A/N: This is my first attempt at trying my hand at songfic. I'm excited, as this thing has been swirling around in my head for awhile now! I own nothing, not even Claresse (because, well, no one owns Claresse and I don't want to go into how much trouble I'd get myself into if I tried to claim her. :-P) And thanks to Claresse (the one that doesn't live in my head currently) for character suggestion and generally being one of my cannon and song information repositories. And also to Nani, just because when I'm sitting here asking random questions relating to nothing, you seem to answer them in a logical manner… of course that's logical to me… Okay, well, Enjoy, and if you have any song requests for later chapters (yes, I'm writing as I go, so some bits could take awhile) I'm totally open to suggestions in REVIEWS…. See, I even use suggestions.
BATTLE ROYALE
There was too much. That's all there was to it. Everyone could feel it, in every movement, in every word, in every person. There was fear and high emotion and something needed to be done… for the entire wizarding world. Harry had dropped further into being… Harry, and the whole world were focused upon the destruction of Voldemort. Dumbledore could see how the tension tore at his students, how it tore apart houses and separated friends. If nothing were done, Hogwarts would fall. It came to him while listening to WWW that all the students needed to do was learn again how to be young. How to express themselves, how to bicker, how to play… Yes, this was the right choice. Hogwarts would hold a battle of the bands for the opening position being searched for, in order to open for the Weird Sisters in their premiere performance for the muggle world. This would be fun!
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Nearly the whole school got involved in the contest. Every house had at least one band competing, which actually lead to some very ruckus concerts (and in some cases, very bad as well). One of the most shocking performances came from the Weasley twins, working with Lee Jordan among others, who chose "I'm too Sexy" as their premiere song. And judging from their opening behavior, were threatening to act out the song, if McGonagall had not quickly stepped in and eliminated them from the tournament. After each round of performance, the students would vote for who they wanted to eliminate from the future rounds (Despite being banned from competition, to their great amusement, every time a group was cut, the Weasley twins could be heard adding their musical talent… by singing "Another One Bites the Dust" as loudly as possible).
In addition to the bands eliminated by the vote, various bands had to pull out of competition due to member conflicts. In most cases, this came from the interhouse bands, which were shown some favoritism by Dumbledore in his hopes for fostering interhouse relations. Only one band managed to survive the "Interhouse curse" as it were. The Ladies of Avalon consisted of: Ginny Weasley, Blaise Zabini, Luna Lovegood, Mandy Brockleherst, Pansy Parkinson, and Claresse Black. Basically, this band came to be through the Slytherins (Pansy, Blaise, and Claresse) deciding that they would do anything to win (as is their nature) including work with other houses. They sought out the best group they could find (excepting Pansy, who played the tambourine due to lack of other talent, but was included because of her help in formation). This tactic seemed to work very well, as these Ladies were among the three favorite bands in the final rounds.
As if by destiny, The Trio's band of Gryffindors as well as the Slytherins in Draco Malfoy's band were the two other bands kept for the final rounds. This was bound to make the final rounds interesting, as Ron Weasley seemed torn by who deserved more of his enmity: Ginny, for abandoning the Gryffindors for an interhouse band… with SLYTHERINS; or Draco Malfoy… for simply being Malfoy. Harry also couldn't consistently tell what he wanted to do with himself either, as he seemed apprehensive of competing against his very competitive and fiery girlfriend. Draco had no such qualms. He was perfectly willing to compete against Blaise and Pansy (there really was no consensus on which he was ACTUALLY dating), as all three of them were there to win. Not to mention, his ego couldn't have been remotely hurt by the giggling girls who seemed to adore the black leather pants and loose button shirt he had adopted for the part of the lead singer.
The bands would compete with a series of songs each. Each final round would involve all three groups, with no group being cut until the final school dance. Each round would also be accompanied by a school dance, which turned out to equal one dance a month until the end of the school year. The girls were all aflutter with what they might wear and who they might accompany to each dance. The bands were all practicing in earnest (with even Hermione seeming as if she were working on advanced NEWT material).
The Battle was on.