The Amazing Adventures of Aragog

And the Ravenclaw Prefect

Welcome to the Amazing Adventures of Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect!  In this collection, Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect will attempt to complete an assortment of tasks given to them by YOU, the readers!  Isn't that grand?  We'll start it off.

Mission #1

Go Trick-Or-Treating When It Is NOT Halloween

"I don't know, Aragog!  I don't think I want to come out in this costume." The Ravenclaw Prefect called from behind the bathroom door.

Aragog was standing there in his pumpkin costume waiting for the Ravenclaw Prefect to emerge.  "Come on, Ravenclaw Prefect." He said.  "This isn't something that I can just do by myself."

"Oh very well Aragog!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect as he came out of the bathroom dressed as a Slytherin Prefect.  "I'm a SLYTHERIN Prefect!  Aren't I scary?"

Aragog stared at the Ravenclaw Prefect for a minute.  "Put on that OTHER costume that you had in there."

"Fine…" said the Ravenclaw Prefect as he went back in the bathroom and then changed into his pirate costume.  But he left his Prefect badge on just in case a little Ravenclaw first year needed help finding his or her way around.  Then they were ready to go!!

"Where should we go first?" Aragog asked the Ravenclaw Prefect as the two of them walked down the hall.

"We can't go to Ravenclaw because they all know me there." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect.  "So let's go to Gryffindor since that's where all the people with names are!"

"ALL RIGHT!!!" cheered Aragog as they shuffled down the hall to the fat lady picture and knocked on it.

After waiting for a minute or two, the picture opened and Percy was standing there looking as though no one had ever knocked before, which they probably HAVEN'T since that's kind of weird when you think about it.  (He had just awakened so he had really crazy hair.)

"Um…what?" he asked.

"TRICK OR TREAT!!!" screamed Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect as they held up complimentary Ravenclaw pillowcases.

"What?" Percy repeated.

"Give us candy!" Aragog demanded.

"Fill up our Ravenclaw pillowcases!" the Ravenclaw Prefect added.

"Say…aren't you the Ravenclaw Prefect?" Percy said, pointing to the Ravenclaw Prefect.

"Every OTHER day I am!" the Ravenclaw Prefect explained.  "But today, I'm a pirate!  Now give us candy!"

"I don't have any candy." Percy replied.  "It's not Halloween."

"Then we'll have to trick you if you don't have any treats!" Aragog threatened.  Just then, Ron, Harry and Hermione came around the corner talking about a magical jewel of life and Voldemort and other kinds of suspicious things but everyone just chose to disregard them entirely since they do that all the time.

"And then the magical jewel of life with bring back this random person to life and then Voldemort will come and be the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher!!" Harry explained.

"Of COURSE!!" said Hermione knavishly.  "Why didn't I see if BEFORE?"

"Don't say that name!" whined Ron but you couldn't really understand him because his mouth was full of food and candy and not to mention the fact that you can't understand him ANYWAY.

Then they went back into the common room to get the Invisibility Cloak and walk around the school after bedtime.

Aragog, Percy and the Ravenclaw Prefect waited for a minute, trying to remember what they had been talking about prior to the arrival of the significant characters.

"Well, I'll see you later." Said Percy randomly as he slammed the picture shut and then laughed diabolically at Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect's expense.  Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect trudged off with their heads hung low until they stumbled across the Slytherin common room since they know just where it is.

They knocked on the door and it opened almost right away and Malfoy was standing there with his teeny little mouth and he was holding a Harry voodoo doll in his hand.  There was also a glare on his head so it looked like he was bald!!

"You're not Slytherins!!!" Malfoy yelled as if he were expecting a Slytherin to knock.

"I'm a RAVENCLAW!!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect proudly as he pointed to his Ravenclaw Prefect badge.

"What do you want then?" Malfoy demanded.

"Let me handle this." Said Aragog.  "Trick or treat!"

"It's not Halloween!" said Malfoy.

"We know!" said Aragog.  "Give us candy anyway!"

"Even if I HAD candy, which I DON'T, then I wouldn't give it to you!" Malfoy said, scoffing.

"Mind your tone, you're talking to a PREFECT!!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect.

"Well, they obviously let ANYONE become a Prefect nowadays…" sighed Malfoy as he turned to Crabbe and Goyle who had sort of just come out of nowhere and were now standing in the doorway guffawing.  "Who gave you permission to laugh?"

"Sorry." Said Crabbe and Goyle together.  Malfoy turned back to Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect. 

"If I ever catch you back here, I'll tell my father!" he yelled as he slammed the door similar to how Percy had done it earlier.

"Why I oughta…" said the Ravenclaw Prefect but Aragog held him back and convinced him that violence was wrong.

"Obviously going to the common rooms is not going to work." Said Aragog.  "Let's try Trick or Treating for professors now!"

"Okay Aragog!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect as they made their way to the Potions Room.  "Why are we trying Professor Snape first, Aragog?"

"Because if Professor Snape isn't impressed by a giant hairy spider dressed as a pumpkin then I don't know who will be!" Aragog chuckled and knocked on Professor Snape's door.

Less than a second later, Professor Snape whipped the door open and stood there with his eyes wide and bulging as if he were pretending to be incredibly surprised.

"May I…help you?" he asked as he tried to stare them both down.

"Trick or Treat!!" Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect shouted with their empty pillowcases held out straight.

"What are you doing wandering around?" asked Professor Snape in his chipmunky voice as he grabbed his cape and crossed his arms, entangling his cape within his intertwined arms.  "People might think you're…up to something…"

"Nothing much." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect.  "Just Trick Or Treating.  Now give us some candy!"

"Aren't you the Ravenclaw Prefect." Professor Snape asked as he observed the Ravenclaw Prefect's little badge.  "A prefect, causing a nuisance?  For shame.  Ten points from Ravenclaw!"

"What?!" the Ravenclaw Prefect yelled.  "You can't do that!!"

"You dare challenge ME?" Snape asked.  "Ten MORE points!"

"ARGH!!"

"Leave or I shall deduct even more!"

The Ravenclaw Prefect ran out of eyeshot as fast as he could, leaving Aragog to deal with the wrath of Professor Snape.

Snape eyed Aragog as if he was turned on but you know he isn't.  "You had better be out of my sight.  NOW."

"But you haven't given us any candy!" Aragog yelled.

"I don't intend to now LEAVE!!!" Snape yelled as he slammed the door JUST like Malfoy and Percy!!  And Aragog didn't see this, of course, but Snape swooped about his room like a fool before finally coming to a stop at his desk.

Aragog rounded the corner to find the Ravenclaw Prefect waiting for him with eager eyes.  Aragog shook his head and the Ravenclaw Prefect sighed.

"I don't think the teachers are a very good idea." The Ravenclaw Prefect started.  He just secretly didn't want to get any more points deducted for being foolish since he was being foolish.

"I know!" said Aragog as all eight of his eyes lit up.  "We can go to Hagrid!  He's BOUND to have candy and he'll give them to us since I'm ARAGOG!!"

"YEAH!!!" cheered the Ravenclaw Prefect AND Aragog as they both ran outside to Hagrid's house and knocked on the door.

Hagrid came to the door wearing an apron and oven mitts.  "What's going on?" he asked.

"Hagrid, it's me!  Aragog!" said Aragog.

"I hardly recognized you!!!" Hagrid gasped as he and Aragog hugged.

"Trick or treat!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect.

"It's not Halloween!" said Hagrid.

"Can you give us candy anyway?" requested Aragog.

"Well…I don't have any candy." Said Hagrid slowly.  "But I DO have a dragon egg!"

"Um…I guess that'll do…" started the Ravenclaw Prefect.

"I never said that you could HAVE it!" Hagrid yelled.  "I was just saying that I had one in my possession."

"Can we have it anyway?" Aragog asked, waving his complimentary Ravenclaw pillowcase in Hagrid's face.

"Sorry boys, but I've always wanted a dragon's egg." Said Hagrid.  Then he slammed the door on their faces.

"Why does everyone slam the door on our faces?" the Ravenclaw Prefect asked Aragog sadly.

"I don't know." Said Aragog.

"Well…what are we going to do now?" the Ravenclaw Prefect asked but before Aragog could answer, Harry, Ron and Hermione appeared out of nowhere since they had just been wearing the Invisibility Cloak.

"Carry it Ron!" Harry insisted, thrusting the cloak in his chest.

"But I ALWAYS have to carry it!" Ron whined.

"Um…okay!" said Hermione since she couldn't really understand what he was saying.  After all, he had the very same food that he had in his mouth that he had in earlier.  Then they ran over to Hagrid's house and knocked on the door.  Hagrid came to the door holding a strange animal that obviously doesn't really exist.

"Hagrid." Said Harry in the disappointed tone.

"I know what that is!" Ron exclaimed.

They all waited for a second.

"Well?" Hermione prodded.  "What is it?"

Ron looked at her and then at Harry and then at Hagrid and then back at the creature.  "How'd you get one?"

"Some random guy gave it to me for very little reason at all!" Hagrid replied.  "He had a strange jewel around his neck!!  But…I shouldn't have told you that."

"THE JEWEL OF LIFE!!!" screamed Harry, Ron and Hermione as they dashed off.

The Ravenclaw Prefect and Aragog looked at each other, shrugged and then decided to go back inside the school for no reason.

While they walked, they suddenly turned the corner to be faced with Professor Dumbledore.   "Um…trick or treat?" said the Ravenclaw Prefect since he didn't really know what else to say.

"What?" said Dumbledore.  "Is it Halloween already?"

"Yes!" said Aragog.

"In that case, here's a lemon drop for each of you." Said Dumbledore as he put a lemon drop in each of their pillowcases.  "I will have to change the decorations in the Great Hall to honor this occasion."  Then he paused.  "There.  All done."  Then he walked off.

"All right!!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect.  "We completed our mission!!"

Then they went to the Great Hall because they felt like it and saw that everything was Halloweeny.

"But it's now Halloween…" started Aragog.

Marcus Flint walked over.  "IT'S HALLOWEEN!!!" he growled in such a way so that you could see ALL his teeth.  "I'm dressed up as…MYSELF!!!"  And then he walked away.

"But we were supposed to trick or treat on a day that WASN'T Halloween!" the Ravenclaw Prefect whined.  "Now that everyone thinks that it actually IS Halloween then it's pointless since everyone's trick or treating ANYWAY."  And then they watched a bunch of first years frolic by in costume with complimentary pillowcases from their houses.

"We failed." Said Aragog.  He and the Ravenclaw Prefect bowed their heads in shame.

What will Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect's next task be?  It's all up to YOU!!  THE READERS!!!  All you have to do is review with an idea of their next task, or simply send an e-mail to us, and if we approve of it then Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect will do it!