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Chapter 11: A Midnight Snack
"Halloween is tomorrow." Sirius commented off handedly.
"Yea, no classes!" Alan exclaimed giving a small squeal of excitement.
"Are you guys going to the party?" James asked.
"Of course!" Lance gave a wide evil grin.
"What are you three going as?" Moe asked the marauders sheepishly.
"That's a surprise." Sirius said wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.
"What ARE we going as?" Remus asked with a slight smirk.
"Umm... you know,"Sirius answered vaguely.
"No. No I don't know. Enlighten me."Remus had a very smug expression on his face. Lance, Alan, and Moe all giggled and James gave a slight chuckle.
"Oh... shut up." Sirius said a slight pout starting to play upon his features. Remus stuck his tongue out at Sirius.
"Hey Sirius," Alan smiled up at him. Sirius turned and looked at him. "Tickle my pear." he said seductively. James and Remus snorted. Moe giggled and Lance just looked on. Sirius has turned a little scarlet before getting what Alan meant and grumbling, tickled the pear and the door opened to the kitchens. They all walked in to find all the house elves busily cleaning the kitchen.
"Mimsy!"Alan called out. A short little house elf appeared. She looked like any normal house elf, but was wearing a little purple dress because Alan liked his house elves to be stylish.
"Yes, Mistress?!" Mimsy's eyes bugged out of her skull so much that the marauders thought they would fall out. The house elf backed up slightly.
"Yes Mimsy, it's me." Alan said looking slightly annoyed.
"Mistress, I thought you weren't going to go through with that sex change." Mimsy said with a tear in her eyes now. "I told you nothing good could come from it."
Alan's cheeks turned a perky shade of pink. Remus, James, and Sirius all stared at him and he mumbled something about it being a phase.
Moe bent down and patted the upset little Mimsy. "It's ok Mimsy she didn't get a sex change." he said smiling at the poor thing.
"Then what happened?" Mimsy questioned with a sniffle.
"Those three," Lance said sticking his thumb in the direction of the marauders. "turned us into guys." Lance finished with a glare.
"Miss Lorina? Miss MoMo?" Mimsy's eyes bugged out once more and she looked on the verge of tears again. Both Moe and Lance nodded. "Oh dear me. Well then those three will get nothing from the kitchens tonight." She said crossing her knobby little arms. The Marauders stared at the little house elf.
"Can she do that?" James asked looking over at Remus.
"It appears so." Remus mused. Sirius was at that moment locked in a glare war with Lance and didn't notice what was going on.
"Oh really Mimsy, you don't have to do that. We'll get them back. Don't worry." Alan said giving the house elf a pat on the back and a little wink.
"If mistress wishes," Mimsy sighed. "But if you do not get them back, Mimsy will!" she said rather forcefully.
"Umm... okay!" Alan smiled. So did Moe.
"Why don't you get Topsy and Turvy to help you with the food."
"Yes Mistress." with that the house elf bowed and walked off.
"You have three house elves?" James asked rather shocked.
"Yes." Alan said shortly. Then Topsy and Turvy showed up with Mimsy. Topsy and turvy were twins and wore matching little blue jump suits, which made them look more like the munchkins from the Wizard of Oz than house elves. James and Remus gave them and Alan a funny look. After all he was the one who dressed them, they imagined. Sirius and Lance were in that all too familiar glare war, apparently neither of them had blinked yet. Moe was used to the two elves and merely patted them both on the head. They smiled up at him which made them look even more like munchkins. If only they had lollipops.
Alan, who was indifferent to everything that just happened told the elves what he wanted. Everyone else did the same.
Sirius at the mention of food abandoned the staring contest and happily ordered what he wanted. Lance did a not so subtle victory dance.
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"So who would have thought they would look like the lollipop guild?" Sirius giggled to himself.
"You noticed that too?"James said giggling as well.
"They didn't look THAT much like them." Remus said trying to suppress a laugh.
"Oh come on Remus even you have to admit that if they had lollipops there would be almost no difference." Sirius said with a wide smile.
"Yea, the noses kinda give them away though." James added in.
"The noses. Yea." Sirius giggled more.
"Ok. Fine. Yea they do." He managed to say in between giggles. Remus couldn't control his laughter any longer and burst into uncontrollable fits.
"I mean you have to be bonkers to dress something up like that." James laughed.
"I hope you three know that I'm not asleep." Alan's voice was heard from a couple beds over. The three boys looked slightly flushed and scrambled into their beds.
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"I can't believe we have to go to the party as men." Alan said making an 'ick' face while he looked at himself in the mirror.
"Yea, I'm so angry I could hex the pants off someone!" Moe said in one of her random moods. "Sirius!" she shouted and ran off, presumably to find Sirius. Alan and Lance shared a look.
"Well I guess I'll make some adjustments." Lance said rather distastefully. Lance gathered up the clothes he was supposed to wear and sat on his bed, placing the pile next to him. He shut his curtain rather forcefully.
"I guess I could make this work." Alan said to himself, holding up the garment to his body.
Then Alan and Lance heard some girls screaming from the Common Room. Apparently it had taken Moe a while to get Sirius' pants off.
"STREAKER!!" was also heard. Then Moe giggling insanely.
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"So you think that they will show up?" James asked Sirius and Remus. They were all sitting over by the punch bowl because they are losers. James had two left feet. Remus was too shy to ask a girl to dance. And Sirius couldn't get any action after the whole streaking thing. You can only imagine why. Tehe. Ahem, anyway Sirius was dressed up like a vampire, he had the cape and the old fashioned suit thing and everything. He even charmed his canine teeth to get a little longer and more pointy . He'd already bitten his tongue five times.
Remus was a rather authentic looking pirate. He had what little hair he could get into a pony tail. He had on a pirate jacket with big silver buckles. He had on pants that were a deep blue and tucked into his big, beat up boots.
James was a giant golden snitch. His arms were the wings. He painted his skin gold and wore a big round golden ball around his middle. Well, there had to be some comic relief.
Lily Evans, who was on the other side of the room, was surrounded by her friends gabbing away. Every so often Lily would glance over at James. Lily wore a green renaissance looking dress with gold trim. The dress brought out the brilliant green in her eyes. Lily's gorgeous red hair was half in a loose ponytail and half not and she wore a pretty gold ringlets around her head that was swirly and had golden leaves twisted in it. James noticed that Lily kept looking at him, so when she looked over again he winked at her and gave her a cheeky smile. Lily quickly looked away and looked quite pissed off after that.
The Great Hall was in a very festive spirit, with pumpkins floating instead of candles, spiders crawling around on webs, and the occasional ghost floating about. But that was normal. It was very foggy as well. On one side of the room there was a table packed with all manner of sugary delights. All the other house tables were cleared out to make room for dancing and smaller tables were set up close to the doors. There was a goblin band set up where the professor table normally would be and they were playing horror movie music, that no one could dance to, that a few tried.
Now just as James said what he has said the goblins played the rather famous Jaws theme and right they got to the end of the song, where Jaws attacks, Lance, Moe, and Alan bust in in all their glory. Yes, glory. Random people stared. Candy fell out of some people's open mouth's. James, Remus, and Sirius were amung the people staring. Now your probably wondering what could be that shocking, but their costumes wouldn't have been 'as' sickening a treat for the eyes if they were still girls.
Lance was dressed like some kind of transvestite pole dancing whore. He was wearing rather large brown rabbit ears. And a corset that barely fit his broader body. His 'mini' skirt was a little TOO mini and resembled underwear. In the back he had a brown rabbit tail attached. Over all this he had a short formal coat and a bow tie.
Alan looked a little better as he had on a long sports jacket with tails. He wore a big top hat and a tong tie. He too had on a corset underneath and a longer skirt.
Moe looked like a cute little school boy that was terribly confused about his gender. He wore a short blue dress with poofy short sleeves and a white apron. He had on fishnet and Mary Jane shoes. In his hair he wore a black head band.
"Nice dress!" someone yelled from the gawking crowd.
"Thanks!" Moe said happily. "I made it myself." And with that the Great Hall erupted into laughter.
