Lions, and Badgers, and Eagles, and Snakes, Oh my!
"CONFINDENTAL"
'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'
Those words, while wise, are not entirely true. Yes to live your life in fear is not a good thing to do, but there are other things more powerful than fear. Fears can be over come, Love cannot.
Love is the most powerful thing we have, we must always remember that.
As long as you have love you have nothing to fear, not even fear itself.
-Albus Dumbledore
"Happy Halloween!" Ana Maria squealed jumping up and down on her bed. That girl and her holidays.
"Happy Halloween." Lily said laughing.
"Halloween, bah humbug." Tammi grumped.
"Morning Scrooge." Mary said.
"What?" Dorcas asked curiously.
"Muggle thing." Lily and Mary chorused.
"I'm so super excited. I mean a Hogsmede trip and the Halloween feast all in one day." Ana Maria squeeked.
"Ana Maria you squeal any louder and only dogs will be able to hear." Tammi teased.
"You guys, what should I wear?" Lily asked kneeling in front of her trunk.
"Awww that's right Lilykins has a date." Mary teased. Lily stuck her tongue out at her.
"Okay, let's see…" Tammi said sifting through Lily's trunk. "How about this?"
"Nah I don't like those jeans." Ana Maria said "How about this?"
"Are you color blind?" Tammi asked.
"I think that's a no Ana." Dorcas giggled.
"Let's see you find something better then." Ana Maria shot. Dorcas glared at her then got up and went over to the trunk. She selected a few garments and handed them to Lily.
"Go try these on."
Lily complied. When she came out she was wearing a long sleeved dark olive green shirt with and extended torso, over this was a dark forest green corduroy fur hooded vest. This was set off with jean skinnies and brown clogs.
"Well what do you think?" Lily asked. Dorcas looked smug.
"It's alright." Tammi said not willing to bend. "but we really should do something with your hair. Come here."
Tammi, with the help of her wand, gave Lily big loopy curls. Then she used and skinny black headband to push her long bangs out of her face.
"There. Perfect"
"Ooh Lily you look so pretty." Ana Maria said sincerely. Lily smiled, she felt pretty.
"Let's go." The girls linked hands and skipped down the stairs rather awkwardly laughing all the way.
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"So remind me again why we're not going to Hogsmede?" Peter asked the other boys. They were currently sprawled on the floor of their dormitory surrounded by books. Yeah, weird, I know.
"Because; 1. We've already been there more times than most of the seventh years, B. we have to work on our prank."Sirius said
"What's C?" Peter asked.
"There is no C Wormtail." Sirius snapped. He was not enjoying the reading part of their prank.
"Chill, Padfoot." Remus said calmly. Sirius glared at Remus.
"Hey I found it!" James said. He held up his book for the others to see.
"The Tracking Charm," Remus said, "No contact needed." His eyes moved down the page taking in the instructions. "It looks rather complex."
"Nah, it'll be a piece of cake." Sirius said waving his hand in a dismissive fashion.
Remus' look told them he didn't agree.
"Moony, Moony, never fear, Prongs and Padfoot are here."
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That evening all of the students were gathered in the Great Hall for the Halloween feast. The whole place looked eerie; bats fluttered about and just below the dark cloudy ceiling were hundreds of jack-o-lanterns. The tables were covered with all kinds of yummy looking things, and some not so yummy.
"Jelly eyes? Could they be anymore original?" Mary asked picking on up.
"Knowing wizards it probably real." Lily said. Mary dropped the eye back onto her plate as if it had been poisoned. Ana Maria laughed at the look on her face.
"So how'd things go with Dane?" Tammi asked slyly.
"It was ok, but I don't think it's gonna go anywhere. It was more of a one time thing." Lily said.
"I kind of figured that." Ana Maria said.
"So is he a good kisser?" Dorcas asked.
"Dorcas! What if she didn't kiss him?" Mary said.
"He's bloody hot; she should have no reason not to kiss him." Lily and Tammi were roaring with laughter so that several heads turned curiously in their direction. Ana Maria just sat there smiling.
"Yes Mary I did kiss him." Lily said when she had stopped, "and yeah, he's not too bad at kissing."
"Great so if your done with him can I have him?" Dorcas asked. She ducked when Lily threw candy corn at her.
The marauders were sitting farther up the table trying to at casual. James was watching the other students, okay one student in particular.
'She looks really pretty today.'
'She looks pretty all the time'
'Yah I know, but today she looks really pretty.'
'You're hopeless.'
'She's laughing'
'No shit Sherlock where'd you get your clues?'
'She never laughs for me."
'Excuse me?!'
'I'm funny, but she never laughs for me.'
'You're not that funny mate.'
'I feel like decking Wright.'
'You're ignoring me aren't you?'
'….'
'Nice.'
"Prongs!" Sirius hissed, getting James' attention.
"What?!"
"Now!"
"Roger."
The four marauders waved their wands simultaneously. The effect was immediate.
There was a loud rattling noise coming from the ceiling. Every looked up and saw that the jack-o-lanterns were shacking violently. Almost all of the students third year and up ducked under the tables, knowing full well from experience that something was probably going explode. True to tradition the pumpkins exploded splattering everything and everyone with pumpkin guts. But something strange happened after that; a black sort of vapor was rising from the remains of the pumpkins.
Then suddenly the vapor solidified into all sorts of horrors; mummies, corpses, and king cobras. At first people found them funny, but then the object swooped down in front of the students and staff and changed their forms. Bogarts.
"Ahhh! A Dinosaur!" Mary screeched as a huge purple dinosaur stomped across the table.
"Get them off me!" Tammi yelled, swatting at the swarm of bees flying around her. Dorcas was whimpering as a great snake slithered up her arm. Ana Maria was screaming as a bogart covered her in cold deep red blood.
"Lily! Help me!" Tammi yelled severely. Lily however wasn't paying attention. "Lily! Lily? What are yo-" Tammi was not the only one to notice it by now. Rising up above the tables and sending an unnatural chill was a bogart pretending to be a dementor. Lily's greatest fear. As the chill filled the souls of the students more and more began to fear the dementor thus more and more bogarts changed into them.
"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" Out the wand tips of most of the staff burst patrounses. A cat, a chicken, an eel, a walrus, and a phoenix. They ran, leapt, slithered, and flew about, and one by the dementors burst back into vapor and vanished. The warmth and light flooded back into the Great Hall. For one minute there was complete and total silence, and then; "POTTER, BLACK, LUPIN, PETTIGREW!"
The whole hall burst out laughing at the looks on the boys faces. The Hall returned to it natural mellow state. The subject of everyone's conversation was the prank. Now that it was over it didn't seem half as scary, it almost seemed funny.
"You've got to hand it to them, they are pretty creative." Ana Maria said. The other girls just looked at her.
"What's that on your shirt?" Tammi asked."Is that blood?" Lily squirted her with ketchup. Ana Maria screamed, and then they all burst out laughing.
'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'
Fear is the Dementor, love is the Patronus.
Love is stronger.
-Albus Dumbledore.