The Audition Room
About a week after the trio's little – er – conversation, they find themselves standing in a line outside of the potions classroom, waiting for their turn to audition. The potions room was chosen because it had the best acoustics – there were no openings to let the sound escape….none at all….not even one….who knows how air got in there….but hey, the less outside interruption, the better the sound!
First to go in from the trio was Hermione. Ron and Harry waited outside for her….not hearing a thing. She came out crying, "They said I sound like….like…."
"Like what Hermione?" Ron asked.
"Like a SHENSHEN!"
Everyone in the line gasped at this – ShenShen was Galinda's minion….a – oh the horror – completely girly and material character! Everyone patted her on the back and told her how sorry they were. How they knew who ShenShen was I'll never know. Magic of musicals I guess!
Hermione snorted in her pain and wished Ron good luck. It was his turn to go in. He gulped and tip-toed into the room.
Ron ran out jumping and screaming with a little gold piece of paper.
"I got through! I got to the next round! New York here I come! Yay! Who knew they were holding auditions for American Idol right here! Woohoo!"
"Um….excuse me….Mr. Weasley?" came a voice. It was Dumbledore.
"Yes Sir?" Ron turned to him.
"You went through the porthole….to Florida…."
"What? So I don't get to go to New York?"
"No – but you get a prize for trying!"
"Oooooh! What!"
"You get to audition for the school show!"
"Yay!"
Ron ran into the potions room, and ran out yelling, "I think I did really well! They said my lion roar was fantastic!"
"Lion roar?" Hermione looked at him curiously.
"Yeah, I tried out for the lion! I'm so excited!"
"Riii-iiight…."
They both wished Harry good luck on his audition….he was about to walk in when Hermione asked, "Harry….what song are you singing?"
"What The World Needs Now!"
"Good choice!"
Harry ran in. Suddenly Ron and Hermione heard a cat somewhere….squealing….and dying….very painfully….they turned around and looked for Filch's evil cat. He wasn't there. Ron pressed his ear to the door and looked at Hermione, horrified.
"That's Harry!"
Hermione's eyes opened wider than the thickness of the fifth Harry Potter book. She put her ear to the door and nearly cried. Not because she felt sorry for Harry, but because the noise hurt her ears so. Suddenly, Harry flew through the doorway, having been pushed away by Dumbledore himself, and ran straight into Hermione! He got up and said to them:
"Oh! I think that went so well! I wonder what part I'll get!"
Hermione and Ron simply looked at each other and sighed. They waited outside the door for some of their other friends to come out, such as Neville, Ginny, Seamus and Luna. When they came out they all talked about their auditions….good and bad.
"So, Seamus, how do you think you did?" asked Harry, looking at him.
"Not too bad I don't think…."
"Well, let's hear it!"
"Oh, I don't know…."
"Come on!" everyone yelled at him, somehow in perfect unison.
"Oh fine!" Seamus yelled back. He started singing his song – Dancing Through Life. Everyone stared at him when he was finished.
"Wow….Seamus….good job." Ginny looked at him with lovey dovey eyes. She looked at Harry and said, "I think you've got some competition!"
Harry looked rather jealous about this….he looked at Ron and frowned. Ron simply shrugged. Luna then looked at Harry:
"Oh, come on! You don't need her! Take me!"
Ron looked at her quickly, "I thought you liked me?"
"No, I liked Neville….now I love Harry!"
Neville blushed as Ron looked angrily. All of the Harry/Luna shippers suddenly ran in and hugged Luna:
"We knew you would pick him! Go Luna!"
Then, without warning, all of the Ron/Luna shippers ran in:
"How could you do this to us! Boooo!"
Next, the Neville/Luna shippers ran in:
"Meh. It was good while it lasted," and they left.
After a huge war between the Harry/Luna shippers and the Ron/Luna shippers, they all went back to their meaningless little lives of writing lots and lots of fan fictions about how Luna is secretly seeing Ron.
"Wow….that was odd," Ginny said suddenly.
"Well now, you've been pretty quiet all this time….unlike you," Ron said to her, "How was your audition by the way?"
"Not too bad, I hope! Hey, Neville, how do think you did?"
"Er….um….I dunno….gee….hm…."
"Never mind then."
"Well, I don't know about all of you guys, but I'm going to bed….before any of you come up with another clever idea to blow our ears out – or worse – be ex-"
"Just go to bed!" the author yelled at her, "And no more movie references or I'll fire you!"
"You can't fire me, I quit!"
"Shut up!"
"Oh yeah, well-"
"Shut up!"
"What if-"
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"
"Fine!"
So they all went to bed, awaiting the next morning when they would find out their roles!
