Lightfox, Silvertenshi, thanks so much for your reviews!! Since I got at least 2 readers, I'll keep going! (as if I wasn't going to in the first place. This amuses me).
(Please read the new author's note in CH. 1- there's something that I think needs explaining...)
Ch. 4
Hermione Granger stepped onto the stage, dressed in sparkly pumps, a purple miniskirt, and a neon blue top. There was no music this time, and complete silence (except for a clunk clunk as she was walking- she didn't seem used to these kinds of shoes- and a few catcalls) as she walked up to the center of the stage.
Suddenly, she waved her hand and Madonna's 'Ray of Light' came blaring around the room, along with two wizards from out of the back stage. She then proceeded to start singing along with the words, with those two wizards as back-up dancers. Good thing everyone was concentrating on her, because one of the back-up dancers was quite clumsy. Hermione, as well, was horribly off key- but no one was really paying attention to her singing. They were paying more attention to the growing rip along the side of her skirt, that got a little bigger after each hip movement (which was quite often, as she tried to keep time with her hips).
If you were ultimately blind and deaf, the show was quite a success. But lets give Hermione a little bit of credit here. She made an effort, and at each chorus the back-up dancers would begin break-dancing (which the clumsy one wasn't too bad at), and Hermione would stop singing and do a little dancing of her own. However, as this went on throughout the whole song, and her skirt was getting smaller and smaller, when the song finally ended with Hermione doing a series of 'hip acrobatics', (A/N- bear with me here), Hermione's now non-existent skirt decided it didn't want to cooperate anymore, and fell clean off.
At this, Hermione screamed, and the good back-up dancer flew in front of her, while the clumsy one proceeded to throw his robe off of him and wrap it around her, exposing a white shirt, black pants, and no other than Viktor Krum. As the lights came back on for the bidding, they revealed Charlie Weasley covering her up. Watching from backstage, Harry couldn't help thinking to himself that however amusing it was, it must have taken a lo-ot of convincing to get them to agree to this. But as it turns out, Hermione got some of the highest bids that night.
Most of them were between the group of rowdy goblins and Viktor, who was now posing as an audience member, but Viktor ended up getting it, because it seemed there was no way he was going to hand her over to a bunch of goblins. (A/N- for all of those in the Goblin Protection Agency, please excuse that harsh portrayal of otherwise kind and friendly goblins.)