Harry Potter and the DDR machine.

A.N.: O.k. not that many reviews but enough that I\'m willing to continue, please remember to read and review.

Chapter 2: Next round

The next night everyone returned to the secret class room, including the unknown shadow of Severus Snape. Harry managed to smile, \"who wants to go first?\"

No one raised their hands, he looked at Draco, \"come on Harry, I can think of a song for us both.\"

They both climbed onto the DDR machines, and Draco thought for a second, (Vermilion part 2 with a few changes by me, by Slipknot) \"He seemed dressed in all of me,\" harry knew this song and began singing like Draco had, switching she for he as he realized that no one that knew them knew the real them, \"Stretched across my shame, All the torment and the pain Leaked through and covered me.\" They looked at each other, knowing the steps by the beat of the music, the \'them\' that everyone knew...wasn\'t real, that\'s why Draco had chosen this song. \"I\'d do anything to have him to myself, Just to have him for myself.\"

Ron and Hermoine looked at each other quizzically, \"why are they getting along? don\'t they hate each other?\"

\" Now I don\'t know what to do, I don\'t know what to do When he makes me sad.\" Yet still they had to hold the mask up for the world to see, but it couldn\'t last forever, and he was glad that they understood each other about this much at least, \"he is everything to me, The unrequited dream,\" but what would his friends say when he let go of the mask? \"The song that no one sings, the unattainable. He\'s a myth that I have to believe in, All I need to make it real is one more reason.\"

\"Don\'t think, Harry, just dance, and let the music wash over you.\" Draco manages a smile so slight no one but Harry could have seen it, \" I don\'t know what to do, I don\'t know what to do when he makes me sad.\" Draco spun slightly, \"and listen closely to the next part, live by it.\"

\"But I won\'t let this build up inside of me. I won\'t let this build up inside of me. I won\'t let this build up inside of me. I won\'t let this build up inside of me.\" Harry smiled too, that was good advice.

Snape scowled at how oddly well they were getting along with one another, /what are you planning oh godson of mine? Any why must it involve the secret player in my fantasies?/

\"A catch in my throat, choke, Torn into pieces, I won\'t. No. I don\'t want to be this but I won\'t let this build up inside of me (won\'t let this build up inside of me) x4\"

/Why must they both sound so sad and angry at the same time? Do those other cretins not know that their expectations are tearing them apart inside?/

\"He isn\'t real. I can\'t make him real. He isn\'t real. I can\'t make him real.\"

They both jumped off in unison and this time is was Cho Chang that climbed on alone, and thought of a song to sing, (Phantom of the Opera, Wishing you were somehow here again) \"You were once my one companion, you were all that mattered, you were once a friend and father, when my world was shattered, wishing you were somehow here again.\"


Harry almost growled, \"do I not feel guilty enough for Cedric\'s death? Jeez and she\'s fucking staring at me!\"

\" wishing you were somehow near, sometimes it seems if I just dream, somehow you\'re oddly here, wishing I could hear you voice again, knowing that I never will,\" tears began spilling out of her eyes as she missed every arrow.

\"Told you we shouldn\'t have invited her Hermoine, she\'s staring right at Harry.\"

\"dreaming of you won\'t help me to do all that you dreamed I could,\" her voice faltered as she skipped some of it, before belting out, \"WISHING YOU WERE SOMEHOW HERE AGAIN, knowing we must say good bye,\" she ran out of the class room crying and the machine went back to waiting for the next dancer.

Harry just shook his head as Blaise Zambini stepped up and literally glared at him before thinking of a song, (Redeemer, Queen of the Damned Sound Track, Marilyn Manson) The music began playing eerily as he stomped the arrows, glaring at Harry and not even stopping for deep breaths as the words left him, \"\"The hunger inside given to me, makes me what I am, always it is calling me, for the blood of man, they say I cannot be this, I am jaded, HIDING FROM THE DAY I can barely contain the hunger in me, Though I say I did it, always searching you can\'t FUCK WITH ME, so instead you\'ll taste my pain, The hunger inside given to me, makes me feel alive, always out stalking prey in the dark I hide, feeling, falling, hating, feel like I am fading, hating life! They say I cannot be this, I am jaded, hiding from the day I can barely contain the hunger in me, though I say I did it, always searching, YOU CAN\'T FUCK WITH ME! So instead YOU\'LL TASTE MY PAIN!\" He jumped off and stood glaring at Harry his hand itching for his wand...

Draco glared back at him and whispered a small spell, \"funis de vitis\" vines came out of the ground and tied him to a nearby wall as another girl came up to the machine. \"At least now Blaise can\'t try and take you to the Dark Lord, I must say he is in an shitty mood tonight.\"

The Ravenclaw girl looked at her current boyfriend, a HufflePuff boy and thought until the music began (My immortal, by Evanescence) Her voice started quietly as she tried to concentrate on the arrows too, \"I\'m so tired of being here, suppressed by all my childish fears, and if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave, because your presence still lingers here, and it won\'t leave me alone.\"

The boy\'s eyes widened as understanding dawned on him and tears sprang to his eyes, he was going to have to tell her about Lavender now.......and he knew she\'d break up with him afterwards...../shit!/ was his only thought as the music played on.

Her voice rose as she realized he was actually paying attention, \"These wounds won\'t seem to heal, this pain is just too real, there\'s just too much that time cannot erase. When you cried, I\'d wipe away all of your tears, when you\'d scream, I\'d fight away all of your fears, and I\'ve held your hand through all of these years, but you still have all of me.\"

Lavender turned to look at the boy when she realized, her friend was singing to HIM, he never told her that he had a girlfriend...and she had asked, \"oh it is so over after I get my hands on you.\"

\"You used to captivate me, by your resonating light, but now I\'m bound by the life you left behind, your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams, your voice it chased away all the sanity in me!\" Tears trembled in her eyes as several of her friends thought of different hexes to use on the boy when they could catch him alone, preferably at night....and several were thinking of \'unforgivables.\' \"These wounds won\'t seem to heal, this pain is just too real, there\'s just too much that time cannot erase. When you cried, I\'d wipe away all of your tears, when you\'d scream, I\'d fight away all of your fears, and I\'ve held your hand through all of these years, but you still have all of me.\" Her breaths trembled as memories of their past together flitted through her head. \"I\'ve tried so hard to tell myself that you\'re gone, and though you\'re still with me, I\'VE BEEN ALONE ALL ALONG!\"

She jumped down to almost everyone clapping as she walked out the door, the boy and several of her friends following with their wands drawn.....he was so going to pay...

Another Slytherin named Donovan stepped onto the machine and didn\'t even think as the music started to play, and he started singing, (Numb, by Linkin Park)

\"I\'m tired of being what you want me to be
feeling so faithless
Lost under the surface
I don\'t know what you\'re expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
Every step that I take is another mistake to you

I\'ve become so numb
I can\'t feel you there
I\'ve become so tired
So much more aware
I\'m becoming this
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you.\"

Everyone looked at him, a little surprised that someone so normal didn\'t feel normal. Draco nodded at him, they both at the issues of their fathers wanting them to be just like them, in fact Draco knew this song and was rather fond of playing it loudly when visiting home for the holidays, but only his best house elf ever understood what it meant.

\"Can\'t you see that you\'re smothering me
Holding too tightly
Afraid to lose control
\'Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you.\"

Draco began humming and was surprised when Harry joined in, the words just quiet enough to not be heard by anyone, but he was just close enough to hear them.

\"Every step that I take
Is another mistake to you
And every second I waste
Is more than I can take!
I\'ve become so numb
I can\'t feel you there
I\'ve become so tired
So much more aware
I\'m becoming this
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you
And I know
I may end up failing too....\"

They looked at each other and just nodded again as the shadows moved, Snape\'s eyes widened, it almost sounded like Harry was thinking of Albus when he was singing it, just the way he did it. /Is the old man really that manipulative?/ he thought quietly for a moment before nodding, /yes and the fact I actually had to think to be sure just proves it./

\"But I know
You were just like me
With someone disappointed in you

I\'ve become so numb
I can\'t feel you there
I\'ve become so tired
So much more aware
I\'m becoming this
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you.\"

White scars seemed to glow in the dim light as he moved his arms to the music too, actually dancing free style.

\"I\'ve become so numb
I can\'t feel you there
I\'ve become so numb
I can\'t feel you there.
I\'m tired of being what you want me to be.\"

He climbed down and sat on the floor next to Draco and Harry. \"O.k. it\'s getting late, who wants to go last?\" No one answered and just stared around, \"Donovan, Harry, want to do a three-way on this thing?\"

Harry and Donovan both just shrugged, \"My turn to pick the song.\"

\"Go for it then Harry.\"

They all climbed onto the machine as Harry thought and the music began...and all three smiled, (Welcome to my life, by Simple Plan)

\"Do you ever feel like breaking down? Do you ever feel outta place? Like somehow you just don\'t belong, and no one understands you.\"

Everyone\'s eyes widened, this time Ron and...or at least Hermoine figured out that the three had something in common.

\"DO you ever want to run away? Do you lock yourself in your room? with the radio on turned up so loud that no one hears you screaming. No you don\'t know what it\'s like when nothing feels alright you don\'t know what it\'s like to be like me...\"

There were several gasps as everyone\'s, including Severus Snape\'s thoughts that the Boy-who-lived had a perfect life were shattered into so many pieces that they could never be put back together.

\"To be hurt, to feel lost, to be left out in the dark, to be kicked when you\'re down, to feel like you\'ve been pushed around to be on the edge of breaking down and no one\'s there to save you, No you don\'t know what it\'s like, Welcome to my life.\"

/Albus what have you done?/

\"Do you wanna be somebody else? Are you sick of feeling so left out? Are you desperate to find something more before your life is over?\"

/It\'s a wonder he hasn\'t embraced the darkness just so he could escape...old man we are going to have a serious talk.../

\"Are you stuck inside a world you hate? Are you sick of everyone around? whith their big fake smiles and stupid lies while deep inside you\'re bleeding. No you don\'t know what it\'s like, when nothing feels alright, you don\'t know what it\'s like to be like me....\"

/And I need to beat myself....I thought just like the rest of them.../

\"No one ever lied straight to your face, and no one ever stabbed you in the back, you might think I\'m happy but I\'m not gonna be o.k. everybody always gave you what you wanted, you never had to work it was always there, you don\'t know what it\'s like, what it\'s like, To be hurt, to feel lost, to be left out in the dark, to be kicked when you\'re down, to feel like you\'ve been pushed around to be on the edge of breaking down and no one\'s there to save you, No you don\'t know what it\'s like, To be hurt, to feel lost, to be left out in the dark, to be kicked when you\'re down, to feel like you\'ve been pushed around to be on the edge of breaking down and no one\'s there to save you, No you don\'t know what it\'s like, Welcome to my life, Welcome to my life, Welcome to my Life.\"

They jumped down and shooed everyone from the room, before sitting down with a can of coke a piece, and just staring into the vast darkness of the room. \"you know, I never would have thought that we\'d have so much in common....\"

Harry chuckled almost sadly, \"If I had known what I know now back in first year.....I\'d have let that damned hat put me in Slytherin, I would have been better off.\"

Donovan and Draco looked at him, \"you were supposed to be in Slytherin.\"

\"Yep, but all because I thought you were such a ponce....I told it Gryffindor......damn.\"

Draco chuckled, \"well I was a right bastard to you, I probably would have done the same.\"

Harry raised his coke can, \"to the opening of ours eyes, gentlemen.\"

They all toasted as Donovan looked at them curiously before shrugging and getting up to leave. Draco smirked, \"You never said if we were all coming back tomorrow too?\"

\"Sure why not, at least this is fun.\"

\"Harry, have you ever considered talking to Snape?\"

Snape\'s eyes widened /WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?!?!?!?/

\"Yeah, but it wouldn\'t do any good, I\'ll never be anything but James Potter\'s son remember? Well better hurry, the distraction only had five minutes to go.\"

\"Alright, good night Harry.\"

\"Good night, Draco.\" Harry watched him leave, and whispered, \"you\'ve no idea.....how many times I thought of talking to him Draco.....but....he just never listens to me at least.\"

Harry walked quietly back to the Gryffindor dorms, leaving a confused, mournful Snape behind, \"I am the reason, my own dreams will never come true...I pushed him away before anything could come of us, not even friendship.\" He sighed before flooing back to his private rooms.

A.N.: That\'s it for now, hope you liked it and please remember to read and review.....a little praise is in order...it ain\'t easy typing that many songs in manually...my hands hurt....


Latin - English Translations

funis de vitis - rope of vines