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Hey Guys!! I'm so sorry for not updating for like 4 or 5 days now? I really am!! I've been busy to be truthful...my head's mixed up with school stuff, and my sickness which I still have (but only less than before). I hope you guys will forgive me!! I might not be able to update everyday like before, but I'll try to make sure I update within 2 or 3 days. Anyway, this chapter is rather short (I still have to do an assignment after this) so please don't kill me!!lol. Again, I'm really sorry. Read on!!
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-Chapter 11:One Second Spark-
Flashback on the auditions..."Lily stop it!" Hermione said rather loudly as she glanced at her script, in front of the other students and with Sirius "Just because your hair sucks, lay off mine!"
Parvati looked shocked.
"See this?" she said as she took hold of her bracelet all the while reading her lines too "This is your charm and I'm gonna –"
Sirius clapped his hands together.
Hermione and Parvati, along with the other students look over to him.
"Brilliant, absolutely fabulous!"
Hermione and Parvati grinned sheepishly and walked back towards the group and sat down.
"Okay, that was great! I expect to see everyone else perform as the duo just did. Now,"
Sirius looked through his parchment, running his fingers down the list written on it.
"Ron!" Sirius exclaimed as he looked at the red head beside his godson "How 'bout you? Your trying out for Michael, am I correct?"
Ron nodded his head.
"Okay, you will be playing the scene during the final ball, until the part where Michael kisses the princess"
"Excuse me?" Ron said disbelieving what he had heard.
"You heard me," Sirius said grinning at him "and since we need a princess, and so far Hermione has been playing very well with it, you will be doing it with her"
"Doing what?" Ron almost shouted in a shocked voice.
The rest of the students looked at him as if he grew another nose on his forehead.
"Err...right, t-the scene you mean," he said hastily seeing the looks he received. He slowly stood up from his seat and cleared his throat "right, o-okay then"
Hermione stood up as well, as she followed him back to the front of the class.
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So far, both Hermione and Ron were acting marvelously. Harry couldn't believe Ron could act that well, especially on a play he had never even seen and heard of.
And not only Harry had noticed this, but also a certain blonde Slytherin.
'This can't be real' Draco thought to himself as he watched the duo proceed to the scene in the garden 'Is this Weasley?'
"Why me?" Ron said aloud, script at hand.
"Look, I'm sorry for what happened. It's just that I..." Hermione's voice trailed off as Ron placed his hand on her cheek.
'Aren't we done with the scene yet? This is getting awkward' Ron thought to himself as he slowly leaned forward towards Hermione. He breathed in 'I never knew Hermione smelled this good'
'Oh my god! Ron's totally gonna kiss me, for real!' Hermione shouted in her thoughts 'yes! Total revenge on Draco, plus, this would only look like acting for them'
Hermione grinned and giggled to herself in the inside, as she too leaned in closer to him as well. Now they were only about five inches apart.
'Why is Sirius not telling us to stop?' Ron thought, still leaning in on her slowly.
Four inches apart.
'Why is everyone so quiet?' Hermione thought in wonder.
Three inches apart.
'Are we really going to do this?' Ron thought nervously.
'What the hell?' Draco thought furiously.
Two inches apart.
'He's actually doing this!' Hermione screamed to herself.
'Go Ron!' Harry said grinning madly on his seat.
One inch apart.
'This is it' both thought finally to themselves.
Hermione slowly shut her eyes and tilted her head to the left, and so did Ron but to his right. Their lips touched for a about a second and...
"Eeekkkk!!!!!!!!" a familiar girly voice yelled from the rather fascinated crowd.
Ron and Hermione opened their eyes and pulled away then looked down.
Everyone then turned to look at the shrieking girl, including Sirius. The duo looked at each other for one more second and snapped their heads to the freaked out Slytherin.
"What is it?" Sirius said as he stood up.
"A-a..." Pansy tried to stutter out.
"A what miss Parkinson?"
"A beetle!" Pansy wailed and shuddered as she dug her head in Millicent's robes "It almost touched me!"
Everyone rolled their eyes, causing Ron and Hermione to look at each other. Ron turned as red as his hair, and Hermione's cheeks became a pale pink.
'What the heck was that?' Ron and Hermione thought to themselves.
Ron bit his lip as Hermione touched hers. They definitely felt a one second spark during that unclear kiss – if you can call it a kiss.
'What the bloody hell was that?' Draco screamed in his head as he kept his gaze on the two, glaring at what they were doing.
"Next time miss Parkinson, keep your petty worries to yourself." Sirius said irritably "Now, Ron, Hermione? Good job both of you! You really brought me in with your performance, really nice work! Okay, back to your seats now"
Ron started back towards his seat. Hermione was about to follow him, until Sirius spoke yet again.
"Wait, stay there for a while Hermione" Hermione took back her foot and stood back on her spot "Hmm..."
Sirius ran his finger down his list of names on the parchment. He stopped his finger, and looked up. He looked around the students and his gaze landed on his godson who was looking over at his red head best friend, he grinned evilly.
"Harry" he said plainly and his godson's head snapped at his direction.
"Huh?" Harry asked wonderingly.
Sirius grinned and nodded his head over to Hermione.
"M-me?" he stuttered.
"Know any other Harry?" Sirius asked as he made his way towards him.
"Well, there was that 2nd year I met during the party, he was rather-" he stopped as his godfather bent down nearing his ear.
"Afraid? You faced Voldemort and you can't even face your female best friend?" Sirius whispered, quoting on 'female'.
He slowly stood back up properly to be met by his godson's appalled expression. He grinned evilly at him once again. Harry stuck out his tongue at him and walked towards the front of the class, nose held high, looking rather like Hermione.
Ron grinned at him as he passed by.
Harry stopped in front of Hermione, looking rather bored.
Sirius looked at him and raised an eyebrow.
"Okay now, Harry, you shall be doing only one part of one scene"
Harry smirked smugly at this and looked over at Ron who looked revolted at this announcement.
'Good' Harry thought.
'Special treatment' Ron, Hermione, Draco and the rest of the class thought.
"You shall be doing the part where Michael and Mia kiss, and that should do it" Sirius smiled as he sat back down.
Harry's jaw dropped.
"What?"
Sirius grinned and the whole class – if possible – smirked at him, with the exception of Hermione who was looking down, cheeks turning pink again. Sirius nodded his head, and Harry glared at him as he glanced at Hermione and looked down on his lines on his script.
"Why me?" he said in a rather harsh way as he kept stealing glances at his godfather who still looked smug.
"Look, I'm sorry for..."
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"That was embarrassing!" Harry said in a low scream as he sat back beside Ron and Sirius was now writing something on a piece of parchment.
Ron smirked at him and crossed his arms.
"Your was better than mine! Mine was longer and I had to do the kissing scene, and you didn't even kiss her at all!"
"She's my best friend, why would I? I'm not like you"
"Yeah, it was- what do you mean like me?"
"You kissed her, others might've not noticed because of that Parkinslut but I did," Harry looked at Ron and grinned, "though it was less than a second, it was still something"
Ron stuck out his tongue at him.
"Can you two stop it? You both are so immature" Padma said from behind them.
Both turned to look at her, then glanced at each other. Like reading each other's thoughts, they turned back to her and stuck their tongue at her together.
Padma rolled her eyes and looked over at Sirius who now got to his feet and headed to the front of the class.
"There will be a list as who will be taking part in the presentation"
The girls held their hand together, hoping to get the character they wanted.
"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.
The Princess Diaries
Princess Mia – Hermione Granger
Queen Clarice – Hannah Abbott
Mia's mother – Padma Patil
Lily – Parvati Patil
Lana – Pansy Parkinson
Ana – Seamus Finnegan
Fontana – Dean Thomas
Josh Ryan – Draco Malfoy
Michael – Ron Weasley
Next-door neighbor – Ernie McMillan
Joe (Queen Clarice's body guard/Mia's personal driver) – Harry Potter
Charlotte – Lisa Gerents
Principal – Lavender Brown
P.E. teacher – Susan Bones
Background students - ...
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Costumes coordinators – Millicent Bulstrode, Justin Finch-Fletchy, Lavender Brown...
Background designers – Neville Longbottom, Stuart Jenkins, Susan Bones, Blaise Zabini...
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"Okay, now you all know your parts on the play, any questions?"
Seamus and Dean's hand shot up.
"Yes?" Sirius asked the two.
"Err- professor, are you sure that list is correct?" Seamus asked as he stood up.
"I'm pretty sure, why do you ask?"
"Well, you see professor" Dean started and stood up himself "Seamus and I got girl parts, is that umm...right?"
Sirius gave a hearty laugh. Both looked at him as if he were mad. Sirius' laugh died down and he looked back at the two boys.
"Yes it is right" Both boys looked horrified.
"What do you mean?" they asked in unison.
"I thought it could put a bit of a laugh for the audience when they see it, nice touch. Don't you think?"
Seamus and Dean sat down and glared at the floor as the class started to snicker.
"Anyway, no other question?"
Seeing no hands were raised, Sirius stood up and checked his watch.
"Okay, class dismissed" then the bell rang at that precise moment.
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"That was a long class wasn't it?" Ron told Harry as they made their way to the dungeons together with the Slytherins as the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs made their way up the stairs to Transfiguration.
"Well, we only have it twice a week, Mondays and Fridays" Harry replied as he grumpily stomped his foot each step he took.
"What's wrong?"
"Well, we have Potions right after Activates"
"So?" Ron asked who had no idea as to where Harry was going to.
"Think about it, every Monday, our day will start off great and exciting then ends up bad and boring, all thanks to the git" Harry sighed and looked down.
"Yeah, the greasy git" Ron nodded.
"Greasy git" a voice said from behind them.
Both boys gulped and slowly looked behind them. It was the greasy git himself, and he didn't look happy – well, he never did actually but his frown was much evident now than the usual times they saw him. Obviously, he didn't like Sirius teaching the same school as he nor did he like his newfound nickname.
-End of Chapter-
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Lothliana, clarissa, dragonblood, ihearttomfelton, Hippie1212, hermionejanegranger: Thanx!! And I'm sorry if I just updated today. Forgive me and pls. keep readin' and updating!!
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Hey guys! Sorry again for not updating so soon than I kept on promising. So many stuff to do at school I barely even get enough sleep now. Oh, and if any of you guys know the exact names of the characters in 'The Princess Diaries' please tell me! The lines I placed are not exact, but it is still is part of it. Gotta go now! My dad's still gonna kill me if he finds me on line this late. Bye now!! Please R & R!
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