When I Wake
Chapter 2: Finalisation
Disclaimer: Time for chapter two. I don't own nuffin cept the plot!
Harry slept until about twelve that morning and even when he woke up he struggled to get out of bed. He sat up and noticed he was the last one in the dormitory.
He had just finished getting dressed when he heard footsteps coming up the stairs outside. He looked at the door.
Ron walked in and sat down on his bed.
"I see you're out of the hospital wing then" Harry said throwing his pillow at him.
"Yeah got out at about ten this morning" Ron replied, throwing it back.
"So what do you want?" Harry asked.
"Dumbledore wants to see us, something about setting up the talent quest next week" Ron said.
"Shit I forgot about that. I'll be right down" Harry said.
So after Harry had got his shoes on he walked down to the common room where he met Ron. He was with Hermione.
"Hey guys" he said walking over to them.
"Hey Harry" said Hermione hugging him.
"You ready to go Ron?" Harry asked.
"Sure lets go" he said giving one last kiss to Hermione and then following Harry out the portrait hole.
When they finally got to the stone gargoyle outside Dumbledore's office Harry looked expectantly at Ron.
"Well what's the password?" he asked.
"Oh shit, sorry forgot" he pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket. "Twiddlethumbs" he said and the gargoyle sprang aside and the door opened.
They got to the top and knocked on the door.
"Come in" came Dumbledore's voice. "Ah hello Mr. Weasley, Mr Potter I see you got our message" his eyes twinkled as they usually did.
"Yes sir, slept in sorry" he said bowing slightly.
"No worries at all. I merely wished to ask you whether you had finished planning what we are going to have at our talent quest next week?" he said.
"Yes sir we have. We are going to have a stage set up where the teachers table usually goes and all the students are to sit in front of it on chairs" said Harry. "We are also going to have three special guest judges to judge our competitors" he added.
"Who are they?" Dumbledore asked.
"We are going to have Rufus Scrimegour minister of magic, Eye Cantsingh lead singer of the weird sisters and we were wondering if you would be our third judge sir?" Ron said.
"Me? But I'm not a special guest" Dumbledore said.
"Sure you are you're special enough. Who cares if you live here?" Harry smiled as he said it.
"Well now that you put it that way, sure I'll do it for you" Dumbledore said smiling.
"Thankyou sir" Harry and Ron both said at the same time.
"Now what are we doing for sound?" Dumbledore asked.
"Well we have ordered a state-of-the-art sound system from Jonno's Sound for All Occasions, which will be set up on the night for us. Oh and I will be the MC for the night with Ron looking after the sound" Harry explained.
"Good, good. Now how are Ms Granger and Ms Patil going on getting competitors?" Dumbledore said.
"They held auditions last week and are finalising the line up for us. I also believe Hermione herself is going to be singing. So it should be a pretty good night" Harry said.
"Oh and everyone is to come in their dress robes just to add some spice to the evening" Ron added.
"Well it sounds like you have everything under control so I'll let you guys keep working on it. Good luck" Dumbledore said ushering them towards the door.
"Thankyou sir" they both said.
When they got back to the common room Ron went and found Hermione and Harry went to fetch his essay from his trunk.
When he got up there he found a note left on his bed. It read:
Harry,
The next "party" is scheduled for Friday night after the talent quest.
Kisses
Hermione
Sweet thought Harry, should be fun.
Harry got back down to the common room and set about finishing the essay for Snape. It took him a lot longer than he thought it would because he kept becoming distracted and found his eyes wandering over to Ron and Hermione. Plus there was a debate going on in his head. It went something like this:
'She's happy with him you can't interfere' A little voice said.
'But you like her you know you want to' a second voice came in.
'She dumped you remember. She chose to be friends don't ruin your friendship with Ron by interfering' the first voice said.
'You have liked her ever since first year you can't deny you don't want her' the second voice said.
At that point Harry got up and walked out. He needed some fresh air.
He went to visit Hagrid. He hadn't seen him for ages.
He knocked on the door.
"Harry its abou' time I thought you'd forgotten I was here" Hagrid said pulling him into a bone crunching hug.
"Hi Hagrid" Harry managed to gasp out. "Ah Hagrid you're kinda starting to hurt me now"
"oh righ' sorry Harry" Hagrid said. "Come in, come in"
"How are yeh Harry?" he asked surveying him.
"I'm great how are you?" Harry replied.
"Oh yeh know Harry same ol'" Hagrid replied.
"I just came to see if you were coming to the talent quest on Friday night. It's going to be huge" Harry said.
"Friday nigh', ah sorry Harry I gotta be at a party Olympe's holdin', sorry" Hagrid said looking crestfallen.
"Hey it's okay I was just wondering that's all. Well I'd better go it's getting dark so I guess I'll see you around Hagrid" Harry said.
"yeh alrigh' Harry nice teh see ye again though" Hagrid said.
"Bye" said Harry as he walked out the door.
As Harry walked back he decided to ask Hermione whether he could join as a late entry to the talent quest. He knew exactly what he was going to sing.
When he arrived at the common room he didn't have to look very far for Hermione. She was right where she was when he left. In Ron's arms.
"Hey Hermione can I ask you something?" he asked pulling her up by the hands much to Ron's disgust. "It'll only be for a few seconds" he added to Ron.
When they got out of earshot of Ron she said "Harry what's this all about?"
"I just want to know if I can be a late entry into the talent quest?" he asked.
"Sure you can. What are you doing?" she replied.
"I, um, well, ah, I'm going to be singing" he mumbled.
"What was that Harry I couldn't understand" she said.
"Singing, I'm going to be singing" he said waiting for her to start laughing. But it never came.
"Ok now what song are you going to be singing?" she asked.
"Well I was kinda hoping to keep that to myself until the night you know?" he asked.
"Sure that's fine. Now what do you need for it?" she asked writing this all down on a piece of paper she had pulled from her pocket.
"Oh all I'll need is a piano, which will be there already" he said.
"Ok well that's all good then. Is that all?" she asked. Harry could see she was dying to get back to Ron.
"Yeah that's it. Talk to ya later Mione. Oh and thanks" he smiled at her.
"Don't worry about it Harry its fine" she said walking back to the couch where Ron was starting to get impatient.
Harry decided to go to bed early because he was dead tired. When he got up to the dormitory and lay down on his bed he began to think that Friday couldn't come quick enough.
A/N: So there it is plz R&R I really like getting reviews!