3 days after auditions...

The Final Cast List For

'Chicago'

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Roxie Hart...Cho Chang

Velma Kelly...Diana Cross

Billy Flynn...Cedric Diggory

Amos Hart...Ron Weasley

Mama Morton...Angelina Johnson

Mary Sunshine...Hermione Granger

Kitty Baxter...Ginny Weasley

Bandleader...Harry Potter

Fred Casely...Fred Weasley

Harrison...Neville Longbottom

Pop...Susan Bones

Six...Hannah Abott

Squish...Parvarti Patil

Uh-Uh...Padma Patil

Lipchitz...Marietta Edgecombe

Rehearsals start on Monday at 6 p.m. and will be every day at 6 p.m. from then on. Congratulations!

All who had made it got sent those letters at breakfast on Saturday, along with the songs they had to sing in the course of the show.

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When Diana saw the list, she nearly choked once again. Cedric actually did break down and laugh this time.

She said, "Ced, oh my God, we got the parts! Omigod, omigod -"

"Okay, I get the point! Wow... I didn't think I'd get that part... I just went for the fun of it..." Cedric looked at his song list - 'Razzle Dazzle', 'They Both Reached For the Gun', and 'All I Care About' (the thought of what would happen if his mom went to the performance and saw him doing that number made him feel sick). "Well," he thought, "This is going to be one interesting experience."

Diana looked at her song list - 'All That Jazz', 'Cell Block Tango', 'I Can't Do It Alone', 'Class', and 'Hot Honey Rag'. She could barely stay sitting, she was so excited.

She looked up, laughing.

Cedric raised an eyebrow. "What's so funny, Cool Whip?"

"All I care about is love..." She started laughing even harder.

"Diana, please - I don't even want to think about that right now..."

"I'm going to send your mom tickets to the show myself. Maybe your grandma, too."

"That'd be rather interesting... partly because I'd have to kill you. Seriously, I think 'All I Care About' can be classified as a striptease. My mom would have a heart attack. And my dad would never let me live it down, for that matter."

"Ced, I highly doubt Umbridge would let her innocent Hogwarts students do that onstage. Don't worry about it." Diana laughed a little. "Besides, I have to sing 'All That Jazz'."

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That night...

"Diana?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm seriously considering telling them to find someone else."

Diana looked at him unbelievingly. "Cedric, you can't -"

"Who says I can't? I'm not cut out for this sort of thing."

"Please, don't drop out. They'll most likely cast Draco if you go - I won't be able to take starring with both Cho and Draco. Please, don't."

"Diana, nothing you can say is going to change my mind. I'm dropping out."

Diana stared at him for a second, then got up off the common room couch.

She straightened her shoulders and sang,

"My sister and I had an act that couldn't flop -"

"Diana! I'm not going to -"

"My sister and I were headed straight for the top...

My sister and I earned a thou a week, at least, oh yeah,

But my sister is now unfortunately deceased.

I know it's sad, of course, but a fact is still a fact,

And now all that remains is the remains of a perfect double act!

Watch this."

"It's no use - you're not changing my mind."

Diana didn't listen - she only smiled. "Now, you gotta imagine it with two people. It's swell with two people. First I'd..."

She shimmied forward and backward.

"Then she'd..."

She did the Charleston, ending in a jazz square.

"Then we'd..."

She did a grapevine.

"But I can't do it alone! She'd go..."

Diana did a backward gallop to the right.

"Then I'd..."

She did a backward gallop to the left.

"Then we'd..."

She spinned in a circle.

"But I can't do it alone! She'd say 'What's your sister like?', I'd say 'Men', she'd say 'You're the cat's meow', then we'd wow the crowd again when she'd go..."

She did a one-handed cartwheel.

"I'd go..."

She did a backward backflip.

"We'd go..."

She did a Cupid shuffle, then sat on the arm of the couch. Looking right at Cedric, she sang, "Then those ding-dong daddies started a roar, whistled, stomped, banged on the floor, yelling, screaming, begging for more, and we'd say 'Okay fellas, keep your socks up, 'cause you ain't seen nothing yet!'"

Diana looked at him pleadingly. "I don't remember the rest of the lyrics. But what I'm trying to say is... Cedric, I can't do it alone. Please... don't drop out. It's all I ask. Consider it a wedding present if you want, but... look, I'm not going to keep begging -"

"Fine, I'll do it," Cedric sighed, "If only because you won't shut up otherwise. But if my mom actually DOES have a heart attack, I'm holding you personally responsible."

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The next morning, though nothing 'Chicago'-related happened, proved rather interesting as well.

It all started with a letter Diana got from her mom.

Cedric asked, "What'd she say?"

She didn't answer - she was staring at a picture that had been included with the letter. It looked a computer print-out, a Muggle photo, no less, but Diana looked like she was about to pass out.

"Diana...?"

She turned the picture so he could see it - a blue background, with a bunch of Muggles looking at the camera, and all of them looked like they couldn't be bothered. Diana was smiling like a maniac.

"What?" he laughed.

"Look at the guy in the center - you can't tell me that after 4 years of knowing me, you don't know who that is."

Cedric took the picture and looked at the guy in the center - bronze hair, brown eyes, and rather defined jaw and cheek bones. "He looks familiar, but I can't say I know who it is."

"Cedric... the people you're looking at..." Diana took a deep breath, then squealed, "THEY'RE GOING TO PLAY THE CULLENS!"

"Oh, in 'Twilight'?"

"And the guy in the center is Robert Pattinson, you moron!"

"Oh... I thought he looked familiar. Christ, he looks different. So he's going to play Edward, I suppose?"

"Ch-yeah! Oh my God... the room's beginning to spin 'cause of hotness."

"I can't believe I've got to compete with a vampire for your heart," Cedric sighed good-naturedly.

"Aw... don't worry, you'll always have half of it."

"Gee, thanks," he said sarcastically. "It's definitely an off-day when my fiancee doesn't tell me that half of her heart belongs to a fictional bloodsucker."