Yep. I vouch for you being with a good chance.
I recently had a extra role in my team created. Employment odd at my company, lots of red tape and we knew it would take at least 3 months to get the role signed off, advertised, shortlisted and interviewed, so I was allow to take on a temp in the meantime as workload was crazy.
The temp was excellent, perfectly qualified and a young graduate looking for his first permanent job. When the permanent job finally got advertised, he applied. He'd been doing an excellent job, so I wanted him to stay. But we had to advertise and interview fairly.
I chose him and two others to interview, one dropped out, so just my temp and another candidate from a completely different department, he was four years older and although his degree was related to the role, he'd not worked in this type of job since an internship as a student.
Anyway, on the day, I was heading the panel. The temp knew us all and for some reason fell apart. I kept having to ask a question in three different ways to try and get half an answer from him. The other lad turned up who we'd never met and just aced it.
My company is strict, you score the interview and it goes to the person who performed best. I had to let the poor temp go.
Not without some honest feedback that he took incredibly positively and agreed with. I asked if he'd apply again if we had more roles and he said he'd love to. So it can happen OP.
Anyway, a month later, another one of my team got promoted out of my team, I was able to go back and offer the soon to be vacated role to my temp, who'd since left. The bonus was, as he'd interviewed already for the same role a few weeks ago, I was able to offer him straight away with no interview.
I've now two fantastic lads in my team, who compliment each other's skills and experience perfectly. Anyway, I digress. 
Good luck OP. Report back!