The summer was shortly over, however the Hogwarts' students were already missing it when autumn started. No more sunny afternoons lying in the sun or enjoying dips in the lake. No more girls without capes walking through the corridors or disputing against teams to use the quidditch fields for the blessed practices with a clean and clear sky.
James, more than anyone, seemed to have low resistance to the Autumn.
- Depressing - Scorpius cataloged. - This is what you are looking: depressing.
- Cold weather makes me sleepy. - The other stammered, rubbing his eyes with the back of his hands and dragging himself without disposing towards the Great Hall. - I'm a bear, dude. Bears need to hibernate and...
Malfoy frowned before stop him of finishing the nonsense sentence.
- Just be quiet, ok? - James agreed obediently and Scorpius felt a little bit guilty for being internally thankful when he needed to go separate from his friend to go sit on Slytherin's table, house where he belonged, for his father's sake and his ascendants relief.
Curiously, in that day, Professor Minerva was standing in the center of the professors' table, with the same old serious and solemn expression that she used to use before start the welcome speeches.
Rose - that, as any other alert student, assumed what was about to happen - poked James, that dug his face between his arms and fell asleep almost instantaneously over his empty breakfast plate.
- Wake up. - She whispered with the corner of the mouth. - The headmaster will make a communicate.
Cursing in a low tone of voice, the boy sustained his head with both hands on his chin meanwhile tried to keep his eyes open.
- Good morning. - Minerva began and everybody instantly shut up. - As you are aware, at the end of the month we'll be having a Halloween Ball. However, this year, the school board decided that it would be good for us to be inventive and innovate in the event. - She paused for am instant, covering the four tables distributed for the hall with eyes. Her eyes stopped at Slytherin's table for a while, as she was deciding about a personal issue. The students remained quiet. - Therefore, we will have a never seen before experience, celebrating the Halloween on the muggles' mode, in the intuit of promoting, to all students of this institution, education and tolerance. - She gave the opportunity of some sounds of exclamation before start talking once again - Letter will be sent to your Guardians for the approval of your presence. The costumes will be solicited according to each one of you preferences. The ball will occur on the Great Hall for the students from the forth grade on. - Before any protest, she finished explaining: - The younger students will enjoy the Halloween's celebration, but in their respective common rooms. And that's all. Have a good meal.
The headmaster sat. The sepulchral silence that had established since she ended her announcement, remained for some more minutes.
Then, conversations erupted for every corner of the Great Hall.