Act 1 Scene 2
Scene 2: Lights up on The Burrow
Molly: Rise and shine Weasleys! It's September 1st and you know what that means? You little knuckleheads better be dressed and packed and ready to leave for school after breakfast!
Ginny: Mom! Have you seen my boyfriend Harry Potter?
"Is that really Ginny?"
"Her voice is quite annoying in this musical. Your voice isn't annoying in real-life Ginny." The said red-head smiled at Neville.
"Thanks Nev, that's sweet of you."
"That's not saying you're not annoying though."
"Ronald Bilius Weasley…"
"No magic Gin, I'm not scared."
Molly: No, I haven't dear. I've got all these extra kids in the house: Bill's wife, Ron's girlfriend, Harry's girlfriend…I'm swamped.
"Wait, Harry's girlfriend?" Ron chuckled and Draco snorted.
"Apparently, we know where Harry falls on your mother's list."
"Oh trust me, he's the favorite, we all know it." Harry blushed and decided to hit his best friend's head.
"No I'm not. She loves you all equally."
"Sure Harry…" Harry just glared at the back of Ginny's head as she had turned back to the musical. He was not the favorite!
Would you go and wake everybody up for me?
Ginny: Ok!
Ginny walks up a crooked staircase to the bedroom, where she finds Ron sitting on the edge of the bed, lightly strumming a guitar and singing with his meager voice
Ron: "HEY!"
Ron looked outraged that they said he had a meager voice.
"You know what though mate, you might get your moment in this though."
"I do not have a meager voice!"
Sorry Ron!
"Wow, the guy apologized."
"That is a tad creepy."
Ginny: Hey! Harry Potter, it's time for breakfast!
Ron: Ah! Have you ever heard of knocking? Get out of my room!
Ginny: It's my room too Ronald!
"EW! What?!"
"NO way would we ever share a room!"
"That is totally not awesome!"
"Harry when did you ever say totally or awesome?" Neville was trying not to laugh at the characters but the way they were acting in real life was a tad different than normal as well.
"Don't worry Neville, you'll get it eventually."
"You better hop the all-mighty wizard god agrees with you."
"Shut it and go have a Red Vine."
What are you doing in here anyway?
Ron: None of your bee wax, thunder butt!
Charlie: He's writing a love song for his girlfriend.
Ron: Charlie, get out of here!
"What the bloody hell is going on?"
"Dude, I think you all share a bedroom." Draco burst out laughing at that and had trouble controlling himself.
"It's not that you're poor Weasley but could you imagine the size of that room alone to fit that bed?"
"That would be hilarious!" Ginny giggled at that thought, trying to ignore the fact that her six brothers shared a bed with her.
Fleur: I think it's romantic.
"Fleur is there too?!"
"That must be Bill's wife, dang they do get married then."
"Bloody Phlegm."
Ron: Fleur?
Bill: I think you're romantic.
Fleur: Bill! –kiss-
Ron: Oh, just get a room you two.
Bill: This is our room.
"Ugh, they are married….just ugh."
"Poor Ron, sexually frustrated…."
"That will be the stop of that Mr. Potter." Harry still smirked as Ron went green.
Percy: WILL YOU GUYS SHUT YOUR FAT FACES?! It's the ass-crack of dawn!
Bill: Percy…
Laughter was not held back at Percy's expense. Even Minerva had trouble keeping a smile off her face at Percy's portrayal.
"No….haha…..way…!"
"He went from being….a girl to….oh my….."
"A bloody douche bag!"
"Ron, that's very inappropriate!"
"Hermione, just….let them enjoy the moment." Her glare narrowed on the Malfoy heir but he had returned to trying to catch his breath.
You're just jealous of Ronnie's girlfriend and my beautiful wife.
Percy: As if!
"He does have a point….ever since Penelope dumped him, he has been a bigger prick and he wasn't exactly in love with her either."
Well, I'm gonna go sleep in the garden. At least the gnomes are quiet!
Ron: No, no, Percy, don't go out there. Hermione's reading in the garden.
Percy: SO?
"Yeah, really, so?"
"Hermione, you really want to be reading next to Percy as he dreams of the Ministry and cauldron bottom thickness?"
"Point taken."
Why isn't she in here with you, Mister Perfect?
Charlie: Yeah, what's up Ron? Why didn't Hermione crawl into bed with us last night?
"Because Hermione has her own room at home and though the Weasleys are family, I will not share bed with them all…especially the twins!" Ron nodded his head in agreement then Harry looked slightly disturbed.
"Does that mean I was there if they aren't asking about me?"
"Wait and find out."
Bill, Fleur, Ginny: Yeah…
Ron: Well, she was up late reading. We haven't been spending too much time together 'cause she's really into these young adult novels lately. I thought I could sweep Hermione off her feet if I wrote her a song. I'm just trying to get her to kiss me again.
"Sweet, I get a back rub!"
"Why haven't we kissed recently?"
Charlie: Well, when was the last time she kissed you buddy?
Ron: Let me think. Um…yeah, yeah, it was that first time.
"We haven't kissed since second year and it's our last?"
"No idea but don't you two go making up for lost time now while we're here." Hermione blushed but Ron just punched Harry's arm.
Fleur: Ron, as someone who is so very happy in love, I have advice for you. Just, how you say, be yourself.
Ginny: Yeah Ron, girls don't want cheesy compliments or songs or surprise presents.
Just then Harry literally surfs into the room on a heart-shaped guitar being held up by enchanted rose petals. Harry then surfs onto the bed and flips the guitar into the air. He sings…
Harry: Ginny, Ginny, Ginny, you're so cool. You're my girlfriend, I love you so much. You're hotter than all the other girlfriends that ever were in the world.
"What type of song is that? I completely approve my entrance but come on! I have such a better voice than that!"
"Harry, love, thank you for surprising me and making me feel special."
"You are very welcome."
Ah, I love you Ginny Weasley. You're the most magical creature I've ever seen in my whole life.
"POTTER!"
"STOP RAISING THE STANDARDS!"
"Honestly Harry, this is what I have to live up to?" Everyone looked at Neville shocked and he shrugged his shoulders.
"What, I can't like girls?"
"Nah, go ahead Neville, join in our fun! Weasley, we demand Red Vines!" Ron jumped up and ran into the kitchen and ran back out, jumping over onto the couch in between Draco and Hermione. He opened the bag and passed out the red candy to everyone, not taking no as an answer from his Head of House.
"Thank Ron, this is great."
"Red Vines, what can't they do?"
"Funny."
Surprise! A present from your boyfriend.
Harry and Ginny froze and both looked horrified, their good mood gone after seeing that blasted black diary.
"I…I…."
"No, they made Harry give it to me?"
"I would never…" Dumbledore leaned over and put a hand on Harry's shoulder, knowing this was a very traumatic experience for the two of them.
"Harry, as we know you are too good to ever purposely hurt anyone. This is just a horrible parody."
"Still….How could they think I would even think of giving that horrible thing to her? I would have bought her one that had a message or something in it from me and her own name would be engraved on it." Ginny looked up and smiled just a little.
"We'll get through this Harry because look where we are now." Harry pulled her closer to him and tucked her head under his chin so that she would be as close as possible to him.
"It'll be alright Harry, it'll be alright."
Ginny: Oh, oh, oh, oh, what is it? What is it? Oh, a diary. Harry Potter you are the best boyfriend ever. -kiss- I'm gonna go write in it right now.
Harry: Hey Ron! Hey Weasleys!
Weasleys: Hey good buddy.
"I believe you have earned the friendship of all of us there Harry." Harry nodded a tad but he was still curled around Ginny protectively. Hermione and Ron recognized that look and he had it earlier in the year when he started dating Ginny and earlier in the musicals. The look notified them that Harry was feeling guilty about something. Unfortunately, Ron and Hermione were feeling guilty about their second year too since neither of them had noticed Ginny acting weird and secluded.
Harry: Guys, thanks for letting me stay in the Burrow all summer.
Ron: Hey, no problem pal! I'm just sorry you had to share a bed with Ginny. It must be weird sleeping with your girlfriend.
All teenage males choked as they heard that.
"Did that just really come out of my mouth?"
"Hell Weasley, could you have been more of a prude?"
"Seriously, do they not know what goes on in the dorms?" Harry had loosened Ginny up a bit and looked shocked. It was nothing to the looks on the professors faces though.
"What goes on in the dorms then Mr.'s Weasley, Longbottom, Weasley?" Harry ducked his head, hiding a blush and smile in Ginny's hair. Oh, he knew what around in the dorms.
"Ah…you see Professor…"
"It's not what it sounds like really…"
"Yeah, we are nothing but innocent little boys playing card games and eating candy." The three accused looked at their Headmaster and Heads of House. McGonagall and Snape both rolled their eyes.
"You all forget that I am no older than your parents, younger than yours, Mr. Malfoy." Draco gulped as his godfather glared at him and his fellow prisoners…ah students.
"And you also forget that I was the Head of House when the Marauders were in full swing and that I also taught all of your parents." Neville and Ron gulped in fear.
"I believe you have scared these young men enough Severus, Minerva. Besides, if I recall from my days as Head of Gryffindor, the girls' dorms were just as bad if not worse at times." Hermione, Ginny, and even Luna blushed at that.
"I think we should continue the musical everyone."
Harry: No, no it was weird that your mom was there too…and you and your whole family…
"Yeah, that is officially weird."
"Yeah, I agree."
Like all in one bed….you are so poor.
"What's funny about that? Well, I could do that…" Ron and Ginny looked at Harry oddly.
"Do what exactly?"
"Hermione, do you know where I am going with this?" Hermione looked at him and then it dawned on her.
"Oh Harry, I'll help and get Draco to help too. We'll get it done." Both Weasleys, Neville, and Luna looked confused but they let it go.
Ron: Well, are you all packed for Hogwarts?
Harry: Yup, I got my Invisibility Cloak, piece of mirror Sirius gave me and my talk boy. What I can't find is my lucky Snitch.
"Sounds like you need a Hufflepuff."
"No, Malfoy, just no."
"Why a Hufflepuff?" Luna looked at Draco and then she smiled serenely.
"Hufflepuffs, like badgers, are good finders." Ron burst into laughter.
"You don't know the half of it Luna."
Ron: Do you mean the one Dumbledore left you when he died?
"You leave us stuff in your will?"
"I do not know." Dumbledore's eyes dimmed though and lucky for him, they had their eyes on the television.
Harry: Yeah, have you guys seen it? It was an inscription on the side of it that says, "I open at the close", whatever the fuck that means.
"Ew, Bill and Phlegm….I am scarred for life."
"We all are." Harry straightened up and Ginny got more comfortable now that she wasn't wrapped in a Harry blanket. He might be skinny but six years of Quidditch and fighting the Dark had really made him deceptively strong.
Ron: Man, I am literally surrounded by people kissing: Bill and Fleur, you and Ginny, I want to do that.
Harry: Dude, she's your sister just ask her.
Ron: "UGH!"
Harry's mouth dropped open in shocked disgust while Ginny looked traumatized. Ron was frozen in his seat.
"What?!"
Hermione: Oh wow, a young depressed heroine reluctantly settles for the doughy boy next door. Another perfect ending to another young adult novel series, "The Hunger Games" by Gilderoy Lockhart.
Harry: I'm sorry but who's Gilderoy Lockhart?
Hermione: Who's Gilderoy Lockhart?
"A fraud."
"A priss."
"A whimp."
"A villain."
"An idiot."
"Bloody poof."
He's only my favorite author and idol. He's given the world so many amazing novel series like The Twilight Series, the Hunger Games, Percy Jackson and whatever he did.
Harry: Twilight? Oh, yeah I've heard of that. I don't like how those books objectify men.
"No I suppose you wouldn't." (Okay, Hermione really has read the Twilight Saga BUT they aren't movies. I'm playing around with the universe a bit)
"You've read those books?"
"Yeah they are about a young girl who gets into this love triangle with a century old vampire and a werewolf that changes on command. It is completely misleading and leaves too much to interpretation."
"Do they really objectify men?" Hermione shrugged.
"Yes and no…again the writer leaves it up to whatever the reader wants to believe."
Hermione: Oh yeah? Have you ever read them? Have you ever read a book?
Harry: Have you ever not read a book?
Hermione: No! I can't stand people who don't read.
"I do not! That's a very biased opinion."
"Hermione, we know."
Ron, did you finish The Hunger Games? I gave you the first book weeks ago.
Ron: Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes? Yes it was, it was good. It was a good game.
Hermione: Oh yeah, what was it about?
Ron: Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it as about um a, um hungry, uh, hungry withholding girl who won't kiss her boyfriend!
"You aren't frustrated at all are you buddy?"
"Shut it Harry."
Hermione: You did read it!
Ginny: Hey you guys, I already told my diary so I'm gonna tell you. It's time for breakfast.
They walk downstairs to the dining room. The table is set. Bill, Fleur, and the other Weasleys enter.
Fleur: Bonjour Weasleys!
Percy: Yeah, sorry, my girlfriend couldn't be here everyone but the wifi, just can't get it to work.
"Wifi? What's wifi?"
"It's kinda like using the Floo except anyone can use it. We are watching this because of Wifi." All purebloods still looked kind of confused still.
"Uh, imagine our magic and Floo turned into an energy that covers the world and people use devices to use it at their whim?"
"Oh, that's a tad more understandable. That's kinda cool too."
Molly: I'm just so sad that this is that last meal we have with these boys before they leave me for a whole year.
"They just about have your mom nailed don't they?
"Yeah, yeah they do. Harry what do you think?"
"I'm pleading silence Ron. She's my future mother-in-law."
I can't wait until you're all done with Hogwarts and you can just move back in here with me like all my other children.
Ron and Ginny looked scared at that.
"All seven of us together until we die?"
"No, no, not happening." They both nodded at that and Harry tried to hold back laughter, knowing Molly would take them all back if she could.
Even Fred came back from the dead as a ghost to stay at home.
Fred: Oh the light, I see the light. Oh, guess it's time to go now. Guess I won't be able to do the dishes…looks like Percy will have to cover for me.
"Okay, since Fred is still alive and all, I could see him doing this as a ghost." Harry nodded along with Neville's statement, imagining the products he could get them to come up with.
"I agree. That is definitely a Weasley twin joke."
-laughter-
Molly: Oh Fred, knock it off.
George: But I'm Fred! -laughter-
Molly: That goes for you too Harry. The second you're done at Hogwarts, you are more than welcome to move right in here.
Harry: Ah, golly, that's really nice of you Mrs. Weasley.
Molly: So? Are moving in or not?!
"Yeah, lovely boyfriend of mine, are you moving in?" Harry shook his head.
"No, but now knowing I'll survive this….I figured we'd move in together after you graduate?" Ginny smiled happily at that and hugged him.
Harry: Um, I don't know. I guess I never really thought about life after Hogwarts. It's the only home I've ever really known. I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to leave it behind.
Bill: Well, you don't have to worry about that yet Harry. You've still got your whole senior year ahead.
Arthur: Speaking of senior year, Ronnie my boy, I've got a present for you.
"Oh, what do I get?"
"Ron, calm down."
It's a Weasley family tradition. It's the keys to the flying car!
"Oh, that's not at all really exciting."
"I get where they are going with it though. You get to drive it, with permission, to Hogwarts this time. Like a rite of passage per say." Ron nodded at Hermione but he was still slightly down at not getting something cool.
Everyone: Yay!
Arthur: Here you go son and you can have it all year!
Harry and Ron: This is going to be the best year ever! -high five-
"Ha, it will be the best year ever! We're seventh years, adults finally, and no more Voldemort!"
"Red Vine!"
Arthur: Yup, it sure is. (Molly: Oh Arthur) Cheers everybody, to senior year!
Everyone: To senior year!
Ron: (singing) We're going back to Hogwarts for the very last time.
Hermione: Our final year, at last it's here, gonna to start our lives.
Ginny: And everyone's excited about what the future holds for you. What the world's most famous wizard is gonna get into? ("I just popped my collar! I'm cool!)
Three: Well we're going back today, in the very same old way. Tell me Harry, can't you hear, it's gonna be your year! It's a very Potter senior year.
Ron: Come on guys, let's hop in the car and get out of here!
"Ha, I get a song dedicated to my last year. Maybe we should through this into our bet?"
"Oh yeah, by the way Neville, Luna, we are all performing songs form the musicals. Before there was this one we had them figured out but with this musical, we're probably gonna change it a bit." Neville and Luna nodded and smiled.
"I'm in definitely."
"I'll do it. The Nargles love music!"
Ron: Alright! I never thought that we would get this far but we made it. We're on top of the world.
"Did I just tell someone to go….yeah?"
"Yeah you did: in a flying car no less Potter."
Girls: We're on top of the world!
Ron: I feel unstoppable, I'm super-charged. It's contagious (together) that's for sure. We're on top of the world.
Hermione: We'll have some cool new spells to learn and we're gonna earn good grades.
Ginny: You're gonna spend lots of time with me and this gonna be the very best year!
Together: It's a very Potter senior year! Senior Year! We're not just kids anymore! Senior Year! Senior Year! Better than ever before! It's a very Potter senior year!
-Ginny giggles, Ron swerves the car-
Harry: Something's on the horizon and I know that something is me. I've been realizing there's no else I'd rather be than me. You know I'm gonna rule the school.
Ron: Just remember when you need a friend our friendship never ends. I'll be there.
Together: We're at your side.
Hermione: Don't forget I got a hand to lend. You don't have to pretend anymore.
Together: No don't do that!
Harry: Cause you're the very best friends to me and this is gonna be the very best year!
All: It's very Potter senior year! Senior Year! We're not just kids anymore! Senior Year! Senior Year! Better than ever before!
Girls: This is the last time…
Harry: I'll be king of the school.
Ron: Oh man it's gonna rule.
Girls: This is the last time…
Ron: We gotta make it count.
Harry: That's what I'm all about.
Girls: This is the magic…
Boys: Of growing up and showing up for Senior Year!
Ron: This is the last time…
Harry: And soon all the fun will be over and done.
Together: This is the last time...
Harry: It's kind of hard to pretend I'm not scared of the end…
"Are you really Potter?"
"No, more excited now that I have an end where I'm alive."
"Touché."
Together: This is the magic…
Harry: There must be something more but I should get ready for…my senior….
All: Senior Year! Senior Year! We're not just kids anymore! Senior Year! Senior Year! Better than ever before!
Senior Year! –This is the last time- Senior Year! We're not just kids anymore!
Harry: A very Potter…
Ron: A very Potter…
Hermione: Very Potter…
Ginny: Harry Potter!
All: It's a Very Potter Senior Year!
"Wow, you guys to sing things like that?"
"Especially for that past two musicals. You should have seen Harry singing Harry Freakin' Potter."
"You have a song about you too?"
"Yup."
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny look out of their windshield to see Hogwarts off in the distance.
Ron: There it is Harry…Hogwarts. God, she's beautiful.
"Here, here!"
As they descend, the ride becomes very turbulent.
Harry: Whoa, whoa Ron, keep it steady man!
Ron: Okay, dude, I'm trying! Oh, oh! We're going down, hold on to something.
Harry: TO WHAT?
All: AH! -crash-
"Ah, damned tree."
"Agreed on that, stupid tree that fights back…"
"Well, if you are all done complaining about the Whomping Willow, we will continue after this very fast bathroom break." The boys shot to their restroom while the girls were more subdued as they had started chatting.
It only took them five minutes before they were back and McGonagall looked more relaxed. She had removed her hat and loosened the top button at her neck.
"Time for Hogwarts!"
AN: I apologize for the emotional roller coaster in this chapter but in my mind, the diary incident is one of those things, especially considering how young they were, that seems like a sore subject and though I thought it was funny Harry giving Ginny the diary…could you imagine being them having lived through that nightmare and then see that Harry is the one who makes Ginny suffer? But humor should color the next chapter because guess who finally has a character, Minnie…. ;-)