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By the time the next Hogsmeade weekend came, Hermione could genuinely say that she was actually excited about their prospective meeting with Doppelganger. Who knew, maybe they could actually make something of this, although Hermione was not willing to make a go at it professionally. She would hear him out but also make it very clear that she was not interested in pursuing it further than school. Another thing plaguing Hermione was the fact that people, other than her friends, would probably very likely hear her sing. When she was a kid, she and her mum would sing to Oldies records in the summer and dance around the room while her dad was at work, and she had sung at her cousins wedding when she was eight, but then she just got so busy with school and finally Hogwarts that she had forgotten how much fun singing had been. Now she would have to risk being criticized by complete strangers- something she told her mum was the reason she didn't want to do anything professional. "If it stops being fun and starts being scary, why would I want to do it?" Hermione had said, and her mum looking very proud agreed. She didn't even think she was that good, but apparently it was good enough for a producer for the International Wizarding Wireless company. They'd have to wait and see.
The five of them walked into the Three Broomsticks nervously. They scanned the crowd and finally spotted a man who could only be Philius T. Doppelganger. Pushing their way through the packed crowd they made their way to the table beside the window to be greeted by a robust balding wizard with a hug smile standing to shake their hand eagerly. He grinned and offered them all a seat. A very attractive blonde witch sat twirling her curls and popping bubblegum very loudly. She smiled at the girls flashing a very perfect smile. Then she took out a quill and a parchment and waited.
Hermione looked around nervously until Ginny cleared her throat and elbowed her. They had all decided, much to Hermione's dismay, that she should be the 'spokesperson' persay. Hermione smiled her usual brilliant smile and stumbled around for words.
"Mr. Doppelganger, I'm Hermione Granger and this is Ginny, Parvati, Lavender and Sarah" She introduced them all pointing to each one in turn.
"Ahh! Please Miss Granger call me Philius! Nice to put the names to the faces! This is my assistant Miss Glaikit," he motioned to the blonde. "Now if you don't mind I'd like to get down to the business and then we can go from there okay?" he asked, his cheerful voice booming.
The two hour meeting had succeeded in landing the five of them a one year contract from Doppelganger's company. Although they could scarcely believe it, they quickly came to trust full in everything 'Philius' said. He had a very straightforward personality and he reminded Hermione an awful lot of Ludo Bagman from fifth year. Miss Glaikit wrote down everything on the parchment which proceeded. Philius agreed to let Lavender write three songs and his company would write three more; he agreed that they should definately keep things the way they were with the band and even agreed to let Parvati organize the 'look' for when he announced their signing. However Hermione sat listening intently and biting her lip. Ginny looked at her and gave her a sympathetic look. Hermione was very worried about being seen and 'known'. She had never really been the one to talk or be in groups larger than the Prefects meeting. It had been absolutely terrified to speak before the school at the Feast at the beginning of the year. Ginny knew exactly what Hermione's problem was and hoped that they could somehow work through her stage fright.
By the time they went to leave; Lavender, Ginny and Sarah could barely stop grinning they were so pleased. They all shook hands with Doppelganger and he confirmed their next meeting when they would be 'launched', the middle of November. He winked to Hermione when he shook her hand.
"Don't worry darlin', only do as much as you're comfortable with. It just wouldn't be seem right once you stop having fun." he assured her reading her mind and speaking the same words she had spoken years ago, she let out a deep breath and smiled naturally and sincerely. All five rushed up to the castles, eager to send owls to all of their parents telling of the news.
The week following their meeting with Doppelganger was filled with zealous nervousness and irritability resulting in several minor fights springing up amongst the group. Lavender was walking around humming out possible tunes to half-finished lyrics all week and scribbling on parchment everywhere she went. Sometimes if she was stuck on a particular idea, she would be in a really foul mood that even Parvati steered clear from. Parvati was busy thinking about possible 'looks' she could work out and was constantly interrupting the others to try out hair-styles. Ginny and Sarah were busy practicing almost every night. Hermione, on the other hand, was fully immersed in studying. The others had agreed that if she would still be in the group then they would give her all the time she wanted to study and not bug her about the details. Besides studying and STILL being badgered with problems that arose, she was still buried in studying, Head Girl duties and organizing the Halloween dance that had been started in fifth year to replace the highly successful Yule Ball. Luckily, Harry who knew what was going on (not many did as they wanted to keep it low key until November) had agreed to take on most of the responsibility. On top of it all, she still tried to make room for Ron. The weekend after Halloween, they had had two practices once Lavender had finished her songs. They all assured her that they were VERY good, and could honestly say that they had never expected Lavender to be so good at songwriting, but she really had a knack for it.
Thus on the following Monday Lavender was in a rather good mood. Once or twice that week Hermione had come to the dorm room to find it staked out by the four other girls and quickly high tailed it to the library to study. She was often joined by Ron, who, was dealing with her distractedness rather well. Hermione definately began to think that maybe she might be falling in love with him, ,which actually scared her more than singing in front of thousands of people. He took her busy schedule good heartedly and spent all of her free time together. However Ron began to notice that by the end of the first week in November Hermione was more tired than usual. She insisted that she hadn't been studying late as Ron had assumed and he left it at that when she grew very irritable to his worries. Promising himself that he would wait and see what happened after the Arithmancy test.
However after the Arithmancy test, although she was in a much more agreeable mood, Hermione was just out of it all the time. On Thursday, the Seventh Years had a free afternoon and the others begged Hermione to have another practice with them. Hermione downright refused, stating she wanted to spend the afternoon with Ron...which she did.
Hermione and Ron were nowhere to be found all afternoon and neither were at dinner that night. Harry just guaranteed that his two friends were 'missing in action' because they hadnt been able to spend as much time together lately as they wanted. This was met with sceptical grins from all of his friend.
"Sure Potter! They're probably snogging somewhere in a closet!" Seamus bellowed and the others agreed.
"At least they're not rowing" Neville insisted and Dean nodded.
"Wow, I wonder how intense a Granger/Weasley relationship row would be?" Dean though out loud and the others laughed heartily.
"Let's hope we never have to find out!" Ginny chuckled. She was taking the relationship between her brother and her closest girl friend very well.
After dinner, almost all of the Gryffindors were perched inside the common room. Ginny and Colin were playing Exploding Snap, while the rest of the Seventh Years were conducting a study group for a Potions test coming up that week. All of them were very perturbed at the fact that Hermione, the best student in their year, had yet to show up and lead them.
A few minutes later, Ron came sauntering into the Common Room from the direction of the Girls Dormitory. Nobody had seen him or Hermione enter through the portrait hole. Taking a seat beside Harry and setting down his books, he ran a hand through his tousled hair. Dean grinned and smirked in the general direction of the red hair. Ron blushed and tried to explain but Seamus added insult to injury.
"So ickle Ronnie! Whatcha been doing? Snogging all through dinner?" he teased.
"No actually! And if we were its none of your business Finnegan!" Ron shot back, still a little angry that his roommates, save Neville had seen Hermione very close to her skivvies. "God do you tease Hermione as much as me?" he finished, mumbling. The others snickered and shook their heads.
"Nope just you!" Harry socked Ron in the shoulder.
"Well wheres Hermione then?" Lavender asked still grinning.
"She's in her room. She said she was tired. I don't think she's been feeling very well lately" Ron said and his face fell. The previous teasing forgotten in his worry for his girlfriend.
Lavender looked crestfallen. "Sick? What do you mean she's sick?" Lavender demanded frantically. Ron looked baffled at the sudden barrage by Lavender. Confused, he answered slowly.
"She said that she felt ill and so we skived off dinner and now's she sleeping" Ron answered simply.
Lavender and the other girls looked at eachother worriedly. Ron shook his head muttering 'girls' under his breath. He then proceeded to open up his Potions notebook and ignore the other girls.
Meanwhile, the four girls huddled.
"She can't be sick we have to -you know- on Sunday. That's three days from now!" Parvati hissed. Ginny rolled her eyes.
"Nice of you guys to care if she sick, only that she won't be able to sing" she closed up her book and went up towards the girls dormitory. Lavender suggested that they should go up too, but Sarah shook her head.
"No let Ginny go, shell see what's going on. Plus if Hermione is sick then she probably wont want us all bugging her"
Lavender agreed but was worried nonetheless for different reasons. Just when things were starting to look up for them, something just had to happen. It was Murphy's law.
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By the time the next Hogsmeade weekend came, Hermione could genuinely say that she was actually excited about their prospective meeting with Doppelganger. Who knew, maybe they could actually make something of this, although Hermione was not willing to make a go at it professionally. She would hear him out but also make it very clear that she was not interested in pursuing it further than school. Another thing plaguing Hermione was the fact that people, other than her friends, would probably very likely hear her sing. When she was a kid, she and her mum would sing to Oldies records in the summer and dance around the room while her dad was at work, and she had sung at her cousins wedding when she was eight, but then she just got so busy with school and finally Hogwarts that she had forgotten how much fun singing had been. Now she would have to risk being criticized by complete strangers- something she told her mum was the reason she didn't want to do anything professional. "If it stops being fun and starts being scary, why would I want to do it?" Hermione had said, and her mum looking very proud agreed. She didn't even think she was that good, but apparently it was good enough for a producer for the International Wizarding Wireless company. They'd have to wait and see.
The five of them walked into the Three Broomsticks nervously. They scanned the crowd and finally spotted a man who could only be Philius T. Doppelganger. Pushing their way through the packed crowd they made their way to the table beside the window to be greeted by a robust balding wizard with a hug smile standing to shake their hand eagerly. He grinned and offered them all a seat. A very attractive blonde witch sat twirling her curls and popping bubblegum very loudly. She smiled at the girls flashing a very perfect smile. Then she took out a quill and a parchment and waited.
Hermione looked around nervously until Ginny cleared her throat and elbowed her. They had all decided, much to Hermione's dismay, that she should be the 'spokesperson' persay. Hermione smiled her usual brilliant smile and stumbled around for words.
"Mr. Doppelganger, I'm Hermione Granger and this is Ginny, Parvati, Lavender and Sarah" She introduced them all pointing to each one in turn.
"Ahh! Please Miss Granger call me Philius! Nice to put the names to the faces! This is my assistant Miss Glaikit," he motioned to the blonde. "Now if you don't mind I'd like to get down to the business and then we can go from there okay?" he asked, his cheerful voice booming.
The two hour meeting had succeeded in landing the five of them a one year contract from Doppelganger's company. Although they could scarcely believe it, they quickly came to trust full in everything 'Philius' said. He had a very straightforward personality and he reminded Hermione an awful lot of Ludo Bagman from fifth year. Miss Glaikit wrote down everything on the parchment which proceeded. Philius agreed to let Lavender write three songs and his company would write three more; he agreed that they should definately keep things the way they were with the band and even agreed to let Parvati organize the 'look' for when he announced their signing. However Hermione sat listening intently and biting her lip. Ginny looked at her and gave her a sympathetic look. Hermione was very worried about being seen and 'known'. She had never really been the one to talk or be in groups larger than the Prefects meeting. It had been absolutely terrified to speak before the school at the Feast at the beginning of the year. Ginny knew exactly what Hermione's problem was and hoped that they could somehow work through her stage fright.
By the time they went to leave; Lavender, Ginny and Sarah could barely stop grinning they were so pleased. They all shook hands with Doppelganger and he confirmed their next meeting when they would be 'launched', the middle of November. He winked to Hermione when he shook her hand.
"Don't worry darlin', only do as much as you're comfortable with. It just wouldn't be seem right once you stop having fun." he assured her reading her mind and speaking the same words she had spoken years ago, she let out a deep breath and smiled naturally and sincerely. All five rushed up to the castles, eager to send owls to all of their parents telling of the news.
The week following their meeting with Doppelganger was filled with zealous nervousness and irritability resulting in several minor fights springing up amongst the group. Lavender was walking around humming out possible tunes to half-finished lyrics all week and scribbling on parchment everywhere she went. Sometimes if she was stuck on a particular idea, she would be in a really foul mood that even Parvati steered clear from. Parvati was busy thinking about possible 'looks' she could work out and was constantly interrupting the others to try out hair-styles. Ginny and Sarah were busy practicing almost every night. Hermione, on the other hand, was fully immersed in studying. The others had agreed that if she would still be in the group then they would give her all the time she wanted to study and not bug her about the details. Besides studying and STILL being badgered with problems that arose, she was still buried in studying, Head Girl duties and organizing the Halloween dance that had been started in fifth year to replace the highly successful Yule Ball. Luckily, Harry who knew what was going on (not many did as they wanted to keep it low key until November) had agreed to take on most of the responsibility. On top of it all, she still tried to make room for Ron. The weekend after Halloween, they had had two practices once Lavender had finished her songs. They all assured her that they were VERY good, and could honestly say that they had never expected Lavender to be so good at songwriting, but she really had a knack for it.
Thus on the following Monday Lavender was in a rather good mood. Once or twice that week Hermione had come to the dorm room to find it staked out by the four other girls and quickly high tailed it to the library to study. She was often joined by Ron, who, was dealing with her distractedness rather well. Hermione definately began to think that maybe she might be falling in love with him, ,which actually scared her more than singing in front of thousands of people. He took her busy schedule good heartedly and spent all of her free time together. However Ron began to notice that by the end of the first week in November Hermione was more tired than usual. She insisted that she hadn't been studying late as Ron had assumed and he left it at that when she grew very irritable to his worries. Promising himself that he would wait and see what happened after the Arithmancy test.
However after the Arithmancy test, although she was in a much more agreeable mood, Hermione was just out of it all the time. On Thursday, the Seventh Years had a free afternoon and the others begged Hermione to have another practice with them. Hermione downright refused, stating she wanted to spend the afternoon with Ron...which she did.
Hermione and Ron were nowhere to be found all afternoon and neither were at dinner that night. Harry just guaranteed that his two friends were 'missing in action' because they hadnt been able to spend as much time together lately as they wanted. This was met with sceptical grins from all of his friend.
"Sure Potter! They're probably snogging somewhere in a closet!" Seamus bellowed and the others agreed.
"At least they're not rowing" Neville insisted and Dean nodded.
"Wow, I wonder how intense a Granger/Weasley relationship row would be?" Dean though out loud and the others laughed heartily.
"Let's hope we never have to find out!" Ginny chuckled. She was taking the relationship between her brother and her closest girl friend very well.
After dinner, almost all of the Gryffindors were perched inside the common room. Ginny and Colin were playing Exploding Snap, while the rest of the Seventh Years were conducting a study group for a Potions test coming up that week. All of them were very perturbed at the fact that Hermione, the best student in their year, had yet to show up and lead them.
A few minutes later, Ron came sauntering into the Common Room from the direction of the Girls Dormitory. Nobody had seen him or Hermione enter through the portrait hole. Taking a seat beside Harry and setting down his books, he ran a hand through his tousled hair. Dean grinned and smirked in the general direction of the red hair. Ron blushed and tried to explain but Seamus added insult to injury.
"So ickle Ronnie! Whatcha been doing? Snogging all through dinner?" he teased.
"No actually! And if we were its none of your business Finnegan!" Ron shot back, still a little angry that his roommates, save Neville had seen Hermione very close to her skivvies. "God do you tease Hermione as much as me?" he finished, mumbling. The others snickered and shook their heads.
"Nope just you!" Harry socked Ron in the shoulder.
"Well wheres Hermione then?" Lavender asked still grinning.
"She's in her room. She said she was tired. I don't think she's been feeling very well lately" Ron said and his face fell. The previous teasing forgotten in his worry for his girlfriend.
Lavender looked crestfallen. "Sick? What do you mean she's sick?" Lavender demanded frantically. Ron looked baffled at the sudden barrage by Lavender. Confused, he answered slowly.
"She said that she felt ill and so we skived off dinner and now's she sleeping" Ron answered simply.
Lavender and the other girls looked at eachother worriedly. Ron shook his head muttering 'girls' under his breath. He then proceeded to open up his Potions notebook and ignore the other girls.
Meanwhile, the four girls huddled.
"She can't be sick we have to -you know- on Sunday. That's three days from now!" Parvati hissed. Ginny rolled her eyes.
"Nice of you guys to care if she sick, only that she won't be able to sing" she closed up her book and went up towards the girls dormitory. Lavender suggested that they should go up too, but Sarah shook her head.
"No let Ginny go, shell see what's going on. Plus if Hermione is sick then she probably wont want us all bugging her"
Lavender agreed but was worried nonetheless for different reasons. Just when things were starting to look up for them, something just had to happen. It was Murphy's law.
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