Oh I had a TERRIBLE time with this chapter AND AND AND my spellcheck
doesn't work so Im afraid this chapter will not be pleasant! Let me know if
you're all still with me!!
Oh.... Im not good at poetry at ALL! I was hoping that I could at least write some poetry in the place of songs (unless I just went ahead and stole some lyrics from some good songs) but Im not so sure. I gave it a try. When you think of them, think.... Atomic Kitten. Id like to think that they would be like that in style of music and such, but with a drummer and guitar player okay? Tell me if you like.....
Sorry for the delay. This chapter was originally going to be longer, but I broke it into two parts so I could get at least the first part of this one out. Its the focus on the band now, ,as everyone wanted (lol). Sorry about the non-existent lyrics. Maybe if I get inspired this weekend I may add them in. Enjoy.
I do not, nor will I ever own anything even remotely as cool as Harry Potter. That honour belongs to J.K. Rowling.
That Saturday, at approximately seven in the morning, four girls stood nervously in a borrowed, sound proofed Charms classroom.
"So what exactly is it that we're doing or has anyone though about that yet?" Hermione joked lightly, coming into the empty classroom. She was clutching a bottle of water and the like the rest, she was dressed very comfortably in sweatpants, a tank top and sneakers. But there was one small exception. While it was only 7am none of them were wearing any make up, save a tiny bit of mascara; but Hermione wasn't wearing a stitch and she looked just as awake and pretty as she usually did. Parvati, Lavender, and Sarah looked at her enviously but Ginny, having seen her numerous times this past summer without make up, wasn't surprised.
Hermione took a seat on top of an empty desk and looked to Lavender expectantly.
Lavender looked at Hermione and offered a little shrug.
"Umm... I'm not really sure. Its not like I've done this before or anything" Lavendar admitted and took a seat. The rest sat thinking for a moment. None of them really had any clue what to do. So, they were all grateful when Hermione suggested they look over the words again.
For the next ten minutes or so, they just sat around eachother and listened to the hum of the lyrics again until they felt that they had them memorized. It took a few more runs and some urging before Hermione finally agreed that she would try it with the words. Holding the parchment like it was a lyric sheet, she stood up....took a deep breath.....and stopped. Turning to her friends she blushed a little and bit her lip. Quietly she urged them to turn around.
"No! We wanna see!" Lavender urged but Hermione's eyes grew a little bigger.
"I can't if you guys are watching me! Its like....stage fright or something! Remember I've never done this before either!" Hermione stated simply and when the others made to protest, Hermione gave them a look. "If you don't, I'll leave" she said quite simply and they saw a smile tug at the corner of her lips. "Its not like I need to be blackmailed any longer into doing this" and her head cocked to the side mischievously. The others got a little nervous as they threw up their hands and turned their backs.
"I didn't think she'd remember," Sarah whispered to Ginny, but Ginny was just grinning.
"What was that?" Hermione demanded behind them.
"Nothing!! Just GO Hermione!" Ginny urged with friendly impatience and the others heard Hermione shuffle the papers.
They waited only a moment before the room was filled with a powerful yet sweet un-Hermione-like voice. The tune started up slowly in her crystal clear voice as she belted out the song in her creamy voice. It was slow, innocent....like a ballad.
Lavender was looking astounded. Parvati was finding it unbelievabel that Hermione had never taken vocal lessons, no one could sound that good without some sort of coaching. Sarah and Ginny waited for the next verse, and it sounded even better than before. Here the beat picked up considerably and Hermione's voice changed seamlessly to a rich, throaty attitude filled lyrics. It was, as Lavender had said before, like the song had been written for her. The tempo was upbeat and would not have been out of place in a muggle club.
It continued in much the same fashion, until the final note. No one said anything for a second until Hermione cleared her throat and they turned around. She was blushing considerably and Ginny thought that if she bit her lip anymore it would begin to bleed. Excepting to be bombarded with criticism, she was fully surprised with excited hugs and shrieks of happiness from Lavender.
"That was absolutely fantastic Hermione!! I honestly didn't think that that song would sound that good out loud!" Lavender beamed at her.
"Thanks" Hermione accepted modestly.
To get the attention off of herself she decided to move things along and cleared her throat again. "Well now we have to uh, work out the arrangement - you know drums, guitar, the harmony. Who sings what you know, I haven't heard you guys sing yet."
"What do you mean 'who sings what'?" Parvati interjected skeptically and Hermione looked at her confused.
"No way!! You're singing all of it!" Lavender said straight- forwardly.
"No! Its your song Lavender! You sing it too!" Hermione demanded and they looked at eachother heatedly. Knowing the Head Girl and her short temper VERY intimately, Lavender sighed and looked at Parvati, then to Ginny and Sarah who very adamantly shook their heads.
"Fine!! Parvati and I can sing backup, but that's it! You sound too good!" Lavender finally agreed and then looked sullen, "Although I don't think Pavvy and I are much to singing"
"Well, we could use charms....."Parvati insisted.
"You don't need charms." Hermione said abruptly and downright refused to even look for any for them. "I'm sure you're both really nice singers. Cant we just hear something?" Hermione asked and the two girls suddenly looked very nervous.
"Well.....we don't really know that song yet." Parvati pointed out and Lavender nodded. After a few moments of silent ponderment the two winked and then, without warning, burst into a surprisingly harmonious rendition of "Dancing Queen" by Abba and the other three looked very impressed. Hermione should have known. All the times the three of them goofed off to that song in the dorm would have told her something, but today they were actually trying.
"See! I told you!!" Hermione perused and smiled. Then she looked to Ginny and Sarah.
"Hey! We were only recruited only to be part of the band" Ginny reminded her, and Hermione narrowed her eyes.
"Oh yeah, then where are the instruments?" she demanded saucily surveying the room.
"Well about that....."Ginny stammered under Hermiones scrutiny.
She hadn't even though about that. She had no drums. "We could improvise?" she suggested, overturning an old metal wastebasket indicating that she could use them as a drum but Hermione just guffawed.
"My guitar's in the dorm, but I couldn't get to it because it was under Andrea's bed and she would have woken up" Sarah said shyly, not meeting Hermione's eye. She glared at them for a moment and then smiled a little at her friends effort. "If I can get you a drum set and a guitar, then Lavender and Parvati have to at least sing chorus for the demo" Hermione bargained and they all agreed. Hermione pulled her wand from the back pocket of her sweats and began to walk around the classroom surveying items in the old Charms classroom. The others looked on in eager anticipation. 'What on earth was she doing?, but Hermione answered their question when he stopped in front of a little table and muttered something and transfigured it into a drumset. Ginny laughed in surprise and rushed over to it.
"Good enough?" Hermione asked bemused as Ginny took the drumsticks and twirled them in her hand.
"Are you sure that you can play? I never heard that you could play?" Lavender asked skeptically and Ginny nodded certainly.
"Sure! Charlie learned to play the summer before he went to Romania and I kinda picked it up quickly" she explained as she pulled a seat up to them and sat down She then proceeded to provide the group with a thoroughly impressive interlude. Setting her hand to silence the symbol she ended with a little show.
"Rock on Hogwarts!" she shouted throatily and flashed a peace sign as the others laughed. Hermione then stepped sideways and transfigured a little stool into a guitar. Sarah looked excited as she picked it up and put the strap over her shoulder. She seemed natural holding the neck and strummed a few of the strings to see it was in tune.
"You know....." Hermione said out loud, "This might actually work"
Thanks to everyone who reviewed....greatly appreciated.
A little tidbit I discovered this week in a baby names book: Hermione Granger means "earthly" "farmer" How muggle.........
Oh.... Im not good at poetry at ALL! I was hoping that I could at least write some poetry in the place of songs (unless I just went ahead and stole some lyrics from some good songs) but Im not so sure. I gave it a try. When you think of them, think.... Atomic Kitten. Id like to think that they would be like that in style of music and such, but with a drummer and guitar player okay? Tell me if you like.....
Sorry for the delay. This chapter was originally going to be longer, but I broke it into two parts so I could get at least the first part of this one out. Its the focus on the band now, ,as everyone wanted (lol). Sorry about the non-existent lyrics. Maybe if I get inspired this weekend I may add them in. Enjoy.
I do not, nor will I ever own anything even remotely as cool as Harry Potter. That honour belongs to J.K. Rowling.
That Saturday, at approximately seven in the morning, four girls stood nervously in a borrowed, sound proofed Charms classroom.
"So what exactly is it that we're doing or has anyone though about that yet?" Hermione joked lightly, coming into the empty classroom. She was clutching a bottle of water and the like the rest, she was dressed very comfortably in sweatpants, a tank top and sneakers. But there was one small exception. While it was only 7am none of them were wearing any make up, save a tiny bit of mascara; but Hermione wasn't wearing a stitch and she looked just as awake and pretty as she usually did. Parvati, Lavender, and Sarah looked at her enviously but Ginny, having seen her numerous times this past summer without make up, wasn't surprised.
Hermione took a seat on top of an empty desk and looked to Lavender expectantly.
Lavender looked at Hermione and offered a little shrug.
"Umm... I'm not really sure. Its not like I've done this before or anything" Lavendar admitted and took a seat. The rest sat thinking for a moment. None of them really had any clue what to do. So, they were all grateful when Hermione suggested they look over the words again.
For the next ten minutes or so, they just sat around eachother and listened to the hum of the lyrics again until they felt that they had them memorized. It took a few more runs and some urging before Hermione finally agreed that she would try it with the words. Holding the parchment like it was a lyric sheet, she stood up....took a deep breath.....and stopped. Turning to her friends she blushed a little and bit her lip. Quietly she urged them to turn around.
"No! We wanna see!" Lavender urged but Hermione's eyes grew a little bigger.
"I can't if you guys are watching me! Its like....stage fright or something! Remember I've never done this before either!" Hermione stated simply and when the others made to protest, Hermione gave them a look. "If you don't, I'll leave" she said quite simply and they saw a smile tug at the corner of her lips. "Its not like I need to be blackmailed any longer into doing this" and her head cocked to the side mischievously. The others got a little nervous as they threw up their hands and turned their backs.
"I didn't think she'd remember," Sarah whispered to Ginny, but Ginny was just grinning.
"What was that?" Hermione demanded behind them.
"Nothing!! Just GO Hermione!" Ginny urged with friendly impatience and the others heard Hermione shuffle the papers.
They waited only a moment before the room was filled with a powerful yet sweet un-Hermione-like voice. The tune started up slowly in her crystal clear voice as she belted out the song in her creamy voice. It was slow, innocent....like a ballad.
Lavender was looking astounded. Parvati was finding it unbelievabel that Hermione had never taken vocal lessons, no one could sound that good without some sort of coaching. Sarah and Ginny waited for the next verse, and it sounded even better than before. Here the beat picked up considerably and Hermione's voice changed seamlessly to a rich, throaty attitude filled lyrics. It was, as Lavender had said before, like the song had been written for her. The tempo was upbeat and would not have been out of place in a muggle club.
It continued in much the same fashion, until the final note. No one said anything for a second until Hermione cleared her throat and they turned around. She was blushing considerably and Ginny thought that if she bit her lip anymore it would begin to bleed. Excepting to be bombarded with criticism, she was fully surprised with excited hugs and shrieks of happiness from Lavender.
"That was absolutely fantastic Hermione!! I honestly didn't think that that song would sound that good out loud!" Lavender beamed at her.
"Thanks" Hermione accepted modestly.
To get the attention off of herself she decided to move things along and cleared her throat again. "Well now we have to uh, work out the arrangement - you know drums, guitar, the harmony. Who sings what you know, I haven't heard you guys sing yet."
"What do you mean 'who sings what'?" Parvati interjected skeptically and Hermione looked at her confused.
"No way!! You're singing all of it!" Lavender said straight- forwardly.
"No! Its your song Lavender! You sing it too!" Hermione demanded and they looked at eachother heatedly. Knowing the Head Girl and her short temper VERY intimately, Lavender sighed and looked at Parvati, then to Ginny and Sarah who very adamantly shook their heads.
"Fine!! Parvati and I can sing backup, but that's it! You sound too good!" Lavender finally agreed and then looked sullen, "Although I don't think Pavvy and I are much to singing"
"Well, we could use charms....."Parvati insisted.
"You don't need charms." Hermione said abruptly and downright refused to even look for any for them. "I'm sure you're both really nice singers. Cant we just hear something?" Hermione asked and the two girls suddenly looked very nervous.
"Well.....we don't really know that song yet." Parvati pointed out and Lavender nodded. After a few moments of silent ponderment the two winked and then, without warning, burst into a surprisingly harmonious rendition of "Dancing Queen" by Abba and the other three looked very impressed. Hermione should have known. All the times the three of them goofed off to that song in the dorm would have told her something, but today they were actually trying.
"See! I told you!!" Hermione perused and smiled. Then she looked to Ginny and Sarah.
"Hey! We were only recruited only to be part of the band" Ginny reminded her, and Hermione narrowed her eyes.
"Oh yeah, then where are the instruments?" she demanded saucily surveying the room.
"Well about that....."Ginny stammered under Hermiones scrutiny.
She hadn't even though about that. She had no drums. "We could improvise?" she suggested, overturning an old metal wastebasket indicating that she could use them as a drum but Hermione just guffawed.
"My guitar's in the dorm, but I couldn't get to it because it was under Andrea's bed and she would have woken up" Sarah said shyly, not meeting Hermione's eye. She glared at them for a moment and then smiled a little at her friends effort. "If I can get you a drum set and a guitar, then Lavender and Parvati have to at least sing chorus for the demo" Hermione bargained and they all agreed. Hermione pulled her wand from the back pocket of her sweats and began to walk around the classroom surveying items in the old Charms classroom. The others looked on in eager anticipation. 'What on earth was she doing?, but Hermione answered their question when he stopped in front of a little table and muttered something and transfigured it into a drumset. Ginny laughed in surprise and rushed over to it.
"Good enough?" Hermione asked bemused as Ginny took the drumsticks and twirled them in her hand.
"Are you sure that you can play? I never heard that you could play?" Lavender asked skeptically and Ginny nodded certainly.
"Sure! Charlie learned to play the summer before he went to Romania and I kinda picked it up quickly" she explained as she pulled a seat up to them and sat down She then proceeded to provide the group with a thoroughly impressive interlude. Setting her hand to silence the symbol she ended with a little show.
"Rock on Hogwarts!" she shouted throatily and flashed a peace sign as the others laughed. Hermione then stepped sideways and transfigured a little stool into a guitar. Sarah looked excited as she picked it up and put the strap over her shoulder. She seemed natural holding the neck and strummed a few of the strings to see it was in tune.
"You know....." Hermione said out loud, "This might actually work"
Thanks to everyone who reviewed....greatly appreciated.
A little tidbit I discovered this week in a baby names book: Hermione Granger means "earthly" "farmer" How muggle.........