A/N : I changed chapter one only slightly I realised the marauders couldn't have got their nick names with out having become the animagus so I just c hanged their nicknames to their actual names.
: really excited about the next chapter :) hope your going to love it
~~~ Halloween is coming~~~
October was drawing to a close and the students of Hogwarts were literally buzzing with excitement of Halloween. It was tradition at Hogwarts for the all students to attend the Halloween Feast in the Great Hall, but this year a couple of seventh year boys by the name of Prewitt were throwing a Halloween fancy dress party, in their common room, after the feast. All of Gryffindor house spent weeks talking about what costumes they were planning on wearing so not to double up with someone else and they were especially careful talking about the party in the presence of teachers as nobody wanted to be the reason the party would be cancelled. Hogwarts was decorated even more than usual for the occasion. Many guessed it was a distraction from the war going on outside the castle walls. The walls were covered in cobwebs, more than usual. The suits of armour were scaring the younger students who were not used to Halloween at Hogwarts. Peeves was pranking and scaring as many students as he could. Lit candles and pumpkins were floating above peoples heads occasionally dripping wax or pumpkin juice all over them. James and Sirius were so busy planning their Halloween prank they didn't notice Remus' change in behaviour. The dark circles under his eyes, the shivers that kept engulfing him and the general tired look about him. The truth was the full moon was drawing ever closer. The full moon would be on the night of Halloween and Remus was feeling the usual pre-transformation jitters the day before.
'Will you two give it a rest' Remus sighed. James and Sirius were arguing about their prank the nest day.
'What's wrong with you all of a sudden?' Sirius asked 'Anyway what is everyone wearing tomorrow?'
'I have the best costume' James grinned.
'Okay Jane are you co-ordinating with your gal-pals?' Sirius smirked.
'As a matter of fact I...' he started 'Well you'll just have to see tomorrow, what about you Remmy?'
'Err I'm not sure if im going, its not really my idea of fun, I'll probably just turn in early'
'WHAT!' James and Sirius said together. 'But we cant go to a party without all FOUR Marauders there' Sirius finished.
'Look just give me a break I'm not feeling too good at the moment can we talk about this later' and with that Remus got up and walked out of the common room through the portrait hole. His friends knew he had some sort of illness that made, needed him to take medicine every now and then, the said medicine making him grumpy a lot the few days he had to take it. They didn't push Remus on the subject as he tended to shy away whenever the topic came up, they just trusted their friend to tell them when he was ready. Remus on the other hand had no intention of telling his friends his darkest secret for fear they would be scared of him, tell everyone and he would be asked to leave Hogwarts.
The day of Halloween arrived and all Gryffindors were excited about their secret party that evening. Many decorations had been placed around their common room changing the usual red and gold colour scheme into a spooky green black and purple one. Talk of the party had spread fast around the other houses, and many were eager to attend except the Slytherins of course but the Prewitt twins had made it very clear that any non Gryffindors were only aloud to attend on invitation by the twins themselves. Most were not bothered about the other houses just a few older years who had girlfriends or boyfriends in another house.
'I think I might ask Fabian or Gideon if I can ask a Hufflepuff to the party tonight' Alice thought aloud.
'Why?' Lily asked but then seeing the look on her best friends face she added 'Who is it? Come on Ali tell me! Is it Frank? Are you going to ask him out? Does he like you? I've not heard anything but why wouldn't he like you, your amazing!' The two girls were walking to lunch after a tough ancient runes lesson.
'Slow down Lils, yes its Frank of course its Frank and I'm not sure whether to ask him or not. I mean its really last minute and he probably wont have a costume…' Alice trailed off.
'Look Ali, you know the Prewitt twins right? So that part isn't a problem. He is a wizard he can conjure up something, if not I'll do it for him. Look the twins are there' the girls just walked into the Great Hall when Lily pointed to the twins, who were sitting with a group of their friends, at the end of the Gryffindor table. They walked up to them.
'Erm Hey Fabian, Gideon I was er, was er um' Alice stuttered.
'She was wondering if she could ask a Hufflepuff third year to the party tonight' Lily interrupted knowing her friend wasn't going to be able to spit out the question. Alice blushed. The Prewitt family were close friends of Alice's family so she considered the twins to be cousins of hers.
'Hey cuz, you ok? Which Hufflepuff?' Gideon replied amused by Alice's sudden shyness.
'Er well Frank Longbottom, don't worry, I was just forget it' Alice walked off down the aisle and sat down next to Evanna, opposite Nevaeh.
'She really likes him, huh?' Fabian looked at Lily.
'Yeah she does, please let him come it would mean so much to her' Lily pleaded.
'Of course she can anything for our little cousin, just make sure he wears this' Gideon reached into his bag and pulled out what looked like a wristband Lily had seen Muggles use at theme parks. Fabian touched his wand to it. The words HUFFLEPUFF guest of Alice Jones appeared on it.
Gideon saw Lily looking at it and said 'Got the idea from muggles over the summer'
'Yeah ive seen them before they use them for theme parks, and festivals and stuff' Lily replied.
The twins looked confused 'Theme whats?'
'Never mind, thank you for this' she took the wristband and ran down the aisle to tell Alice.
'Oh Lily thank you, I made such a fool of myself and they are practically family, I just got embarrassed and I know they will tease me about this and…'
'Alice calm down, now go and ask Frank or that effort was for nothing' Lily watched as her best friend stood up and slowly walked over to the Hufflepuff table.
'Is she finally going to ask Frank out?' Nevaeh and Evanna said at the same time. Lily explained to them the conversation she had just had with Alice on her way to the hall and the chat with the twins a moment ago. The girls squealed when Alice returned two minutes later with a grin plastered across her face and a scream of 'HE SAID YES'.
For the rest of the day the girls talked about everything Alice and Frank and spent the majority of the night helping her to get ready. The party was due to start about eight so Alice was meeting Frank at quarter past outside the portrait hole as nobody would be there on time. She had handed him his wristband and stepped inside the portrait hole just as the party was getting started.
This is a part one of two. Im sorry but I didnt want to fit it all in one chapter so I'm putting it in two. I will try to get the next one up by the end of the week. I got so excited to write this I actually neglected quite a bit of homework
Please Read and Review means a lot to me and may help create future story lines etc.
Phoebe
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