Love's Talent
Chapter 15: Contestants Orientation
LunarianPrincess
A talent contest and performing class brings new alliances and blooming romance, but is a sinister force trying to prevent it from being successful?
Pairings: GW/DM; KS/DS; some HP/LL and HG/RW
SDA, I do own Darien Solaro and Kassara Saravati. This is in Ginny's sixth year and some of the characters might seem OOC, but bear with me. Feedback is appreciated, but please try to keep criticism constructive, Thanx in advance
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"Students, I have an announcement!" Dumbledore's voice boomed through the Great Hall. All off the sound cut off abruptly, students swiveled on the benches to survey the headmaster. "All of those wishing to be in the talent contest must attend an orientation meeting this evening to commence at the end of the meal, it will be in the new performing classroom, which is near the library, if you wait for Professor Barrington you can just follow her to the room, that is all, you may begin," at this a great swell of noise began. All the students were discussing their ideas for their talents. Draco frowned when he realized he would never be able to have a private conversation with Dare as the volume would simply never allow it. He resolved to catch his best friend and find out what Kassara had said about him.
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Ginny followed the large group as they headed towards the newly assigned classroom. Kasi had gone on with Dare, as the two of them said they didn't want the notoriety they would receive if they were in the show. She walked slowly, near the back of the group, alone. She waved as she recognized Liz and Shane from her Occlumency class, they were talking to a 5th year with pretty blonde hair and blue eyes that she didn't recognize. She saw Katherine talking to another seventh year, Jaqueline something. She also saw a girl in her year that she recognized, Ria, who was talking to two 5th years, one was a petite brunette the other a girl with dark hair with bright crimson streaks. Ginny recognized the one with the streaks in her hair, she was a bright student who was in most of her 6th year classes. Gigi was a very smart girl, with a wonderfully kind personality and a wit that Ginny both admired and enjoyed. Sitting with them was a sandy haired boy that Ginny recognized but had never met.
She tried to avoid looking at Draco but she couldn't help it, his icy good looks drew her like a moth to a flame. She felt a jealous pang as he walked with Jade, he looked listless and disappointed which raised her spirits lightly. She deliberately sat across the room from him, next to Gigi, Ria, and their friend. They talked quietly before the newest professor called them to order. Ginny looked curiously at the young man who sat at the piano behind the new professor.
"Hello, my name is Oriana Barrington for those of you who have forgotten, now I am here to help you with your questions first of all, those wishing to try out for the performing class, you will be judged in a different category from those who are just trying for the prize, now I do have specific requirements for those of you auditioning, but those can wait until I have all of those who simply want t perform at the talent show come see me," a large amount of people raised their hands before moving, with a smile Professor Barrington spoke again. "For those of you wishing to know, yes you can perform for both aspects," at this all of the hands went down. A sizeable chunk of people approached the grand piano she was standing behind.
Ginny zoned out while those people were informed of rules and suitability of content before they signed up. A while later Professor Barrington addressed them again. "Now those of you remaining, I shall begin on suitability of your audition pieces, first of all, you will be accompanied by my son, Adolfo Barrington, so your piece must be able to be accompanied on the piano or you must play your own music. Secondly, I will tolerate no profanity in performance, if your piece does contain this please edit before we have a pre-audition, to give you time to prepare for performing in front of a live audience I thought it best to allow you to perform in front of the other hopefuls before your peers, as they will be more tolerant of mistakes and understanding of your fear. Now are there any questions?" she asked pleasantly. No ones hand went up so she smiled at the group, "I see you are all eager to sign up an discuss your music with me, we will start at this end of the auditorium and finish with the other, come up individually, and please try to keep all conversation to a minimum,"
Ginny saw that she would be one of the last people to clear her song with Professor Barrington. She pulled out a small notebook that contained all the songs she possessed a bit of talent or ability in. she didn't know how she was ever going to choose any one particular song, she liked so many of the songs she had. Pondering her choice in music she decided that she would talk to the professor and see what she thought.
Soon she was the last person in that room. She walked towards the two figures by the piano and made her presence known. After a long and informative conversation she left, filled with relief and self-awareness. She was glad Ori, as she asked to be called, had allowed her a week to finalize her choice for her song. It gave her a chance to decide which song she knew would work as well as give her enough time to perfect it.
Ginny walked through the dim halls slowly, she had many things to consider. She thought about what had happened in such a short time, she knew that even though she had only known, really known, Draco for a little less than a week that she was in love with him. she smiled when she thought of how they had spent their time, he had begun to teach her how to dance, told her that he was in a band even though no one knew, and he had protected her from Filch and even walked her back to her common room.
She had been so focused on reliving the cherished memories of Draco and her that she had lost track of where she was going. She wasn't that far from the library in a corridor that led to Snape's private office, which she knew from the few times he had given her detention in his class. She passed a hall concealed in shadows, a little feeling of foreboding clouding her mind.
She nearly shrieked when a figure materialized from the shadows. She took a breath in order to scream but her mouth was quickly covered by a cold hand while a voice barked an order. "Quiet!" Ginny's eyes widened with the realization that she recognized the voice.
Not quite a cliffhanger but close enough, so who is it? I'm sure it's pretty obvious, but I am getting closer to the actual meat of the story, should come up in a few chapters, just a little romance before we get to the climax. I'm sorry but I probably wont be able to post again until after the holidays, sorry! Moving on here are the thank yous to all my wonderful reviewers!
Dracosbaby7: the orientation isn't particularly interesting but it gets us to the next conflict, I'm really trying to wrap it up quickly, because it seems to be dragging to me. What do you think, is it getting redundant or repetitive? I guess I just want to spring the twist on you guys I'm hopping it works and is relatively believable, not like Jade is Malfoy's long lost sister, cause that's just weird, okay I'm tired and sick and I'm going to stop rambling. Thanks!
hoppers: that's very true, I'm glad someone understands my weird romantic deprivation outlet thing, sorry that didn't make a whole lot of sense. Yeah I can't wait to reveal why she's so evil, I'm surprised I haven't given it away already, I keep worrying about doing that so I'm glad I'm not making it obvious, thanks for your support!
Deth's Flaming Arrow: Evil overlord works for me, thanx!
sakura-no-hana-hoshi: I'm glad you like the story, yeah I do feel bad for Ginny but we are getting closer to a resolution, so there is hope!