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Chapter 10
Halloween
Only one thing was on all the Gryffindor's minds today, Halloween. Everyone in the common room were constantly asking Lily, James and the other seventh years what the plans were, as apparently the seventh years had organised something special for them. Finally, when the day arrived Lily stepped forwards in morning and said, "Listen up Gryffindors! There will be a Halloween party tonight after the feast. You'll have to make your own costumes, OR ELSE!"
Lily then walked towards Vicky and Katie who were amongst the excited mass of Gryffindors. She stopped when she got to them and they stopped their conversation.
"So, Vicky, any idea what you're gonna dress up as yet?" Lily asked Vicky who kept glancing from Lily to James and then smiling at Katie, Lily wondered what their past conversation had been about, but she shook it away as Vicky answered.
"No! I have no clue about what to dress up as! I'm hopeless at this sort of thing!" Vicky whined.
"Well your not being a devil, that's for certain!" Katie said.
"Or a vampire," Lily added.
"Thanks guys, you're a real help" Vicky said sarcastically.
"And you can't be a werewolf, skeleton or ghost!" said James, coming up behind them and making the three girls jump.
"What! Then what am I going to be?" Vicky moaned. "You've taken EVERYTHING!"
"You could always be a cat" Lily suggested.
"OK!" Vicky said happily "great idea Lils!" and with that they all hurried off to lessons.
Later they met Nearly Headless Nick, he looked very unhappy.
"Hi Nicholas" said Katie, just managing not to walk right through him, it hurt his feelings when people did that to him, she had made a mental note to be more careful after she walked through him last time, but it wasn't going to be successful as Katie was very clumsy. "You alright?"
"What? Oh it's my deathday today, that's all." He moped.
"Aw! How awful!" Lily exclaimed.
"Certainly is, imagine on Halloween to be hit forty-five times in the neck with a blunt axe and be left with half an inch of skin and sinew holding your head on" Lily and Vicky grimaced but Katie grinned and said "cool!"
"It isn't 'cool!' Miss Felton! Not only is it disgusting, it's embarrassing! Why they couldn't have chopped it the whole way off is beyond me! Then at least I could have been spared the ridicule and joined the headless hunt!" he floated still and fumed for a moment before saying "so girls, anything nice planned for tonight?" Vicky and the others panicked as they thought he had sussed our about the party.
"Err…no, just going to the feast then probably to bed, what about you?" Vicky asked.
"Well I'll probably sit and think about my death and such. Have a nice evening girls" and with that he floated away muttering about 'half an inch' and 'sir properly decapitated podmore'
"Well…that was odd!" Lily said and they hurried back to the common room to organise the party. As they climbed through the portrait hole they were hit by an immense amount of noise. Everyone was busy bustling about with costumes. The three girls immediately ran up to their dormitory to escape it.
The girls started work on their costumes, they knew that they wouldn't take that long because of the great help of magic. They used cutting spells and shimmer spells and made their costumes really spectacular. They would have missed the feast if Sirius hadn't shouted up the stairs "are you lot coming to the feast or what?"
"Yeah! Hold on!" Katie shouted down.
"Enjoy your food everyone and have a great Halloween! I want to remind you that you must all be back in your dormitories by 1 am! And I'd like to add a few things, ne jamais chatouiller un dragon endormi! EAT!" Dumbledore said before they ate. They all sat down and ate fabulous food! Pumpkin juice, cauldron cakes and lots of other things too.
Once Lily had finished she left the hall and went to go and finish her costume before everyone else came.
"Hey wait up!" a voice shouted, she turned around and saw James. She stopped and waited for him to catch up. They walked in silence up to the Gryffindor tower and then parted. Lily added the finishing touches to her costume and put it on. It was a vampire and she had a black dress on and she charmed her face to look pale and her teeth to look pointed.
When she came down she noticed the food on the table that had been brought back from the house elfs by Sirius and James no doubt. Soon all the Gryffindors joined Lily.
The common room was filled with the joyous sound of laughter. They ate and talked way into the night until Professor Dreamstone, head of Gryffindor came to see what all the noise was. Luckily they'd had a second year on guard and they had been warned before hand and they'd had time to hide and vanish the decorations. When she came in all she saw were a few crumbs on the floor and she left.
One by one the Gryffindors reappeared and decided that it was probably late enough. The seventh years sent everyone off to bed and tidied away the mess before going to bed themselves. Everyone slept in late the next day and Dumbledore smiled, he had known exactly what was going on.
