The Unexpected Performance
"Holy shit we're going to Liverpool!" screamed Harry.
"I know!"
"What the fuck are we doing!"
"I don't know!"
After they had calmed down they hitched up the Knight Bus and went on their way to London. They didn't want to go straight to Liverpool because 'it would ruin the excitement' as Ron had said. So when they arrived at London they decided to stay at the Leaky Cauldron for one night.
When they arrived with their gear they were bombarded by Tom the innkeeper.
"There you are! You're late!" he yelled.
"What are you talking about?" asked Ron.
"For your performance! You were supposed to be here an hour ago. Now get up there!"
"Wait! What- we're not here to perform, we're- we're just here to stay for the night" said Colin taken a-back.
"Oh no! Oh no! Then that means you're not the band! Whatever will I do? Listen could you boys please do me a favor?"
"Oh God erm… I-I don't know. We've only just started our band thing and we have no songs or anything and-"
"Oh please I'll give you a free room! Just do covers or make it up, do what you wish just please perform for me!"
"Well…um… we'll have a bash…" said Ron completely uncertain about what they were doing.
"Thank you! Thank you! These people would've had my head with jinxes and- oh thank you! Just get ready and I'll get up on the mike and tell them you're on you're way."
And just like that Tom left to introduce them.
"Ok, Ron what the hell just happened!?" asked Harry.
"And what the hell did you just do and why?!" yelled Colin.
"I don't know!"
They're yelling went back and forth and ended with excited laughter.
"Ok let's go we gotta get ready!" said Ron.
So they went to their free room and got dressed. They all had black jackets, black shirts, dark pants, and some sneakers. They each came out with their guitars in hand, Ron with his natural colored Hoffner Club 40, Harry with his sunburst Zenith acoustic and Colin with sunburst Neoton Futurama
"Um…hi, my names Ron, this is Harry and Colin and together we're the…Hogwarts Boys! Whoo! Um…yeah."
Ron turned and called on the other two for a quick huddle.
"What are we doing?"
"I don't know!"
"The Hogwarts Boys?"
"Shut up!"
"Both of you shut up! What are we performing?"
" 'Kansas City' we're doing 'Kansas City 'No talking just playing."
"And after that?"
"Long Tall Sally, Come and Go with Me (A/N the Beatles did Kansas city come and Go- the dell Vikings), and No Particular place to go (Chuck Berry)."
"We can do that?"
"Well let's just hope we can."
They all turned around again with smiles on their faces and then-
"Sugarplum fairy Sugar plum fairy-
Ah, Kansas City
coming to get my baby back home
yeah, yeah
I'm gonna Kansas city
coming to get my baby back home
yeah, yeah
Well, it's a long, long, time
since my baby's been gone
Ah, Kansas City
coming to get my baby on time
yeah, yeah
I'm gonna Kansas City
coming to get my baby on time
yeah, yeah
It's just a one, two, three, four
five, six, seven, eight, nine, wah
Hey, hey, hey, hey
hey, baby, you're no clown
I say you're no clown
Now, now, now, now,
Tell me baby
What's been wrong with you
Hey, hey, hey, hey
hey, baby, you're no clown
I say you're no clown
Now, now, now, now,
Tell me baby
What's been wrong with you
Well, I'll say bye
bye, bye, baby bye, bye
Oh, so long
Bye, bye, baby I'm gone
Yeah, I said
bye, bye, baby, bye, bye
bye, bye, bye, bye
The audience erupted. Ron queued Harry and Colin with his deep 'Sugarplum fairy' and stared up again with 'Come and Go'. By the time they finished 'No Particular Place to Go' the other band had turned up. And what do you know, it Winston's band.
"Winston!"
"Ron! What are you doing here?"
"Performing!"
"What?"
"Yeah, we came here to stay for the night and they threw us on stage just because we had our stuff."
"Really? Whoa, yeah sorry about that, but I mean we were coming from Hamburg."
"Yeah, what happened over there?"
Winston shook his head and grimaced.
"Oh man, it's hectic over there. Besides we got called up on short noticed by that lunatic. I'm guessing he's the one who threw you up there?"
"Oh you mean Tom? Yeah it was."
"Well, I'll see in about an hour?"
"Alright."
Winston and his friends went up on the stage and began right on the spot. They were really good. Ron had come to that decision after they had played two cords on Girl Can't Help It by Chuck Berry. Ron knew no one else could sing it like Winston did.
During the rest of the performance Ron noticed the crowd must have had 11 fire whiskeys too many. Wizards started throwing chairs, Tom was hiding behind the counter wand in hand, and Ron could've sworn he saw a boy and a girl about his age off in a corner trying to have some privacy.
Ron was absorbed in everything that was going on around him that he had forgotten about Harry and Colin. Soon enough he saw them making their way over to him.
"Come little darling come and go with me! Down down down to the-er-"
"Penitentiary!" (A/N that's not the really lyric. Come on! They're drunk!)
"Are you two drunk?"
"We've had a few drinks…what of it?"
"Give me one."
So they had their fun with their drinks, and music. After a few drinks Ron had started to act just as the other two. Stupidly. When Winston's round was done he was jus as drunk. They didn't go to bed until five o'clock in the morning. Winston and his band had gone back to Hamburg not long after Ron, Harry and Colin went to sleep.
And just like that the boys had their first taste of their nomadic musician life.