Gone Awry

The prank was still the number one topic in school four days after it actually happened. The way the professor freaked out at her class and scolded them for half an hour, while still dripping. The way she finally dried herself off and then changed into her rope - which had been filled with itching powder - making her itch the rest of the class, until she finally stopped the class early because she couldn’t take the itching sensation any more.

And even now, a couple days later you could hear her curse her robe and saw her running through the halls scratching herself all over.

Some of the teachers where trying to figure out who it was, but - although they suspected Ash - they couldn’t find any evidence nor proof. Somebody even tried to get a confession out of her with Truth serum (name?). But she was quite lucky that she had an extreme form on suspicion against people she doesn’t know very well. She didn’t drink it. 

But now its in the past, Ash was proud of her prank - it was a , but didn’t need to think about it to long. Right now the only thing she needed to think and worry about where the upcoming Halloween Ball and the performance she was supposed to be having earlier that evening during the Halloween Feast.

The whole Music Class was performing a couple of songs and Ash was supposed to be one of the highlights, especially when she sung a solo for the whole school while setting up the feast in a bravado charming performance... Somehow Flitwick had come to the conclusion that she was not only his best singer, but also his best pupil in Charms class.

The music class was waiting behind the doors of the Great Hall, while the others seated themselves and talked, laughed, cheered.

Ash was extremely nervous. Never before had she actually have such a difficult role, as today. Combining her music together with Charms. It was hard, but she knew that she’d be able to do it.

“I can’t stand it!” Amelia sighed frustrated.

“What do you mean?” another Ravenclaw asked.

“The waiting... I wanna be in there. Not out here waiting, worrying and telling myself that it’ll work, while a voice in my head tries to convince me otherwise.”

Ash laughed and joined the little group. “Tell the voice to shut up. I know it’ll work. Also, I think its about to start. Dumbledore is talking right now.”

The two Ravenclaws frowned at her, “how do you know that?”

“The noise of talking students. Its gone.”

The other girls listened and their face lit up. “I’ve found another advantage of being in the music class,” one of the girls said, making all the others look at her. “We don’t have to listen to Dumbledore’s speeches all the time!”

Everyone laughed at that fact and the tension started to loosen up a bit as they waited for the doors to open up and invite them in.

Finally the doors creaked open and the musicians swooped onto the Great Hall like ghosts.

-Halloween Town-
Boys and girls of every age,
Wont you like to see something strange?
They started singing to the sound of “Halloween Town” form Nightmare Before Christmas - a wizard movie that had leaked out to the muggle society a while a go (thankfully they had believed the excuse with the stop motion picture!).

[SIAMESE SHODOW]
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

[PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

[GHOSTS]
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbours gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween

[CREATURE UNDER THE BED]
I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

[MAN UNDER THE STAIRS]
I am the one hiding under yours stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

[CORPSE CHORUS]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween

[VAMPIRES]
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

[MAYOR]
In this town, don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

[CORPSE CHORUS]
Round that corner, man hiding in the trash cam
Something's waiting no to pounce, and how you'll...

[HARLEQUIN DEMON, WEREWOLF & MELTING MAN]
Scream! This is Halloween
Red 'n' black, slimy green

[WEREWOLF]
Aren't you scared?

[WITCHES]
Well, that's just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night

[HANGING TREE]
Everybody scream, everbody scream

[HANGED MEN]
In our town of Halloween!

[CLOWN]
I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace

[SECOND GHOUL]
I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing through your hair

[OOGIE BOOGIE SHADOW]
I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright

[CORPSE CHORUS]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween!

[CHILD CORPSE TRIO]
Tender lumplings everywhere
Life's no fun without a good scare

[PARENT CORPSES]
That's our job, but we're not mean
In our town of Halloween

[CORPSE CHORUS]
In this town

[MAYOR]
Don't we love it now?

[CORPSE CHORUS]
Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Halloween, everyone scream
Wont' ya please make way for a very special guy

Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King

[EVERYONE]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

[CORPSE CHILD TRIO]
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

[EVERYONE]
La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween! [Repeat]

With a sweep of their wands flared in a bright flame and left them standing in a new costume. And we were the figures in the Oogie Boogie song. Swishing through the crowd and scaring the first years. When we popped up singing the Ooooh ooh’s

OOGIE BOOGIE
Well, well, well, what have we here?
Sandy Claws, huh?
Oh, I'm really scared
So you're the one everybody's talkin' about, ha, ha

You're jokin', you're jokin'
I can't believe my eyes
You're jokin' me, you gotta be
This can't be the right guy
He's ancient, he's ugly
I don't know which is worse
I might just split a seam now
If I don't die laughing first

When Mr. Oogie Boogie says
There's trouble close at hand
You'd better pay attention now
'Cause I'm the Boogie Man
And if you aren't shakin'
Then there's something very wrong
'Cause this may be the last time now
That you hear the boogie song, ohhh

THREE BATS
Ohhh

OOGIE BOOGIE
Ohhh

SEVEN LIZARDS
Ohhh

OOGIE BOOGIE
Ohhh

SEVEN LIZARDS
Ohhh, he's the Oogie Boogie Man

OOGIE BOOGIE
Well if I'm feelin' antsy
And there's nothin' much to do
I might just cook a special batch
Of snake and spider stew
And don't ya know the one thing
That would make it work so nice?
A roly-poly Sandy Claws to add a little spice

THREE SKELETONS
Ohhh

OOGIE BOOGIE
Oh, yeah

THREE BATS
Ohhh

OOGIE BOOGIE
Ohhh

THREE BATS
Ohhh

OOGIE BOOGIE AND THREE SKELETONS
Oh, yeah, I'm (he's) the Oogie Boogie Man

SANTA
Release me now
Or you must face the dire consequences
The children are expecting me
So please, come to your senses

OOGIE BOOGIE
You're jokin', you're jokin'
I can't believe my ears
Would someone shut this fella up
I'm drownin' in my tears
It's funny, I'm laughing
You really are too much
And now, with your permission
I'm going to do my stuff

SANTA
What are you going to do?

OOGIE BOOGIE
I'm gonna do the best I can

(Musical interlude)

Oh, the sound of rollin' dice
To me is music in the air
'Cause I'm a gamblin' Boogie Man
Although I don't play fair

It's much more fun, I must confess
When lives are on the line
Not mine, of course, but yours, old boy
Now that'd be just fine

SANTA
Release me fast or you will have to
Answer for this heinous act

OOGIE BOOGIE
Oh, brother, you're something
You put me in a spin
You aren't comprehending
The position that you're in
It's hopeless, you're finished
You haven't got a prayer
'Cause I'm Mr. Oogie Boogie
And you ain't going nowhere

Soon we changed appearance again and now there stood a herd of skeletons and corpses singing Remains of the Day.

BONEJANGLES
Hey! Give me a listen you corpses of cheer
Leastles of you who still got an ear
I'll tell you a story make a skeleton cry
Of our own jubiliciously lovely corpse bride
BONE BOYS
Die, die we all pass away
But don't wear a frown cuz it's really okay
And you might try 'n' hide
And you might try 'n' pray
But we all end up the remains of the day
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
BONEJANGLES
Well our girl is a beauty known for miles around
When a mysterious stranger came into town
He's plenty good lookin', but down on his cash
And our poor little baby, she fell hard and fast
When her daddy said no, she just couldn't cope
So our lovers came up with a plan to elope
BONE BOYS
Die, die we all pass away
But don't wear a frown cuz it's really okay
And you might try 'n' hide
And you might try 'n' pray
But we all end up the remains of the day
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
(instrumental)
BONEJANGLES
So they conjured up a plan to meet late at night
They told not a soul, kept the whole thing tight
Now her mother's wedding dress fit like a glove
You don't need much when you're really in love
Except for a few things, or so I'm told
Like the family jewls and a sachel of gold
Then next to the grave yard by the old oak tree
On a dark foggy night at a quarter to three
She was ready to go, but where was he
BONE BOYS
And then?
BONEJANGLES
She waited
BONE BOYS
And then?
BONEJANGLES
There in the shadows, was it the man?
BONE BOYS
And then?
BONEJANGLES
Het little heart beat so loud
BONEBOYS
And then?
BONEJANGLES
And then baby, everything went black

Now when she opened her eyes she was dead as dust
Her jewls were missin' and her heart was bust
So she made a vow lyin' under that tree
That she'd wait for her true love to come set her free
Always waiting for someone to ask for her hand
When out of the blue comes this groovy young man
Who vows forever to be by her side
And that's the story of our own corpse bride

Everyone claped when the music ended and everything went black. Here and there you could hear a couple of names being yelled out, when friends of the musicians cheered for them - Ash could hear her name being called quite a few times as well.

When everything had gone black, Ash heard how all her friends form the music club, ran to sit down in their place, while she stormed up to the teachers table and jumped on it, surprising quite a few teachers.

Light was shone onto her. She was standing in the spotlight - but that wouldn’t be for long. Quickly she pulled out her wand and closed her eyes in anticipation.

She could feel Flitwicks levitating spell catch her and soon her feet left the ground and she opened her eyes grinning when she heard the people gasp.

Quietly she pointed the wand at her throat and magnified it.

“Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen! We hope that our little performance pleased you and that you’ll enjoy the magnificent feast that the kitchen will be serving.” she said, before she muttered something quietly and the whole Hall was filled in a blinding light.

Notes started vibrating in the Hall and quietly she made one of the candle holders jump of the wall and onto a table, giving it a mouth and channelling her own voice through it in a song of “Be Our Guest”, while she charmed the dishes with the food to dance in front of the student body.


Candle holder / Lumiere:
Ma chere Mademoiselle, it is with deepest pride
and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight.
And now we invite you to relax, let us pull up a
chair as the dining room proudly presents -
your dinner!

Be our guest! Be our guest!
Put our service to the test
Tie your napkin 'round your neck, cherie
And we'll provide the rest
Soup du jour
Hot hors d'oeuvres
Why, we only live to serve
Try the grey stuff
It's delicious
Don't believe me? Ask the dishes
They can sing, they can dance
After all, Miss, this is France
And a dinner here is never second best
Go on, unfold your menu
Take a glance and then you'll
Be our guest
Oui, our guest
Be our guest!

Chorus:
Beef ragout
Cheese souffle
Pie and pudding "en flambe"

Candleholder:
We'll prepare and serve with flair
A culinary cabaret!
You're alone
And you're scared
But the banquet's all prepared
No one's gloomy or complaining
While the flatware's entertaining
We tell jokes! I do tricks
With my fellow candlesticks

Chorus:
And it's all in perfect taste
That you can bet
Come on and lift your glass
You've won your own free pass
To be out guest

Candleholder:
If you're stressed
It's fine dining we suggest

Chorus:
Be our guest! Be our guest! Be our guest!
Get your worries off your chest
Let us say for your entree
We've an array; may we suggest:
Try the bread! Try the soup!
When the croutons loop de loop
It's a treat for any dinner
Don't belive me? Ask the china
Singing pork! Dancing veal!
What an entertaining meal!
How could anyone be gloomy and depressed?
We'll make you shout "encore!"
And send us out for more
So, be our guest!

Candleholder:
Be our guest!

Chorus:
Be our guest!

A Pott:
It's a guest! It's a guest!
Sakes alive, well I'll be blessed!
Wine's been poured and thank the Lord
I've had the napkins freshly pressed
With dessert, she'll want tea
And my dear that's fine with me
While the cups do their soft-shoein'
I'll be bubbling, I'll be brewing
I'll get warm, piping hot
Heaven's sakes! Is that a spot?
Clean it up! We want the company impressed

Chorus:
We've got a lot to do!

Pott:
Is it one lump or two?
For you, our guest!

Chorus:
She's our guest!

Pott:
She's our guest!

Chorus:
She's our guest!
Be our guest! Be our guest! Be our guest!

Candleholder:
Life is so unnerving
For a servant who's not serving
He's not whole without a soul to wait upon
Ah, those good old days when we were useful...
Suddenly those good old days are gone
Ten years we've been rusting
Needing so much more than dusting
Needing exercise, a chance to use our skills!
Most days we just lay around the castle
Flabby, fat and lazy
You walked in and oops-a-daisy!

Chorus:
Be our guest! Be our guest!
Our command is your request
It's been years since we've had anybody here
And we're obsessed
With your meal, with your ease
Yes, indeed, we aim to please
While the candlelight's still glowing
Let us help you, We'll keep going
Course by course, one by one
'Til you shout, "Enough! I'm done!"
Then we'll sing you off to sleep as you digest
Tonight you'll prop your feet up
But for now, let's eat up
Be our guest!
Be our guest!
Be our guest!
Please, be our guest!

When the performance ended she hung her head for a second, hoping that nobody was looking. She looked up again when she heard the benches move.

Looking up she saw that the whole Hall had risen from their seats - ignoring the food - and where staring at her while they started clapping their hands together, making the whole Hall vibrate in the clapping sound.

Her face brightened when she saw the sight from 5 meters of the ground, while she slowly sunk to the ground again.

As soon as she touched the ground people started to whistle and cheer for her and the performance that she finished.

When the feeling came back to her feet, she grinned even wider and bowed.

“Guten Appetit!” she called out before she ran to the Slytherin table.