It was two weeks before the big Halloween Dance and the school was letting all the students wore were old enough to go to the dance to make a special trip into Hogsmede to buy new robs and such for the dance. Carrie, Fred, George and Lee had other plans than just buying new robes.

"We need to have this dance to end with a bang," Lee had said. So far none of them had gotten into to much trouble and wanted to prove to everyone the damage they could still do.

"Do you mean that literally or were you just using that as an expression?" Carrie wondered out loud as she and her seventh year friends made their way to the joke shop.

"I was using it as an expression but now that you mention it…"

"Don't you have a prank collection or something Carrie?" Fred asked as her casually draped his arm around Carrie's shoulders in a friendly gesture. Sure he still had the hotts for his friend but George and Lee had promised Fred that if he made Carrie feel awkward they would pound him into the ground, so Fred hadn't given up on Carrie but was trying to be more of a best friend than anything at the moment.

"Yup, but it's taken me six years of my life to save up all that stuff…I was going to save it for my last year."

"SIX YEARS!!! HOLY COW!!!" George shouted in shock, he had know that Carrie had had her prank collection for along time but that was two years short of half of her life.

"Yeah, if I can sneak you three into my dorm sometime I'll let you see it."

"How often do you add to this collection?" Lee wondered.

"Well…a lot lately. I mean since my Mom and Dad live right there," Carrie pointed to a house that was half way between the school and the all-wizard town. "I come down here every weekend with my mom and usually buy a few things from the joke shop."

Fred let out a whistle. "That's a lot of stuff."

Carrie nodded and saw Draco walking ahead of them with some of his other friends. "Hey I gotta talk to Dra for a second, be right back." (Dra is pronounced Dray) Carrie ran ahead of her friends and caught up with Draco.

"What does she see in him? I mean…she's his friend…I just don't get that girl." Lee had never really understood Carrie's friendliness, neither had the twins really but they were used to it and shrugged their shoulders at their friend.

"Hey, Dra! Wait up!" Carrie called up to Draco as she run towards him. Draco said something to his friends and turned around to face Carrie with his hands on his hips. His friends shrugged their shoulders and went ahead.

"How many times have I told you to not call me that?"

"Uhhh…four hundred-fifty- five times," Carrie answered brightly as she caught up to her friend.

"You're keeping track?" Draco asked raising his eyebrows. Carrie nodded and her Slytherin friend rolled his eyes. The two had a special bond where they we're best friend's who agreed to hate each other but would always be there for one another, it was an unspoken agreement but it was implied.

"You going to the dance?" Carrie asked idly.

"Yeah, I guess."

"Guess?" Draco just shrugged. "Who are you going with then?" Carrie inquired.

"Pansy." Carrie instantly crinkled her nose at her friends answer. "What you don't like Pansy?"

"No, she doesn't like me either…no one in our house does."

"Not true," Draco proclaimed.

"You don't count."

"Why not?"

"I donno, but you don't."

"Well Professor Snape is quite surprised by how well you know your potions. He even told me that you were smart enough to do some seventh year potions."

"You're lying," Carrie said eyeing Draco under a watchful eye.

"Why would I?" Draco asked eyeing something in a shop window that caught his eye.

"Because you're Draco Malfoy, what other reason do you need?"

Draco shot Carrie an evil glare. "Actually Professor Snape was practically begging Dumbledore to let him put you in a higher class."

"Probably so he can see where I stand and start failing me," Carrie muttered. As everyone knew Professor Snape wasn't the nicest guy in the world.

"Yeah…well…you want to go get something to drink?" Draco offered.

"Nah," Carrie said after a moment or two. "I gotta go catch up with Fred and the other guys."

"I've bee meaning to ask you about him."

"About who? Fred?"

"Yeah."

"What about him?"

"Nothing really…I was just wondering what was going on between you two."

"Like…what do you mean?"

"Well…are you two dating?" Draco asked Carrie, he turned and began to make his way to the Three Broom Sticks.

"What?" Carrie exclaimed shocked.

"Dating, are you two dating?" Draco repeated his question.

"No."

"Do you want to?"

"You know you shouldn't pry, besides what's it to you?" Carrie asked placing her hands on her hips.

"Oy! Carrie!" A voice shouted from some ways down the street.

"Coming!" Carrie shouted. "Stop prying and one day you might find out." And with that Carrie scampered down the street to meet up with her friends.

Do I want to date Fred? Do I like him like that at all? Gosh, I can't believe I'm thinking about these things again, I mean my last boyfriend was Jarred and look what happened there, I got arrested, this is to much just now. Carrie was lost in thought when she finally caught up with Fred, George and Lee.

"Hey Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny want to met us at the Three Broom Sticks in about an hour then go shopping for robes," George informed Carrie.

"Alright, so…joke shop till then?"

All three boys smiled wickedly. "You know us too well," Lee stated. Carrie laughed.

"So what can we do for Halloween?" Fred wondered out loud as the small group entered the joke shop. All of them were greeted warmly by the shop owners who know knew everyone quite well.

"Ummmm…let's do something to Draco…" George began when his voice trailed off and Carrie shot him a dirty look.

"Don't go there buck-o," She warned.

"Right, sorry, so what can we do?"

"How about we do something to the punch?" Lee suggested.

"And….we need something else…that just won't do it," George told his friend.

"We could let a…" Carrie began when Fred interrupted her.

"It's been done, besides it almost killed my little brother Harry and Hermione."

"What has?" Lee asked; there had been to many times where that had happened over the years.

"A troll," Fred and Carrie answered together.

"Oh…yeah, besides they smell," George wrinkled his nose in disgust as he began to scan the shelves. Carrie joined him but was thinking of something else other than the instant goo in front of her.

"Well what if it wasn't a REAL troll, but just an image, or just a fake troll?" Carrie inquired.

"What? How can we get a fake troll?" Fred asked.

"We could transform something to just look like a troll and smell like a troll but not act as mean as a troll, like it would just wander around scarring everyone but never really hurt anyone," Carrie was getting more excited with each word as her plan formed in her mind and came together.

"Can we do that?" Lee asked.

"I don't think we can actually give something that many qualities of a troll with out it becoming one," George said sadly. "But we could put something in the punch that makes people think they see a scary troll." Carrie's eyes shown with glee at the mention of a potion.

"I can make the potion," She volunteered. "But you guys would have to help."

"You couldn't keep us away," Lee pointed out.

"He's got a point," Fred told Carrie.

"Good….let's go buy the stuff," George said grinning as they all left in search for a book of potions and the ingredients that they would need.

(ok ok I know a very short chapter, but I thought this was a good place to end and I need to go to bed…*yawn* it's late. Well I'll work on chapter 10 later and that hopefully will bring out the actual plot…so keep reading and don't lose faith in me yet…night!)