This will be a series for another contest on HPFFC Forum. First up is Hufflepuff Humor, although I feel like it doesn't have much Huffepuff in it, I do hope it has humor.


If anyone had seen the looks that Gred and Forge were giving each other in the hallway dinner that evening might have been called off on account of health hazards. Well, if anyone but Ginny had seen them it would have. Of course since no one did the events for that night proceeded just as if not better than they had planned and would go down in Hogwarts' History as a night worthy of their heroes.

Everything was going on as it normally did, Ron was eating more than a boy his size should need, Harry barely ate anything that looked remotely healthy, Hermione was scolding them both, Neville was choosing only the best specimens of vegetable to eat, Draco was trying to impress everyone with his aristocratic table manners, the reset of the Slytherins were too distracted by dodging the bits of food flying off of his body guard's plate to notice him, Snape was brooding over his pumpkin juice trying not to cringe every time he looked a student in the eye and was forced to listen to bad and tasteless poetry about himself, Luna was chattering on to the empty seats on either side of her about the favorite foods of Snorlacks, and Dumbledore was watching it all with amusement.

No one noticed the slightly sweet aftertaste in some of their food until it was too late.

A Huffepuff was the first one to see the bow of the ghostly ship rising up from the space between the student and teacher's tables. Soon everyone was watching in wonder and confusion as an old style, but not full size thank-you-very-much-Fr- I mean Forge, galleon rose from the floor to float around their heads with a familiar ghost at the wheel.

"Is that really the Fat Friar?"

"Wow, I think it is, didn't recognize him with that hat on, and the sword."

"This HAS to be a prank…"

"You'd think they would have used peeves."

"To obvious I guess."

The chatter went on until aforementioned Gred and Forge stood up in sync with about seven other students to toss their baked potatoes and other semi-round foodstuffs toward the ship. There were gasps when instead of falling through like expected but collided with the ghostly image hard enough to create transparent excto-splinters.

"Stop blowing holes in my bloody ship!" Yelled a voice unmistakable as the Friar's but with vocabulary never before heard from the mild mannered house mascot.

"Never!" Shouted one of the seven others that had stood up with the twins before they launched another round of food.

At this point Lee Jordan stood up to join the others by launching his own potatoes, mashed ones this time however and unlike the others his food did not hit the ship, it went right through to hit a very angry Cho Chang in the face. In blind anger she reflexively tossed her salad at him.

Unfortunately it didn't get that far and hit a group of Hufflepuffs sitting in the way. They glanced at each other in shock and the whole room waited to see what they would do. With a shrug a girl named Katherin picked the tomato that had fallen into her soup and launched it at the Slytherins, hitting a seventh year square in the face.

As if at that had been a pre-arranged signal almost every student in the room stood and launched their own food at another.

Some like Hermione and Draco took a moment to let go of themselves and get in on the fun but when they had had enough of the stray food hitting them they joined in as well.

Reactions from the teachers were mixed. Snape just left, McGonagall erected a shield while trying not to laugh and Dumbledore looked like he was trying not to join in.

Of course no one saw Peeves above them with a gigantic pot of fondue until it was too late.