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Chapter 3
"Okay, band! That's a wrap!" Dewey Finn called out. He carefully put down his beloved guitar, and took a look at his band. "I have a killer group of kids," he thought.
School of Rock was the band that Dewey and some kids started five years ago, making the members 16 years old, excluding Dewey. Dewey needed money and pretended to be a substitute teacher to get some. Dewey had pretended to be "Ned Shneebly"
Dewey Finn was the lead guitarist of the band, School of Rock. Although he was almost 30 years old, he was a rocking teenager at heart. He had a passion for rock music, and he played a Gibson Les Paul guitar in the band. Dewey watched the members of School of Rock packing up their equipment.
Zack Mooneyham was the other guitarist of the band. He had his brown hair in tufts like he normally had it. Ever since Zack had joined the band, he had an outgoing, funny personality. He was also very charming, making all the girls love him at gigs. When Zack played his guitar, his brown eyes had a determined, yet sweet look to them. He was so talented, that the rest of the band thought that he would be the next Jimmy Hendrix. Everybody in the band had some sort of nickname, his was Zack Attack.
Katie Miller was the bassist of the band. She was definitely pretty with her soft brown eyes and her shoulder length glimmering brown hair. During gigs, all the boys would hoot for her, while she just sported a flattering and thankful smile. Although Katie was good-looking, it never got to her head. She was one of the sweetest, yet funniest, girls of the band, which explained why nobody hated her. Katie befriended everybody, and she was absolutely a talented bassist. Her nickname was Posh Spice.
Laurence Wong was the keyboard player of School of Rock. He was the only Asian person in the group. Laurence had come from a background of classical piano, but Dewey definitely changed his mind about it. Although he grew to like rock music, he still didn't have the rock personality. In fact, he was the exact opposite! Laurence was a smart, quiet boy that was always very polite. He had never entered in the band's weekly burping contests. However, these facts never stopped Laurence from rocking out and prove his musical abilities. His nickname was Mr. Cool for telling Dewey that nobody liked him in fifth grade because he wasn't cool. After this incident, everybody stood up for Laurence and he made many new friends.
Freddy Jones was the drummer of School of Rock. He had blonde, spiked up hair and lovable brown eyes. He had a punky personality and always kept everybody with his role as the class clown. Freddy was also the heart throb of the group. All the girls just fell in love with him. Freddy had gone out with all the girls in the group, except for Katie whom he had the biggest crush but had never confessed. Currently they were as close as best friends could be. He was extremely talented at playing the drums, and his nickname was Spazzy McGee.
Then there were the three back up singers: Alicia Goldstein, Tomika Beasley and Marta Estavez. Marta was Emilio Estavez's niece! Alicia was a nice but sassy girl, who's nickname was Brace Face, even though she had her braces removed three years earlier. Tomika's nickname was Turkey Sub, because Dewey had taken a turkey sub from her which she mysteriously had in her desk. Marta was a cute and always cheerful girl who also always had the group laughing.
There was also the crew of School of Rock. There were the cheery groupies, Michelle and Eleni; the band's stylist, Billy; the roadies, Frankie and Leonard, and also the graphics designer, Gordan.
Last, but not least, there was Summer, the band manager. She was appointed to be in charge of booking gigs and keeping track of the band's finances and things like that by Dewey because of her cleverness and organization. She was the smartest of the group, in school of course, and was pretty much the back bone of the group. Summer could be bossy at times, but she was kind if you were on her good side. Nobody knew never to mess with Summer because she could sometimes get into a bit of a tantrum, but other than that she was a great person.
Summer clapped her hands to get everybody's attention. "Okay, listen up you guys!" She waited until Dewey's apartment, which was where School of Rock practiced, was completely quiet. "Alright as you all know, I told you that I had gotten a gig for us in England a while ago."
"Summer, five years isn't just a while ago," Freddy interrupted. Zack started to snicker but when Summer glared at him, he stopped.
Summer continued, ignoring Zack's comment. "It's official now, we're going to be performing in England for six straight months!"
The band began to murmur excitedly and Summer smiled, feeling pleased, just like five years ago. Summer cleared her throat to get the group's attention once more. "We'll be performing from the beginning of January to the end of June. It hasn't been easy, but over these five years, I've been in frequent contact of the person that's paying us to go."
"Hold on," Frankie interrupted. "I remember you telling us that it was in some 'magic' school. This school probably isn't real because magic doesn't exist!" The band started to frown and began to agree with Frankie.
Summer still didn't lose her confidence. "Yes, I did tell you we were going 'magic' school and we still are. It's called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy. And why are you so sure that magic doesn't exist?"
Frankie began to blush, knowing that Summer was most likely right.
"Summer, spill," Zack said. "If there is a little world of magic that we didn't know about before, how come you figured it out?"
"My cousin got a letter when she was eleven years old, telling her she had been accepted to this school," Summer explained. "It's a boarding school that teaches students to brew potions and to cast spells and curses. She even has a wand!" Summer exclaimed.
The members of the band looked at Summer in awe while she continued. "Well, she went off to school but we still kept in touch. She sent me these owls with pieces of parchment on its leg. It's pretty cool, since the owls knew exactly to come to the US. Anyway, I had written that we started a band, and she wanted to hear us perform. My cousin got the idea of us performing at her school so she told the headmaster of Hogwarts, Professor Dumbledore, about her idea. He really liked it so we've been in contact ever since!"
Dewey looked at Summer in wonder. "Summer, have we told you how much we love you!"
Summer chuckled. "Yeah, yeah. Anyhow, we've been working out the details these last couple of weeks. Professor Dumbledore told me that since we were going to be there for six months, we might as well become sort of like students to the school."
"You mean, we get to learn magic?" Marta asked excitedly.
"Exactly," Summer said, flashing a smile at the band. "We will also be put into houses."
"What are houses?" Leonard asked, curiously.
"Well, Hogwarts is a boarding school. It has separated dormitories just like in college and university. There are four different houses. Everybody will be sorted into these houses based on their personality.
Freddy took a quick glance at Katie. He definitely hoped he would be in her house.
"Okay, I am sooo not going to share a room with a guy whether he's in School of Rock, or not," Alicia complained.
"Oh don't worry! There's a girl's and boy's dormitory in every house," Summer reassured. "Any questions?"
"Yeah, I have a question!" Katie called out. "Won't we need equipment for this school. You said that there was a potions class and that your cousin had a wand or something."
"Yes, thanks for bringing that up," Summer thanked. "Professor Dumbledore said that there was a small village outside of London where we could find everything we need." Summer took a binder from her backpack and flipped through the pages. "In fact, these are the things that we're going to need," Summer informed. She opened her backpack and began to hand out a copy to each person. "I photocopied one for each person."
The members began to murmur excitedly to one another once more. Laurence was the only one who just read over his sheet attentively and quietly.
"How are we going to get to England anyway?" Eleni asked.
"We're having an all expense paid, first class trip on an airplane to London," Summer explained. "We're staying in a Hilton hotel for a night, then we'll go shopping for our stuff in Diagon Alley, we'll be staying at the Leaky Cauldron for a night and then we're on the Hogwarts Express to go to Hogwarts."
Dewey patted Summer on the back. "Way to go Summer! You've got this all figured out don't you?"
"Right to the last detail," Summer answered.
"I'm glad I picked you as band manager five years ago," Dewey commented happily.
Summer beamed back at Dewey. "Thanks, Dewey. Also, there's also something else that Dumbledore asked me to do."
"What's that?"
"Well, his Muggle Music teacher-"
"His WHAT music teacher?" Dewey asked confusedly.
"Muggle. It means non- magic," Summer explained.
"Okay, continue."
"Well, Hogwart's Muggle Music teacher has to leave in January for maternity leave. Dumbledore was wondering if-"
"If I could replace her?" Dewey finished excitedly.
"Exactly! Well he told me to answer ASAP, so..."
"YES!! DEFINITELY!" Dewey exclaimed. Teaching music was Dewey's dream job. He hugged Summer, while she just laughed. "When are we leaving anyway?"
"December 30," Summer replied happily.
"Just two more months to go, then!"