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A/N: Well I'm finally out of prison! well actually, I escaped but shh! Please don't tell anyone! I'm hiding....*sound of loud police alarm going off* Uh-oh *quickly ducks out of sight as search light goes over window* well, I'd better not tell you in case your a cop, so I'll just get on with the thanking:

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Saved my life. And thank you even more for the e-mail! As soon as I read it I just had to write more straight away!

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Chapter 4 When The Clock Strikes Twelve

Harry, Ron and Hermione stepped in to the great hall, and a tremendous burst of sound blasted at them, not to mention that almost every one was wearing bright loud, costumes . and EVERYONE was vigorously singing and dancing. Harry felt his jaw drop. All the female teachers were wearing old fashion saloon dresses, they were doing the Can-Can.

"If ya Can-Can-Can!" Hagrid (wearing a strange top-hat and suit) roared "If ya Can-Can-Can!"(A/N If you saw Moulin Rouge, it's like you just walked in there.)

McGonagall, Sprout, Pomfrey, Umbridge you name them they're there, all doing the Can-Can, the students were all throwing streamers in the air and clapping them on, Ron and Harry joined them immediately and left Hermione gaping at them.

When it all died down there were a few Moulin Rouge songs, it was quite an entertaining dinner, speaking of dinner, Harry thought, the food quality has gone down a bit, he reached for some roast potatoes and found they were burnt, he made a mental note to go down to the kitchens.

So later he Hermione and, Ron, whom they had to drag away from all the singing, were going down the familiar route to the kitchens, after tickling the pear they stepped into the kitchens, there was an outburst of song and dance as soon as they entered he saw they weren't all focused on the same song, they were all doing there own thing, some were dancing with mops and brooms, and others were dancing with other house elves, like Winky and Dobby were over there, Harry walked over to them,

"Er, Dobby?" He asked cautiously, he wasn't sure they could hear him because they were throwing each other in the air and doing fantastic acrobatics, but they were able to hear

"Yes Harry Potter sir?" Dobby somehow managed to say

"W-what are you doing?"

"We is having some fun sir!" squeaked the tumbling house elf, Harry thought this was very odd that they would neglect doing their job to have fun, they didn't exactly know what to do so they decided to leave them to it

"That's strange," Hermione said slowly as they reached moaning Myrtles bathroom, as the common room was to loud and crowded "It effects House-elves? That's not good, who knows what else it's effected?"

"Yeah, your right Hermione," Harry said "I think we should do something about this, or tell someone,"

"Like who?" Ron asked

"Like Sirius," Harry replied simply

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"Okay, did you put everything in it?" said Hermione, opening the door to the owlery referring to the letter Harry had in his hand

"Everything from the wave to the House Elves," He replied searching around for Hedwig. She wasn't there, he figured she was out on a late night hunt 'she'd better get back soon' he thought. 'If Filch catches us , we're dead.'

Harry checked his watch, which he had gotten repaired, it read 11:30 'I must've taken longer on this letter then I thought', he thought, just then he saw Hedwig come through the Owlery window, a dead mouse dangling from her mouth

"Finally," he murmured walking over to her "Come down here, I've got a letter for you,"

He quickly tied the letter to her leg and she flew out of the window.

He watched her go until she had disappeared completely and then started to the common room with Ron and Hermione, they were halfway there when Harry checked his watch, it read 11:59 but just then it flicked to 12:00, he saw Ron stop dead in his tracks he turned to look at Ron

"What's up?" he asked, but Ron didn't seem to hear him, he had an odd blank look and his eyes were unfocused,

"Ron?" Hermione asked cautiously "Are you Okay?" he didn't answer, but he started to do an odd sort of unnatural march towards the staircase, Harry and Hermione started after him, but Harry saw movement to his left and turned to see what it was, he saw half the Ravenclaws coming out from behind a portrait, obviously their common room, and they had the same blank look and they were doing the weird march towards the staircase he spotted Luna who had her usual dreamy look and it seemed that she was just following everyone else, she saw Harry and went over to him

"Hello Harry," she said dreamily

"Where are you all going?" he asked.

Luna pointed to the front of the group where Cho was leading

"Ask Cho, she seems to know," she replied.

Hermione, who had also stopped when she saw the Ravenclaws, was listening to Luna and her attention was now on Cho, who was marching along

"Cho what's going on? Where are you going!?" Hermione demanded (while walking alongside her and the others)

Cho stared unblinkingly ahead. And said in an eerie voice.

" Servire Nox magister"

Harry whipped his head around.

"What!?"

Cho and the rest of the silent army were going soundlessly down the stairs. And more seemed to be joining them, some Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw students and Gryffindor students.

Ron was near the back and Hermione desperately grabbed onto his arm and pulled him back, but due to some magical force, Hermione was just dragged along with him and Ron didn't seem to be aware of it.

Now they were all muttering, and to Harry's absolute shock, he saw that Mcgonagal, Flitwick, and several other teaches were marching along with them.

"Servire Nox magister" They all muttered. And it sent shivers up Harry spine.

Hermione looked at Harry with a horrified look.

"Harry! That's Latin! They're saying 'serve dark master!' We've got to do something!"

'What can we do!?"

"Servire Nox magister" The murmuring continued.

'Try and petrify some!" Hermione demanded.

"But-

Just then fifteen students came running towards Harry and Hermione, but they looked very alert and worried. There were Fred and George, Dean, Colin and Dennis Creevey, a bunch of other Griffindors and some people from other houses.

Fred and George stared open mouthed at what was happening.

"Oh, Cripes!" said Fred.

Hermione looked at them sharply and said. "Help me! Get out your wands!"

(they all get out their wands)

Hermione then turned back round again "PERTRIFICUS TOTALUS!" Hermione screamed and pointed her wand at Ron's rapidly retreating back.

A jet of light shot out of her wand, hit Ron in the back and then rebounded back onto Hermione.

Hermione gasped, then went as stiff as a board and slammed to the ground.

Harry gave an angry shout then quickly pointed his wand at her "Finite incantanim!"

The other alert students, stopped the spells they were about to perform when they saw what was happening.

Colin Creevey (who had obviously attempted a spell) was lying dazed several feet away, after using the Stupefy spell on one of the marching students.

Through all the mayhem, the group of cursed students had walked out the front door.

A/N: Well there you go, what do you think? Tell me! Ingrid7 wrote like half of this so, yeah. Anyway I know that the wizards are singing muggle songs but I don't know any wizard songs and muggle songs just fit better, so anyway please review!!

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