Oh My God!
Chapter 7
Harry stood outside a buss station in LA waiting for Dave, Jeff, Tamlin, Nicko and Demon to arrive. His switch with Tamlin's brother had gone smoothly and no one had noticed anything. He was finally free!
"Dude!" Jeff shouted from far away. They were sitting in an open sport car. They pulled short just in front of him.
"What took you so long?" Harry asked at once. He wasn't irritated or something, just curious.
"We had some problem with this car," Dave answered and pattened the dark greenish metal colour.
Harry looked at the car critically.
"You used a muggle car?" he said sceptically 'cause he could sense no magic sorounding the car.
The boys looked at each other.
"Yeah we did, that's why we had some problems. They're not as easily driven as the magical one's you know. You actually have to pay attention to the traffic!" Dave said.
Harry rolled his eyes.
"Fine, okey then. Just help me with these bags, would you?" he said and threw a several to the other boys.
"Nice lot," Tamlin said to the many bags.
"I've got Izzy's stuff with me as well. That's why they're so many you know," he pointed out.
"Alright. Hey listen, you'll be on our music show, right?" Nico asked, effectively changing the subject.
"Yeah, sure I will," he said interested. They had talked about it earlier during the summer. It was very interesting. It was something he liked to so. Yes, he would get the attention but it wasn't the same as it was when people stared at him just because of his scar, something he couldn't help. In this show people would stare at him because he was good at what he was doing, not because he was famous.
"We've discussed it some more and since it's a music show we're doing we've decided on the theme rock n roll," Tamlin said after Nico had spoken.
"Ha! No shit?" Harry said dryly but he liked the idea. Demon rolled his eyes. He knew what Harry meant. Since they all were rock n roll type of guys the theme wasn't that much of a surprise.
"It's going to be big and massive. We'll rock the shit out of people. We've decided that you'll sing," Tamlin continued.
"Me?" Harry shrieked and dropped a bag he was supposed to hand over to Demon. Demon snatched it up from the ground and but it in the trunk of the car.
"It's like always. You and me sing, Dave's on drums, Jeff plays bas and Demon, Tamlin is on the guitars," said Nicko calmly.
"We'll lay the show for our school on Hogwarts's grounds. The stage will be up in the air on the quid ditch pitch. We'll arrive unbeknownst to Hogwarts, however, stands for our school will be added. So it's our meaning that Hogwarts school will fill their own stands and watch our show."
"Don't forget Jeff, we'll have the rest of the gang with boyz n gurls with us," said Dave.
Demon noticed how confused Harry looked.
"He mean our friends," he explained.
"List," Harry demanded.
"Denise, Laura, Jean, Tricky, Trace, Maria, Carmen, Hanne, Lorelei, Thomas, Daniel, Spiky, Joel, Billy, Suzi, Alice, Lizzy, Morei, Jovi, Amy, Sarah, Ray Nja, Qei, Harry, Dean, Marcus, Scott , Lix, James, Roger, Raffi and Orlando," Dave counted with some help from the others.
"Alright. I suppose they take care of the electrical things among stuff?" he asked.
"They're our crew, yeah;" Jeff said. All the bags were in so they jumped in their selves and began their journey to the school. The traffic wasn't to play with but everything worked out once they came to the high way.
They continued their conversation.
"There'll be dancers too, some of those people we counted. The others will take care of the sound and light show," Tamlin said. Harry sat in the backseat with Tamlin and Nico. Jeff sat in Tamlin's lap while Demon and Dave sat in the front. Dave drove.
"What shall we call the show? We need a name," Harry asked. He presumed they didn't have a name yet. They had probably been waiting for him first.
"I don't know," said Nicko thoughtfully and shewed on his lip. "Any suggestions?" he asked the others.
"What about "US screw England in rock n roll?" Demon joked.
The others began to discuss names while Harry stayed quiet.
"Long live rock n roll," he said finally. The others quieted.
"What did you say?" Jeff asked.
"LONG LIVE ROCK N ROLL!"
"That's what we've been looking for! Allow me to presentate the Long Live rock n Roll show!" Jeff shouted with a look of awe upon his face.
"Awsome dude!" Dave said.
"It's settled then. But what's the name for only the six of us? We know the shows name, but who are we?" Harry asked and looked around at the others.
"Your son's name's Izzy…"
"Yeah, so?" he said to Tamlin.
"What about Quizzy?"
"Quizzy? What the hell is that?" he asked. "It could do… but we need something more…" Harry said. The others nodded in agreement.
"Shades Quizzy!" Harry exclaimed.
"Brilliant!" said Demon. They didn't have to drive for so much longer. The school was laying very central in LA. The thing was to get there. The traffic was simply too much.
"Before I forget to tell you, Izzy and Amy will arrive in the evening," he said when they parked outside the school.
"It will be cool to meet them," said Dave. Dave hadn't been home during the summer so he was never able to visit Harry and had therefore not met Izzy nor Amy yet.
Harry watched the building. It was white and didn't look to be much but he knew it was a different story inside. It was supposed to look like an boring, quite ordinary building on the outside to not attract any attention from what's normal. It wouldn't do if muggles kept stumbling into a magic class or something. The boys co-operated to get the bags inside without too much trouble.
"Mr Potter! It's an honour to have you here in my school! I'm Bo Carter and I'm the principal for this school," said a man in his fifties. He seemed to be a bit pompous and perhaps a bit self loving but he was by far better than Fudge, Dumbledore and Percy Weasley.
"Pleasure," said Harry when he shook the headmasters outreached hand. He looked around in the entrance. It seemed like the whole school population was there. They stood pressed into each other among the walls and tried to get a look at him over each other's heads.
Why wouldn't they be curious? He thought with indifference. He had become a bit better at handling the attention he got. It wasn't something he could stop so why not deal with it? He had some excellent new friends to help him deal with it after all. Also, since this summer he had been a lot more self confident and with that his insecurities went away and he wasn't afraid to make mistakes while people watched him. To get somewhere in life you had to dare to things and dare to fail at them, Demon had told him. Jeff also said that you had to go your own way, as long as you felt good with them you should ignore what everyone else says.
"I don't know what the boys have already told you but we're sorted into four different houses. I think it's liekt hat at Hogwarts too?" the headmaster asked but didn't wait for an answer before he continued. "We have Rock, Soul, Pop and Classic."
Harry didn't say it but he already knew how thing worked inside the school. His friends had him well informed.
He made a quick translation off the houses. It was just a few traits. After all, no one was only a few things. A human was more complicated than that.
Rock: Outgoing, cool or heated, smart, daring, loud, popular.
Pop: Shy, friendly, geeky, Quiet.
Soul: Oily, dark, bitchy, unfriendly.
Classic: Smart, Careful, arrogant, bookworms.
Rock and Soul used to be a lot alike and share personalities while Classic and Pop was together. But it was very important not to judge anyone for what house the belonged to like you did in Hogwarts. Nothing was like it seemed in this school, Dave had warned him about that. There was no dislike between the houses and almost no competition either. The houses worked together and there was no discussions about it.
"You'll get sorted soon but I must express my surprise. You look nothing alike the pictures of you in the papers," the headmaster told him.
"Can't look the same way forever, can you?" he replied lightly.
"Mr Potter, I'll show you to the room where the sorting will take place," Bo said and ignored his remark earlier. Harry followed and was positive he'd end up in either Rock or Soul. He wasn't surprised when there was a hat to try on, just like in Hogwarts.
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