Title: The Point Of All Emotions
Author: ThePhantomsRedRose
Beta: ReignofSlytherin
Summary: Dumbledore decides that the houses of Hogwarts must unite. What could he do to help them? And how does a partnership between Severus and Hermione factor into everything? Find out on the next episode of the point!
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or the Phantom of the Opera.
Hermione awoke the next morning feeling a little chilly. She looked at the fireplace to see that it had been left unlit. She went to her bedside table and grabbed her wand. She then cast 'Incendio' and the flames roared to life. It was five o'clock and she had an hour and a half to get ready. She quickly showered and pulled on her uniform. It was now five thirty. She curled her hair in cascading curls and put some light makeup on. It was now six o'clock. She gathered the strewn parchments on her desk and organized them carefully into her book bag. She shrunk the bag to fit in her pocket and grabbed her wand. It was now six twenty.
Hermione hurried down the stairs and saw that nobody was in the common room yet. She waited at the notice board. A few moments later a piece of parchment zoomed through the fireplace and pinned its self to the board. The writing focused and she read the top line. It read;
Hermione Granger will play the role of Christine Daaé.
She was so excited that she jumped up and down a few times and then ran to the boys dormitory.
"I GOT THE ROLE OF CHRISTINE DAAÉ!" she squealed, waking up the boys.
"Will you shut up already? You come in here every morning yapping about something! Just shut up!" Seamus said angrily before rolling over and falling back to sleep. Hermione ignored him.
"Did we get cast as anything?" Harry asked hopefully.
"Actually I didn't look at the list, I was too excited for myself, sorry!" Hermione said with a grin on her face.
The boys made a lot of racket getting dressed much to Seamus' annoyance. They bounded out to the common room where they saw most of the students from the other years gathered. When Hermione entered the room, they all stared at her in what she perceived to be awe.
"Hermione I'm so sorry for you!" Lavender Brown said with a grim expression on her face.
"Why are you sorry for me? I got the role I wanted!" Hermione said with glee. The girls continued to look at her in pity and she began to get a little scared.
"Have you read the rest of the list Hermione?" Ginny asked sympathetically.
"Well … no," she said as she walked over to the list. She then gasped at what she saw under her name.
Hermione Granger will play the role of Christine Daaé
Severus Snape will play the role of The Phantom
Leo Adler will play the role of Raoul
Pansy Parkinson will play the role of Carlotta
Harry Potter will play the role of Andre
Ronald Weasley will play the role of Firmin
Minerva McGonagall will play the role of Mme. Giry
Ginny Weasley will play the role of Meg Giry
Draco Malfoy will play the role of M. Reyer
Neville Longbottom will play the role of M. Lefevre
Vincent Crabbe will play the role of Piangi
Gregory Goyle will play the role of Serifino
Rubeus Hagrid will play the role of Buquet
It then listed the dancers, chorus as well as lighting and sound people, orchestra, and the directors.
Hermione stood in shock when she realized who would play opposite her. Had she even heard him perform yesterday? Clearly, she would have remembered hearing him. She thought she was going to be sick. She struggled to regain her composure and went down to the Great Hall for breakfast. She sat down in her usual spot beside Harry and Ron. She felt an ice cold shiver go down her back. She looked up and saw Snape glaring at her. She could tell this partnership was going to be horrendous. Harry and Ron were complaining about Snape being in the musical, but what they didn't know was that she would have to kiss Snape at some point during rehearsals and make it believable on stage. She had a lot to think about over breakfast.
Dumbledore stood up to the podium.
"Congratulations to everyone who has auditioned and made it! Rehearsals will begin tomorrow after your last class of the day. Please don't be late."
The next day after classes Hermione, Harry, and Ron made their way up the new staircase. They sat in the cast chairs with their names now on little golden plates on the arms of the chairs. The chairs were in order of the cast list so Hermione was not sitting with the boys; she was on the isle chair with Snape sitting to her right.
Professor Flitwick made his way up to the stage and began to speak.
"Good afternoon students. We would like to begin rehearsals with the Auction. We did not cast the Auctioneer because we needed to hear voices. Accio Monologues!" Small pieces of parchment began flying out to the extras on the far end of the theater. After a long process of auditions, it was decided that Blaise Zabini would be the announcer, Dean Thomas would be the porter and the old Raoul would be played by Filch!
"Now that this is settled let's get the auction underway!" They lowered the spectacular Chandelier to the stage and cast a cover over it.
The newly appointed actors were having trouble with their lines so Hermione thought of an idea. At the Quidditch World Cup there had been self writing ads. She took a spare bit of parchment out of her pocket and smoothed it out. Then she enlarged it to the size of a large sheet and charmed it to float upright in the air and give the libretto as it was said. This helped the amateur performers alot.
"Okay students I would like to save Hannibal for a later time. Tomorrow only Hermione, Ginny, Leo, Harry, Ron, and Severus need to show up. We will be running through the Angel of Music sequence. Thank you!" Professor Flitwick squeaked.
Everyone clustered out of the room and down the stairs. Everyone except for Hermione, or so she thought. She lingered over by the orchestra pit. There she found a spare cello. She had learned to play when she was seven in elementary school. She picked up a bow and ran some rosin over it. She then began to play an old Celtic tune, that she had memorized when she was younger.
Hermione heard the door open and immediately stopped playing, quickly hiding in the corner of the pit so she could see who it was. She did not hear anything until the door creaked shut. She did not hear footsteps. A few minutes passed; enough time to descend the stadium seated isles. Then the first sound was made. Footsteps were heard above her head, on the stage.
She was shocked silent when she heard a silky, smooth rendition of 'Music of the Night' being sung overhead.
Why hadn't this mystery singer been chosen instead of Snape?
Then it hit her that it was Snape. She waited until the door closed again and arose from the stage. She could not go down to dinner because Snape would know she had been there if he saw her go down the staircase. She decided to look around backstage. She found a portrait of a pink rose and beside it was a portrait of a black rose. Engraved on a plaque above the portrait of the pink rose was her name, and above the black rose was a plaque with the name Severus Snape engraved. She walked up to her dressing room and said the first thing that came to mind "Prima Donna" and it swung open to reveal an outstanding dressing room.
It was decorated in pink with what looked like Floras Everlasting Roses decorating every surface except for the gorgeous vanity which looked like it was made of pewter. The drawers were filled of makeup and hair utensils. There was an empty closet at the end of the room next to bare mannequin that would model Hermione's outfits. In addition to this, on the wall adjoining to Severus' room was a wall length mirror trimmed with elaborate gold. In the back of the room was another portrait of the pink rose. Hermione said "Prima Donna" and was looking right into her suite's bathroom.
When she looked behind her, she saw the portrait of the pink rose. When had all of that been implemented? She wondered to herself. She stepped out of the bathroom and into her living quarters. She decided to floo down to the kitchens to have a meal before going to bed.
It had been a very exhausting day.