MAGICAL MUSIC

"Alright Mr Potter, Professor McGonagall will accompany you home and then pick you up at 7:00pm." Dumbledore explained.

"Yes Professor."

"Alright then off you go."

Harry walked over to the fire place, and then waited for Professor McGonagall to go through the floo-system because following.

Sirius Black was sitting in his kitchen eating his breakfast before he needed to go to Remus's house.

"Sirius?"

He jumped at the unexpected voice.

"Sirius?" This time louder.

"Harry? Is that you?" Sirius stood up and moved into the sitting room where the fireplace was situated.

When he entered the sitting room he found his Godson and his head of house dusting soot off of their clothes.

"Harry, what did you do?"

"Why do you automatically assume that I have done something?" Harry asked.

"Mr Potter has done nothing wrong, and if he had you wouldn't have the right to tell him off, because he would have learnt it from you!" McGonagall stated.

Sirius turned slightly red before recomposing himself.

"Well, why is Harry here then, school only started 7 weeks ago."

"I'll leave Harry to explain that, I will be back at 7pm sharp Mr Potter, don't be late."

"Yes Professor."

McGonagall then returned to Hogwarts via the Floo network.

"So what's going on?"

"Hi, Mrs Mac, is Lara home?"

"Harry, I thought you were in boarding school."

"I was… well I am but I had to come home for the day."

"Oh ok, well Lara is in the hills somewhere with the rest of your group."

"Ok Thanks Mrs Mac."

Harry left the house and started up a hill that was at the edge of the town, it was a place where he went with his friends often to practice with the band. It was secluded from the rest of the town so they wouldn't be disturbed.

As he approached the small clearing where they usually practiced Harry could hear the group talking, none of them saw him coming so he decided to play a trick on the group.

He grabbed some lose stones from the ground and put them in his pockets before climbing one of the trees near the group. Once he had a secure spot on a branch, he got one of the stones and through it down next to the person closest to him, Lara.

"Jack, stop throwing rocks at me." She complained.

"But I didn't!"

"Yeah yeah that's what you said last weekend then you nearly knocked me out."

"I did not it was a light tap on the head."

"Exactly, with a rock."

"Oh shut up you two." Danielle snapped at them.

"Yes you are giving me a headache." Jane added.

Harry took this time to chuck another rock into Lara's lap.

"See he did it again." She complained.

"No, that wasn't Jack, he didn't move." Jane stood up and walked around the group, looking into the trees.

"Who's there?" Danielle called through the trees.

Harry became unable to control his laughter and had to climb out of the tree before he fall out, but he chose to do this right in front of Lara, who screamed and jumped backwards.

Harry collapsed on the forest floor with laughter and Lara took the chance to jump on him for scaring her. After rolling around on the ground for awhile they both got up off and Harry turned to face his friends.

"Harry Potter, what are you doing here?" Dani demanded.

"You didn't get expelled did you?" Jane asked.

"No, I'm not expelled, why would anyone expel little old me, I'm a little angel, I couldn't hurt a fly." Harry said, bating his eyes.

"As if, who hid the school text books in year 6 so we couldn't do any work all day? Who put glue on glue on all the Blackboard dusters so that they would stick to the teacher's hands? Who locked the staffroom from the outside so that everyone had to climb out of the window? Who..."

"Alright I get the picture."

Jane gave him a smug look.

"So why are you here then if you weren't expelled?" Lara asked.

"Well that's a long story."

"Let's sit down then." Jane suggested.

When they were settled they all looked at Harry expectantly.

"Alright, you know about my school dance. Well the band that the school hired is in hospital and can't make it so the dance was going to be cancelled."

"Yeah and?" Jack asked.

"Well I sort of volunteered are services." Harry continued uncertainly.

"What?! No way, Harry."

"Please, Lara, the whole school is really disappointed that he dance is being cancelled it would mean so much to them…and me."

"We've never preformed in front of people before."

"Sure we have you do it everyday."

"School and parents don't count and I meant as a group anyway. What if we suck?"

"Come on Lara it will be fun and you know for a fact that we don't suck. We have all been playing are instrument are whole lives and you won a scholarship for you singing and violin so you can't be that bad."

"Yeah think about it Lara." Jack prompted, "it would give us a chance to see Harry in a dress."

"It is a robe not a dress."

"What ever. Come on Lara. Please."

"Yeah Lara and we'll get to see Harry's school."

"Gang up on me why don't you." Lara pouted.

"Ok, please, please, please, please, please." Jack begged joined by the rest of the group.

"Fine I'll do it. But we still need to ask are parents."

"Don't worry Sirius is doing that."

"Please, they will be supervised the whole time and it's a private school dance so there won't be any drug, alcohol or anything." Sirius begged over the phone to Mrs Loyd, Jack's mum. The no alcohol part, wasn't completely true but butterbeer had such an insignificant alcohol percentage that it would take 20 to get a student anyway near drunk.

"Alright, as long as they are supervised the whole time and the school is fine with it."

"Thank you, I'll pick them up on Saturday afternoon and I'll bring them home on Sunday night."

"Fine, see you then Sirius Bye."

Sirius put the receiver down and let out a breath he had been holding. He had managed to convince the families of the four teens to allow them to go and it had only taken him 3 hours.

He went to the fridge and took out a couple of beers to drink while he waited for Harry to return to at 6:30.

"So they will arrive on Saturday and leave on Sunday. They can stay the night in the Gryffindor Common room. Do they know to wear masks and costumes?"

"Yes, sir."

"Alright then, come here on Saturday afternoon after breakfast and go can all go get ready for the dance."

"Yes, sir."

"Alright off you go. Goodnight, Mr Potter."

"Goodnight, Professor."