Once More with Feeling – Harry Potter style!
Ok, part number 2, yes indeed!
More singing and synchronised dance sequences!
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from Harry Potter; they are the property of JK Rowling's brilliant mind. I do not own the storyline from Buffy either, that is someone else's (Is it Joss Whedon?).
Last time:
"Well is it just us?" Hermione asked, "I mean is it only happening to us, because that would probably mean a curse," she ventured. Harry wandered to the entrance of the hall and looked out.
"I got new mail today!" A boy was singing
"We got new mail today!" A large group sang behind him as they did synchronised dance with the mail.
"It's not just us," Harry said as he wandered back to the table.
On with the story:
"You'll never guess what happened at arithmancy," Ginny said excitedly as she ran in.
"Everyone was dancing and singing," Ron said off-handedly, not looking up.
Ginny looked disappointed and a little pissed.
"I gave birth to a boggart," she said, irritated.
Hermione looked round at her with interest, "Did it sing?"
Ginny gave her an exasperated look, "So, you guys too?" she added.
"What did you sing about?" Sirius asked as he looked at her.
"Vectors," she said simply as she sat down. Ron and Fleur were engaged with each other, whispering amongst themselves as the others talked.
"That's right!" Fleur suddenly exclaimed, "The volume, the text."
"What?" Draco asked bewildered as everyone looked at the couple.
"The volume-y text," Ron said unsteadily. Everyone continued to stare.
"The mmpph-de-report," Ron mumbled.
"The what now?" Draco asked with a raised eyebrow.
"There's just a few volumes, you know, back in the common room," Fleur elaborated.
"Yeah, we could just…" Ron said as he made motions with his hands towards the exits. Draco and Hermione exchanged a look.
"Well, Draco has the rest of us investigating bunnies at the moment, so maybe you should," Sirius said as he passed a weary hand over his face.
"Well we'll just go then," Ron said as he and Fleur stood up.
"Oui, this could blow the whole thing wide open," Fleur said breathily as she dragged Ron off out of the main hall.
"Do we have any books at all in the common room?" Ron asked as they made their way outside.
"Well who wants to be cooped up with books today?" Fleur asked as she twirled in the sun, "The sun is shining, the birds are singing." Two Ravenclaw boys walked past and gave Fleur a very appraising look.
"Those guys are checking you out," Ron said gloomily. Fleur looked at the boys.
"Actually, I think they were checking you out."
Ron made a funny face, "What are they looking at?"
"The hotness of you," Fleur said teasingly.
"More likely the hotness of you," Ron countered sulkily. Fleur laughed.
"Do I have to fight to keep you?" Ron asked sincerely, "Because I'm not large with the butch." Fleur looked at Ron's tall gangly frame and chuckled.
"I really think they were looking at you," Fleur said again.
"Well what were they looking at me for? I'm not used to people looking at me."
"And you can't imagine what they see in you?" Fleur asked quietly.
"I know exactly what they see in me," Ron said smiling at her, "You."
RW: "I lived my life in shadows, never the sun on my face.
It didn't seem so sad though; I figured that was my place.
(Ron walks from shade into patch of sunlight)
Now I'm bathed in light, something just isn't right.
I'm under your spell,
How else could it be, anyone would notice me?
It's magic I can tell,
How you set me free, brought me out so easily."
FD: "I saw a world enchanted, spirits and charms in the air,
(She and Ron are walking along a path letting coloured sparks out from their wands)
I always took for granted, that I was the only one there,
But your power shone, brighter than any I've known."
(Fleur starts to dance)
RW: "I'm under your spell,
Nothing I can do, you just took my soul with you.
You worked your charms so well,
Finally I knew, everything I'd known was true, you made me believe!"
(A musical pause as Ron and Fleur spin around with each other)
(They spin until the scene changes from outside to one of the dormitories)
FD: "The moon to the tide, I can feel you inside.
She looks at Ron suggestively as she lies down on a bed
I'm under your spell,
Surging like the sea, holding you so helplessly.
(Ron leans over her, then disappears down, out of sight)
I break with every swell,
Lost in ecstasy, spread beneath my Weasley tree,
You make me complete!
She levitates off the bed
You make me complete, you make me complete, you make me…"
"I bet they're not even working," Draco said sulkily.
"Who now?" Harry said uninterestedly.
"Ron and Fleur," Draco said, "Did you see the way they were with each other? The 'get-a-roomyness' of them," Draco scowled whilst making finger quote marks, "I bet they're…" Draco looked up and saw Ginny sitting not too far away, "singing…" he said quickly, "They're probably singing right now."
"I'm sure Ron and Fleur are making every…" Sirius began.
"Oh yeah," Draco said meaningfully.
"Malfoy," Harry said warningly. During this time, Ginny had spotted a black leather book she pocketed it before saying, "Harry, it's ok, I do know about this stuff."
The three looked at her warily.
"Besides, it's all kind of romantic," she added.
"No it's not," Harry and Draco said firmly, at the same time.
"Oh come on, singing and dancing around, what's going to be wrong with that?" Ginny asked with a big smile.
In a dungeon a boy was tap dancing helplessly. He couldn't stop himself, he kept going faster and faster until he started to smoke.
"I didn't even know I could tap-dance," he wailed. Suddenly he burst into flames and fell down dead. A shadow detached itself from the wall.
"Now that's entertainment."
The next morning Draco and Hermione were in bed together. They were in the Slytherin dormitories because everyone was too afraid of Malfoy to question a Gryffindor's presence in their territory.
"Morning," Draco yawned. Hermione smiled.
"Do you want waffles?" He asked as he watched her stretch in her revealing nightdress.
"Will you still make me waffles when we're married?" Hermione asked.
"Well I wasn't going to actually make them, I was going to get someone else to do it."
Hermione mock glared, but smiled.
"Well, will you still have someone make me waffles when we're married?" she asked, rephrasing the question.
"No," Malfoy said simply, "I'll only have them made for me," Hermione looked shocked, "but by the law, you will own half of them," he smiled at her and then kissed her.
"So, waffles? Or omelettes, we could have omelettes…" Malfoy started to blabber on to himself as Hermione swung her legs around to the side of the bed and slipped on some slippers.
HG: "This is the man that I plan to entangle, isn't he fine.
My claim to fame was as being quite brainy, thinking was mine.
But I'm out of the biz, the name I made I'll taint with his,
They only trouble is… I'll never tell."
DM: (He swings out of the bed also and sits next to Hermione)
"She is the one, she's such wonderful fun, such passion and grace.
(He looks at her with what can only be described as lusty and suggestive eyes)
Warm in the night when I'm right in her tight… (looks around quickly, and nervously) embrace, tight embrace.
(He hugs Hermione as he realises what he was about to say)
I'll never let her go, the love we've known can only grow,
There's just one thing that, no… I'll never tell."
BOTH: "'Cause there's nothing to tell."
(They wander out the bedroom, Malfoy in front)
HG: "He snores,"
DM: "She wheezes,"
HG: "Say homework and he freezes,"
DM: "She does this extra homework that I just despise."
HG: "I talk, he breezes,"
DM: "She doesn't know what pleases,"
HG: "His penis got diseases from a werewolf tribe."
BOTH: "The vibe gets kind of scary,"
DM: "Like she thinks that I'm a a fairy,"
HG: "Like it's all just temporary,"
DM: "Like her toes are kind of hairy,"
BOTH: "But it's all very well,
'Cause God knows I'll never tell."
HG: "When things get rough he,
Just hides behind his heavies,
(Points at Crabbe and Goyle who are lurking in the near background, Malfoy scowls)
Now look he's getting huffy, cause he knows that I know."
DM: "She clings, she's needy,
She's also really greedy, she…"
(Hermione cuts into shot)
HG: "His eyes are beady!"
(She sidles out of shot)
DM: "This is my verse, hello? She…"
(Music cuts in and Hermione starts dancing)
HG: Look at me, I'm dancing!"
(Malfoy joins in with the synchronised dance; they dance around a table and come back to the start)
BOTH: "You know…"
DM: "You're quite the charmer,"
HG: "I'm like a pureblood," (he snorts)
DM: "You're the cutest of the losers (she snorts) with your lips as red as rubies,
And your firm yet supple (is staring at her chest) … tight embrace."
(They do some more synchronised dance, but this time it's like ballroom dancing. They dance and then sit down at opposite ends of the table)
HG: "He's swell,"
DM: "She's sweller,"
HG: He'll always be my fella,"
DM: "That's why I'll never tell her that I'm petrified."
HG: "I've read this tale, there's wedding and betrayal,
And though that come the day I'll want to run and hide,"
BOTH: "I lied, I said it's easy, (they crawl up onto table and towards each other)
I tried, but there's these fears I can't quell."
DM: "Is she looking for a pot of gold?"
HG: "Will he look good when he's gotten old?" (is looking at Draco sceptically)
DM: "Will our lives become too stressful if I'm evilly successful?" (they get off the table)
HG: "When he gets so old and wrinkly that he looks like something crinkly,"
DM: "Am I crazy?"
HG: "Am I stupid?"
DM: "Am I marrying a mud-blood?" (she pokes him hard in the chest)
BOTH: "We could really raise the beam in making marriage a hell,
So thank God I'll never tell.
I swear that I'll never tell."
DM: "My lips are sealed."
HG: "I take the 5th."
DM: "Nothing to see, move it along."
BOTH: "I'll never… tell!"
(They both fall backwards onto a couch they've been edging towards, laughing)
Hermione and Draco were flanking Sirius as they walked down a corridor. They were both speaking at the same time.
"It's a nightmare, it's a plague," Draco started.
"It's like someone was watching us," Hermione stated.
"It's like a nightmare about a plague."
"It's like there were only three walls to the room and no fourth wall…"
"It's like I was saying all this stuff, and I couldn't stop, and it was mean and …"
"My toes are not hairy!" Hermione shouted just as Draco yelled, "My eyes are not beady!"
Sirius looked helplessly back and forth between the two as they emerged outside.
"Sirius you've got to help," Draco said desperately.
"Well, obviously emotions ar running high..." he attempted to placate.
"I mean clearly our song," Hermione said, indicating herself and Draco, "was retro-pastiche, it's never going to be a break away pop hit." Draco gave her a funny look.
"Well, I did find out that someone died in the castle, it seemed like they were burned…" Sirius began to explain as they wandered past a girl who was desperately singing to a prefect.
GIRL: "... oh won't you put that pad away?
I'm asking you please no,
It isn't right it isn't fair.
There was no shrubbery anywhere,
I think that fire wasn't there,
Why can't you let it go?
I think I've paid more than my share…"
I'm just a third year, don't you care?
Hey… I'm not wearing underwear…"
The girl's singing faded out as they travelled past.
"That's sick," Hermione gabbled, "someone's been setting fire to people?"
"I don't know," Draco muttered, "One more verse of our little ditty, and I would have been reaching for a gas can." This earned him a sharp slap.
"From what I can tell this person burnt up from the inside," Sirius explained as they walked past three Hufflepuffs dancing in synchronicity., "I quickly examined the body whilst teachers were taking witness arias…"
"But we think these things are related. The singing and dancing and burning and dying," Draco asked as he nursed his injured arm.
"Well we can't be sure of anything," Sirius said, "Harry's checking out some leads…" Sirius looked concerned, "well, in theory he is, it's just…"
"He's easing back into it," Hermione said gently, "he was pulled from some untold Hell dimension, hence all the weirdness."
"I'm helping him as much as I can, it's just…" Sirius trailed off and looked into the distance. Draco awkwardly patted his shoulder. Sirius gave him an odd look.
Harry knocked on the door to the entrance of the Ravenclaw common room. There was a groaning sound as the door was pushed open. Cho stuck her head out and looked around.
"Sun sets and he appears," she said as she disappeared back into the room, leaving the door open for Harry to climb in. Harry looked around; there was no one else there.
"There's no one else here," Harry said, voicing his thoughts.
"Thought you'd be coming so I got rid of everyone," she said with a smile, "So, come to serenade me?"
Harry gave a wry smile, "So you know what's going on?"
"Well I've seen some pretty bizarre things the past few days. Millicent Bulstrode making like Celine Dion, that one will stay with you," Cho said animatedly, "Drink?" she asked, brandishing a bottle.
"A world of no," Harry said as he shook his head and sat down.
"Any idea what's causing it?" he asked.
"Oh," Cho said, disappointment flooding her voice as her face fell, "you've only come to pump me for information."
"What else would I want to pump you for?" Harry asked. A look of shock and disbelief came over his face, "I really just said that, didn't I?"
Cho scowled, "Well I won't bore you with the small talk," she said as she went to the door and opened it, "don't know a thing."
"What's up?" Harry questioned, "You're all bad and moody."
"It's nothing," she exclaimed. Harry continued to look at her.
"It's nothing." Harry stared on.
"What?"
CC: "I died,"
("Really?" Harry asked. "No, twit, emotionally," Cho replied cuttingly. "Oh.")
"So many years ago,
But you can make me feel, like it isn't so,
And why you come to be with me I think I finally know, mmm.
You're scared, ashamed of what you feel,
And you can't tell the ones you love; you know they couldn't deal,
But whisper in a Raven's ear, doesn't make it real.
That's great, but I don't want to play,
'Cause being with you touches me, more than I can say, (Harry averts his eyes)
And since I'm only dead to you, I'm saying stay away,
(Lies down on couch and crosses her arms over her chest)
And let me rest in peace.
(Gets up and walks towards Harry)
Let me rest in peace,
Let me get some sleep,
(Picks up drink bottle and chucks it at a wall)
Let me take my love and bury it,
In a hole 6-foot deep.
I can lay by body down but I can't,
Find my sweet release,
So let me rest in peace.
(Harry makes to leave, but Cho glides to the door and blocks him)
You know, you got a willing slave, (falls to knees)
And you just love to play the thought that you might misbehave,
Until you do, I'm telling you, stop visiting my grave,
(Brandishes arms around at the common room)
And let me rest in peace.
(Music slows, and they're now walking down a corridor)
I know, I should go,
But I follow you, like a girl possessed,
There's a traitor here, beneath my breast,
And it hurts me more than you've ever guessed.
If my heart could beat it would break my chest,
But I can see, you're unimpressed, so leave me be…
And let me rest in peace,
(Starts throwing chairs around that are conveniently in the hall)
Let me get some sleep,
Let me take my love and bury it,
A whole 6-foot deep,
I can lay my body down but I can't find my sweet release!
(Harry grabs a chair from her; they lose their balance and fall)
Let me rest in peace,
(Harry lands on top of Cho)
Why won't you let me rest in peace?"
(Harry was staring at Cho as he lay on top of her. He got up quickly and ran from the scene.)
"So," Cho said calling after him, "you're not staying then?"
End part 2. Hope you enjoyed it, please read and review!
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