A/N: I thought we could take a break from the drama of the story so far and have a little silly chapter. Kind of like back when I used "Cell Block Tango" only this time it will be "La Vie Boheme" from Rent. I wanted to do this so badly but I didn't want to get too off track. Well, now I gave into the temptation and went ahead and did it. I'll be posting a real chapter right after this. :D Think of this as another "deleted scene". Enjoy! I know a lot of the stuff in the song is horribly American but I tried my best… :D

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

Christmas Eve… what a glorious time of year.

The students were all sitting at their respective tables and chatting cheerfully with each other about their classes and personal lives. The chatter had just reached its peak when suddenly the Great Hall doors burst open.

The entire student body gasped in unison as Voldemort himself pranced through those doors. None pulled out their wands however but jumped to their feet defensively. Voldemort smirked at the young students and opened his arms invitingly.

Harry slammed his fist down angrily and stalked to the front of his table and stood there defensively. A hush settled over the school as he began to talk.

"Tom Marvolo Riddle the second," Harry began tauntingly and sneered, "The enemy of wizards everywhere." Voldemort sighed and approached Harry and matched Harry's sneer.

"I came to congratulate you on your recent attempt to kill me," he chirped happily and Harry pulled away from the stench of his breath. "It went well," Voldemort added mockingly. Harry scowled and threw himself into an empty seat.

"Go to hell," Harry snapped and glared up at the towering Dark Lord. Ron was the next to speak as he stood from his seat and turned his attention towards Voldemort.

"Why did Lucy," he began before Voldemort interrupted him with an outraged reply.

"LUCIUS!"

"Miss this gathering?" Ron concluded as if Voldemort hadn't said anything. He of course wasn't just referring to Lucius but to all of the Death Eaters as well. Voldemort sighed in frustration but still did not draw his wand.

"There was a death in the 'family' if you must know," he answered with distaste. Lavender (who was ever the softy) gasped in horror and placed a dainty hand to her heart dramatically.

"Who died?" she asked breathlessly. Voldemort snorted at her sincerity but answered her anyway.

"Our rat," he snapped. Harry, Ron, and Hermione all glanced at each other and snapped their fingers.

"Pettigrew!" the called in unison. Voldemort cocked an eyebrow but continued on his way and began to circle the Gryffindor table.

"You make fun, yet I'm the one attempting to do some good!" Voldemort whined and finally came to a stop by Hermione's seat and pointed at her. "Unless you really want a neighborhood where Mudbloods piss on your stoop every night!" Hermione gasped and rapidly scooted away from Voldemort's decaying hand.

"Equality, equality is a fantasy in your head!" Voldemort insisted and even knocked gently on Dean's head while passing him. "This is my reign… equality is dead." Having said his piece, Voldemort swept down into a seat he conjured and surveyed the students curiously. Harry however was furiously shaking his head and was stalking towards Voldemort as if to hurt him. Instead though, he leapt onto the table and carefully avoided knocking over a goblet of pumpkin juice.

"Dearly beloved," he sang dramatically and motioned to the audience. "We're gathered here to say our goodbyes!" As if on cue, several boys at the table jumped to their feet and began to chant an old wizard proverb dramatically as Harry continued to sing. "Here she lies no one knew her worth… the late great daughter of Mother Earth!" Harry then began to back up slowly down the table until he came to the edge.

Still seated, several of the girls were pretending to cry into each others shoulders or were watching with rapt attention as Harry made his way down the table.

"On these nights when we celebrate the birth," Harry continued once he reached the edge closest to Voldemort. Voldemort was in a huff and refused to look at Harry. "In that little town of Bethlehem." At these words Harry mocked cradling a baby sweetly and smiled serenely at Voldemort. "We raise a glass," Harry raised a glass of pumpkin juice, "You bet your ass to… la vie boheme!" Harry then took a large swig of juice and threw the cup at the Ravenclaw table.

Instantly all the other divided tables (minus Slytherin who were glaring in contempt) jumped into the song and sang in unison with each other.

"La vie boheme!" they echoed and slammed their hands down on the tables as one group. "La vie boheme!" It was rather like a little chant with a secret meaning that only they knew. While they continued the constant chant Harry picked the tune back up and jumped down off the table dramatically.

"To days of inspiration, playing hooky, making something out of nothing! The need to express, to communicate!" Harry sang while mingling with the overly excited students. Several were now up and dancing to the mysterious rhythm while still slamming their fists into the table every now and then. "To going against the grain, going insane, going MAD!" Ron then got caught up in the idea of the song and took over for Harry so he could fade away from the spotlight.

"To loving tension, no pension, to more than one dimension!" he bellowed out and danced up to the front of the Gryffindor table. And still the other students held their chant of 'la vie boheme'. "To starving for attention, hating pretension, hating convention!" Before he could continue though Ginny jumped up next to him and interrupted him midsentence.

"Not to mention, of course, hating dear old mum and dad!" she added and Ron laughed while pushing her away. Just then, a blonde haired Ravenclaw girl jumped up on her table and began to loudly take over the stage.

"To riding your bike midday past the three piece robes!" she proclaimed and then almost as quickly a Hufflepuff jumped up on their own table.

"To fruits!" he shouted loudly with gusto.

"To no absolutes," the blonde Ravenclaw exclaimed as if in a duet with the Hufflepuff boy.

"To Absolut!" the boy echoed and grinned. "To choice!"

"To the Daily Prophet!" the girl laughed as it didn't rhyme with anything. "To any passing fad!" The girl and boy then faced each other and sang the next bit in unison gleefully.

"To being an us for once! Instead of a them!" At the word 'them' all the students (again minus the Slytherin) pointed at Voldemort and various Slytherin students with sneers.

"LA VIE BOHEME!" the entire Hall sang and the voices were overwhelming.

Just then a little house-elf ran up to the singing students and quickly squeaked an apology.

"Minor difficulties with the food… we must take your orders," he said meekly and pulled out a pen and paper. "So that's five fig puddings, a bag of wings, a stack of biscuits, some mashed potatoes, and perhaps some pasta with meatless balls?" The house-elf paused and gazed up at the students questioningly at the Gryffindor table. There were several others at the other tables.

"Eww," Seamus complained with a disgusted look on his face. Dean frowned and pointed a finger at Seamus warningly.

"It tastes the same," he insisted with a firm gaze. Ginny giggled a few rows down and snorted.

"If you close your eyes," she added with a wink. Dean scowled and looked away from her pointedly. The sting of their breakup was still strong.

Meanwhile, the elf had nodded agreeably and continued on with her list.

"And a few orders of pies, is that it here?" he asked politely with a smile. The students glanced at each other before bellowing in unison,

"Pumpkins and butterbeer!" After this was proclaimed the students really broke loose and suddenly Lavender and Padma were up on the table.

"To handcrafted beers made in local breweries," Lavender began and then made room for her friend.

"To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese!" Padma added and then two girls sang in unison.

"To leather, to muggles, to curry vindaloo! To huevos rancheros and Maya Angelou!" they chirped and then split ceremoniously to opposite ends of the table. Hermione then hopped up along with Neville.

"Compassion, to fashion, to passion when it's new!" Hermione sang and did a small sashay down the table. She was still terribly modest and Draco in particular sniggered at her pathetic attempts.

"To remembralls, to cute toads, to anything taboo!" Neville finished. Hermione laughed and gave him a high five, causing Neville to blush and smile widely. Harry then jumped up and Hermione excitedly began to sing with him this time.

"Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow," both friends made a swooping motion with their arms like a rainbow, "To blow off Auntie Em!" When there was a tense silence and confused glances from all the other Wizarding students both Harry and Hermione sighed and shrugged.

"LA VIE BOHEME!" they screamed and the rest joined back in. A staff member then noticed a young couple furiously snogging in the corner and instantly went to break it up.

"Ahem!" Snape tapped her foot impatiently. The boy looked up and grinned sneakily before motioning to his sister.

"Hey mister, she's my sister!" Snape cocked an eyebrow disbelievingly and frowned.

"Sister…" he drawled in obvious distaste. The girl then laid a hand on her boyfriend's shoulder and grinned.

"We're close," she insisted with a devilish smirk. (A/N: I know… out of order.)

Snape threw his hands up in defeat and stalked away to try and quiet the Ravenclaw table in vain. The other students saw him and suddenly turned to face the teacher that dared break up their party.

"Trisexuals, bisexuals, homosapiens, carcinogens, hallucinogens, men…" there came a slight pause before Harry happily came up with a substitute.

"Rufus Scrimgeour!" This received a hail of 'hell yeahs!' from several students while others glowered moodily.

"To apathy to entropy to AMP UP THE ECSTASY!" all of Gryffindor exclaimed in unison while the other students kept the beat.

"Vaclav Havel, the Weird Sisters, ABC!" Ravenclaw also shouted after Gryffindor had finished and soon Hufflepuff was up.

"To no shame and never playing the fame game!" the sweet Hufflepuffs sang honestly. Instantly though Seamus Finnegan was ushered up to the front where he stood up on a tall chair and drunkenly proclaimed,

"To firewhiskey!" The students laughed as Seamus was pushed off the chair and nearly escaped a terrible fall. Now the houses combined (and several Slytherins could even be seen abandoning their table and dancing with the other three houses) finished out the song.

"To suddenly it's between God and me!" The students then engaged in their own dramatic gestures before snapping back into normal positions. "To empty classrooms!" Several teachers gasped but didn't dare interfere with the mini protest. "La vie boheme!"

Harry then motioned for people to clear the tables and allowed himself to step up onto the closest one and cleared his throat loudly.

"In honor of the death of Equality Ginny Weasley will perform her Bat Bogey Hex/Curse…" When Ginny heard her name called she eagerly leapt onto the table and danced around with her wand waving dangerously. "To the sounds of peevish Slytherins getting their arses kicked." Ginny laughed and Harry also grinned before Ron gently elbowed him out of the way.

"And Harry Potter, respectively known as the Boy-Who-Lived, will delight us by failing yet another Potions test before Christmas is over," Ron teasingly announced and caused several people to laugh uncontrollably. Harry frowned but was really holding back laughter the best he could. Ginny then took the plate of embarrassing some other soul and pointed at Hermione impishly.

"And Hermione Granger, just back from the Library, will stun the crowds with her infinite knowledge of Hogwarts and its founders based off what she read in Hogwarts: A History. Which she always studies!" There came several whoops from the Gryffindors and Hermione scowled playfully. She had also jumped onto the table at the mention of her name and was now pointing at Ronald.

"Ron Weasley will demonstrate his unfailing ability to blow up things with his old, broken wand, which he's kept as a token since Second Year," Hermione shouted and ducked a fierce glare from Ron. Harry clapped his mate on the shoulder and nodded approvingly at Hermione. Harry then turned and pointed to the Ravenclaws and nodded at a certain distant blonde.

"Not to mention, Luna Lovegood who will gladly give you all the information you need about the 'creatures' featured in her father's 'magazine'!" Harry announced with a grin and watched as Luna stood up and bowed seriously.

"And Neville Longbottom will aid us in the ways of Herbology the best he can since it's the only subject he's actually any good at!" Neville blushed but accepted it as the truth. Besides, he loved Herbology!

Ginny caught Harry's eye and motioned him to come over for a minute. The other students continued on with their descriptive monologues of each other while the two students conspicuously moved to the side and argued in fierce whispers.

"Excuse me, did I do something wrong? I've been flirting but ignored all night long!" Ginny protested and scowled deeply at Harry. Harry grimaced and shook his head.

"I've been trying, I'm not lying!" he insisted while Ginny rolled her eyes. "No one's perfect and I've got baggage!" Harry retaliated after seeing the exasperated look on Ginny's face, anger growing. Ginny's eyes widened and she threw her hands up.

"Life's too short hun, time is flying!" she said, raising her voice up beyond the hushed whispers and catching the attention of Ron and Hermione. "I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine!" Ron looked outraged but Hermione laid a calming hand on his shoulder, smiling.

"I should tell you," Harry replied distantly and turning his attention away from the fierce redhead.

"I've got baggage too!" Ginny protested loudly.

"Should tell you," Harry repeated with his resolve weakening.

"Baggage!" they sang together with Ginny staring intensely at Harry while he looked pointedly away.

"PUMPKINS AND BUTTERBEER!" Ron and Hermione shouted loudly at a passing house-elf to distract any nosey students from the argument occurring. Neither Ginny nor Harry noticed this however.

Harry saw that fierce gaze in Ginny's eyes and felt his knees go weak. He held his arm out to her and Ginny took it cautiously and eyeing Harry curiously.

("I Should Tell You" commences as normal)

A/N: Wow… you have NO idea how long I've been wanting to get that out of my system! Anyway, I'm gonna rock out to "La Vie Boheme" for a while longer and then post the rest of the normal chapter. Consider yourselves lucky. :D Please review!