, Linda, Louise and Rachel got closer, they saw that Neville Longbottom had released the fireworks, most probably by accident or a bad discovery - Neville wasn't one to voluntarily attract attention to himself. There was a cloud of smoke surrounding him, that had presumably come from when he had released the fireworks. And in his hands, there was ... A LARGE PURPLE FOIL COVERED EGG.
The group of 5 looked at each other. They knew perfectly well where that had come from. Ashlee and Elizabeth looked around frantically, but she had gone and disappeared from view. They were about to say something when ...
"ALISON!" another chicken victim. (A/N: The next few lines will probably be the only none rhyming dialogue after the spell was cast.)
"NATHAN!" another canary victim.
"JAKE!" more fireworks.
"LEE-ANNE!" somebody turned into a rabbit.
"HANNAH!" a girl grew some rabbit ears, canary wings and chicken legs.
"ARGGH! SAM!" fireworks went off.
This happened for about 10 minutes straight, random students turning into animals, combinations of animals, and unintentionally setting off Fillibuster Fireworks.
Afterwards, a loud of hiss of smoke rose from around the Great Hall; after all, so many Fillibuster Fireworks had been set off. Silence had settled over the hall. Before, the students at Hogwarts seemed normal and happy, before the whole turning into animals thing.
"Guys, I think you'd better see this ..." Harry called. The group of 5 walked back.
"Hey, where's Lara? Where's Little Miss -" Rachel was cut off.
"Lara kind of ... had a furry transformation." Ron said, after giving Harry a hurried glance.
"Like what? I need more information!" Louise said.
"How about ... miniture playboy bunny?" Hermione pointed over to a jet black rabbit whose nose was twitching. The 5 looked at each other in shock.
"THAT'S Lara? Well ... I find that kind of funny." Linda snorted, picking up Lara the rabbit. It wriggled its legs uncomfortably.
"Hi, everyone!" Joeline appeared suddenly, still in her Playboy bunny outfit and crunching onto a biscuit.
"OK, Joeline, you've had your bit of fun." Ashlee said.
"Yeah, I suppose so." Joeline leant down to look at the black Lara rabbit. "Oh aren't you so cute! Too bad you're a bit black though ..."
"That's Lara." Linda said, brandishing the bunny at Joeline. It's eyes narrowed (as much as a bunny's could) and started moving uncomfortably again.
"Lara, Schmara." Joeline patted Lara between her big floppy ears. "I always said that you were my mini-me. And look - people are thinking that you're, dare I say it, cute!"
"If I were you, I'd suddenly become mute." Courtney said suddenly, pointing at the angry Lara rabbit. "She doesn't look very good."
"She wouldn't look good even if she could." Elizabeth rolled her eyes.
"Joeline, what did you do to those eggs?" Ashlee asked as she patted one of Lara's floppy ears.
"Ahh, 'What did you do?' she begs ..." Joeline smiled rather evilly.
"Tell us!" Ashlee said, a little louder.
"Well, nothing major. I just ... cast a little spell. So don't fuss!" Joeline said, picking up another chocolate biscuit and crunching on that.
"When will they be back?" Linda asked, patting Lara's back.
"After midnight. As I see ... sharp as a tack." Joeline finished the biscuit and reached for a slice of fruit.
Linda set Lara the rabbit onto the table and thrust some fruit at her. The bunny seemed to want chocolate and moved off in that direction, but Linda stopped it and kept on shoving the fruit at it. Eventually, Lara gave up and settled for the fruit.
0---0 Just before midnight ... 0---0
"OK, here we go." Rachel said after gulping down some watermelon.
"If Joeline was telling the truth, we will now know." Ron nodded. Lara the bunny had stopped eating and was waiting in anticipation.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1." Harry counted down. There was a shaking, and then ...
"OUCH! Well that was fun ..." Lara had turned back to her human form, and had fallen off the table.
People fell off tables, chairs and even people after they had transformed back. Lara had immediately gotten up and stormed out of the Great Hall.
"Why are you going to the front?" Karla called out, referring to the front of the school. Lara pulled up her sleeves.
"I'm on a Joeline witch hunt."
0---0 15 mintues later ... 0---0
"OK, OK!" Joeline yelled as Lara pulled her into the Great Hall by the ear. "I apologise! Forgive me!" Everybody who had turned into animals and back stared at her mercilessly.
"Please, just let me be!" Joeline begged. After a few seconds, everybody looked at each other nodded. Joeline let out a relieved sigh and got up.
The party was now over, and everybody was ready to leave. However, Lara ran to Draco (or something like quickly walking; Lara isn't capable of running) and suggested a plan. They agreed, and Lara cast the Sonorous charm on herself.
"EVERYBODY, LISTEN TO ME!" Lara said. Everybody stopped and looked at her. "NORMAL, NON-RHYMING PEOPLE WE CAN BE!" Everyone was genuinely interested and stopped to listen. "ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS SAY: I DO BELIEVE IN BROKEN TUNES, I DO, I DO!"
Everyone looked at each other as if Lara was insane, but decided to try anyway. Anything to get them normal again.
"I DO BELIEVE IN BROKEN TUNES, I DO, I DO! I DO BELIVE IN BROKEN TUNES, I DO, I DO! I DO BELIEVE IN BROKEN TUNES, I DO, I DO! I DO BELIEVE IN BROKEN TUNES, I DO, I DO! I DO BELIEVE IN BROKEN TUNES, I DO, I DO!" After saying this, the entire castle started rumbling. Everyone screamed and ducked under the tables. The enchanted ceiling was rumbling and the fake night sky was flickering. Another glow of blue, and another blinding white light, then ... nothing.
After a few seconds, everybody got up and looked at each other.
"Are we-we cured?" Elizabeth asked, looking around the Hall.
"Let's see ..." Courtney rhymed. "I think we are!"
"YEAH!" everybody gave each other high-fives while the rest of the student body were cheering and hugging each other.
"Man, I wish that would never happen to us ever again." Louise said.
"I agree." Karla said, nodding her head. "I was SO sick of rhyming."
"Yeah." Hermione smiled. "It feels so good to be normal again."
"Ahhh ..." everybody let out a relieved sigh and then headed for their dormitories in high spirits.
It certainly had been one big Easter.
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A/N: WOOHOO! Yet another chapter churned out - I hope that you loved it! Review, review. I am soo happy to be updating again, but I might not have time for another one anytime soon - school is horribly mean and I'm getting overloaded with homework. So I hope that this will keep you satisfied until the next one.
Happy reading!
--Blue - Who is currently buried under a pile of homework.