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Sorry again for not updating yesterday! Anyway, his chapter is a bit weird. Eheheheh!! Read on!
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-Chapter 10: Sparks-
Hermione walked down the corridor to the Great hall yawning widely, together with the other prefects.
"You still tired?" Draco asked, who was walking beside her.
"A bit, yeah" Hermione replied sleepily.
They were a bit early for breakfast, but they figured they should set an example for the other students – or so Hermione suggested.
"I still don't see the point why you want us to wake up this early Hermione" Padma said yawning widely along with Ernie who was walking slowly beside her, he looked as if he was sleep walking, his eyes were half open and his head keep on hanging down. "I mean, I can understand early, but a half hour early? Your mad!"
Hannah and Dean, who were in front of the group, both stopped and nodded at this statement.
"Oh don't complain," Lisa spoke up "besides, Hermione's intentions were purely of significant"
Stuart glanced at the Slytherin shocked then furrowed his eyebrows.
'Traitor' he mouthed to her as Lisa hit him playfully by the stomach in return.
The group was getting along quite well, even though they were from different houses. They were only in Hogwarts for two days and they already started becoming friends – with an exception with Ernie to Hermione and Draco. Both still held a grudge against him because of the little incident they encountered, but both did start to lighten up from it.
"Look, we're prefects. It's only right that we should show the other students that we do our job seriously" Hermione said proudly "Plus, make the professors impressed by what we do" she added, grinning sneakily.
Draco rolled his eyes. He knew there was something devious behind that knowledgeable mind of hers.
They were now in front of the oak doors, and they stopped and waited for Padma and Ernie, who were taking there time walking down the corridor, to catch up.
As they arrived, Padma hit Ernie by the arm, and his head snapped up. The girls giggled and the guys rolled their eyes. Dean and Stuart then pushed open the oak doors, revealing the head table already filled with their teachers and the four house tables occupied with shuffling house elves.
Everyone in the hall looked up at the prefects.
"Err...hi" Hermione said unsurely as she continued watching the house elves scrubbing the tables clean.
"Prefects," Dumbledore said in a bemused tone "glad to see you eight to be the first ones up"
They all grinned sheepishly as a few of the professors eyed them suspiciously and as some of them sent them surprised and pleased looks.
"Well headmaster, we all thought that it would be appropriate that we get up early so we can show a good example to our other fellow students" Draco said in an oh-so-fake-innocent voice.
He looked back at the other prefects, and they nodded in agreement, except for one. Hermione looked at the blonde and raised an eyebrow. Draco looked at her then smirked. She rolled her eyes and started walking down the hall, towards the middle part of the Gryffindor table. Dean followed her as the other prefects walked down to their respective tables.
"Well then, your intentions are as good as it can be, 10 points to each of the houses" Dumbledore said, proud of his students "and," he added "5 points to Gryffindor, for I believe that this is all Ms. Granger's thoughtful idea"
Dumbledore looked over at the Gryffindor table, were a grinning and smug looking Hermione now sat. She turned her head to look over at Draco, who was already glaring at her. She stuck out her tongue at him childishly.
"5 points from Gryffindor for that childish remark Ms. Granger" Snape, who was reading the Daily Prophet, said coolly from the head table without taking his eye off the paper.
Dumbledore looked over at him with a bemused expression on his face.
Hermione stopped and looked over at the potions master, appalled. Draco smirked at this and stuck his tongue at her too.
"And 5 points from Slytherin for that same childish remark Mr. Malfoy" McGonagall said as she looked up from her copy of the Daily Prophet and smirked at the direction of Snape.
Dumbledore gave McGonagall the same expression as with Snape.
Snape looked up and raised an eyebrow at her direction.
All the prefects were sending them weird looks.
"There's only 15 minutes left until breakfast, some of the students should be here by now" Dean said as he pulled up the sleeve of his robes and looked at his wrist watch.
Hermione nodded as she looked over at the oak doors. It was then that the doors were slowly being opened by someone from the outside, and was also then that the house elves suddenly disappeared.
Owen and Sandi walked in slowly. Owen still looked sleepy but Sandi looked like she could fly around the Quidditch pitch at top speed right then and there as she wore a huge grin on her face.
"She looks overly perky today," Hannah muttered to Ernie then snickered "Right Ernie?"
There was silence as Hannah continued to snicker. Her snickering lowered then stopped as she looked over to her fellow prefect beside her...sleeping.
"Ernie!" she shouted and punched him lightly by the arm.
"Yes mum?!" he asked in a shout as his head snapped from the table. He looked around then started dozing off even while sitting right up.
Hannah rolled her eyes and poked him by the cheeks with her finger.
"I'll do it later mum" he muttered unconsciously.
"Ernie, it's Hermione, I have to tell you something" Hannah said, imitating Hermione's voice.
"Hermione!" Ernie exclaimed.
Everyone in the hall stopped what they were doing and looked over at the Hufflepuff.
"What is it Ernie?" Hermione asked from the next table to his.
Ernie rubbed his eyes and looked towards her, then glanced behind him. Hannah was laughing hard and was now clutching her stomach from the pain of her continuous laughter.
"I hate you" Ernie said plainly then shook his head to Hermione's direction. He turned back to Hannah then glared at her.
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"Students!" McGonagall shouted over the noise of the now filled Great Hall to get their attention.
The noise lessened and Dumbledore slowly stood up from his chair.
"Students, good morning. Today, as all of you may know is the first day of classes. I would like to say good luck on your classes. We also have new professors aboard Hogwarts"
The students were quiet, some of them already knew who it was.
"Filling in for Defense Against the Dark Arts class is Mr. Remus Lupin, who has been kind enough to take back his position"
The students applauded, most of which coming from the Gryffindor table.
Lupin stood up from his seat and bowed his head lightly then sat back down.
"And, as another treat" he started again which surprised everyone inside the hall "we have a new class installed to the school curriculum"
Everyone groaned at this but didn't quite show it because they were too surprised at this announcement, even the teachers. Obviously, they didn't have any idea on what Dumbledore was about to announce.
"The new professor who will we in charge for the new Activates class will be,"
Everyone were wondering what they would do in 'Activates' but they didn't bother asking anyone else because everyone else were as clueless as the other, even the teachers, plus, they were at the edge of their seats as to who will be teaching the class...they wouldn't want a teacher like Umbridge, that's for sure.
"Mr. Sirius Black" a huge black dog walked under the table to the front of the head table. It sat down on the floor, barked, wagged it's tail playfully then bowed it's head.
Everyone was quiet...and confused.
"What the heck is he doing?" Ron whispered to Harry from across the table, who was in shock.
'What the heck is he trying to do?' Harry asked himself 'He knows that nobody knows that he's an Animagus'
Harry stood up halfway, trying to catch the dog's attention. The dog looked his way and Harry made hand gestures telling it to go back.
The dog – if possible – looked frantic, then abruptly stood up, then walked back under the table and into the open door behind the head table.
Everyone were now whispering with each other at the odd sight they just saw, until the door behind the head table opened yet again, revealing a man in his 30's.
As the students saw this, silence filled the hall yet again.
"Errr...hey everyone!" Sirius replied sheepishly.
Silence still filled the hall until...
"Sirius Black!" a Ravenclaw 3rd year exclaimed as he stood up from his seat. Everyone looked at him and gave him weird looks. He blushed and looked down then sat back down.
Everyone looked back at the head table, then applause and howls erupted, except for a few Slytherins.
Sirius bowed at the students, he knew people had started to consider him as harmless since the war, but he never expected this.
"Err...sorry about earlier, my dog, he umm...decided to take my place"
Everyone but the same few Slytherins laughed at this and applauded once more as Sirius mad his way to his seat next to Lupin.
"Nice entrance" Lupin whispered to him, who only grinned in return.
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After breakfast, all the 6th year students stayed behind in the Great Hall. They were to have Activates class first, and since their schedules indicated that it was to be held in the Great Hall.
"Students," Sirius started "glad to see you all"
Pansy – shockingly – raised her hand.
"Professor, why is the class in the Great Hall? And why do we have classes with the rest of the 3 houses?" she asked with her high-pitched voice in a very annoyed tone.
"Well Parkinson," Sirius replied in a rather irritated tone.
Harry sent him a warning look. Sirius dislike the Slytherins because of their parents, because they were Death Eaters, but that didn't mean that Sirius should take it all on their children, even though they were much like their parents.
Pansy looked shock at his reply.
"Err...I mean," Sirius cleared his throat "miss Parkinson, this class has no permanent classroom as of now, mainly because this class is new, and also because there isn't a classroom big enough to fit all of you" he said as he looked around at the students. "As for your second question, it is because of Dumbledore's new project, all of your classes as you may see, will be with held together with other houses in your year"
All of the 6th years took out their class schedules, which was handed to them during breakfast, and compared it with the other houses. Indeed, all of them had exactly the same classes each day.
"Okay now, students put away your class schedules and listen here. As none of you may know, Activates class will be a class that will hold various activities"
The students nodded their head as Sirius talked which made him smile, knowing that the students were actually interested.
"There will be activities like, drama which will contain plays"
The girls giggled at this and the boys rolled their eyes.
"Sports, where in each house will play quidditch against each other, to make sure everyone will at least try playing the game instead of the original house team"
The guys high-fived and it was the girls' turn to roll their eyes.
"Dancing and singing, where in you will perform maybe in groups, trios or pairs, and which by the way, I myself won't be teaching alone"
A few nodded and a few made grossed faces, thinking that the idea was absurd.
"Of course, that is what I have planned for now, there will be more to be announced as this class goes on. Now, for the first two months, we will be working with drama"
The girls giggled yet again.
"Yes, yes...we will be doing a play on 'The Princess Diaries'."
Most of the students haven't heard of it, but some did, like Hermione, Dean and Lavender.
"Oohhh!" Hermione and Lavender said in unison sounding excited.
"Okay cool," said Dean, emotionless.
"What's that?" Ron asked aloud.
"It, Ron, is a muggle movie," Sirius said smiling at the redhead "you lot were supposed to have Romeo and Juliet"
Some, who knew what Romeo and Juliet, groaned at this, most of them would have wanted to have a romantic play, rather than an unknown-princess thing.
"Why couldn't we have had that instead?" Susan asked aloud.
"Well miss..."
"Susan Bones"
"Well miss Bones," Sirius started again "I gave it to the 5th years. 1st and 2nd years are not to have plays, 3rd years are to have Beauty and the Beast, 4th years are to have The Sleeping Beauty, 5th years are to have Romeo and Juliet, and 7th years are to have A Midsummer's Night Dream. Plus, because of some certain events, I decided that 'The Princess Diaries' would fit your batch perfectly."
He eyed Hermione for a while as he said this, then glanced at Harry and gave him a little wink.
Harry sent him a wondering look. He had seen this movie before, and it involved a princess who falls in love for the wrong guy. At first, she likes the good looking guy named Josh Ryan, but later goes for her closer friend, Michael, because she realizes that you can't only count on the looks but the personality too. Harry thought about this for a while, and then suddenly grinned widely. Now he understood. Sirius is going to make Hermione the princess, and Draco would probably be Josh once he finds out about her and Draco.
"Now, here are the parts, each of you would have to audition for a part – yes Mr. Longbottom even you" he said over to Neville who was shuddering "and I will then choose who will be the best in his or her character, and there will be a final presentation in front of the whole school probably by October or later and you will be saying your lines today. I decided it be better if we get a move on, on who plays who"
Sirius took out his wand and waved it. A table appeared in the middle of him and the students. He waved it again and piles of stacked different colored parchments now filled it.
"Now, here are the list of characters and their position in the story, I will be giving their backgrounds if you get the part. Amelia or Mia, she is or the to be princess, Lily, Mia's best friend, Michael, Lily's brother and Mia's close friends he also has a..."
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During the auditions...Ron glanced over at Hermione, who was beside Draco – as usual. She was holding pink parchment.
'She's auditioning for the princess' Ron thought. He was holding a green parchment which had the label 'Michael' at the top of a few lines.
"Harry, why did you get me this part? Sirius said that this guy's one of the main characters"
"Yeah, so?"
"If you must know, which you already do, I can't memorize long stuff"
"Don't worry, I'm also auditioning for him, and so are a lot of guys. The chances of you getting picked are from 1 to a zillion"
"I'd take that as a compliment, even though it wasn't"
Harry grinned as Ron rolled his eyes.
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After the auditions..."Now," Sirius started "the following will be in the play" he waved his wand and a parchment appeared in front of them, revealing the list of who plays who.
Harry stopped reading the list as he saw Ron's name. He grinned and started jumping together with the others who got parts. He looked at Ron, who was behind him and was grinning like mad.
"Ron, you got the part of Michael!" Harry exclaimed.
"I know," his face starting to become pink.
"And Hermione's got the part of the princess!" Harry exclaimed yet again.
"I know," Ron said again his face going to a red color.
"And you get to kiss her in the play" Harry whispered to him.
Ron's face lost all color, he was as white as Nearly Headless Nick.
"You love her don't you?" Harry asked suspiciously.
Ron regained his reddish-pink color then glared at him.
"I do not! Maybe it's you who love her. You're making absurd conclusions Harry" Ron said defiantly as he crossed his arms, his ears turning red, "It's just totally impossible. Hu!" he snorted "Hermione and me? Yeah right, that'll be the day"
Harry raised an eyebrow and gave him a look.
"What are you staring at me for?" the redhead retorted.
"You're being a bit defensive for a little statement are you? If I would've known, you really do love her!"
"No I don't!" Ron shouted annoyingly.
Harry snickered at Ron, whose face was now as pure red as his hair. A few people around them were now turning to look at the aggravated red faced, redhead.
"Oh admit it Ron, you love Hermione. The look on your face when you first saw her on the platform and during dinner on the first day gave it all away" Harry whispered to his ear as he turned and jogged towards his godfather.
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Flashback on the auditions...x
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Hey guys!! I will show you the flashback on the next chapter. This chapter is very confusing, I know, but I will give in more detail about the play thingy tomorrow, on the next chapter. I have to go now because it's almost midnight and my dad might check up on me, I still have classes tomorrow. And sorry I didn't get to reply on your reviews, I'm in a hurry, bye now!! R & R!!!!!
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