A/N: Sorry I've fallen off the edge of the earth for a while! I've been very busy! Keep reviewing!
Chapter 9: Happy Halloween!
It was October, and Hogwarts was spookier than ever! Peeves was always being meaner to people than usual, and Sirius, James, Remus, and Peter were planning a big prank.
"The third years are learning about those things aren't they?" asked Sirius
"Yep." Said Remus, "I've read all about them, we can release it in the Great Hall, we gotta hide the box though, "
"Ok, we gotta sneak in the class room during free period." Said James
" Yep, this'll frighten any one!" said Sirius
"In fact, it's so genius we could do it every year!" said Peter
"Yeah, but every year we'll add something, we're bound to know even cooler stuff as the years go by!" said Remus
"Do you have the costumes?" asked James
"No we still haven't figured out who we're gonna be!" said Peter,
"Good point."
"Well we can stop by the hump of the one eyed witch anytime to pick some up." Said Sirius. They agreed, and they set out to make their plan work. With all of them under James cloak they got to the hump and went inside into the tunnel. When they got to Honeydukes they bought a lot of candy and left into Hogsmeade to Madam Malikins who was selling lots of costumes. They bought their items, and went back to Hogwarts (A/N: What they buy and stuff is a surprise so sorry there is like no details in this part of the chapter)
Phase 2 of their plan was to get something from a classroom. There wasn't too much trouble except for the fact that what was inside was a lot heavier than planned.
They then ran to the owlery to get a couple owls.
"Why couldn't you transfigure them into bats Remus?" Sirius complained fighting with an owl trying to get a costume on it.
"I told you that's too complicated right now!" said Remus fighting with another owl.
"Ow! It bit me!" said Sirius sucking on a bleeding finger.
"Well at least it doesn't affect your costume!" said James
"Are they all dressed?" asked Peter
"I think so, Stripes (an owl) quit picking it!" said Remus
"Now we just have to get ourselves ready." Said Sirius "I call the Dementor costume!"
"I get vampire!" Peter added,
"Umm" said James "I'll be the giant squid."
"Fine," sighed Remus "I'll be the werewolf" (A/N: I hope you get the inside jokes in the costumes (not Peter, his costume has no joke))
When they were all dressed Remus read the things on their list aloud then the others would say if they had it or not.
"Ten owls?"
"Check."
"Costumes?"
"Check."
"2 school brooms?"
"Check."
"Candy?"
"Check."
"Owl food?"
"Check"
"Secret item?"
"Check."
"Cloak?"
"Check."
"Banner?"
"Check."
"Ok, that's everything, let's go!" They took, with great difficulty their things to the Great Hall, it was almost time for supper. James and Sirius flew the Owl cages and Peter up to the ledge up high, with the candy and owl food sacks in bags at their sides. Remus was left on the ground setting the box in a corner. Now all they had to do was wait…
(a/n: Be thankful I'm not leaving a cliffie here, I figured I should be nice since I've fallen off of the edge of the earth for awhile)
Soon everyone was eating in the great hall since it was nearing Halloween the lights were dimmed and pumpkins were floating about the ceiling.
Now it was time. Peter released the owls, while James and Sirius flew around the room in their costumes dropping owl food everywhere. The birds started swarming and swooping over the students. I'm sure you can picture it well- screams and all.
Once it started getting settled down again, unfortunately it was not all the trouble. Remus opened the box. It was a boggart.
"AHH!!!!" screamed a student, who was seeing a huge spider. She closed her eyes.
"It's Slughorn!" cried Frank Longbottom. Soon a lot of students began to see what they most feared and only the older students, remembered to say 'ridikulous'
After a couple of minutes, Remus was able to get it back in the box. The last part thankfully wasn't that scary, they dropped candy everywhere, and carried a banner that said 'Happy Halloween Hogwarts! Yours Truly, M.' and they disappeared after that leaving everyone bewildered.
A/N: And that was Halloween (late though) for you guys! Next chapter should be about Christmas!
