10. Halloween
The one with the ridiculous costumes
Hey guys! Wow, we're already on chapter 10! I'd like to thank all of my amazing reader, this story is going so well and I could never have done it without your support, so thank you!
I'd like to remember everyone that 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' is a tale originated from German oral tradition, the story was written by the Grimm brothers between 1812 - 1822 and published in the book 'Kinder-und Hausmaërchen'. 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' is now in public domain, nevertheless, I'd like to thank the authors for giving this wonderful story to the world and my source of inspiration to this story.
As promised, here are all our fairytale OC's:
Mary White - Snow; Paul Batts - Grouchy; Daniel Elliot - Cheerful; Brian Corey - Healer; Harry Grey - Drowsy; Johnny Curtis - Shy; Ken fox - Sneeze and Jimmy Abbey - Stoned.
Here is chapter ten: enjoy!
"Mary, wake up!" I heard Dom saying in a voice too loud for my liking.
"Shush Dominique, it's Saturday and I'm trying to sleep." I mumbled half aware that I wasn't dreaming.
"You can't sleep all morning, don't you remember? Today is a huge day!" She said as she started jumping up and down on my bed making me completely aware of the fact that nope, this wasn't just a nightmare...
"Dom, it's not a big day, it's just Halloween, ok? Is not like we'll be going around on the neighborhood receiving free candy or anything." I said still refusing to open my eyes.
"Why would we do that?" She asked suddenly stopping to jump at my bed, and even though my eyes were still shut I could totally picture the confused look on her face.
"It doesn't matter Dominique, get off me and let me go back to sleep!" I hissed annoyed.
"Deeeebby... " Dom whined.
I heard a click from the bathroom door and footsteps getting closer to my bed, why won't they just leave me the hell alone?
"Now, now Mary, I know it sucks, but it's nine o'clock, it's not half as bad as it was on Hogsmeade day, besides, you know that there is absolutely nothing you can do other than just waking up so that you can finally get Dom off your back." Debby said, her words unfortunately convincing me to open my eyes.
"Fine..." I muttered frowning at them. "But we have to come up with a schedule containing all dates that Dom goes berserk and what time she'll starts annoying the bejesus out of me to wake me up. I wanna have a say on a few of them." I finished determined.
"Good luck with that." Debby said rolling her eyes and returning to the bathroom.
"Oh, don't be in such a bad mood, do you have any idea how long I've been waiting for hallowing to be on a Saturday?!" Dom said clapping her hands excitedly at the last bit of her sentence.
"True..." Debby shouted from the bathroom.
"What's so special about Halloween on a Saturday?" I asked rolling my eyes.
"You're kidding me, right? Mary, Halloween is one of the best parties we have! It starts with the best feast, and then we have a party at our common room that has become more legendary year after year! The professors don't even check on us until late, and for once, they won't be checking on us at all since its Saturday! Don't you get it?" Dom Finished so excited that I thought she'd explode.
"That has nothing to do with the fact that you're making me wake-up early, the party isn't until after the feast, besides, what's so special about it? They throw one at each common room, so it'll just be our Gryffindor fellows..." I said yawning.
As I finished Dominique seemed to be close to having a heart attack, so I was really glad when Debby intervened.
"Oh Mary, who do you think puts the party together?" She said looking sweetly at me as if I was the clueless person on earth - which clearly I was, because I honestly had no idea, so she continued. "We do, and by 'we' I mean the Wotters, Clare and Alice Longbottom, Lorcan and Lysander Scamander, Scorp and I, which means that we have a lot to do, besides, Gryffindor always throws the best parties since we practically have all Wotters, so all the cool people just attend our party instead of theirs - hint to why Alice, Lorcan and Lysander, Scorp and Al all help us with ours..."
"Ow..." Was all I managed to say.
In all honesty I hadn't actually attended one of their supposedly legendary Halloween parties up until this year, it was too much work getting costumes, besides, what would a girl like me and my dorks do at such a party? That is until now... and for the looks of it I'd actually have to help putting it together.
Joy.
"Yeap, that's why we need to get ready pronto!" Dom said excited once again.
"But Dom, you guys seemed to have handled it just perfectly until now, why change that?" I said even though I had no real hope of them letting me go on this one.
"MARY WHITE, DON'T YOU DARE TO EVEN THINK ABOUT NOT HELPING US!" Dom shouted becoming dangerously murderous.
"Merlin, I'll help!" I said quickly since I was actually scared for my life.
"Attagirl!" Debby said equally as quickly and we both watched as Dom's features slowly came back to her normal gorgeous self. Crazy veelas...
"So, I'll go get ready then." I offered smiling and was glad to see Dom smiling back at me.
"Good, we need to meet James right after breakfast to check our list of duties." Debby said nodding in approval.
"List of duties?" I asked a little confused, did they really take this party this seriously?
"Of course! We all have a role to play today so that everything is perfect for the night." Dom said clapping her hands with a dreamy look on her face.
And there goes my Saturday...
"Jamesey!" Dom said sitting on his lap in our common room once we got back from breakfast. "What is the most amazing of all your cousins doing for the party today?"
"He's getting drinks with Scorp, Al, Lorcan and Lysander, why?" Freddy said pretending to be oblivious to the fact that she meant herself and not him. Could someone explain to me why Wotters are all self-centered like that?
Wait a second, this is not what's important here...
"Wait, you guys need five people only for drinks? How much do you serve at this parties? And most importantly, where do you get them?" I said so astonished that I was vaguely aware of the fact that I had said this out loud.
"Oh Mary, you're a virgin!" Freddy said putting both his hands in his chest for dramatic effect.
"I, erm-" I felt my whole body getting insanely hot with embarrassment.
"Outch!" Freddy exclaimed as Potter slapped him on the back of his head, he was about to protest further but he then took one good look at Potter's face - who was giving him a death glare and quickly turned to me and added: "A virgin at one of our Halloween parties Mary, that's what I meant."
I, however, was too busy staring at Potter to even consider what he was saying, he had defended me, right? But why? Potter's eyes locked on mine and he gave me a small smile that, ironically, made me fell even more embarrassed than I was before.
"You ok?" Debby asked me in a bare whisper since I was now staring at my hands.
"Yeah, fine." I muttered finally recomposing myself and looking up again.
"What will we be doing James?" Dom repeated, clearly running out of patience.
"All right, let's see..." Potter took a long parchment from his pocket and started to inspect it slowly. "As Freddy said, Lorcan and Lysander are getting the booze, since they're the only ones old enough for it, and Al, Scorp and Fred will help them carry it back to the castle, hum... I think I'll add Hugs to help you guys since Louis graduated last year." He said looking at Freddy who just nodded in approval.
"That doesn't concern me." Dom stated crossing her arms.
"Will you give me time to think woman?" Potter said frowning.
"Well maybe I should be the one organizing duties next year." Dom hissed.
"Dom, you can't even organize your trunk..." Debby said frowning at her, to which Dom responded by showing Debby her tongue - how mature of her...
"Now, I need one girl from every year to walk around the castle with me letting the entire school know about how awesome this party will be." Potter continued.
"Why do you need one girl from every year if you're the only guy doing it?" I asked crossing my arms.
"Because I can reach every female in school." He replied grinning. Cocky much?
"So can Dom. Every male, I mean..." I stated rolling my eyes. This was very true, Dom could easily make all guys in Hogwarts want to be at a party that she'd attend.
"This is actually perfect! Mary, you'll be coming with me to promote our party." Potter finished changing something in his parchment with a flick of his wand.
"What?" I said unable to contain myself. I was definitely not a good choice for this, especially since he could have Dom, or Debby as a matter of fact, she'd be equally good for the job. Not to mention that I did not intend to spend my entire Saturday walking around school with him.
"That's brilliant mate!" Freddy said grinning as well.
"Are you mental?" I said baffled, looking from Freddy to Potter.
"No Mary, he's quite right, Dom and Debby already snogged half of the non related guys in school, you'll be much more attractive for this job, you're like new meat!" Freddy said excitedly but his smile quickly vanished as he looked at Potter, who had, yet again, another death glare on his face.
Weird much?
"It's settle then, Mary will be coming with James, but what about Debby and I?" Dom asked simply, clearly nether one of them found Freddy's comment insulting.
"Oi, I don't want to spend the entire day walking around the school with-"
"Me." Potter completed my sentence for me, leaving me completely speechless.
"We all have to help where we're most needed Mary." Debby said putting a hand on my shoulder.
I'm doomed...
"What about Paul, Dan and the rest of my friends?" I asked remembering that they didn't seemed to be included.
"Paul and Dan have the duty of making sure that Brian, Johnny, Ken, Jimmy and Harry all come to our party and they're also making sure that they're all in costumes." Potter replied simply living me lost for words at his perfect answer. Looks like I'm stuck with Potter for an entire day.
Oh, the Joy...
"Dom, Debby, you should both look into decorations with Lily, Clare and Lucy." Potter stated finally.
"But James, they're not as tasty as we are!" Dom whined.
"And that's exactly why it's perfect, you'll balance each other." He said raising one eyebrow making Freddy laugh crazily, earning a weird blush from Debby. "The rest of the girls will deal with snacks, water and all the other non alcoholic beverage."
"Do we really need non alcoholic beverages mate?" Freddy whined.
"For the last time, yes Freddy!" They all shouted in unison. Apparently this was an annual discussion.
"Sounds like fun!" Debby said finally. " Should we head down to lunch then? We can get started afterwards.
"Now that's a plan!" Freddy said winking at Debby, making her blush furiously.
"How exactly do we promote a party?" I asked crossing my arms as everyone left to their duties, leaving me alone with Potter.
"It's not that hard, really, we just have to go around school a couple of times making comments about the party to all the kids in other houses who are at least in their fifth year. The tricky part is doing it without alerting the staff." He said smiling at me. I decided to just nod in response - I sincerely doubt that the staff is not aware of our Halloween party - and so we started to walk.
Ok, why has he been acting so weird around me ever since he heard my conversation with Grouchy? Before that he was completely ignoring me, and now he is always smiling and stuff, it's just plain weird... He seemed to be aware that I was debating something cause he simply said:
"What's bothering you?"
"Why have you been acting so weirdly around me lately?" I blurted.
"I haven't been acting weird." Potter stated frowning. "Oi, Matthew!" He then shouted to a couple of Hufflepuff's in their final year. "You heard about the party in Gryffindor, right? I know you guys have your own, but we're taking care so that ours is the party of the year!"
"Haven't missed one since my third year!" He responded laughing while all his friends smiled.
"Third? I thought you said you only invited people that are at least in their fifth year." I asked frowning confused.
"We only invite those, but that doesn't mean that the others don't show up." He stated simply.
"Anyway, yes you have! You use to shout at me all the time, then you started to ignore me, and now you're acting all nice, what the fuck is going on?" I said returning to our previous conversation.
"I only shouted at you before because you were too stubborn for your own good, so I was just trying to help." He said shrugging, making me roll my eyes.
"That's hardly an answer." I said crossing my arms annoyed.
"See, and you're being stubborn right now." He said raising his eyebrow.
I always envied those who have the ability to raise only one eyebrow, have I said that already?
"Hey Patricia, Laura, Timmy, Courtney!" Potter said approaching a group of four Ravenclaw's in their fifth year. "You guys are coming to our party tonight, right?"
"Oh, I don't know James... We should maybe stay at Ravenclaw's…" The girl that I understood to be Laura said biting her inferior lip. That sentence earned her astonished stares from all the other three.
"Laura doesn't know what she's talking about James." The girl that I thought was Courtney responded.
"Course we're coming now that we were personally invited by you!" Patricia said flicking her extremely blond hair aside and winking at him.
Disgusting...
"Well that settles it then, see you all later!" Potter said smiling and turning away from the group.
"Why exactly do you need me here? I'm obviously useless." I said throwing my hands in the air.
"No, you're not, you help me to have purpose, why would I be wondering around school alone? That would made me look like a looser, but with a gorgeous girl walking by my side I have purpose." He said simply, making me snort.
Gorgeous? What is he? Blind?
"What?" He asked puzzled.
Crazy much?
"You should have picked Debby for the task then." I stated the obvious rolling my eyes.
"Are you kidding me? You're much more suitable for the task!" He argued suddenly stopping and starting at me.
I looked into his hazel eyes and saw no sign of him being anything but completely sincere, so I just took a deep breath and said:
"Is there any point in arguing?"
"Nope." He then said popping the 'p' while smiling at me.
Maybe this is about what he eavesdropped in my conversation with Grouchy, that no one would pick me over Dom and Debby, and seriously, we both knew that to be the truth, what really beats me is why on earth is he trying so hard to prove me wrong? Why does it even matter to him?
"Hey Bernard, Natasha, you guys are coming over to Gryffindor, right?" Potter asked to a couple of Slytherin's in our year, causing them both to just frown at him. "Well, we don't really need them." He then whispered to me making a shiver go down my spine.
It took us about four hours to pass all the important places around the castle and outside twice, it was already nearly five when Potter finally said that we were done, and by then I was about half bored to death since I've been mainly watching him talking over with various groups around school grounds for so dam long.
"It wasn't that bad, was it?" He asked me as we made a turn, we were finally heading to our common room.
"It was horrendous, my legs hurt, I'm already starving, Dominique is probably gonna kill me for taking so long since now she'll 'only' have two hours to make me ready, and it's a good thing that I decided not to fake smile to everyone, otherwise even my mouth would hurt by now!" I whined.
"Now, we wouldn't want that, would we?" Potter said smirking.
I'm not even going to comment on how weird what he said was.
"How the hell do you know all this people anyway?" I said throwing my hands in the air. "Bubbles." I added since we had finally reached the fat lady's portrait.
"I'm sociable." He said shrugging, making me roll my eyes.
"that wasn't sociable, that was close to politics!" I replied crossing my arms and making him laugh. "I should go upstairs, Dom is already going to kill me as it is."
He just nodded.
"Mary?" He called when I was about to take the first step into the girl's dormitory.
"Hum?" I said looking back only to find Potter standing much closer to me than I was expecting.
"I'll see you tonight, ok?" He said giving me a small smile.
"You're definitely acting weird." I said giving him a pointed look.
"Ok?" He repeated ignoring my comment.
"Sure." I said throwing my hands in the air, what else was I supposed to say?
"Oh, and one more thing." He started when I was just about to finally start climbing up the stairs, making me turn around to face him once more.
"What is it?" I asked calmly although I was running out of patience.
"I was wondering if you could start calling me James." He said looking straight into my eyes.
Calling him James? As in 'we are friends so call me James'? Or as in 'we now hang around each other more, so even though we're not that close it would made more sense for you to call me by my first name'?
Does it really matter?
"Mary?" He asked since I was probably making a weird face as I thought about it.
"James... ok, I can try that." I said still a bit unsure.
"Good." He replied smiling.
Weird much?
Just like I suspected, Dom was pretty mad at me for only making back to our dorm two hours before we had to leave for the feast (crazy much?), but since Debby and her were already doing their make-up, and we weren't even going to dress ourselves in costumes for the feast we had more than enough time.
Dom had her hair down with perfect blonde curls framing her face nicely, and since she was going as a bee - meaning, almost naked - I was quite glad to see that at least something was helping to cover her up. Debby made a high ponytail so that the ears in her cat costume would call attention. As for me, Dom made me a loose bun and did an illusion charm so that I had side bangs for the night, unfortunately, as much as her bun complemented my costume nicely - I was going as a healer - it also made me have nothing besides the almost sluty costume to cover my boobs.
Anyway, as we finally made our way downstairs to the party I gasped at the hard work everyone had put into making this the biggest party possibly known to Hogwarts, Gryffindor's common room looked absolutely amazing, the decoration was breathtaking, there were tons of booze and food and it was really, really packed.
"Wow!" I said in disbelief.
"Told you." Dom said smirking.
"Yeah, yeah, we outdone ourselves, blablabla, now can we please go get something to drink?" Debby asked rolling her eyes.
"Someone is in a Freddy spirit." Dom commented giving Debby a strange look that I couldn't quite place while Debby blushed.
"Well we should get this party started!" Debby said giving her back to Dom and walking towards the table labeled 'drinks'.
I started laughing at Debby's attitude, she wasn't normally this grumpy, but both Dom and I quickly followed her.
"Hey there!" Freddy shouted to us even though the music wasn't that loud near the tables. He was dressed up as a quidditch player from the Chudley Cannons, not very inventive, if I may add.
"Freddy I can't believe that you're wearing this again! I told you to let go of this stupid costume ages ago!" Dom said frowning and crossing her arms in a bossy way.
"Looks like someone needs a drink." He said almost ignoring her and immediately passing us a glass of what - by the strong smell - I assumed to be firewhiskey. Yes, ok? I've never drink firewhiskey before.
"Why are you looking at it like that?" Debby asked frowning.
"Mary, have you never drink firewhiskey before?" Dom said raising her eyebrows.
'Dom, are you a legitimacy?' I thought very hard.
"Hellooo?" Dom said waving her hand in front of my face.
Apparently not...
"I'm drinking it now..." I said shrugging and taking my first sip.
Oh, for Merlin's beard, it burns!
"Nope, she definitely never had it." Freddy said laughing and the girls quickly joined.
"Just drink a little bit more and it'll stop burning." Debby advised me still laughing.
Some good friends I've made, hum?
"Mary!" I heard a familiar voice calling me and quickly turned around already smiling to take a good look at my good old Grouchy boy.
Drowsy and him were coming our way, both wearing identical gigantic plaques around their necks, except that Grouchy's had a huge 'A' written on it, while Drowsy's had a huge 'F'.
"What are you guys supposed to be?" Dom asked frowning before I could make the exact same question.
"We're the alphabet!" Drowsy asked smiling broadly, making me start laughing like crazy.
"An 'A' and an 'F', that hardly classifies as the alphabet." Dom said holding back a laughter.
"Oh don't be stupid Dom, it's a group costume, we're each wearing a letter!" Grouchy said smiling excitedly.
"Did you just called me stupid?!" Dom hissed.
"I, erm-"
"She's just messing around with you Paul." I said rolling my eyes.
"Oh..." Was all that he managed in response.
"Where are the rest of the guys?" Debby asked smiling.
"They're over the dance floor!" Drowsy asked happily.
"Well then, what are we still doing here?!" I said excitedly. I always miss my boys in case you haven't noticed.
"Mary!" They all shouted in unison as I got closer to them.
"My boys!" I said smiling broadly.
"So you'll be my healer assistant, hum?" Healer said laughing at me. He wanted to be a healer, so the joke did make sense, it just wasn't really that funny, so I responded by showing him my tongue in a very childish way.
I actually don't remember the last time that I had so much fun with my dorks, they were all dancing in a bizarre way that I quickly joined, making both Dom and Debby laugh crazily until they finally decided to join.
Now let me tell you something, when you have a group of ten people, dancing like crazy baboons in the middle of the dance floor it doesn't take long for everyone else at the party to spot you, and that's exactly what happened, because soon we were joined by the entire Weasley clan - minus Pot- James, where the hell was he anyway? - and all their close friends.
"We should do the robot dance now!" Sneeze shouted enthusiastically and not one single person questioned him, we all just simply changed our moves to a robotic one.
"This is so much fun!" Dom shouted from beside me making me laugh while Debby, Rose, Lily and Roxy all nodded in agreement with identical broad smiles plastered on their faces. I didn't expect Dom, or either one of them, as a matter of fact, to have ever dance like this at a party, seems like we were the ones to convert them to the dorky side of the universe, and you know what? This way is sooo much better!
"Has anyone seen my git of a brother?" Albus shouted to everyone while weirdly staring at me.
"Has anyone called me?" I heard a voice that I now new too well say from behind me.
And until this day I swear to you that what happened next, happened in slow motion. Everyone in front of me stopped dancing immediately to laugh so hard that many of them had to hold their knees to keep balance, except for all my dorky friends, they were just staring behind me, each one with a more stunned feature than the other, and as I slowly turned my head to finally face James I understood why.
Not that I actually found it funny...
James Potter had decided to come to the party dressed like a prince, and not any prince, if I may add, he was dressed as a muggle fairytale prince. He had a brown wig of perfectly combed hair and a costume so precise that even his boots equaled those from my books.
"James mate, what the hell are you dressed as?" Freddy asked between fits of laughter, but I could hardly concentrate on what was being said. I don't think that I've even heard James' answer, or what was said after that, when a bunch o people started to laugh again.
"Grouchy," I whispered to him now standing by my side. "Do you thing that he's figured it out?"
"I dunno... he did hear something about a prince when he spied on us in the owlery, didn't he?" Grouchy replied in an equally low voice.
"Ok, so maybe he still doesn't know the whole story, but is he making fun of me/ us?" I whispered back frowning.
"I hardly think that's the case..." He said still staring at James. "But there's only one way to find out, right?"
"Right..." I said taking a deep breath. "James?" I said in an audible tone now. "Can we talk to you for a minute?"
"Sure." He said smiling at me.
"You know Snow, maybe you should ask him this alone..." Grouchy said in a small voice.
"OK..." I whispered back to Grouchy. "Can we go over there for a minute?" I said out loud now pointing at a corner away from the dance floor.
"Lead the way." James said still smiling. So I led, and I couldn't help but notice from the corner of my eyes that all Wooters and my dorky friends were staring at us as we left.
"Are you making fun of me with that costume?" I blurted out as soon as we got to a place where no one else was near enough to hear us.
I stared into his hazel eyes, and something that I found in them made me even more confused, he seemed to be... what was that? Hurt?
"Of course not, that was the opposite of my intention." He said after a few minutes, and weirdly enough he sounded sincere.
"What do you mean 'the opposite of my intention?'" I asked repeating his words puzzled.
He stared into my eyes in such a deep way that I felt a shiver running down my spine.
"Mary, it's been a while that I-"
"There she is!" I heard someone saying from behind me and as I turned I was inches away from Ralph Flint, the guy that I'm supposedly dating. "Potter." He hissed putting his arms over my shoulder.
James face completely changed in a matter of seconds to pure anger.
"Flint." He hissed back annoyed.
"Well, now that I'm here you have no reason whatsoever to talk to this scumbag, come Mary." He said leading me away from where James stood staring at us with a murderous look on his face.
"Hey." I said a bit uncomfortable by the whole situation, a little voice in the back of my head kept telling me that whatever it was that James was about to say was important.
"You missed me, hum?" He said in a cocky tone.
'Why again did I have to be so curious and continue to date this guy?' The small voice in my head said to me.
'Focus Mary, you're getting closer now, just a few more dates and you can figure out what you've been longing to for over a month now.' Another voice said in my head, and I decided to follow the latter.
We passed the drinking table and I grabber two more firewhiskey. What? If I'm going to do this, I may as well do it drunk.
And that may be exactly why this was the last thing that I remembered about this crazy, supposedly 'legendary' night.
A/N: Hey guys! So...? Was this chapter the Halloween party that you were expecting? What did you think of James' costume? What about the dorks dressed up as the alphabet? Did I get it right? Please tell me your thoughts on this, I'm dying to know!
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With no further due I give you a one sentence sneak peek from next chapter, I hope you enjoy:
(...)
"Debby, Lock the door! This calls for a girls' night!" Dom said going over to her trunk.
(...)
Yeap, we're having a lockdown girls' night out!