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Song – I don't dance, High School Musical.


Hermione was in the Library first thing in the morning the next day, the trio had a free first thing that day and Ron being the faithful boyfriend had followed Hermione round the halls of Hogwarts without a thought of where they were heading.

"Hermione." Ron said as he looked round at the shelves that were stacked high with books. "It's the first day back." Ron groaned at Hermione who was already checking the titles of books on a nearby shelves in the 'Charms' section.

"Ron I want to know what we are in for this year." Hermione said pulling out a few volumes. "I want to know what spell Dumbledore placed upon the Wizarding world." She pulled out another couple of volumes and made them float over to an empty table nearby.

"Don't you think that it would have to be a pretty powerful spell in order for it to affect the whole Wizarding world?" Ron asked as he leant over and read the first title of the book on the top of the pile.

"Nope."She said continuing her search without looking at him. "I just think he manipulated it so that it would affect more people, and I don't think that it will affect the whole wizarding world, just those that were in the final battle, I think he knew that the war would come down to one battle at Hogwarts, why do you think he worked so hard to place extra wards on the castle before the final battle." Hermione said finally coming over the table that was now filled with books. "You going to help of not?" She asked looking up at Ron.

"Fine." He said grumpily, throwing himself into an empty chair. "Where's Harry, why isn't he helping?"

"I don't know couldn't find him he left breakfast before I could tell him where I was going." Hermione said opening a book and started to look down the contents. "Okay we are looking for any spell that may make people start to sing okay, if you find one show me and I'll make a list okay."

"Okay." Ron said trying to cover up a smile as he watched Hermione switch into full working mode, how he'd missed her over the summer.


Harry walked alone over the grounds towards the lake. He walked towards the white tomb that held his late headmaster, it had occurred to Harry over the summer that he had never visited Dumbledore's grave, Harry thought that it was right to pay his respects to him at the start of the year it was strange not having him do the welcoming speech. Harry reached the tomb, he conjured up a bunch of flowers that he place on top of the tomb and then took a seat in the grass next to the tomb. Now he was here he didn't know what to do, he sat in silence for a while just looking at the white marble. He didn't know how long he had been sitting there but a cracking of a twig nearby caught his attention, Harry jumped up and looked towards the noise.

"Malfoy?" Harry said incredulously seeing the white blonde haired teen standing there looking awkward refusing to meet Harry's gaze.

"Potter." Draco said emotionlessly. "I'll just go." He started to walk away back towards the castle, Harry without a moment's thought reached out and pulled him round by the shoulder.

"What are you doing here?" He asked suspiciously.

"I err, I was just, you know...paying my respects." Draco said worriedly, looking at Harry's angry expression.

"Why would you be paying your respects to Dumbledore, you tried to kill him, you're the reason he's here in the first place." Harry said still holding on to Draco's shoulder.

"I didn't though did I." Draco said trying and failing to yank his shoulder out of Harry's strong grip. "I didn't kill him."

"And you think that gives you the right to just swan back in here an act as if nothing ever happened, to act as if you weren't on the dark side after all." Harry said getting steadily more angry with every word he said.

"Potter, I'm sorry about what I did but you don't understand, he was going to kill my parents if I didn't do it, you must believe me I had no choice." Draco said pleadingly scared by Harry's anger.

"No you did have a choice." Harry spat at him finally releasing him from his grip. "You could have chosen to do what was right, instead of what was easy, you could have gone to Dumbledore he offered you protection."

"What about my family!" Draco shouted back. "My parents would have died."

"And so they should have!" Harry shouted back. "Instead of letting two good for nothing wizards die you let the greatest wizard this world has ever known die, your parents deserve to rot in hell for everything that they have done, and so should you!" Harry was breathing hard glaring at Draco who stood meters away rooted to the spot. Draco looked pale and shocked, slowly he turned away from harry and walked back towards the castle with Harry glaring after him.

Once Draco was gone Harry relaxed and took his place back on the ground before the tomb.

"I know I shouldn't have said that." Harry said to the tomb. "But I couldn't stop myself, he's the reason they your gone and so am I." Harry paused looking down at the grass. "If only I hadn't let you drink that potion..." Harry trailed off into silence. A few minutes later the bell at the school rang signalling the start of break, Harry got up and made his way back to the caste in silence, he knew he shouldn't have told Draco that his parents should have died, who could blame him, he wanted to protect his family. Harry thought back to the night on the tower Draco had looked so scared, and when Dumbledore offered him protection you could see it in his eyes he wanted it, he was going to take it. Harry hung his head ashamed pretty sure that he would have done the same thing for his parents, hadn't he nearly got his friends killed trying to save Sirius?

"Hey there you are." Harry was pulled out of his thought by Ron who was walking towards him from the direction of the Library. "Where have you been, Hermione's like a slave driver!" Ron complained ignoring to grunt of indignation from Hermione who was walking behind then. "She's had me looking in books all morning looking for that spell that Dumbledore cast." Ron said shaking his head.

"Sorry, I went to visit Dumbledore." Harry shrugged.

"I don't think asking him will help he's dead you know." Ron said shaking his head in despair.

"Ron I think Harry went to pay his respects to him not to go for a chat." Hermione said hitting Ron upside the head.

"Ow!" Ron said rubbing the place where she had hit him. "Oh, sorry I didn't think." Ron said going red.

"Don't worry." Harry said trying not to laugh. "You want to come next time?" Harry asked the other two.

"Of course, you didn't need to ask Harry, I was going to visit soon anyway." Hermione said.

"Thanks." Harry said as the bell went again signalling the end of break. "I'll meet you in class I need to get my stuff, see you there." He hurried up the stairs to his dormitory to get his books for Charms whilst Hermione and Ron who already had their stuff started to make their way to the classroom.

"I hope he's not too late." Hermione commented as they took their seats next to Ginny who was also in the class.

"Don't worry Hermione." Ron said squeezing her hand, she just shook her head at him and started talking to Ginny.

Harry arrived a few minutes later just in time for the start of class, he sat down and took his seat next to Ginny. He looked over at the white blonde head two rows in front who was sitting on his own his head down, Harry felt a pang in his chest, he really shouldn't have said those things, Dumbledore would have wanted him to make amends and put old prejudices behind him, but could he? Harry just didn't know.

"Wow." Hermione said as she left the classroom once the class had finished. "I didn't realise just how much I missed school."

"Yeah, I forget how much of a suck up you are too." Ron said moodily. Hermione had gone back to her old self sounding as if she had just eaten the textbook. Harry sniggered.

"I knew you were good in class Hermione but still give someone who hasn't memorised the textbook a chance." Ginny said looking stunned.

Hermione mock glared at her before laughing. "What have you got next?" She asked leaning over and looking at Ginny's time table. "Ooh, care of magical creatures! Have fun, hope it's nothing too dangerous." Hermione said before dragging the boys to her next lesion that happened to be Transfiguration that was being taught by a new teacher as McGonagall was headmistress now.


"I'm beat." Ron said after dinner flopping out on the couch in the Gryffindor common room.

"Me too." Harry said sitting down next to him. "Hey you know what we should do." He said getting a sudden thought.

"What?" Ron asked.

"Go play Quidditch." Ron, Ginny, Dean and Seamus sat up.

"Yeah let's go." They said at the same time.

"The lets go get our stuff, Seamus can you be a beater, Dean you can be the other beater, Ron you can be a chaser, Ginny and I will be seekers and erm... Demelza" Harry called across the common room. "Can you be another chaser?"

"Yeah sure." Said Demelza Robins who stood up and walked towards the rest of them. "What is this a team practice or something a bit early isn't it, and we're one short." She said looking at the other 5 people that were standing there.

"No it isn't a team practice, it's just a friendly game that's all, I need to hold tryouts before practice starts." Harry said. "Shall we go?"

"Yeah." The others said walking towards their dorms and collecting their brooms and Harry's keys for the Quidditch balls before coming back down to the common room and started to make their way towards the entrance of the common room.

"Question." Hermione said standing up and looking at the group of people heading out to the grounds. "How are you going to play? If you haven't noticed it is dark outside and I don't think the pitch is flood lit."

"Good question Hermione." Ron said. "Harry, how are we going to play?" He asked confused.

"Well I was thinking a simple lighting spell and a barrier around the pitch creating a barrier where the balls can't fly out of." Harry said shrugging. "You want to come and watch?" He asked Hermione.

"Sure, just to see you attempt to do what you just said you were going to do." She said picking up her books and following them down towards the Quidditch pitch. Harry smiled slightly as they walked down towards the pitch, he knew Hermione always felt a little left out whenever they were talking about Quidditch.

They got down to the pitch and after a few minutes of complicated wand waving Harry had managed to light the whole pitch as well as put up the barrier around the pitch, Hermione rolled her eyes and took a place in the stands opening one of the volumes that she had brought with her, she was still searching for the spell that Dumbledore had set up for them.

"Okay, we have an hour before curfew, let's play." They kicked off from the ground and hung in mid air, Ron shot a bolt towards the case where the balls were held releasing them, one snitch, one quaffle, and one bludger, they were off. Harry and Ginny sped off in search of the snitch, Ginny was good, better than most of the other players that Harry had met, but she was still no match for him. Ron was chasing towards one end of the pitch ready to score for his team Demelza behind him getting ready to take the quaffle from him. Dean and Seamus were flying round looking for the bludger, Hermione was there half heartily keeping score looking through her books at the same time. And then the music started just as Dean hit the first bludger towards Harry who swerved out of the way "Hey you look like your dancing mate" Dean called after him...

Harry stooped and looked up at Dean singing. 'Hey,batter,batter, hey battter,batter swing.'

Dean sung back. 'I've got to just do my thing.'

Harry, flew up to him.

'Hey,batter,batter, hey batter,batter swing.
I'III show you that it's one and the same:
Baseball,dancing,same game.
It's easy:
Step up to the plate,start swingin.'

Dean smirked singing back

'I wanna play ball now, and that's all.
This is what I do.
It ain't no dance that you can show me.'

Everyone else on the pitch stopped what they were doing and turned towards the two

'You'll never know it you never try.'

Dean turned to them 'There's just one little thing that stops me ev'ry time YEAH.'

Harry caught his attention again 'Come on!'

Dean sung back turning his broom around and flying away. 'I don't dance.'

Harry followed him, flying next to him and sitting on the side of his broom grinning. 'I know you can.'

Dean glared. 'Not a chance.'

Harry stood up on his broom and flipped it round. 'It I could do this,well,'

Harry sat back on his broom and did a quick dodge as the bludger came towards him. 'You could do that.'

Dean rolled his eyes.
'But I don't dance.'

'Hit it out of the park!' Seamus said coming up next to them too.

'I don't dance.'

'I say you can.' Seamus said.

'There's not a chance.' Dean said firmly before changing direction.

' Slide home, you score, swingin on the dance floor.' Ginny said smiling.

'I don't dance, no.'

'Hey, batter, batter, hey batter, batter swing.' Everyone on the pitch sung together.

'I've got to just do my thing.' Dean said shaking his head.

'Hey, batter, batter, hey batter, batter swing.' They all said together again.

'Two-steppin, now you're up to bat.
Bases loaded, do your dance.
It's easy:
Take your best shot,just hit it.' Ron said ducking down just as Dean swung his bat towards the bludger and hit it away.

'I've got what it takes, playin my game,so you better spin that pitch you're gonna throw me, YEAH.
I'II show you how I swing.' Dean continued flying over Ron.

'You'll never know if you never try.' Ginny and Demelza sung.

'There's just one little thing that stops me ev'ry time. YEAH.'

'Come on!' Ron sung.

'I don't dance.'

'I know you can.' Everyone sung.

'Not a chance.' Dean said.

'If I could do this,' Ginny sung swinging round her broom.

'well, you could do that.' Demelza sung swinging her ball around.

'But I don' dance.'

'Hit it out of the park!' they all sung.

'I don't dance.'

'I say you can.' Harry sung.

'There's not a chance.'

'Slide home, you score, swingin on the dance floor.' They all sung.

'I don't dance, no.'

'Lean back, tuck it in, take a chance.
Swing it out, spin around, do the dance.' Seamus sung.

'I wanna play ball, not dance hall.
I'm makin a triple, not a curtain call.' Dean shot upwards.

'I can prove it to you til you know it's true, cause I can swing it, I can bring it to the diamond too.' Seamus called to him from below.

' You're talkin a lol; show me what you got. STOP.'

ALL 'Swing!'

'HEY' Seamus called narrowly missing the bludger that Dean had just shot towards him.
'Come on, swing it like this. Oh, swing!' Seamus said hitting the bludger back towards Dean

'Ooh' Dean said serving out of the way.

'Jitterbug...just like that.' Harry said smiling.

The music stopped, Hermione just sat there staring at the people on the pitch who had formed a circle at the end of the song.

"Well... I was not expecting that." She said picking up her stuff and walking towards them.

"What was that?" Demelza asked looking confused.

"That was Dumbledore's parting gift." Hermione said smirking.

"What?" she asked looking round at the others that were all smiling slightly.

"Dumbledore before he died he placed some kind of spell upon the castle that meant that when the war finished everyone that was there fighting would be cheered up, so he placed a spell that makes people burst out into song." Hermione explained.

"Oh..." Demelza said. "That would explain why Jessica was singing 'wake up it's a beautiful morning' this morning."

The others burst out laughing. "It's strange though." Ginny said as they started walking back to the castle.

"What is?" Seamus asked.

"Well, Hermione you said something about it only affecting those that were in the final battle, but you weren't there were you, and nor was Jessica."

"No I wasn't." Demelza said.

"That must mean that it is confined to the grounds of Hogwarts then." Hermione said thinking.

"But how could he have known that Hogwarts would have still been here if we had lost."

"I don't know." Hermione said. "Maybe he believed that we would win no matter what, or maybe he thought that Voldemort would take over Hogwarts as his headquarters."

"Maybe." Harry agreed.

They made it to the entrance hall in silence.

"You know what." Seamus said.

"What?" Ginny asked.

"I'm not scared of the name anymore." Everyone thought for a moment before agreeing. Maybe Dumbledore's plan was working, maybe the singing was making them all less scared of the past.


I hope you enjoyed it, sorry if the song didn't go well but it seemed funny at the time that I was writing this. If the lyrics are wrong then don't blame me I got it off of the internet and I'm not too sure how reliable it is. Thanks for reading.