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Disclaimer: Not mine, but apparently if I broke into a printing warehouse it could be! lol jokes
So, the events which transpired during their recording were kept under tabs, and as quickly as it had begun Lavender sent the tape via an express owl from the Hogsmeade post. Ginny and Sarah headed off to phone Sarah's parents, Lavender and Parvati in the other direction to find Hannah and tell her the news (her being the only person Hermione had agreed to let them tell, she was going to tell Ron today). They were about to ask Hermione along but when they saw how preoccupied she was scanning the crowd for sign of a redhead no doubt, they fluttered off giggling.
Hermione was concentrating deeply, her eyebrows furrowed as she stood on her tiptoes and scanned the crowd. It was getting closer to Halloween now and everyone was eager to load up on sweets, so the shops were definately crowded. She set her heels down defeatedly and tightened her pony tail just as a voice from behind her nearly succeeded in making her jump out of her skin.
"Head Girl too busy nowadays to talk to her very own boyfriend?" someone said slyly.
Spinning around quickly, she looked into the joking green eyes of her very handsome boyfriend. Clutching her chest she playfully socked him in the shoulder and grinned madly.
"No of course not! I was looking for you everywhere! I have a lot to tell you" she gushed, and her hand slipped into his. He winked and they took off toward the Shrieking Shack for some much needed alone time (which I am safe to say lasted the whole week, with this 'music nonsense' out of the way...... for now)
At Friday morning breakfast (which was always a treat as everyone was generally in a good mood being Friday) Lavender was taken by surprise when an official looking letter was dropped in her lap. Puzzled she opened it up and read. Hermione and Parvati looked on and then Lavenders mouth opened wide. She started gaping and making funny pitchy noises. Parvati and Hermione looked at her confusedly until Hermione took the letter from Lavenders hand. The commotion had caught the attention of Sarah, Ginny and Hannah (who was at their table that morning) and they turned around.
"What is it Lav?" Hermione asked, setting the note beside her. Lavender looked absolutely delighted in something but was having no success in putting the events to words. However, Parvati who felt that she had the right as Lavenders best friend to read the mail, read the letter and laughed ecstatically.
Parvati cleared her throat and wasted no time in filling in the rest of them.
"From Ursilla Warteger, secretary of Philius T. Doppelganger, record producer for Wizarding Wireless," she read and looked around to make sure they were all listening. She continued dramatically, "As you already know, I have personally reviewed your tape and am very pleases with your performance. It may not be public knowledge yet, but the Weird Sisters had a falling out of sorts prior to the summer and the group has fallen apart. In the meantime we have been looking internationally for a group of your calibre and have had no success until now. I am very interested in talking to you young witches about possibly signing onto a recording contract with this company. Perhaps a meeting shall be in order? I know all of you are in Hogwarts (at this Hermione looked deeply confused..... they hadn't sent names or anything of the sort), how would the next Hogsmeade weekend be, the weekend before Halloween? The Three Broomsticks will do nicely, say 3pm? I hope to see you there. Sincerely Philius T. Doppelganger. PS You girls look fantastic! Just the sort of natural beauty look we need" Parvati finished hardly taking a breath.
By now, Ginny and Sarah were just as excited as Parvati and Lavender (who had by this time summoned the power to talk again), but Hermione was not so easily tricked.
"Say Lavender...." she spoke slyly, elongating each word, "how'd he know we went to Hogwarts? And what's this part about us 'having natural beauty'? As I understand it he has no idea of who we are......"
Lavender looked sheepishly at Hermione, turned beat red and turned her head away.
"Well I kinda sorta sent him that picture of us in our uniforms that Colin took when we got off the Express in September"
"That one with us laughing at Seamus cause he had his robes on backwards? Ohhh I like that one!" Hannah said.
"Oh really!" Hermione asked in mocked surprise and flashed her a very furious look. Even though she could be considered a very close friend of Hermione, Lavender still feared the wrath. Parvati however jumped into her defence, albeit a little apprehensively for the same reasons as Lavender.
"Come on Hermione! No big deal! Look well just send him an owl back saying we cants meet him?" she offered but she was immediately met with protests from the others around her.
"No way! You cant! I mean... we could be the next big thing ya know?" Ginny said and was quickly shushed by Sarah who noticed the confused stares they were getting from their spectacle.
"Yes I know!" Lavender added and looked at Hermione pleadingly.
"Do you even comprehend how much time this has already taken from our schedule? And so what happens if it does work Lavender? What then? Hmmm? Have you thought about that? We're 17 for Merlins sake!" Hermione countered the blonde.
"I know but just look at it this way.....it sure beats working for the Ministry or whatever" she answered and this made the others think about what exactly they WERE going to do after Hogwarts. Being a member of a new (possibly) famous band definately sounded far more appealing then working at some boring branch of the ministry.
But Hermione wasnt going to budge. She had already been betrayed by these girls once and had no plans on being swayed on this issue. Narrowing her eyes, she leaned back a alitle and crossed her arms. The others exchanged nervous glances, knowing Hermione wished to be amused with logical reasons as to why they should do it.
"If you dont want to do it we could pretend Hannahs you ya know?" Sarah suggested but Ginny shook her head.
"No, he would eventually have to see us sing and no offense Hannah, you cant carry a note" Ginny said and Hannah just shrugged, acknowledging her tone-deafness.They would have to make a pretty good argument for Hermione to agree.
Subsequently it took them nearly the whole day of begging and pleading and even some urging and some 'It'l be fun!" on Rons part for her to finally agree. Ron, as well as Hermione never really thought it would get any further.After that Ron had rushed off to practice leaving Hermione alone with the girls. A few moments of awkward silence passed before Hermione smiled a little, alleviating the tense feeling the other girls had had. And finally they all smiled, and Hermione who now had something other than NEWTS on her mind, the others were already gushing about how exciting this would be.
Before dinner, the wind really picked up and so the girls left the courtyard and went into dinner. Neither Ron or Harry or any of the other Gryffindor Quidditch team were there and so Hermione guessed that Harry had them practicing harder than usual for the upcoming match against Ravenclaw.
Hermione was talking silently to Ginny when she could feel someone behind her, although they did not speak. She turned around in her seat, fully excepting it to be Ron but it was even better.... Pansy Parkinson stood smugly behind her.
"So Granger, word around the school is that you snagged Weasley." she spoke vehemently and Hermione scoffed and looked at her expectantly. Pansy, upon Draco's conversion to the 'good side', had turned her attentions to a certain Weasley and it was no secret around Hogwarts that any girl Pansy found to be snaking onto Ron would be sorry. Although Draco had done a full 180, Pansy was still her nasty pug-faced self and Hermione was having trouble trying not to laugh at this situation. Lavender, Parvati, Sarah and Ginny all focused their attention on Pansy.
"Tell me m...." Pansy almost said mudblood but thought better of it, "how it was that someone who has no social standing in the wizarding world could possibly convince a Weasley to shag her?" she finished smugly. Hermione went beat red at the insinuation. 'Her and Ron....never... what!?'
"Well...." Pansy said and leaned in closer to Hermione grinning wickedly and no doubt said something particularly nasty to Hermione because her eyes went wide and she shook her head in disbelief. Ginny, sitting beside Hermione immediately stood up and pulled her sleeves up in a daring attempt to fight Pansy.
"Parkinson, I'm going to beat you so bad you're going to..."Ginny threatened her face darker then Hermione's in anger. By then, the whole school was looking over anxiously. Sarah was urging Ginny to sit down, as the teachers had become interested in the events of the Gryffindor table. Before a teacher could make their way down however, Hermione stood up on her wobbly legs and looked Pansy straight in the eye. Head Girl power kicking in she simply said:
"Detention Parkinson, and next time you feel the need to insult me or anyone else I know, don't even try it." Hermione finished her warning and still raving mad walked calmly from the Great Hall. Everyone began to whisper and Ginny looked like she wanted to hex Pansy into next week she stood there smugly. However that smug look was wiped off her face when Draco, who had been watching the scene from straight accross the Hall, stood up and very casually yelled.
"Hey Parkinson, sit the hell down, you're ruining my dinner!"
Pansy looked absolutely horrified as the whole Hall snickered and she ran out, Blaise following closely on her heels. Ginny looked over to Draco and smiled at him. She, as well as everyone else, definitely liked the new Draco much better.
Hermione was pacing furiously inside her dorm room. 'How dare Pansy suggest I'm some sort of...some tramp!' she was muttering bitterly under breath, still caught up in what Pansy had whispered to her. She needed something to get her mind off of the confrontation so she stalked into the bathroom and ran the shower. However she was so lost in her anger that she didn't notice the sniggering in the corner until the shower went ice cold and she bolted out from behind the curtain, naked and dripping wet. Peeves, was sitting in the corner blowing her a raspberry as he floated towards the ceiling.
"Oh Head Girl! Ashamed of nothing are you?" he giggled madly and dove down through the floor while Hermione threatened and cursed and then grew angry again as she grabbed a towel and covered herself. Shivering and feeling painful goosebumps rising all over her body as well as the lathery shampoo dripping down her back, she groaned loudly in frustration. She flew from the room over to the next available warm shower, which just so happened to be the Seventh Year Boys Dormitory.
Bursting into the dormitory she went immediately to the bathroom.
Dean and Seamus, who were getting changed from Quidditch for diner, were absolutely surprised to say the least.
"Umm I dont think..." Dean started to sputter and Seamus elbowed him to shut up, giving him a look and Dean immediately caught on.
"I'm Head Girl!," Hermione shouted, completely out of character in her anger, "I can do whatever the Hell I want!" And with that she entered the bathroom and slammed the door shut. They could hear the shower start and then both sat dumbfounded on Neville's bed. Not taking their eyes away from the door, Seamus was the first to speak.
"Hermione Granger is in OUR bathroom, naked, having a shower!" he said, not believing his luck.
Dean nodded, then whispered low, lest someone hear him.
"We just saw the hottest girl in the school -the Head Girl- no doubt in nothing but a towel. A very small towel at that!" They both looked at eachother and grinned madly.
"Think we should tell someone?" Dean asked at little worried at the repercussions of what would happen if a teacher suddenly walked in.
"God no! Like she said, she's Head Girl and she can do whatever she wants. That's fine by me!" he answered and ran his hands through his hair.
A few moments later, Harry and Ron entered the room, still carrying their brooms and looking very dirty. They were chatting about something until they saw Dean and Seamus staring bewildered at the door. They also heard the shower running and, having passed Neville on their way up wondered who was in the shower.
Harry walked over to his bed and pout down the broom.
"So who's in there?" he asked, and Ron moved to stand beside the boys, waiting for the answer.
"Huh?" Seamus mumbled, coming from his reverie of no doubt dirty thoughts to see who had spoken. Ron laughed and was smiling broadly.
"Who is in the shower?" Harry asked again and Dean and Seamus exchanged knowing glances.
"Just wait." Dean smiled and looked back at the door.
Completely interested in the surprise, Harry and Ron took a seat beside them an waited.
The smiles were wiped right off of Harry and Ron's face when the door opened to reveal Hermione. The shower seemed to have calmed her bad mood and barely even blushed when she saw her boyfriend and his dorm mates ogling her.
"Oh hi! Thanks for letting me in," she said to Dean and Seamus who merely nodded. "Oh, Harry I borrowed your bathrobe, at least I think its yours" she said to him and Harry blushed and averted his eyes. It was like seeing your own sister in nothing but a bathrobe.
Ron was making clucking noises in his throat as Hermione smiled and left the room.
Well? I really wanted to put that in. Hope it doesn't make you not want to read anymore. I have the next part almost written and it includes the meeting with Doppelganger and also an unexpected tragedy (but like I said its nothing big at all) This will probably be about fifteen chapters, and will end with a big shebang around Christmas. I hope no one hates the Ron/Hermione stuff because I love that ship and really wanted to write something with it. Reviews and feedback welcomed.
Disclaimer: Not mine, but apparently if I broke into a printing warehouse it could be! lol jokes
So, the events which transpired during their recording were kept under tabs, and as quickly as it had begun Lavender sent the tape via an express owl from the Hogsmeade post. Ginny and Sarah headed off to phone Sarah's parents, Lavender and Parvati in the other direction to find Hannah and tell her the news (her being the only person Hermione had agreed to let them tell, she was going to tell Ron today). They were about to ask Hermione along but when they saw how preoccupied she was scanning the crowd for sign of a redhead no doubt, they fluttered off giggling.
Hermione was concentrating deeply, her eyebrows furrowed as she stood on her tiptoes and scanned the crowd. It was getting closer to Halloween now and everyone was eager to load up on sweets, so the shops were definately crowded. She set her heels down defeatedly and tightened her pony tail just as a voice from behind her nearly succeeded in making her jump out of her skin.
"Head Girl too busy nowadays to talk to her very own boyfriend?" someone said slyly.
Spinning around quickly, she looked into the joking green eyes of her very handsome boyfriend. Clutching her chest she playfully socked him in the shoulder and grinned madly.
"No of course not! I was looking for you everywhere! I have a lot to tell you" she gushed, and her hand slipped into his. He winked and they took off toward the Shrieking Shack for some much needed alone time (which I am safe to say lasted the whole week, with this 'music nonsense' out of the way...... for now)
At Friday morning breakfast (which was always a treat as everyone was generally in a good mood being Friday) Lavender was taken by surprise when an official looking letter was dropped in her lap. Puzzled she opened it up and read. Hermione and Parvati looked on and then Lavenders mouth opened wide. She started gaping and making funny pitchy noises. Parvati and Hermione looked at her confusedly until Hermione took the letter from Lavenders hand. The commotion had caught the attention of Sarah, Ginny and Hannah (who was at their table that morning) and they turned around.
"What is it Lav?" Hermione asked, setting the note beside her. Lavender looked absolutely delighted in something but was having no success in putting the events to words. However, Parvati who felt that she had the right as Lavenders best friend to read the mail, read the letter and laughed ecstatically.
Parvati cleared her throat and wasted no time in filling in the rest of them.
"From Ursilla Warteger, secretary of Philius T. Doppelganger, record producer for Wizarding Wireless," she read and looked around to make sure they were all listening. She continued dramatically, "As you already know, I have personally reviewed your tape and am very pleases with your performance. It may not be public knowledge yet, but the Weird Sisters had a falling out of sorts prior to the summer and the group has fallen apart. In the meantime we have been looking internationally for a group of your calibre and have had no success until now. I am very interested in talking to you young witches about possibly signing onto a recording contract with this company. Perhaps a meeting shall be in order? I know all of you are in Hogwarts (at this Hermione looked deeply confused..... they hadn't sent names or anything of the sort), how would the next Hogsmeade weekend be, the weekend before Halloween? The Three Broomsticks will do nicely, say 3pm? I hope to see you there. Sincerely Philius T. Doppelganger. PS You girls look fantastic! Just the sort of natural beauty look we need" Parvati finished hardly taking a breath.
By now, Ginny and Sarah were just as excited as Parvati and Lavender (who had by this time summoned the power to talk again), but Hermione was not so easily tricked.
"Say Lavender...." she spoke slyly, elongating each word, "how'd he know we went to Hogwarts? And what's this part about us 'having natural beauty'? As I understand it he has no idea of who we are......"
Lavender looked sheepishly at Hermione, turned beat red and turned her head away.
"Well I kinda sorta sent him that picture of us in our uniforms that Colin took when we got off the Express in September"
"That one with us laughing at Seamus cause he had his robes on backwards? Ohhh I like that one!" Hannah said.
"Oh really!" Hermione asked in mocked surprise and flashed her a very furious look. Even though she could be considered a very close friend of Hermione, Lavender still feared the wrath. Parvati however jumped into her defence, albeit a little apprehensively for the same reasons as Lavender.
"Come on Hermione! No big deal! Look well just send him an owl back saying we cants meet him?" she offered but she was immediately met with protests from the others around her.
"No way! You cant! I mean... we could be the next big thing ya know?" Ginny said and was quickly shushed by Sarah who noticed the confused stares they were getting from their spectacle.
"Yes I know!" Lavender added and looked at Hermione pleadingly.
"Do you even comprehend how much time this has already taken from our schedule? And so what happens if it does work Lavender? What then? Hmmm? Have you thought about that? We're 17 for Merlins sake!" Hermione countered the blonde.
"I know but just look at it this way.....it sure beats working for the Ministry or whatever" she answered and this made the others think about what exactly they WERE going to do after Hogwarts. Being a member of a new (possibly) famous band definately sounded far more appealing then working at some boring branch of the ministry.
But Hermione wasnt going to budge. She had already been betrayed by these girls once and had no plans on being swayed on this issue. Narrowing her eyes, she leaned back a alitle and crossed her arms. The others exchanged nervous glances, knowing Hermione wished to be amused with logical reasons as to why they should do it.
"If you dont want to do it we could pretend Hannahs you ya know?" Sarah suggested but Ginny shook her head.
"No, he would eventually have to see us sing and no offense Hannah, you cant carry a note" Ginny said and Hannah just shrugged, acknowledging her tone-deafness.They would have to make a pretty good argument for Hermione to agree.
Subsequently it took them nearly the whole day of begging and pleading and even some urging and some 'It'l be fun!" on Rons part for her to finally agree. Ron, as well as Hermione never really thought it would get any further.After that Ron had rushed off to practice leaving Hermione alone with the girls. A few moments of awkward silence passed before Hermione smiled a little, alleviating the tense feeling the other girls had had. And finally they all smiled, and Hermione who now had something other than NEWTS on her mind, the others were already gushing about how exciting this would be.
Before dinner, the wind really picked up and so the girls left the courtyard and went into dinner. Neither Ron or Harry or any of the other Gryffindor Quidditch team were there and so Hermione guessed that Harry had them practicing harder than usual for the upcoming match against Ravenclaw.
Hermione was talking silently to Ginny when she could feel someone behind her, although they did not speak. She turned around in her seat, fully excepting it to be Ron but it was even better.... Pansy Parkinson stood smugly behind her.
"So Granger, word around the school is that you snagged Weasley." she spoke vehemently and Hermione scoffed and looked at her expectantly. Pansy, upon Draco's conversion to the 'good side', had turned her attentions to a certain Weasley and it was no secret around Hogwarts that any girl Pansy found to be snaking onto Ron would be sorry. Although Draco had done a full 180, Pansy was still her nasty pug-faced self and Hermione was having trouble trying not to laugh at this situation. Lavender, Parvati, Sarah and Ginny all focused their attention on Pansy.
"Tell me m...." Pansy almost said mudblood but thought better of it, "how it was that someone who has no social standing in the wizarding world could possibly convince a Weasley to shag her?" she finished smugly. Hermione went beat red at the insinuation. 'Her and Ron....never... what!?'
"Well...." Pansy said and leaned in closer to Hermione grinning wickedly and no doubt said something particularly nasty to Hermione because her eyes went wide and she shook her head in disbelief. Ginny, sitting beside Hermione immediately stood up and pulled her sleeves up in a daring attempt to fight Pansy.
"Parkinson, I'm going to beat you so bad you're going to..."Ginny threatened her face darker then Hermione's in anger. By then, the whole school was looking over anxiously. Sarah was urging Ginny to sit down, as the teachers had become interested in the events of the Gryffindor table. Before a teacher could make their way down however, Hermione stood up on her wobbly legs and looked Pansy straight in the eye. Head Girl power kicking in she simply said:
"Detention Parkinson, and next time you feel the need to insult me or anyone else I know, don't even try it." Hermione finished her warning and still raving mad walked calmly from the Great Hall. Everyone began to whisper and Ginny looked like she wanted to hex Pansy into next week she stood there smugly. However that smug look was wiped off her face when Draco, who had been watching the scene from straight accross the Hall, stood up and very casually yelled.
"Hey Parkinson, sit the hell down, you're ruining my dinner!"
Pansy looked absolutely horrified as the whole Hall snickered and she ran out, Blaise following closely on her heels. Ginny looked over to Draco and smiled at him. She, as well as everyone else, definitely liked the new Draco much better.
Hermione was pacing furiously inside her dorm room. 'How dare Pansy suggest I'm some sort of...some tramp!' she was muttering bitterly under breath, still caught up in what Pansy had whispered to her. She needed something to get her mind off of the confrontation so she stalked into the bathroom and ran the shower. However she was so lost in her anger that she didn't notice the sniggering in the corner until the shower went ice cold and she bolted out from behind the curtain, naked and dripping wet. Peeves, was sitting in the corner blowing her a raspberry as he floated towards the ceiling.
"Oh Head Girl! Ashamed of nothing are you?" he giggled madly and dove down through the floor while Hermione threatened and cursed and then grew angry again as she grabbed a towel and covered herself. Shivering and feeling painful goosebumps rising all over her body as well as the lathery shampoo dripping down her back, she groaned loudly in frustration. She flew from the room over to the next available warm shower, which just so happened to be the Seventh Year Boys Dormitory.
Bursting into the dormitory she went immediately to the bathroom.
Dean and Seamus, who were getting changed from Quidditch for diner, were absolutely surprised to say the least.
"Umm I dont think..." Dean started to sputter and Seamus elbowed him to shut up, giving him a look and Dean immediately caught on.
"I'm Head Girl!," Hermione shouted, completely out of character in her anger, "I can do whatever the Hell I want!" And with that she entered the bathroom and slammed the door shut. They could hear the shower start and then both sat dumbfounded on Neville's bed. Not taking their eyes away from the door, Seamus was the first to speak.
"Hermione Granger is in OUR bathroom, naked, having a shower!" he said, not believing his luck.
Dean nodded, then whispered low, lest someone hear him.
"We just saw the hottest girl in the school -the Head Girl- no doubt in nothing but a towel. A very small towel at that!" They both looked at eachother and grinned madly.
"Think we should tell someone?" Dean asked at little worried at the repercussions of what would happen if a teacher suddenly walked in.
"God no! Like she said, she's Head Girl and she can do whatever she wants. That's fine by me!" he answered and ran his hands through his hair.
A few moments later, Harry and Ron entered the room, still carrying their brooms and looking very dirty. They were chatting about something until they saw Dean and Seamus staring bewildered at the door. They also heard the shower running and, having passed Neville on their way up wondered who was in the shower.
Harry walked over to his bed and pout down the broom.
"So who's in there?" he asked, and Ron moved to stand beside the boys, waiting for the answer.
"Huh?" Seamus mumbled, coming from his reverie of no doubt dirty thoughts to see who had spoken. Ron laughed and was smiling broadly.
"Who is in the shower?" Harry asked again and Dean and Seamus exchanged knowing glances.
"Just wait." Dean smiled and looked back at the door.
Completely interested in the surprise, Harry and Ron took a seat beside them an waited.
The smiles were wiped right off of Harry and Ron's face when the door opened to reveal Hermione. The shower seemed to have calmed her bad mood and barely even blushed when she saw her boyfriend and his dorm mates ogling her.
"Oh hi! Thanks for letting me in," she said to Dean and Seamus who merely nodded. "Oh, Harry I borrowed your bathrobe, at least I think its yours" she said to him and Harry blushed and averted his eyes. It was like seeing your own sister in nothing but a bathrobe.
Ron was making clucking noises in his throat as Hermione smiled and left the room.
Well? I really wanted to put that in. Hope it doesn't make you not want to read anymore. I have the next part almost written and it includes the meeting with Doppelganger and also an unexpected tragedy (but like I said its nothing big at all) This will probably be about fifteen chapters, and will end with a big shebang around Christmas. I hope no one hates the Ron/Hermione stuff because I love that ship and really wanted to write something with it. Reviews and feedback welcomed.