Hey guy's I'm back and keeping my promise! Here's the next chapter of Phantom of the Opera
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Chapter 3 the casting
Harry looked down at his watch then back up to the board. At the moment he was just curious to see just how much this play would be mucked up. He looked at his watch one more time then stood and made his way to the notice board. He could feel everyone's eyes following him watching his every move.
Just as he reached the board there was a slight pinging sound and a piece of paper appeared on the board. Everyone gasped then stood stock still staring at it.
Harry rolled his eyes and then unpinned it and held it up to eye level.
He read down the list making snorting noises and even laughed once or twice. When he reached the bottom he realised no-one had yet moved.
"Don't you want to know who got which part?" he asked almost teasingly. "Jeez I expected you to all come running for it not sit there like statues" the people still didn't move. Harry sighed and announced
"Fine, I guess I'll read them, let's go in reverse order shall we?" He said this as more of a statement than a question but he got no answer regardless.
"The role of the Auctioneer will be played by Pansy Parkinson" Harry announced then mumbled under his breath "which is ironic because that is a male role"
"Monsieur Lefèvre will be played by Colin Creevey" there was shocked silence for a moment before a roar of congratulations issued from the entirety of Gryffindor towards Colin. Harry waited for it to die down before continuing
"Maestro Reyer is to be played by Justin Finch Fletchley"
"Joseph Buquet shall be played by Blaize Zambini"
"Ubaldo Piangi shall be played by Cedric Diggory" (in this one Cedric isn't dead ok deal with it!)
"Monsieur Gilles André is to be played by Seamus Finnegan" Once again there was a roar of congratulations as Seamus sat there shocked.
"Monsieur Richard Firmin will be performed by Dean Thomas" Dean and Seamus looked at each other and finally began celebrating coming out of shock.
"Meg Giry will be played by Hermione Granger" Harry didn't pause this time for applause just read on
"Madame Giry is to be played by Hannah Abbot"
"Carolotta Giudicelli will be played by Cho Chang"
"Vicomte Raoul de Chagny will be played by Ronald Weasley" harry looked over to his best friend and simply nodded as if to say, you'll do
"Christine Daaé shall be played by Ginny Weasley" There were gasps and laughs all around as people remembered that Christine and Raoul got together in the play Harry looked sympathetically over too Hermione who was looking rather shell shocked then he turned to Ginny and smiled at her.
He then turned regretfully back to the list
"Unfortunately the best of the crop who auditioned for the role of The Phantom of the Opera role was Draco Malfoy so goody for him and goodnight all. Try not to make too much noise when you're partying"
With that he pinned the list back on the board and turned to walk up the boy's staircase.
Barely anyone heard him as they continued celebrating ignoring him. Hermione snapped and ran up the girl's stairs crying but no one noticed.
In fact no one noticed when the portrait seemed to open and close of its own accord, all except one girl who was at that moment the centre of attention.
She brushed off her admirers and quickly rushed to the portrait hole.
She slipped out and followed the faint sound of footsteps. She reached the seventh floor and watched as a door appeared opened and closed.
Staring in confusion she sat on the floor opposite the wall where the door was then she heard singing.
Her eyebrows rose as she recognised it as the opening lines to the phantoms part of the song the phantom of the opera.
Making a split second decision she walked to the wall and put her hand on it grabbing for a door handle. Too her shock a handle appeared and opened as she leant on it.
She slipped inside and leaned against the wall where the door that she had just entered was.
She watched amazed as a black haired person playing the piano continued to sing
Sing once again with me our strange duet ...
My power over you grows stronger yet ...
And though you turn from me,
to glance behind,
the Phantom of the Opera is there - inside your mind ...
Those who have seen your face draw back in fear ...
I am the mask you wear ...
It's me they hear ...
Knowing Christine's part was next the girl began to sing in harmony with the boy.
Your/My spirit and my/your voice in one
combined: the Phantom of the Opera
is there - inside your/my mind ...
He's there,
the Phantom of the Opera ...
Beware the Phantom of the Opera ...
In all your fantasies,
you always knew that man and mystery ...
... were both in you ...
And in this labyrinth where night is blind,
the Phantom of the Opera is there/here - inside your/my mind ...
Sing, my Angel of Music!
He's there the Phantom of the Opera...
Somehow during the singing she had managed to walk towards the player and was now standing directly behind him. She saw dark hair that was vaguely familiar.
She then gasped when the boy turned to face her.
"Hello Ginny" he said simply
"But...But" she said seemingly speechless.
He laughed softly
"Not the person you expected?" he asked
"Why did you refuse to try out? Your amazing Harry" She replied softly.
"I think it's time I told you about my real life Ginny" He replied
This would be the perfect place for a cliffie, but that would be mean. Plus this chapter would be really short so here's the rest of it
As he spoke the room morphed the piano disappearing and instead a small cosy couch appeared in front of a fireplace that was crackling merrily.
He softly grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the couch then sat her down. He took the seat next to her and turned to face her.
She was staring into the fire slightly shocked and very confused. Smiling softly as he thought of how endearing she looked in that moment he reached out and gently grabbed her chin, he turned her to face him and gazed into her eyes.
She swallowed and said two words "explain please"
Harry leaned back and began
"When I was younger, it started around when I was three I think my aunt and uncle made me start 'helping around the house' as they put it. I was made to jobs no three year old should have the knowledge of how to do or the ability but I did them regardless.
It was about when I was four that petunia went back to work; making sure her precious Dudley had a suitable childminder of course. I was left at home to do the jobs by myself. It wasn't until I was five that I was told what it was that petunia does.
She is a dancer in the famous BOPDT, the British opera and performing arts troupe. They travel around the world performing classical plays and dances. She converted the spare room into a music room and Dudley's second bedroom into a small dance studio after some extensions and it was there I was left all day.
I did my chores then I spent the day in the music room, I taught myself piano, guitar everything and then I found the phantom of the opera. By now I was seven and I had begun training my voice. I learnt to act and dance; I trained my voice in many different accents.
I was nine when my secret was discovered. My aunt came home early from work one day and heard me singing. I thought she'd get angry but no she was pleased. You see she got her singing talent from her mother. But my mother had none of it nor did my cousin. My aunt had been worried the Evans family trait would die out but there I was with it.
She claimed that she had met 30 year olds with years more training who could not hold a tune like me and she began taking me along to her rehearsals to watch. Making sure my uncle knew nothing of course.
It was there that I discovered uncle Sevvie. He was one of the main singers in my aunt's troupe which is actually a mixed wizards and muggles troupe. My aunt in fact chose the troupe for this reason; she said it made her feel closer to my mother.
Anyway he was a wizard who preferred to work in the muggle world. Even more surprising, he had known my mother.
He taught me who I was in the wizard world then enquired as to why I was in a theatre all day. My aunt made me sing for him and he agreed with her he then began glamour charming me making me seem older than I really was.
By the time I was ten my voice was strong enough to audition for a part and for it to seem like I was a trained 18 year old, so that's what I became. My stage name is James Evans; I have played the lead role in every summer play that we hold and some galas at Christmas time. What is ironic though is that for the past 6 summers my troupe has performed the phantom of the opera. And the same is planned for this year.
I come here to practise daily and to make sure I am ready for this year's annual Christmas Charity gala and now I have someone other than Uncle Sevvie I can talk about it too!" He finished a little out of breath
Ginny looked at him disbelieving but she saw only sincerity in his eyes. As she thought back on it she could remember harry disappearing at weird times after school, but then her mind ran into a block.
"Wait, every summer?" she asked
"Oh, I should have explained that, when I met uncle Sevvie he knew a wand maker who made a wand for me without the ministry's trace on so I could perform magic during the year, and then he taught me a very fancy spell. Basically it creates a double who acts like you would act and is completely solid enabling you to be in two places at once.
I retain memories from everything that double does. So currently I am here talking to you, I'm in bed in case Ron goes up to check on me and I'm at rehearsals with my aunt." He explained
"So who is this uncle Sevvie?" Ginny asked curious. (She doesn't know his first name o.k.!)
"You know him already" he replied cryptically "in fact he teaches you here and he isn't really as mean as he makes out to be"
Ginny gasped then laughed "seriously?" she asked "professor Snape is your 'uncle Sevvie'!" she made quotation marks as she said the words uncle Sevvie and Harry could see where the hilarity came from.
"Yeah pretty much" he replied shrugging indifferently "Though let me tell you, it was a shock to the system when he had to start pretending to hate me at school!"
She burst out laughing at that and Harry soon joined her.
Eventually they both sobered up though they both hadn't realised how much closer they had got, Ginny was snuggled right up next to Harry's side with his arm around her shoulders.
"So do you see why I didn't audition for this play?" he asked her. She shook her head and he smiled
"No offence to you or anyone in fact but this school does not have the potential to perform the phantom of the opera. It is a story that requires real talent and the ability to emotionally connect with the audience something which out of all the people who auditioned I only saw one person with even a smidgeon of that ability and that was you" He smiled at her before standing up
"Now I may not be in this play but that does not mean I am not going to coach the star of the play now does it?" He said and she smiled up at him.
The piano appeared again in the room and he led her over to it. I think it is time to practise don't you
I'm really sorry if you don't like this or think it's really unrealistic but this idea has been in my head for ages so I needed to use it. No flame reviews but if you do have something good to say about it please review and I will continue to update!
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