HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[alt_ron]

How wizard is that?!

Mad Eye's Mad Cat!!

Did you see the lines I get? 'Grrrrrrrrr! Arggggggggghhhhhhh! Awwwwwwkkkkkkkkk!' [Dies.]

I'm going to be the best dying cat you've ever seen!!


(And I don't have to worry about memorising too much, either. That's the best part.)

Comments

[alt_pansy]

You should use Pyewacket as a character study!

And you get eaten by the Patils, too. That ought to be fun.

[alt_ron]

Ha! I totally could! We'll have to get together so Pye can show me how to sound like I've got a hairball stuck in my throat!

Actually, that part with the Patils sounds nasty. I hope they don't actually have to touch me. Why do you think they cast the two of them to play that one part? If it was meant to be a runespoor, there should've been a third person playing. Or. Oooh! They've probably already bitten off the third head! I'd totally believe that.

[alt_pansy]

Well, the snake has to be really long, so with the two of them lined up, they could make it look really nift.

Pye seriously makes the funniest noises! And he does this little backing up thing and bobs his head when he's got one, and after he acts all embarrassed, because he knows it was horribly undignified of him.

[alt_ginny]

Only you would be happy about being a dying cat.

[alt_ron]

Oh, it's going to be a very dramatic part!

You pleased about your part, then? Ought to be. Not too many second years got cast, did they?

[alt_ginny]

Yes I am happy enough that I did get a part with line. But please don't embarrass yourself- or those of us who take this seriously- with your take on being dramatic. When the time comes, please die with dignity. Although I find that might be hard considering the manner in which your death will take place, but I am sure you could find some from somewhere.

[alt_sally_anne]

I thought you'd read the script, Ginny? He's not SUPPOSED to die with dignity. He gets chased around the stage while his tail's on fire, it's about as undignified as it gets.

[alt_ginny]

I didn't read any of the mad cat's parts. And clearly you don't know Ronald and well as you might think. He can blow even that direction way beyond proportion.

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

'Die with DIGNITY.' Honestly.

At least you got a speaking part. I get to be a Witch of the Wizengamot and say things like 'nooooooo!' and 'boo, hiss!' when everyone else does. Borrrrrrrrrrring.

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[alt_ron]

Heh.

Yeah. If Ginny'd got my part, she'd look down at her flaming tail, put her hand to her brow, and slide gracefully to the floor. She might even say, 'Please, Mr Snake, allow me to faint before you devour me!'

Some nonsense like that.

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[alt_ron]

I know, right?

Honestly, if I have to do it at all, I totally want a comic bit. And Mad Eye's Cat? Perfect!

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[alt_ron]

Sorry you didn't get a speaking part. If you wanted one.

But then you'd either have to play someone dead evil, like Auror Lestrange, or worry they'd cast you as a traitor because they think you are one. Better to just be part of the Wizengamot, really. Don't you think?

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[alt_sally_anne]

I did want a speaking part, but oh well. Maybe your sister will quit in a huff and I'll get to play the janitor.

I wouldn't really want to play Auror Lestrange, it seems as if it would attract her attention and I really prefer to avoid having her notice I exist. It might have been fun to play someone who gets a death scene. (Like the cat!) I wouldn't have minded playing a Blood Traitor; no one's likely to say anything considering Harry and Blaise are playing Sirius Black and Kingsley Shacklebolt. It would have been odd playing Neville's mum, though. Have you read those bits? She's a maniac who loves it when people cross her because then she has an excuse to kill them. Not a very bright murderous maniac though, considering at one point she's standing over someone she's disarmed and instead of killing them she makes that speech about hating blood purity.

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[alt_sally_anne]

I mean, in the play she's a maniac.

I don't know what she's like for real but I doubt she's anything like she is in the play. Anyone that dim wouldn't have been able to go off and hide, like she did.

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[alt_ron]

No, I haven't read it yet. Just the bits they told me to read in the audition. It was a bit of one of Moody's things and one from one of the portraits. I didn't read for the cat, but I'd loads rather play that than any of the other parts!

What did they have you read?

And did they ask you to sing? That was the bit that made me nervous.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah, they had me sing 'Our Freedom,' I hadn't sung that since primary school.

They had me read the Delores Umbridge part. Also one of the portraits.

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[alt_ron]

Oh, yeah. The twins used to change up the words on that one! And it would make Percy so cross. We were just talking about it again, because they were threatening to sing it while we were queuing to see the body. Percy was fuming!

They made me sing the first verse of 'We Shall Rise'. For the audition, I mean. And my voice cracked right at the part that goes up just before the chorus starts.

That's probably why they thought I could do the cat!

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[alt_ron]

The twins've done new words for 'One Nation, Strong and Pure', too. You should ask them about those.

Heh.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Okay, I'll bite. My mum told me the original words once, the 'God Save the Queen' version, but I don't actually remember any of them. What did the twins write? Does it still have the word 'puissant' in it?

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[alt_ron]

Oh, yeah, I'd heard that about the Muggles using the same tune for a song about their queen. Don't why, actually. It's not that great a tune. But, yeah, it totally does say 'puissant'! When they taught us that, I remember the teacher asking if any of us knew what that word means, and of course, none of us did.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Bloody hell, now that stupid song is in my head and I can't get it out.

I'm going to write all the lyrics and try to stick it in YOUR head, you know that's how you get a song out of your head, right? you get it stuck in someone else's?

One nation, strong and pure
With magic shall endure
Long may we reign.
Sign of most puissant pow'r
Ever to grow and flow'r
Now and in every hour,
Long may we reign.

I thought it was 'pleasant' power when I first heard it. Puissant? Who uses words like that?

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[alt_ron]

Oi! No fair!

It's not going to work, though.

'Cause I'm singing,

Tra-la-la-boom-dee-aye
Wind blew your pants away!
And while you wondered where,
It blew off all your hair!

That's how you get a song out of your head! Put a new one in!!!

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[alt_gredforge]

We like our version better:

The scent of strong manure
In your pants shall endure.
Long may it stain.
Smell of most puissant pow'r,
The stink shall grow and sour,
Though you may wash or show'r:
Long may it stain.

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[alt_lee]

Wicked. I hadn't heard you lot sing that one yet.

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[alt_gredforge]

Added bonus: It makes Big Head Boy turn positively green every time we do.

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[alt_ron]

Yeah. He doesn't like songs about pants.

Can't think why.

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[alt_ron]

Now that?

That's poetry and no fib.

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[alt_neville]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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[alt_terry]

Whoa. That's--uh--that's--

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[alt_terry]

I had to put down my journal and stuff my fist in my mouth. And the Headmistress just looked over her glasses at me the way she does and said, "Just why are you making those extraordinarily peculiar sounds?"

I had to tell her I got a frog in my throat.

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[alt_gredforge]

You need to laugh more often, Professor. If you do, she'll eventually recognise the sound for what it is.

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[alt_sally_anne]

That's...

That's the most juvenile thing I think I've ever heard.

It also made me almost spit tea all over my desk from laughing. It's a good thing Milli and Daphne are both out right now or they'd want to know what was so funny and I couldn't very well tell them, could I?

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[alt_ron]

Everyone will think you're so very loyal when you're walking down the corridors humming this all day tomorrow!

See if you don't.

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[alt_neville]

I'd hum it along with you, Sally-Anne, except I'm not sure I could do it without breaking up laughing. And that might sort of give the wrong impression.