A/N: Okay, I know I meant to get this all out faster, but that didn't work, so we'll just go as we go… I've had a very productive weekend this weekend… well, it actually depends on how you mean productive though, doesn't it?
Ginny smiled at Hermione as the Sonorous charm was performed and she stepped to the front of the stage. They had also chosen a song by Blackmore's Night, which she had heard while she visited Hermione over the summer.
Unlike Hermione's trance-like singing, Ginny watched the audience as she began, bringing all of them under a seeming spell, to join her in the place she imagined. Ginny's voice had more power than Hermione's as she sang out clearly.
A timeless and forgotten place,
The moon and sun endless chase
Each in quiet surrender
As the other reigns the sky…
Ginny watched as the audience began to move towards the stage. This song brought with it a power and movement that drew people onto the dance floor, as the other group's quiet homecoming song had not done.
The midnight hour begins to laugh
A summer evening's epitaph,
The winds are getting crazy
As the storm begins to rise…
With permission from the teachers, the Ladies of Avalon had timed a spell. As Ginny finished her line, dark clouds came over the previously starry sky, bringing a new atmosphere to the room as the candles lighting it began to grow brighter and flicker as slight wind stirred the whole room.
Wild were the winds that came
In the thunder and the rain
Nothing ever could contain
The rising of the storm…
The stormy effects were focused on the stage with the singer. The wind lifted her bright hair and gave the effect of another candle flame. Instinctively, Ginny had also raised her arms as she became the center of a swirl of embracing wind. The effect was the intended one, she seemed an ancient Celtic goddess as she brought a storm to bear.
In the wings of ebony
Darkened waves fill the trees
Wild winds of warning
Echo through the air…
Ginny had entered her own trance now. Her body swayed and danced as if she had been lifted free of her bonds to the world. The wind still held her at the center of a maelstrom on the stage. With this sense of joining and power with the wind, a new power filled her voice and the sound of the instruments joining her.
Follow the storm I've got to get out of here…
Follow the storm as you take to the sky…
Follow the storm now it's all so crystal clear,
Follow the storm as the storm begins to rise…
Now a new voice joined her, to bring more power to the sound, as they couldn't raise storm levels any higher safely. This show was planned exactly to make the audience feel, that's what Slytherins do, they work their audience and they win. Blaise's voice was clear as she continued to play her base with power, she sang in harmony with Ginny, her voice slightly lower, seductive almost.
She seems to come from everywhere
Welcome to the dragons lair
Fingers running through your hair
She asks you out to play…
The whole audience was smiling and swaying now, they too had been captured by the wind and the sound. The final chords were the strongest.
In all of nature's sorcery
The most bewitching entity
Hell can have no fury
Like the rising of the storm…
The final chords of the song floated away on the vanishing wind. Ginny smiled and looked again at the audience facing their stage. She looked again at the Gryffindor band, some of whom seemed to be smiling despite themselves. She then looked over to the Slytherin band, performing next, and saw a slight bow come from Draco Malfoy. She bowed her head in return and wondered what could be expected from the Slytherins, Serpent's Kiss.
A/N: I know it was short, but I'm hoping to get the next chapter out soon, today if possible! The song is Storm, by Blackmore's night. Keep reading, cause it gets better, things really start in the next chapter, I promise! R/R