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The Music Industry During Coronavirus

COVID-19 put the world on pause in March 2020. Jobs forced employees to work from home, colleges closed campuses and sent students home and major cities went on lockdown, enforcing curfews and making non-essential businesses close.

With government-enforced restrictions on large gatherings, the music industry has been one hit the hardest. It’s been forced to put one of its busiest seasons, the spring, on hold. Albums were pushed back, venues were closed and all scheduled festivals and tours have either been rescheduled, will be rescheduled or are simply cancelled.

(MØ at the Electric Factory, Maranda Leecan, 2018)

Festivals

The spring is a phoenix season for the industry, with numerous events making up for the lack thereof in the winter. Local venues right now would typically be booked back-to-back with shows.

It’s also the beginning of festival season, which starts with two of the biggest in the United States – SXSW in Austin, TX in March and Coachella in Indio, CA in April. SXSW’s cancellation on March 6th would foreshadow how much of an effect COVID-19 would have on the industry.

SXSW takes over Austin, with events for all forms of media being held throughout the city. SXSW is known for its showcasing of up-and-coming bands and artists from all over the world that haven’t broken yet. Billie Eilish played SXSW when barely anyone knew her - now it’s hard to find anyone who doesn’t.

Though SXSW is big for people who travel to attend, it’s safe to say it’s bigger for the artists and bands that travel to perform. Some bands that were scheduled to play had to set up GoFundMe pages to raise money just to be able to make it to Austin from other countries.

SXSW’s cancellation caused patrons a loss of money and time. But for these musicians, it’s cost them opportunities to meet people in the industry and make international fans of festival goers. Most importantly, it’s cost them multiple paychecks for each cancelled show.

(Billie Eilish at Coachella, Maranda Leecan, 2019)

The same can be said for the rescheduling of Coachella��s two weekends from April to October. Bigger artists slated to play the festival this year, like Frank Ocean and Travis Scott, will still be okay without the check. However, the smaller bands and artists on the lineup that a lot of people overlook won’t be.

These festivals give them exposure at a guaranteed sold-out festival, a larger than typical show paycheck and an opportunity to make more by touring the West Coast between the two weekends. Almost all shows around the festival were cancelled following the postponement.

(Shame at Coachella, Maranda Leecan, 2019)

Venues

While festival cancellations and postponements are awful, venues that host shows every night are getting hit harder by this. The two biggest promoters of live music in the U.S. are Live Nation and AEG. For these two, a loss in revenue for so many months can probably be survived, even though they’re still huge.

On March 12th, Live Nation was reported to have lost $8.32 billion in its stock price in only 30 days from its $15.84 billion market cap on February 12th. That same day, the company paused all its tours indefinitely through the end of March, which would then be reassessed.

As April to May hasn’t shown a slowdown of the virus, it’s safe to say this pause will continue indefinitely. Considering its costs, Live Nation may still be able to make it through this pandemic as a survivor - due to being such a known name in the industry and a multi-billion-dollar company.

The same can’t be said for independent venues. At the end of March, CNN ran a feature story on small nightlife businesses in New York City in the wake of COVID-19, including the independent venue, Elsewhere in Bushwick.

(Slayyyter playing at Elsewhere, Maranda Leecan, 2019)

It was, fittingly, Friday the 13th, when the crisis between coronavirus and nightlife began. First, gatherings of 500 or more people were banned in New York City. Then, all non-essential workers were mandated to stay home by the governor, which put the nail in the coffin.

With no employees to work, no artists booked and no patrons coming in, there’s no revenue to pay for the still incoming bills or to the employees for the time they’ll indefinitely have off. “In terms of lost revenue, we're looking at easily two, three months just completely wiped out,” Dhruv Chopra, co-owner of Elsewhere said

These stories seem like they will sadly continue for a lot of the smaller guys in the industry. Just this May, Great Scott, the music venue in Allston, MA, announced they won’t reopen after being forced to close during the pandemic.

Many venues set up GoFundMe pages to help in these times. However, they’re run solely on the goodwill of the general public, who are also losing their jobs and income. So, it can only go so far. As the CNN story notes, government assistance seems to be the only thing that could sustain those businesses long term. Without that, the future of smaller venues and promoters right now is uncertain.

The Recording Industry

While the live music industry has obviously been hit, the recording industry has had its downfalls, too. Spring is important for live shows, but it’s also important for press, promotion and more surrounding big releases for the spring and summer. Initially, a handful of albums had their dates changed due to the pandemic.

While most had moved back, Dua Lipa’s anticipated sophomore album, “Future Nostalgia” was moved up and released one week early. It could be tied to being leaked in its entirety two weeks before its original release date, but Dua also said that because it’s an album she made to be “fun and something to dance to and feel good,” the album should come out now more than ever.

Two other albums had their dates pushed back at the start of the pandemic. Lady Gaga had plans to release her sixth studio album, “Chromatica” but shared in March that it didn’t feel like the right time to release it with what was going on in the world. HAIM pushed back their third album, “Women in Music Pt. III” for similar reasons.

However, months later, their dates are back. At the end of April, HAIM announced their album would be coming out on its original date, June 26th. On May 6th, Lady Gaga announced “Chromatica” would be coming at the end of the month on May 29th.

(Amoeba Records in Hollywood, Maranda Leecan, 2019)

Now, a lot of people think that right now would be a great time to release music. Everyone’s trapped in the house, so listening to and streaming music should be happening even more. However, it doesn’t seem that it’s happening that way.

At the end of March, Rolling Stone reported that streams in the United States during the week of March 13th through the 19th, which was the beginning of closures and self-quarantining, dropped 7.6 percent.

As well as streaming, digital song and albums sales also predictably dropped. The future only seems to get worse with delays in shipment, most notably with Amazon pausing shipments from U.S. music providers to put priority to household essentials and medical supplies.

Going Live

In the music industry, a lot of acts are represented by a multitude of teams – management, agents, labels, etc. Though with social distancing, a lot of artists are representing themselves. They’re posting more on social media, connecting with fans and almost universally, they’re going live more than ever.

Instagram Live has been incredibly utilized during this pandemic as a way to connect. For smaller artists and bands, making money during this pandemic without shows has come from merch sales and donations.

Up and coming artists like Girli and Ron Gallo have performed full sets on Instagram live and asked for donations, if people had the means. Other established artists like James Blake and Rex Orange County have performed live without asking for anything. Publications have also joined the livestream club, including Pitchfork, who has hosted various lives with artists like Weyes Blood, Phoebe Bridgers and Nilüfer Yanya.

(Charli XCX playing at the 9:30 Club, Maranda Leecan, 2019)

An artist that has undeniably used going live to it’s full potential is Charli XCX. She started quarantine with a series of livestreams of her own, doing random things with other artists – like doing with vocal warmups with Tove Lo and taking a psychopath test with Rina Sawayama. She also has hosted DJ sets for others.

However, the most fascinating thing she’s doing is making a completely new album in a little over a month, solely while social distancing in her home in California. On April 6th, she announced the album, which is aptly titled “how i’m feeling now,” first on Zoom after tweeting the meeting code out. In the same meeting, she set the release date as May 15th, before she even started working on it.

From there, she’s worked remotely with producers, sharing vocals and beats through the internet. For single covers, she’s enlisted artists that she’s come across online to rework photos her boyfriend takes of her in their house, after asking fans which pictures they like the most. She’s utilized Zoom more during the process, inviting fans and other guests to meetings to ask her questions. She’s used Instagram Live to share lyrics, production, and more with fans to have dialogue on what should make the album.

Future Implications

Looking at how the music industry has reacted to this pandemic leads to a lot of questions for its future. A lot of things will have to change, but what will they be? Precautions will inevitably come into play following COVID-19, as it wasn’t even a thought to anyone a few months ago but, has now put the entire industry on a halt.

(Governor’s Ball, Maranda Leecan, 2019)

Already, festivals like Governor’s Ball in New York and Firefly in Dover, Delaware had to cancel their 2020 plans instead of rescheduling. It’s becoming likely that COVID-19 will last until the summer, maybe even after. Outdoor events can only be held until the end of the fall and festivals can only be held on weekends. Other festivals have already rescheduled to the weekends that fit into that criteria and no more spaces are open for those making changes now, forcing cancellations.

In addition, many artists who were scheduled to play these festivals had to move around their own tour dates as well and will have to drop out. That means the fall weekends will be packed with festivals and the nights of fall will be packed with all the rescheduled tours. That’s assuming these events will happen, as they’re totally dependent on a vaccine, which could take up to 18 months to formulate.

Assuming the reschedules happen as planned, the end of the year will be oversaturated and will lead to people having to choose what they’ll make it to. Most people will also just be starting to make personal financial recovery from loss of job and income. Everything might get rescheduled, but will the shows be as packed as they once were with people having to choose what to attend?

(Tame Impala, Maranda Leecan, 2019)

In addition to financial recovery, social recovery will come into play as well. Will the forced distance of being separated for so long be beneficial or detrimental? Will it make getting back to shows and being around people even more important?

Or will seeing now how we’re able to connect with artists and see shows (some being larger than anything that could happen in human form, like Travis Scott’s Fortnite show) from the comfort of our beds be something that people will want to continue even after we’re able to physically connect again?

These are questions that no one has the answer to right now, they’ll come with time. The only certain in this entire situation, for not only the music industry, but all industries across the world, is that everything is going to change after recovery of COVID-19. And right now, we can only hope it’s for the best.

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Burroughs • For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it more or less worthless as a measure of inflation. The Boskin Commission… was an act of cowardice. Rather than man up and say fix this, its broken, we can’t afford it. – Barry Ritholtz • Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don’t you gimme some damn chicken? – Bobcat Goldthwait • Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table. – Daniel Handler • Hope,” Frank grumbled. “I’d rather have a few good weasels. – Rick Riordan • I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies. – Donald Miller • I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist raised communist educated communist nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America. – Ted Nugent • I like ‘pencil-necked weasel’. It has ‘pencil’ in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it’s what you call someone when you’re worried that using a long word like ‘intellectual’ may have too many syllables. It’s not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people. – Neil Gaiman • I therefore invite you all,” Mr Fox went on, ‘to stay here with me for ever.’ For ever!’ they cried. ‘My goodness! How marvellous!’ And Rabbit said to Mrs Rabbit, ‘My dear, just think! We’re never going to be shot again in our lives!’ We will make,’ said Mr Fox, ‘a little underground village, with streets and houses on each side – seperate houses for Badgers and Moles and Rabbits and Weasels and Foxes. And every day I will go shopping for you all. And every day we will eat like kings.’ The cheering that followed this speech went on for many minutes. – Roald Dahl • I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again. – Warren Ellis • I’m sure I’ve been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms…I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin. – Theodore Roethke • I’ve met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat.” -pg.170- – Cassandra Clare • Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom? – Jay Leno • Listen, if I heard shrieks and cries coming from a house and I ran in there and I found a great big broad shouldered whiskey soaked Joe weasel, dragging his wife about by the hair, and over here, two children are unconscious from his blows and kicks and another one screaming in terror, do you think I would apologize for being there? No! I’d knock 7 kinds of pork out of that old hog. – Billy Sunday • Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. – Matt Groening • Lucky Charms?” I asked. “Magically delicious,” he explained. “Requisite for any sort of building project.” I shook my head, still amazed at how he had managed to weasel his way over here. “This isn’t a date.” He cut me a scandalized look. “Obviously. I’d bring Count Chocula for that. – Richelle Mead • Mayor de Blasio has legalized ferrets. Now you can legally own ferrets in New York City. I want to tell you something. If I want to see anymore beady-eyed little weasels, I’ll just keep riding the subway. – David Letterman • Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally – the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra – but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person. – Nicole Hollander • My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire. – John Hodgman • My character on ‘I’m In the Band,’ Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That’s completely on the other end of the spectrum. There’s absolutely nothing like Derek any shape or form. 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Claire, hit him! – Rachel Caine • One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called “weasel words.” – Theodore Roosevelt • One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ”weasel words.” When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ”weasel word” after another there is nothing left of the other. – Theodore Roosevelt • One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die. – Justin Cronin • Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish. – Bill Bailey • Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe. – George R. R. Martin • Some men can be very rude. On the other hand, some clients are absolute angels. One john always brought me a gift every time he came to see me. He brought me a pearl necklace, a ring, a bra or something. But eventually, as much as I really loved all the gifts, he fell in love with me, and he tried to weasel his way into my life. It was too much and I sort of had to ‘break up with him.” – Annie Sprinkle • Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. – W. C. Fields

• Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels. – George R. R. Martin • Tea Party goers are just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don’t love their country. – Paul Begala • The coast’s a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn’t allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation.” “I had weasels instead,” said Philippa shortly. “Good God,” said Lymond, looking at her. “That explains a lot.- Dorothy Dunnett • The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine. – John Benfield • The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. – William Butler Yeats • The reason any conservative’s failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It’s an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites. – Ann Coulter • The weasel under the cocktail cabinet. – Harold Pinter • There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, “Mistakes were made,” you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.- Charles Baxter • There’s a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it’s where most of life happens. – Scott Adams • Those props are as cunning as a bag o’ weasels. – Bill McLaren • To err is human. To cover it up is weasel. – Scott Adams • Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face. – Kenny Smith • Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon. – Allen Tate • Want a cookie,’ Ra said. ‘What kind?’ ‘Weasel cookie.’ I’m here to tell you, that comment about weasel cookies probably saved the known universe. – Rick Riordan • War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force – to dominate our being. – Eric L. Haney • We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus. – Danny Baker • We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can’t let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of it by saying this is bulk collection. – Edward Snowden • We stepped back and looked at the king of the gods, slumped in his chair snoring, and cradling his crook like a teddy bear. I placed the war flail across his lap, hoping it might make a difference—maybe complete his powers or something. No such luck. “Sick weasels,” Ra muttered. “Behold,” Sadie said bitterly. “the glorious Ra. – Rick Riordan • Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial. – Theodore Roosevelt • Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals… except the weasel. – Matt Groening • Weasels–and stoats–and foxes–and so on. They’re all right in a way–I’m very good friends with them–pass the time of day when we meet, and all that–but they break out sometimes, there’s no denying it, and then–well, you can’t really trust them, and that’s the fact. – Kenneth Grahame • What annoyed me was that I so often attempted to weasel out of things on purpose, it killed me to do it by accident. It seemed like a waste of whatever detailed lie I was going to have to come up with. – Sloane Crosley • What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say ‘It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.’ – Lady Gregory • When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night. – Alice Hoffman • You’re alive!” Percy said to the others. “The giants said you were captured. What happened?” Leo shrugged. “Oh, just another brilliant plan by Leo Valdez. You’d be amazed what you can do with an Archimedes sphere, a girl who can sense stuff underground, and a weasel.” “I was the weasel,” Frank said glumly. – Rick Riordan

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HP #2 - Tea, Please!

Rating: T (*whispers* for tea)

Summary: Harry asks Draco out on a date…and Ron’s taste in music is called into question. Coffee/tea shop non-magic AU.

Category: M/M

Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Warnings: silliness

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Tea, Please! was not Caffé Nero. It was not Starbucks, or Costa Coffee. In fact, it wasn’t a coffee shop at all. About the only thing it had in common with those other shops, was that they were all popular revision spots for the roving rabble of King’s College.

Their clientele was about the same, really – bedraggled young adults begging for free Wifi, the in-between lesson-ers that would most likely end up skiving in favour of caffeine and socializing, and the should-probably-be-studying intellectuals that were, in actuality, pecking at the first draft of a really bad romance novel.

“Spiced orange latte, have you any spiced orange lattes? Never mind that our sign says tea.”

Harry patted Ron on the shoulder as he walked into the back to clock in. Ginny was sitting at their little break room table with a Starbucks cup cradled in her hands. She looked unrepentant.

“Has he seen that?” He nodded toward the Liquid Betrayal as he took off his scarf and coat and stashed them in his locker.

“No. And before you ask, yes I snuck it in here. No one saw a thing.”

Harry grinned. “Sure, and you’ll leave the empty somewhere where he can see it. When are you going to give your brother a break?”

“When he stops playing Sugarhill Gang at five in the morning.”

Harry nodded. “It was Tinie Tempah yesterday.”

At the moment, It’s Tricky was playing over the speakers. Ginny looked murderous as she daintily sipped at her drink.

He checked that the displays didn’t need to be restocked and tied his apron around his waist. There were caramel peanut butter chocolate scones in the oven, and the Espresso maker was sputtering in the corner. Ron’s current customer was ordering a tea though, thank the lord. “It’s raspberry infused,” he told a blond girl about Harry’s height. “With a hint of white ginger pear.”

Harry could feel Ginny rolling her eyes from the break room.

The morning rush soon began, and Harry managed to drag her out to help. He found himself making tea after tea, the odd cappuccino, espresso or latte, and serving out pastries made with Ron’s mother’s recipes (which were honestly half the reason people even came to Tea, Please!) Also with the exception of Ron’s music, Ginny’s…Ginny, and the fact that the shop was a stone’s throw away from Waterloo Bridge.

There wasn’t much to recommend it, otherwise.

“I love the vibe,” a customer wearing a cat jumper said at around eight. Ron gave him a skeptical look. “I’ve never heard Disco Inferno this early in the morning.”

“We need to talk,” Ginny summoned him once Shameless Cat Jumper Guy had left. “There’s a twitter account for it now. For your…proclivities.“

"They spelled Hozier wrong. And Wild Cherry?” Ron scoffed. “Why Wild Cherry?”

“Um.” She took her phone back, throwing him the You Are Dumb and I’m in Pain face. “Play that funky music white boy…?”

“Oh! Haha. That’s actually pretty clever.”

“It’s not. If you’d just let someone else be in charge of the music for once….”

“I paid the cost to be the boss,” Ron retorted with a straight face.

But Ron did not seem to be concerned that a shadowy corner of social media was dedicated to making fun of him. “It’s free advertising,” he shrugged. “If I wanted to go out of business I’d play R.E.M. all day.”

“It wouldn’t hurt,” Draco Malfoy said, sliding up to the counter. “At least play Murmur, if you have any taste at all, that is.”

“80’s R.E.M.,” Harry cheered, reaching out to fist bump the blond. “Please tell me you appreciate the Eurythmics.”

“Who am I to disagree?”

“Here we go,” Ginny muttered, but a smile was twitching at the corner of her mouth. Ron watched them crossly.

“He can do loads better than ferret-face,” He mumbled. His sister elbowed him in the side. “What? He’s a film society twat. And he doesn’t like tea.”

His greatest offense, according to Ron. Ginny did not point out that she wasn’t a fan of that marigold-cornflower-black currant crap either. And she also wasn’t going to befriend any film majors any time soon. But Draco, despite being posh and bratty and leagues different from Harry, seemed to really hit it off with their friend.

Harry was even leaning toward him, doing the counter-assisted seduction pose. Draco was mirroring it. Their bums were just sticking out all over the place.

Ginny sighed. “He’s going to let Malfoy walk out of here again. Come on, Harry.”

Ron made a face, but looked more hopeful now that Harry and Draco’s conversation seemed to be winding down into an awkward anticlimax. “Wait,” Ginny hissed, snapping her fingers. She shot off to the back.

Suddenly, Marvin Gaye cut off, and the first notes of Get Down Tonight came on. A group of hardcore revisionists by the loos cheered and boogied a little in their seats. Harry blushed furiously.

When Ginny came out (looking a bit smug) she was frustrated to see Draco gone. She turned on Harry and demanded to know what had happened.

“Really?!” she squawked. She made girly noises and ran into the break room again. The nightmarish sound of Hot in the City Tonight began to play, but instead of cheering, most of their clientele looked deeply offended. Someone was probably tweeting about white imperialism winning again or something.

“Ginny, turn it off!!!” Ron shouted.

“Harry’s got a date!” she screeched. “Finally.”

Ron grimaced at Harry. “Good on you, mate?” he said, making it clear that he wasn’t sure congratulations were entirely in order. “Have fun with your Billy Idol look alike, but for now, he’s not welcome on our sacred playlist.”

“Aww, Ron, come on,” Ginny groaned. “This calls for a celebration, and I don’t mean a Kool & the Gang celebration.”

He thought about her proposal for a moment. “Alright,” he nodded, and then raised his voice. “One free cup of Arabian Night Oasis tea for everyone that witnessed Harry pulling!”

The customers seemed unenthusiastic. Ron scowled. “And a raspberry square,” he added, rolling his eyes.

They cheered.

“And a change of tune, maybe,” Harry said, his expression embarrassed but also rather pleased. He retreated into the back.

“Why do people keep touching the stereo,” Ron mumbled. “Why is this happening.”

But Harry’s choice met with Ron’s approval.

“You know your love, your love keeps liftin’ me, your love keeps liftin’ me, higher…higher and higher….”

“Alright you big girl’s blouse,” Ron said, laughing. “I’m happy for you. Really.”

Harry smiled shyly. “Thanks, Ron. Couldn’t have done it without you.”

“Eh?”

“Oh, you didn’t know?” His expression turned sly. “Draco and I didn’t actually meet each other at Tea, Please! We met through twitter. I’m one of his followers.”

“No…”

“Yes.” Harry laughed. “So thanks, Wild Cherry. This one’s,” and Play That Funky Music started up again, “for you.”

#HP2 #drarry #hp fic #hp prompts #harry potter fic #I have nothing against Hosier or white people #I do take issue with imperialism though

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