Chapter 4: The Karaoke Machine

Notes/Summary. Thank you to all of those that reviewed. This chapter is about Snape and Malfoy breaking free. They happen to stumble across the karaoke machines in the store, and decide to have a bit of fun with them… This time it is Lily who had the brilliant idea to embarrass the lot. I hope you enjoy this one, and I am sorry for the extensive wait, I was grounded for a few days. Was at Wal-Mart with my mom. The people kept giving me looks and my mom couldn't figure out why…  Peace!

Callie Anne - Yes, thank you. I do believe that they can be rather stupid at times.

HArRy-PoTtEr-FaNiTiC – I am glad you think that it was funny. The stud finder is kind of one of those weird things that you get a kick out of when you hear.

Luvs2party – Thanx. I know some people that are like them as well.

Jay Kamiya – Lol, well I am following that suggestion. I had plans to leave them tied up, and then inspiration struck that required them to be unleashed.

Badangel00013 – Good thing, I got here just in time. I like crazy people so it doesn't really matter. (Hey, I am one myself)

Icy Flame – Thanks! I like these reviews, they make me feel like my writing is actually worth something.

Hpfreak2001 – I thought it was a little unusual of a twist, but it was the assumption I made the first time I saw one of them. O yeah, and I saw your favorites list… a lot of those stories were on mine too.

Tekki – Lol, I know a lot of people like that.

Wolfqueen821 – Lol. Sorry that I made Moony clueless in some aspects, but every character has their faults. As for Sirius, he is crazy, but you gotta love him!

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After we got over the little stud sensor episode, we headed into the next isle. It was the electronics department. Lily had an extreme case of the giggles, and I figured that it was probably her imagination going wild with the thought of what Sirius would misconstrue objects here to be. Surprisingly, he knew what the majority of the things were, and looked extremely joyous when he came across a particular one.

"Karaoke Machine? Um no Siri, not this time…" said the voice of Remus. He and Lily always seem to take away the fun. "But come on, this is the best muggle invention of all time!!!" said Sirius. "Yeah and you actually know what it is, like the stud sensor…" retorted Lily. We were too busy taking sides on this fight to notice who had crept up behind us.

"Boo!" yelled Snape and Malfoy loudly in our ears. Peter screamed, and Lily accidentally jumped up on top of me. Hey, her shampoo smells nice… back to the story. "So, you finally managed to untangle yourselves from the never ending abyss of rope you were caught in eh?" did I just say that? Must stop hanging out with those two…

"Yeah, and when my dad hears about this you too are so dead meat…" that is typical Malfoy for ya, whenever there is a problem, he gets his dad to solve it for him. "But never mind that now, we both believe that that was unfair to pull the mattress up on us. We are requesting some sort of rematch, right here and right now!" demanded Snape. Wow this is easy, we get the Slytherins to whoop themselves.  Ah the joys of life…

"Great, I'll go get the bikes again!" chanted Sirius with glee. "NO!!" yelled the four of us who had been there before. Those things are way too hard to pedal, and besides I think I have an idea… "Ok, fine, lets have a rematch. We don't have to use bikes or anything to kick your asses. In fact, lets make it non-physical. Any ideas?" that was addressed to Sirius, as I knew exactly what he would want to do.

"How about a Karaoke contest?" suggested Sirius. I was right on the money this time. Remus, Peter, and Lily all reluctantly yet quickly agreed, as they knew that neither of the two boys knew jack diddly about singing. Snape and Malfoy groaned, yet they also agreed to the contest, because they knew what would happen if they didn't *coughblabtoschoolcough*

"If we must…" groaned Malfoy. "But since you guys have five, and we only have two, we insist on leveling out the playing field a bit," added Snape. We thought that meant taking some of our team and putting them on theirs. Apparently they wouldn't take Gryffindors if we were the last people on earth, as we realized when they did a loud whistle.

At that sound, Crabbe and Goyle came trudging into the isle. The sight of them made us all burst into a salvo of laughter. They seemed to have missed the fact that those two can barely string two words together, let alone sing pop songs. We soon stopped laughing when the two clenched their fists into balls and held them up to our faces. We didn't even bother to ask why they were at Wal-Mart, as we already knew the answer. (Uhhh….)

"We need unbiased judges here, otherwise there will be no way to tell who won," stated the ever logical Lily. At that, Crabbe and Goyle treaded out of the isles, and about a minute later came back carrying who we recognized as two Hufflepuffs by the backs of their shirts. They threw them to the ground, and we explained what was going on.

Peter wasn't participating because we needed even teams, and there was an extra one of us. Not to mention the fact that he has the world's lousiest singing voice. We levitated the things to a corner of the store, where no one would hear us singing. He started the announcements as if we were in some sort of fancy nightclub or something.

"Ladies and gentleman. Welcome to the first annual Karaoke Klash! Tonight we will feature some of the best singers in the Wizarding World. Our combatants are the Gryffindors, and the Slytherins. We will open up tonight's act with Crabbe and Goyle singing Lollipop?" He said that with a bit of uncertainty in his voice.

"Lollipop, lollipop oh lolly lollipop…" the two morons rambled on. It was a bloody miracle that they had lollipop in there rather unextensive vocabulary. Although judging by there size, it would be surprising if they didn't know what a lollipop was… They knew all of the words, it is a shame that they sound like dying animals. They were trying to sing in high falsettos… and it wasn't working for them.

At the end of the song, the other two Slytherins cheered loudly; as if it was the best thing they heard in their lives. Four of us were applauding politely, giving them credit for knowing words other than uh and er. Lily, however, seemed to be highly intrigued with the phone on the post in the corner of the room. Sirius and I shrugged. Remus went over to see, and he came back laughing. What could be going on?

Our judges held up a 4 and a 6. They scowled. "Thank you, thank you. That all made us really hungry!" Man oh man; Wormtail there really needs to work on his stand up act. "For our next act, we will be having our very own James and Sirius singing a Beatles favorite. I wanna hold your hand." Him as well as the remaining two on our side applauded loudly. The Slytherin lot just yawned and rolled their eyes.

We sang… oh did we sing. Sirius is actually a good singer. I really don't know where that comes from, so it kinda surprises me.  Then again, its not like I have actually heard him sing before, so I really couldn't say that he is bad… I don't exactly suck either, but Padfoot really stole the show. Lily was staring right at him the whole time, or at least until I glared a warning look at her. She is only supposed to look at me!

The Hufflepuff judges held up and 8 and a 9, and our team cheered. It continued on like this for a while, singing a variety of different songs. The best one in my opinion was when Lily sang "Sandra D" from Grease; she has a pretty good voice. Finally, it came time for the infamous Slytherin duo to do their song. They happened to choose "Shining Star" by Earth Wind and Fire. (a/n: hey, this IS the 70s here…) Once Peter announced that to us, Lily and Remus sprang into action.

As they started singing, they ran over to the phone, and started pressing buttons. We weren't sure what the hell they were doing. That is, not until we heard the song blaring throughout the whole store. Lily had put the song over the intercom!!! Talk about priceless. The best part of it all was that the two singing morons didn't notice.

Lets correct that, they didn't notice until the song was over, and they looked up. People had found out where the music was coming from, and there was a huge crowd over by them. They couldn't sing, and everyone was hissing and yelling at them. Some people clapped sarcastically. The two boys turned beat red and skulked off of the stage muttering swear words under their breath.

 Our rather large group gave each other high fives And continued on to the next section of the store.

Well, sorry if the end sucked, I didn't wanna keep people waiting anymore. Please R/R! If people didn't read and review, I wouldn't have any point of putting the story up. Constructive criticism is appreciated too!