Harry Potter, the son
of two members of one of the greatest bands of the late seventies ‘The
Marauders’, is enrolled at Hogwarts Academy of Music and The Arts at the age of
sixteen.
On the train ride to
the campus, he meets Ron Weasley, the latest in a long line of talented
musicians from a large but poor family; who wants to emerge out of his brothers’
shadows. The two young men strike up an immediate friendship, and begin jamming
on their acoustic guitars, coming up with the song ‘Turn This Fat Rat Yellow’
(about a dream Ron had about his pet rat).
The noise attracts the
attention of three young men, all from privileged backgrounds- Draco Malfoy,
Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle. However, the upper-class intruders are not
interested in joining them in song, and instead begin to poke fun at the two
boys’ banged-up guitars. They only leave when Harry and Ron threaten to smash
the guitars over their heads, The-Who-Style.
The scuffling brings
their carriage to the attention of one Hermione Granger, a child prodigy from a
non-musical family. She talks about how much she loves The Marauders, and Harry
strikes up a tentative friendship with her. However, Ron is irritated by her
tendency to be a know-it-all, as well as her questioning his musical ability.
As luck would have it, on
arriving at the academy, the three of them are sorted in the ‘Gryffindor’
house, which encourages musical tenacity and bravery. The three young men from
the train, however, are sorted into the ‘Slytherin’ house, which encourages shrewd
musicianship and cunning musical knowledge.
Whispers follow Harry
from his first day at the academy, as The Marauders are still well-respected and
placed in high-regard across all the houses. However, his more pressing concern
is for his friend Ron, who is constantly taunted about his lack of wealth by
the other students. Ron is also getting sick of being upstaged constantly by
Hermione, who is praised by the teachers and is being called ‘the greatest
musician of the age’.
However, during the
Halloween performance, Hermione goes missing shortly before her big solo. Ron
and Harry discover her crying in the toilets, having been subjected to bullying
from other students. While Harry wields his guitar like a weapon at the
bullies, Ron gets Hermione out of the bathroom and into a quiet room. To calm
her down, he begins ad-libbing her a song called ‘She’s a nightmare’. Hermione
stops crying, and begins to feel better. A slight blush appears on her cheeks,
and Ron tries not to stare at her too much, because it is suddenly really embarrassing singing to her.
Ron and Harry nudge
Hermione gently onto the stage for her solo, and she delivers a blistering performance
that brings the house down. Afterwards, the three of them become firm friends.
Later on that year, the
three of them plan to go to the Edinburgh Festival, and showcase their talents.
However, The Marauders’ guitar player is urgently taken ill at the festival,
and Harry has to step to help his parents. After watching Ron and Hermione on
stage together during his lunch break, Harry realises how great the two of them
sound, and how much fun they have playing with each-other. Harry pens the song ‘They’ve
had the time of their lives’ to remind himself of this, although Ron and
Hermione didn’t know he was watching them.
After a brief summer
break, the three of them return to Hogwarts Academy for their second year.
Hermione finds herself increasingly under pressure as the top student in the
year, and finds it difficult to keep on top of her studies. After being pursued
romantically by the visiting classical pianist Viktor Krum, Hermione finds
herself at loggerheads with Ron. After a long protracted argument, Ron pens the
song ‘You are a girl’ to attempt to patch things up.
However, Hermione is
not impressed, and, after Ron accidentally lets slip that he’d never thought of
her dating anyone (possibly due to his own confused feelings towards her), she
writes the diss track ‘Emotional range of a teaspoon’. When Hermione first
performs the track (eyes streaming with angry tears), Ron storms out of the
room, looking very hurt. Harry finds himself
splitting his time between his two friends.
Harry’s main solace
from the drama of his two friends is jamming in his off time with Ron’s younger
sister Ginny, who shares his non-conformist attitudes to music genre. They
briefly form a jazz fusion band with the free-spirited Luna Lovegood and the
quiet-but-dedicated Neville Longbottom.
Meanwhile, Ron is
selected to perform as the top-of-the-bill in a duo with Hermione. During their
rehearsals, both of them begin to regret their previous disagreements, and
remember how much fun they had playing at the Edinburgh Festival.
On the night of the
concert, Ron’s self-doubts resurface, and Hermione finds him sobbing in the
toilets. Hermione calms his down by ad-libbing a sweet song she, which Ron
joins in with when she runs out of lyrics. Feeling better, Ron returns to the
concert with Hermione just in time. As the closing number, they perform the
song they were singing earlier, which they name ‘Now or never’. At the very
climax of the song, Hermione throws her arms around Ron’s neck and kisses him
full on the mouth. The concert hall erupts in applause, and Ron sweeps Hermione
off her feet as he kisses her back.
The three friends
graduate with flying colours at the end of the year (Harry’s collective
jazz-fusion piece earning him acclaim from the entire school). The three of
them go on to form a song-writing and musical partnership that becomes one of
the most successful and highly-praised in the world, surpassing both The
Marauders, as well as the Weasley family (and both families are absolutely thrilled
about it).
In the annuls of music
history, the three friends are forever remembered as ‘The Golden Trio’.
uM, I FUCKING LOVE THIS.
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