Chapter 14: Karaoke Party

Fred walked to Dumbledores office as quick as she could she knew how important this was to Spike and Doyle. Plus if she could actually pull it off Angel would be estatic. She always had a thing for Angel even though she tried to hide it. Once she had reached to corridor that ended in Dumbledores office she started to walk faster.
" Ear Wax." Fred silently told the Phoenix so that none of the students over heard. Slowly the stairs started to appear, Fred stood at the end of them and waited until they stopped twirling. Once Fred got to the door she knocked and then entered.
"Um Profesor Dumbledore are you here?" Fred looked around but the room looked deserted.
" Yes Ms. Burkle. Please sit." Dumbledore led her to the chair in front of his desk.
" Professor Dumbledore I have a question to ask you, and I hope you don't think I sound all snoody." Fred looked at her feet. Everytime she was around him she felt like Angel had just brought her back from Pylea.
" I already know why you are here. I know you are trying to do what you think is best for Mr. Doyle, and the others. As long as he's ok with this I will allow it. I must ask you to please leave the students out of it as it's not safe for them to participate in." Dumbledore looked at the sweet girl. Since she arrived he felt like he needed to treat her kinder than most people.
" Thanks bunches." Fred stood up walked over to Dumbledore and gave him a hug. " Sorry, I'm just so excited."
" It's fine Mrs. Burkle. You can work on your project in the empty classroom on the 5th floor students rarely go there, I'll put a spell on the door so only staff members can see it, so it will be well protected. " With that Dumbledore stood up walked over to the door and opened it for Fred.
" Thanks again. You're such a sweet person." With that Fred turned and left.
The day finally wound down and students started to make their way to the Great Hall for dinner. The plates were just starting to fill with food when Snape burst through the doors, and walked quickly up to Dumbledore who stood up and waited for Snape to make his way towards him. By this time all the students weren't paying attention to eating but at the whispered conversation that Dumbledore and Snape were having and by the look of it the news wasn't as happy and cheerful as everyone was hoping it would be.
" Please eat. This is just Hogwarts business nothing to fret over. However I will have to ask you to stay in the Great Hall until we get it cleared up. If all the teachers and head boy and girls would follow me please.Prefects please keep an eye on the students." With that Dumbledore, the staff and the head boys and girls left the Great Hall shutting the doors behind them.
" I wonder what's going on that would be so important for Snape to rush into the great hall." Hermione was looking worried staring at the great oak doors of the Great Hall.
" Mione don't worry about it I'm sure its nothing serious or they would of made more of a precaution then leaving us with the prefects." Ron said while taking Hermione's hand. Hermione and Ron held hands for a minute until both realized what was going on, then let go.
A while later Dumbledore and the others returned. All had worried expressions on their face. " If you would all please return to your houses and get your materials for homework and such for you will all be sleeping in the Great Hall tonight. Please follow your heads of house they will escort you there and back." Dumbledore pulled Xander and the others aside then.
" Ok this is bad! The only time we slept in the Great Hall before was when Sirius had escaped and they thought he was after Harry." Hermione got up to follow Professor McGonagall who was talking to the students very quickly.
" Professor what's going on? Why don't you just bring our stuff here like you did last time?" Harry remembered last time there were sleeping bags already all over the floor.
" Well Mr. Potter we needed to clear the room, and with as many students as there were in there it would of been an impossible task." McGonagall started to walk up the stairs. When they reached the portrait she told them they only had 10 minutes to get there stuff and to get back. She wasn't kidding either Fred and George thought they would play pranks on the first years since they were terrified which landed them in detention with Snape.
Once they got back to the Great Hall they noticed that the sleeping bags were lined up on the ground. The tables had disappeared this time probably because this year they had more students then they had the following years.
" Dumbledore what's going on? Why are you having all the students stay in the Great Hall is something bad going on? Should we get the others over here?" Xander was worried he had never seen anyone look as frusterated and upset as the staff was looking at this particular moment.
" This is neither the time nor place to be talking about this right now Mr. Harris. However I will have to ask all of you to stay very alert, and watch the students as the staff and I go back out and search the school and the grounds." With that Dumbledore turned to leave.
" You know what that guy really loves keeping you in suspense doesn't he! What's going on around here, the students look like they are about to burst from fright any minute now. Hmm. It is only dinner time and the students look no where near ready to do homework or sleep for that matter. We should plan to do something fun with all of them, get them all involved." Xander looked around the only games he could remember playing as a kid were hide and seek and tag, both of which were clearly out of the question.
" Man how I would love to be back at Karatas right now. Sipping a Cosmopolitan and listening to a few good demons sing." Actually Lorne wanted to be anywhere but here right now. He hated being in places where bad things were happening.
" Kara-who? What are you talking about?" Tara McClay looked over at Lorne.
" Not Kara-who. Kara-what! Karatas was a karaoke bar I use to own one. One of the nicest ones in L.A. actually, that is until Angel and his crew distroyed it twice." Lorne started to walk around the students and check to make sure they didn't need anything.
" That's a great Idea Lorne! A karaoke party! Come on think about it. Yes technically some of these houses refuse to get along, but hey you never know we might be able to encourage friendship among some of them. Plus who knows what next Hogwarts Idol we have here." Xander looked excited then blushed no one not even Zoe knew he watched American Idol.
" Ok smartie how do we get a karaoke player? The teachers are all gone, and electronical devices don't work on the grounds at Hogwarts. I should know my cellphone went dead the moment we got here." Lorne said after checking on the students.
At this Xander pulled one of the prefects towards him. " Hey your a prefect so you must in be what your 5 or 6th year and the top of your class right?"
" I'm a 5th year and well, kind of, yeah I guess I'm the top of my class but, I've never really thought about it." The prefect was looking at Xander in confusion.
" I was wondering if there was anyway to obtain a karaoke machine?"
" There probably is, but I'm not the one you should be asking. If anyone would know how it's Blaise Zabini. He knows all the spells to throw a wicked party." With that the prefect got Blaise and then went back to doing his homework.
" What?" Blaise went up to Xander and looked at him in disgust. If his parents knew he was talking to a muggle right now they would of shot him.
" I heard that you might know how to obtain a karaoke machine that worked inside the walls of Hogwarts." Xander stepped back a little if he didn't know better this guy would of cursed him from here to eternity.
" Yeah. Here. .Karaoketi " With a wave of his wand a version of a karaoke machine appered. It was more like a cd player with two mircophones. Xander wondered how it worked.
Blaise picked up one of the microphones and spoke for Xander. " Hey everyone listen up! We're going to be here for a while and its obvious that most of us don't wanna do homework right now. So who ever this is decided that we might want to turn this into a karaoke party."
Blaise waved his wand again and the sleeping bags disappeared along with everyones books and such. With another wave lights and a foam machine appeared. " Whose first? How about Slytherin's own princess over there, come on Malfoy get up here!"
Draco gave Blaise the same look he gave Wesley the day before. " Sod off, I'm not going up there!"
" Fine, but your going to pay for that! Come on anyone? Maybe the green guy will be nice enough to read you and tell you what's going on in your life." Blaise remembered the presentation and what the guy had said about reading people auras.
" I'll go!" Hermione stepped up. She wanted to help out the newbies as much as possible, plus she wanted to see Lorne's powers at work.
" Let's make some noise at least we have a good sport here, even if she's in Gryffindor!" Blaise handed over the mic to Hermione.
" Does it matter what I sing?" She looked over at Xander. "Should I sing muggle music since that's what we're learning or wizarding music?"
" Anything you want to." Xander had no idea what wizarding music was.
With this Hermione started to sing Martina McBrides This ones for the girls. The words started to appear in the air in front of her like they were on an invisible screen.
"This one's for the girls, who've ever had a broken heart. Who've wished upon a shooting star. You're beautiful the way you are. This one's for the girls, who love without holding back, who dream with everything they have all around the world. This one's for the girls." Everytime the chorus came on all the girls started to sing with her, even some of the boys got involved like Tracy Davis. Once the song ended Hermione started blushing as the crowd of students broke out in applause and whistles. She then walked over to Lorne.
" So what did you see?" Hermione was anxious to know.
" Well, you defintly can belt out a tune like no one I've ever seen before. Here's my advice Hermione all you need to do is follow your heart and you'll be happy."
" Thanks." Hermione went to join her friends.
" Well what did he say?" Ron looked over at her.
" Ron, it's personal and none of your business. That was fun though." Hermione sat down on the floor.
" Ok whose next? Come on!" Xander had gotten up and reached for the mic after Hermione was done. " What about you Spike. Teach these students a lesson in Rock n' Roll you know you want to."
" Fine, give me that." Spike took the mic. " If any of you laugh at me I'll bite you and don't think I'm kidding."
Once he was ready he pressed the play button and the Sex Pistols, I did it my way started playing.
"And yes, I´ve had a few ,but then again, too few to mention.But dig, what I have to for,I´ll see it through with no devotion of that, take care and just be careful along the highway and more, much more than this I did it my way." All the students were head banging and jumping around even Draco and his croonies. Once the song ended everyone clapped and yelled.
Ginny looked over at Draco and noticed how extremely hot he was with his hair all messed up. Once she noticed that Draco was staring back at her she adjusted her gaze to her brother who was now on stage and the last person to sing. " How did you guys get him up there?" Ginny turned to Hermione.
" He lost a bet against Harry." Hermione and Ginny started to laugh
" So what are you going to be singing Ron?" Xander asked.
" Nothing Compares (to you), by Sinead O'Connor. I lost a bloody bet ok. Thanks alot Harry!" Rons face turned red as the song began to play.
" It's been seven hours and fifteen days since you took your love away, I go out every night and sleep all day since you took your love away. Since you been gone I can do whatever I want, I can see whomever I choose, I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant but nothing, I said nothing can take away these blues Cause nothing compares, nothing compares to you." Once the song was over most of the students were cracking up laughing.
" Hey that took alot of guts to get up here and sing that song espically since he's a guy!" Xander was trying to help the poor guy. He remembered when he lost a bet to Buffy once and had to go to school in a dress and high heels.
Ron walked off stage and over to Lorne, if he had to embarrase himself he was at least going to find out what his future held. " So what's in it for me death? Distruction? Come on nothing could be as bad as that."
" Well I must admit that was a very, um, different approach to the song. You did a great job at singing it. Your future though is bright. However that feeling your dreading it's real but hey don't worry about it she feels the same as you do. However if you wanna get her your going to have to make the first move." Lorne then went up to the stage.
" Since Ron was brave enough to come up here and sing. I got jealous and wanted to sing myself. So here I am lets see what do I want to sing." Lorne started racking his brain. Lorne finally picked, I left my heart in San Francisco, by Frank Sinatra. The music played at once.
" Left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me, to be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars! And the morning fog will chill the air." However once the song ended the students stood there stunned they had never heard someone sing as well as he did. Then all of a sudden the whole of the Great Hall burst out in applause.
Eventually people settled down. Blaise took the karaoke machine away and brought the sleeping bags and everyone's belongings back in the same way it was left before everything started. Some of the students went back to homework but most of them just turned in for the night.