TITLE: Kareoke Night

Author name: Nari-chan

Author email: nari@neo-tokyo.org

Rating: PG-13

READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN CHAPTER 22: It's time for Dumbledore to sing. After this is the last chapter of this installment of Kareoke Night, I'm ending it so I can begin a sequel in Harry's time, though I may return to do a third sequel in MWPP/L time. After this chapter, vote for your favorite act, all of which will be listed below. Voting will end tomorrow night or Tuesday.

DISCLAIMER: "The Space Between" is not my song, it belongs to Dave Matthew's and a bunch of other people.



Professor Dumbledore walked up to the stage and looked around. Everyone was still gaping at him like he was insane. He probably was though, he mused.

The music began, the tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife. He took a deep breath and began to sing to everyone.

/You cannot quit me so quickly

There's no hope in you for me

No corner you could squeeze me

But I got all the time for you, love/



Everyone stared at him, not really understanding the meaning of the song yet.



/The Space Between

The tears we cry

Is the laughter keeps us coming back for more

The Space Between

The wicked lies we tell

And hope to keep safe from the pain/



James began to understand the meaning of the song, along with a few others, it still was a bit blurry though.



/But will I hold you again?

These fickle, fuddled words confuse me

Like 'Will it rain today?'

Waste the hours with talking, talking

These twisted games we're playing/



The song was telling the difference between choices, what an impact in someone's life one small decision could make…Dumbledore was warning them.



/We're strange allies

With warring hearts

What wild-eyed beast you be

The Space Between

The wicked lies we tell

And hope to keep safe from the pain/



Lily was also staring at Dumbledore, and was having her own thoughts on the subject.



/Will I hold you again?

Will I hold.../



Differences, that's what the song was about. How differences could define you…how they made who you were.



/Look at us spinning out in

The madness of a roller coaster

You know you went off like a devil

In a church in the middle of a crowded room

All we can do, my love

Is hope we don't take this ship down/

Remus, like the other two, was thinking about the song. To him it was like the struggle between good and evil…contrary to what Voldemort thought…there was a good and evil…not just power.



/The Space Between

Where you're smiling high

Is where you'll find me if I get to go

The Space Between

The bullets in our firefight

Is where I'll be hiding, waiting for you

The rain that falls

Splash in your heart

Ran like sadness down the window into...

The Space Between

Our wicked lies

Is where we hope to keep safe from pain/



Sirius also had his analysis…it told him to never give up, never to surrender to the enemy.



/Take my hand

'Cause we're walking out of here

Oh, right out of here

Love is all we need here/



Other students thought about the song as well, everyone lost in their own thoughts…the only thing getting to them were the lyrics of the song.



/The Space Between

What's wrong and right

Is where you'll find me hiding, waiting for you

The Space Between

Your heart and mine

Is the space we'll fill with time

The Space Between.../



As the song ended, applause erupted…to each person they had their own thoughts about their morals. Dumbledore bowed and walked over to the middle of the stage once again, and began to speak.



"To each their own…I hope you will all take that song into consideration in the future…Now, it's time to vote!"

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Okay, if you didn't notice during the song, everyone was taking the songs meaning to their hearts. I kind of portrayed the morals they would live by in the future, for instance, Sirius's thoughts about never surrendering and giving up got him through Azkaban. I thoguht it was a cute little way to end the story out…kind of giving it a mystical glance to it.

But it isn't over…there's still one more chapter up.

IT'S TIME TO VOTE:

Rules are one vote per reviewer, you may ONLY VOTE for one person who was featured in this story. If there is more than one group in your vote, it will not be counted.



ABOUT SILLY SONGS WITH SIRIUS/VOTING FOR SIRIUS:

If you vote for SSWS, you make one vote, and it will go for all the Silly Songs, then simply say which one you liked most! EXAMPLE: I vote for Silly Songs with Sirius – The House Elves go marching one by one



Oh, and if you vote just for Sirius singing "Flavor of the Week" put: I vote for Sirius—Flavor of the week...

YOU CAN VOTE FOR:

Peeves & Filch

Severus

Gilderoy

Nearly Headless Nick

Silly Songs with Sirius

Lucius

Lily

Peter

The Marauders

The Grey Lady

Moaning Myrtle

Madame Pomfrey

Sirus

Arabella Figg

Lily, James, Sirus and Peter

Hagrid

Rita Skeeter

Dumbledore