Professor McGonagall walked up to the podium to make a speech.
"I would first like to welcome all of the old students who have returned to Hogwarts for a year of fun and learning."
The school grumbled in reply.
"I would also like to welcome the first years to Hogwarts and I am going to read a final list of names and houses."
Professor McGonagall reached into her pocket and pulled out a list of names.
"The Slytherin first years are Victor Parkinson, Jack Bilings, Billy Walsh, Regulus Gruft, Greta Turnbul, Sarah Shifty and Elizabete Billad.
The Ravenclaw first years are Ciaran Mclaffin, Dilian Flagin, Brandon Dillywink, Lousia Selepy, Isabella Fishwa , Hannah Gouden and Brittany Gruzzy.
The Hufflepuff first years are Thomas Rush, Lachlan Penn, George Comett, Cassandra Duffkum, Daisy Poten and Shay Puckeridge.
The Gryffindor first years are Nicholas Bright, Joshua Walshum, Hugo Weasley, Alexander Longbottom, Lily Potter, Lisa Schmott and Elizabeth Suffling."
The school cheered and fell quiet when Professor McGonagall cleared her throat loudly.
"I also have quite a number of announcements for you all. Firstly, the Forbidden Forest is well…forbidden." The school laughed and she continued, "We are also starting a new tradition here at Hogwarts, there is to be a Halloween Ball once a year starting this year and it has been decided that first, second and third years will also be attending." Everybody looked around at each other in horror, "Also I would like to ask Stefanie Bright, James Potter, Matthew Calsun, Natalie Pilp, Vanessa Frishium and Ryan Keetlum to NOT cause any trouble this year as they have the three years previously."
The six musketeers clapped and high-fived each other laughing and Professor McGonagall rolled her eyes,
"The Head Boy this year is Joseph Fleem from Ravenclaw and Head girl is Stephanie Dlungdom from Hufflepuff." The school applauded them as they stood up.
"I would lastly like to inform you that this is my last year as Hogwarts Headmistress as I am getting quite old for the job, Professor Slickworm will be taking my place."
The whole school fell silent; the prospect of Slickworm being Headmaster was sickening. It was bad enough that he was Deputy Head and a teacher. The only house that looked pleased was Slytherin.
"On that note…dig in" McGonagall said, attempting to break the silence.
The food suddenly started appearing in front of everybody and soon, the announcement was forgotten, but not by the musketeers, Slickworm was like there arch rival.
"We'll talk about this later," James hissed.
'Yeah, just eat guys," Vanessa agreed.
The next half an hour was filled with laughing and talking and catching up with friends.
The musketeers were watching Matthew and Natalie have a stare-off when they heard a high-pitched voice sound from behind Vanessa.
"Hello Vanessa," Jessica Frishium scowled at her twin.
"Jessica…" Vanessa said, narrowing her eyes as she turned around to face her sister.
"Mother told me to remind you not to get into any trouble this year or something…" Jessica said in a bored tone.
Vanessa rolled her eyes and said, "If that's all you can go back to your giggly, boy-friend obsessed friends over there."
"You know you're all going to turn out together," Jessica said, turning her head, observing the group.
"How so?" Natalie asked.
"Your all going to get married to one another, I can see it now, triple wedding," Jessica said.
James spat his drink half-way across the table, Stefanie fell off the chair she was leaning back on, Natalie chocked on a bit of chicken, Ryan farted, Matthew turned bright red and Vanessa narrowed her eyes at her sister.
"What are you, some future reader?" Vanessa asked.
"Nope, but I've got it all figured out…" and on that final note, she turned on her heal and stalked back to the Ravenclaw table.
Stefanie climbed back onto her seat and looked around at her friends, "oh come on guys, just ignore it! We are all just friends…"
"Stef is right, she's been saying it all summer just to torment me, she thinks that she knows who everyone is going to get married to as well," Vanessa scowled.
The six musketeers fell silent as the desert was served, all were to embarrassed to talk, and instead they took to eating.
The Gryffindor prefect Larry Johnson got up to address Gryffindor.
"Please follow me to our dormitories, first years, please make sure you keep up and don't wonder off." Larry said.
The Gryffindor house got up and followed him and the other prefect Isabelle Xio out of the hall.
The musketeers strutted proudly out of the hall much the same way as they had entered.
"Will you guys stop it?" Albus hissed.
"You're embarrassing us!" Rose added.
"We're the musketeers guys!" Ryan said.
"It's what we do, thought you knew that by now…" Natalie said.
"Yeah, yeah…" the both said at the same time.
Stefanie turned her head around to see Joshua strutting along next to her.
"Yes Josh?" Stefanie asked.
"So, there's going to be a Halloween ball huh?" Josh asked.
"Yes, as obviously stated by Professor McGonagall" Stefanie said.
"Do you wanna go with me?" Josh asked.
She heard Nicholas snort from somewhere behind her.
James had stopped to look at Joshua.
"Dude, you're like three years younger than her!" James said.
"So what?" Josh asked.
"Ermm…" James looked at the soar expression on Stefanie's face, "she can't go with you 'cause…. I already asked her to go with me and she said yes…" James said.
"I did?" Stefanie asked, then she realised what James was doing, "Oh riiiiggght, yeah sorry Josh, I'm going with James."
"Oh okay…" Josh said as he waked forward a bit.
"So you're going with James 'eh Stef?" Nicholas asked, grinning.
"And you're going with Stefanie, 'eh James?" Lily asked.
Suddenly the both burst out laughing, obviously Albus knew what they were laughing about and he and Rose joined in too.
"Oh shut up, we're going as friends and besides we're only going together now because of the creepy Josh kid and Stef and I will just go with the musketeers as we would normally do," James said as he and Stefanie ran to catch up with the other four musketeers.
Stefanie, Vanessa and Natalie had moved into the boy's dormitories at the beginning of second year after they couldn't stand they other girl's three girls giggling and gossiping any longer. The other two boys besides James, Matthew and Ryan in the dormitory were Thomas Finnegan and Dean Thomas (Jr.) and they honestly didn't care. The rest of Gryffindor house knew as well and all the boys in the house didn't care because they thought the trio were cool and the girls in the house didn't care either because they thought the trio were a little too tom-boyish for their liking.
Their were only six people in Gryffindor that would still be awake at 1:30am in the morning in Gryffindor and they went by the name of the musketeers. They were all wide-awake however as they talked amongst themselves.
"I can't believe we can't think up one decent prank!" James moaned.
"We could always just blow up a toilet seat…" Stefanie shrugged.
"We did that last year Stef," Ryan sighed.
"Food fight?" Natalie asked.
"Second year," Ryan said, looking at their list of pranks again.
"Ummm, how about exploding pies on the Slytherin at dinner?" Matthew asked.
"Last year again I'm afraid…" Ryan replied.
"Dancing cutlery, we could charm they to poke people and stuff…" Vanessa thought.
"First year…" Ryan said gloomily.
"ARRRGGHHH!" James yelled in frustration.
"Shurrup you dolt!" Stefanie said punching his shoulder, "we don't wanna wake the whole house…'specially not the ickle firsties."
They all fell silent in thought and then suddenly Stefanie shout/whispered, "I've got it!"
They all looked at her expectantly.
"Okay, you know how we have all of that Pollyjuice potion stashed in our trunks that we made in the summer?" Stefanie asked.
They all nodded.
"Well, how'z about we somehow get your mum and dads hair 'eh James and Rose's parents hairs as well and we change into them, put on some Hogwarts robes and come strutting through the doors of the great hall, jump onto the Gryffindor table and break out into song…" Stefanie explained.
"Yeah, everyone would have reckoned that they had gone mad or something!" Ryan exclaimed.
"What will the other musketeers do?" Vanessa asked.
"Hmm…" Stefanie said, thinks, "They could change into Professor Longbottom and his wife Hannah!" Stefanie said, excited.
"Ohh, this is gonna be so awesome!" James said.
"Guys, how do you propose we get these hairs?" Natalie asked.
Stefanie grinned, "With the help of our younger friends!"
"Yeah, we can get them to set off like a fireworks display in the great hall or something too!" Matthew exclaimed.
"Alright, musketeers lets turn in, it's late…" Stefanie said.
They all stuck their fists in a circle and chanted, "one for all and all for lunch," before they all went upstairs, put of their pyjamas, brushed their teeth and fell asleep.