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The Sugar Quills

Ship: Harry Potter/Hermione Granger | Chapter Words: 1114 | Last Update: 6 Jan 06 | Rating: PG
After School has ended and a lot of the students have joined the Order of the Phoenix, Harry is led to Voldemort by mistake and trapped. Harry's friends have to do strange things to get him back.

Chapter 1: What Now?

'Sugar Quills, Sugar Quills, Sugar Quills, Sugar Quills' the crowd in the arena where screaming, shouting and chanting for the show to start, t-shirts, hats, banners and all sorts of things where flying around in an attempt to kill the boredom that was setting in on the now impatient crowd. 'Sugar Quills, Sugar Quills, Sugar Quills, Sugar Quills'.

Back stage was were all the action really was, five girls stood nervous and almost completely shocked at how many people had actually turned up.

'This wasn't meant to happen, we were meant to be bad at this, rubbish songs, that's what we were meant to have, not a whacking great crowd!' The youngest girl said in horror, her right eye peeking though a tiny gap in the curtain.

'Need I remind you all, that Harry's life depends on you gaining the attention of Lord Voldemort' Albus Dumbledore had arrived, they hadn't expected him there, but as usual, he always was.

'I wish you would't do that' the red-head said giving the old silver haired man a look of pure horror and then smiling up at his kind face.

'Right lets do this' She added trading the smile for a look of determination. Albus gave the signal and the voice over started.

'LADIES AND GENTELMEN' there was an uproar of shouts and cheers. 'Put your hands together and welcome to the stage for their first LIVE PREFORMANCE.....' The announcer paused.

'Sally-Ann Perks'.

A tall blond girl dressed in a pink flowed top and jeans pushed though the curtain and stretched her arms wide to the screaming crowd, she waved and headed to the left hand side microphone.

'Lavender Brown'.

Lavender followed Sally-Ann in a similar fashion, stopping in the middle of the stage to take a pose before moving to far right microphone.

'Pavati Patil'.

Pavati practically ran onto the stage, did a little dance and went to stand at the microphone next to Lavender giving the adoring audience a thumbs-up.

'Ginny Weasley'.

Ginny took a deep breathe plunged though the curtain, did a few twirls and jogged over to the microphone next to Sally-Ann.

'ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND....'

WAIT - STOP RIGHT THERE!! (Everything freezes in place)

What am I doing? I'm about to go on stage and sing songs to that crowd... could someone PLEASE hit the rewind button, back a few years please... thanks!

Let me explain something before we carry on, when I was 11 I received a letter inviting me to join a school for Witchcraft and Wizards. That's right, I'm a witch, I'm Hermione Granger, and I accepted that invite and went to school. On my way, I met with my... soon to be... best friends Harry Potter (aka: The boy who lived) and Ron Weasley.

By the end of our first year, we'd survived not only the lessons and homework, but trolls, giant chess games, logic problems and a close encounter with the dark lord (Lord Voldemort).

Second year, the memory of Voldemort turned up in a diary that someone *cough* Malfoy *cough* put into Ginny Weasley's hands, he used her to try and come back... lucky Harry was around.

Third year, subjected to black dogs, strange cats, rats who where really men oh and a werewolf, but lets not forget the fun we had trying to save a convinced murderer and letting him escape on a hippogriff who was meant to be executed. Fun huh?

Fourth yeah, well, lets just say Tri-Wizard Tournament, dragons, mer-people, and mazes that led to a port key trapping Harry with Voldemort and ... oh yeah, he came back that year... are you seeing the pattern yet?

Fifth year, bad defence against the dark arts lessons, order of the phoenix (its still a secret) and lets not forget the trip to the department of mysteries in the ministry of magic to fight the death eaters and see Sirius Black (the convicted murderer) die.

Sixth year... well, I don't even want to remember that one or the seventh and final year, they just got worse!!

The only good thing that came out of all that, is that we're all still alive, we've lost 3 people, Sirius in the department of mysteries, Cedric Diggory at the end of the tri-wizard tournament killed by Wormtail (Voldemort's assistant) and Bertha Jorkins, who Voldemort captured and found out about the tournament, are you confused yet? Because I am!

Anyway, after school, we all left, and joined the Order of the Phoenix, the next year, Ginny and Luna (along with others) joined... and this is where the fun began!

Just before Ginny managed to join the order, she ended up giving a few secrets (accidentally) to a death-eater, who promptly report to Voldemort, not missing his chance, Voldemort captured Ginny and used her to lead Harry to him, we tried everything and all we managed to do was get Ginny back, Harry, is still in Voldemort's hands...

What's all this got to do with a live concert you ask... well, we spent 3 months without success trying to track down Voldemort and his followers, but, well no one could find him, even our spy failed because the dark lord never called them back, he and Wormtail seem to be dealing with Harry on their own. So we came up with a plan to draw attention to ourselves, although, not all of us.

Albus Dumbledore, headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, leader to the Order of the Phoenix and who still has his face on the chocolate frogs cards decided that the best way to do it was to create a band of witches who could play in both muggle (non-magic people) and wizard environments.

Ginny stepped forward first, eager to help Harry, she seemed to blame herself for what was happening. Well, I'm not one to ditch my friends so I stepped up next, Lavender and Pavati followed suit and to our surprise, so did Sally-Ann, we hadn't talked to her since the beginning of time, she was in our dormitory and never said anything, always up and gone before us, and in bed asleep before us. But who were we to complain, 5 Gryffindor girls, to create a band.

Right then, now that your up to speed... we can carry on.

'ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND HERMIONE GRANGER'.

There was an uproar at this name and Hermione pushed the curtains aside and strolled calmly to the front of the stage to the centre and last free microphone and the music started.

The crowd started jumping around to the music, the five on stage started an over rehearsed routine that they could have done in their sleep, something was going to happen.

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