Author: I do not own anything in this story including (many) characters, (Few) phrases, (most) words, (Lotsa) inanimate objects, ETC.
=Chapter 18=
"Finally," James muttered after taking a long bath, "I get to rest." His whole day was packed with Quidditch Practice, Homework, Pranking, Homework, more pranking, ETC. He shut his eyes when-
"POTTER!" Lily slammed his door open. Taking a cursory look around his room, she found him getting ready for some rest and quickly turned her head away, "Honestly! Couldn't you wear something more when you go to sleep.
James looked down at his pajamas (A/K/A his boxers), and then got up to get some pants on, "Well maybe if you knocked. Besides, I did change what I wear! When I was in the Gryffindor Tower I'd sleep nude."
Lily turned back to look, "But what if Lupin, or Black, or Pettigrew had to wake you up in the morning and in the night you kicked off your blankets?"
"That's happened," He answered looking for a nice shirt, "and man were those uncomfortable mornings!"
"ANYWAY!" She rolled her eyes and moved strait to the topic, "Are we going to do anything for Halloween? It'd be nice due to the fact that this year, Halloween falls on a Saturday."
"Something memorable, right?" He asked. She nodded, "I GOT IT!"
"Really?" She pulled out a spare bit of parchment and dabbed a quill in his ink bottle. Getting ready to write, she looked up, "What do you got? Nothing with too much money though. We'll need the money for dances!"
"This won't take up much money, in fact barely any money at all!" He answered joyfully, "Let's go out on a date."
"Idiot!" She yelled.
"I'm just kidding, just kidding!" He said quickly so she wouldn't leave, "What do muggles do on Halloween?"
She smiled to herself, "It's stupid really. Most children dress up in costumes and go door to door saying the phrase, 'Trick or Treat.' Adults answer the doors and give them candy."
"It sounds like a paradise to Children," He thought for a moment, "But why do they do that?"
"Most children don't remember… In fact I don't remember the whole story," She answered truthfully, "I don't remember the reason for Halloween, but the reason that Muggles dress up is to scare away ghosts, or witches… But eventually their costumes became princesses… or fairies. Now they say Trick or Treat expecting a Treat, and if they don't get one, they'd just move to a different house. In reality, if they don't get a treat, they give the owner a trick."
"Trick or Treat?" He thought, "I think I should use that phrase against a few of our teachers."
"Whatever," She said heading for the door, "I'll see you tomorrow. Everything consists of using up money, and we don't want that. Oh well, we'll just get something ready for Thanksgiving or something."
After Lily left, James tried to get some shut eye, but couldn't. So he got up and walked to that parchment that Lily got ready to write something.
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"This year we're going to Celebrate Halloween an interesting way with a day filled with Madness!" Lily read one of the many posters that was put up three days later. Running to the Great Hall, she found James sitting with the rest of the Marauders. "James. What's with these posters?"
"I asked Dumbledore about something, he agreed, and we're going to Celebrate Halloween," He answered, buttering his bacon and bacon-ing his sausage (Phrase gotten from the Simpsons).
"How, exactly?" She asked, looking in disgust at how he ate eggs, bacon, and sausage.
"You'll see," He answered, buttering his eggs as well.
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3 Days before Halloween, Lily sat in the Gryffindor Common Room, doing homework with Belle and Ness.
"I seriously don't know what James is up to," Lily said, thinking a moment, "I hope it's nothing bad."
"And what if it's something sweet?" Ness asked, raising an eyebrow, "Like posting up a poster in the middle of the great hall that says, 'I love Lily E?'"
"Yeah," Belle agreed, "or showering the halls with lilies as he sings here comes Santa Claus."
"Ness, that's sick. Belle, that'd just be scary," Lily said gathering up her books, "I guess we'll just have to wait and see…"
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1 Day before Halloween.
The students were hyper due to the fact that it was Friday. By the end of the day, the students practically waltzed around the school after finding out there was no homework for the weekend.
"What are you planning? I just want to know!" Lily bothered James one last time.
"It's a secret," He answered the same way he did for the past 2 days.
"Fine, fine," She held her hand up in a surrender, "I give up! I'll just wait and see!"
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Crowds of students first through seventh year stood at the doors to the Great Hall. Lily fought her way to the front to see what the problem was, and found James grinning. After they made eye contact, James faced the crowds and yelled, "THIS HALLOWEEN, WE'LL CELEBRATE LIKE SOME MUGGLES DO! AS SOON AS YOU STEP PAST THE DOORS, YOUR ROBES WILL CHANGE INTO THAT OF A COSTUME THAT YOU'D LIKE BEST. YOU ONLY HAVE 1 HOUR TO EAT BREAKFAST. AFTER THAT GIVEN HOUR, THE DOORS, AND WINDOWS WILL LOCK. THE CURTAINS WILL CLOSE, AND ALL LIGHTS WILL GO OFF. HOGWARTS WILL BE PITCH BLACK. NO LIGHTING CHARMS WILL WORK, AND YOU'LL HAVE TO FIND YOUR WAY THROUGH HOGWARTS A/K/A THE HAUNTED CASTLE IF YOU WILL!"
The crowds applauded, and Lily smiled at the idea. Not only was it clever, but instead of using money, all it really used was, was spells.
"THEN, AFTER EVERYONE RETURNS TO THEIR COMMON ROOM, THE LIGHTS WILL GRADUALLY GO BACK ON, AND YOU WE'LL PLAY A BIG GAME OF HIDE AND GO SEEK WHERE THE PERFECTS AND HEAD BOY AND HEAD GIRL," Lily stood next to James and they both took a bow, "WILL TRY AND FIND YOU! IF WE FIND YOU, YOUR COSTUME WILL CHANGE AND YOU WILL BE GIVEN A BUTTON THAT SHOWS YOU WERE ALREADY FOUND. SINCE THERE ARE SO MANY OF YOU, THAT WILL TAKE UP TILL LUNCH. LUNCH WILL BE THE SAME AND EVERYTHING WILL STAY THE SAME UNTIL AFTER DINNER. WE WILL ALL THEN TRICK OR TREAT UP UNTIL 9:00!"
Everyone cheered and entered through the doors. Costumes changed into different things, as James promised. Lily being turned into Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, Belle being changed into a Gypsy, Ness being changed into a Renaissance Princess, Remus becoming a Pirate, Peter turning into a peanut M&M, Sirius becoming a hobo, and James becoming a Jester. The hall burst out in laughter as the Slytherins entered. Each one turning into something horrible (A doll, dog, Fairy King, Go-go dancer) and especially at Snape who was a ballerina.
Barely anyone was done when the lights went out. Things began to pop out like Ghosts or Spells. A magic were wolf, and a few magic vampires flew around causing people to scream. After 30 minutes, Lily made it back to the Heads tower and found James sitting around.
"James Potter, I applaud you! This is fantastic! I can't believe you did this for the school," She yelled dancing around the room in her ruby-red shoes.
"That's right," He clapped his hands to the beat she was going at, "DANCE FOR ME!"
Lily laughed and danced around the room singing, 'we're off to see the wizard,' or 'ding dong the witch is dead!'
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At eight, groups of friends walked around the castle knocking on classroom doors, having teachers answer and give them candy. Students laughed at what the teachers were dressed as.
At 8:20, Sirius, James, Remus, and Peter left the girls to go off into their own little world.
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After returning to their towers, Lily poured her sack - of - candy out on the common room floor. James tapped her on the shoulder and they combined their candy pile to make an ultra candy pile.
"Where'd you go while we were trick-or-treating?" Lily asked, while eating some candy.
"No where in particular," He answered taking a chocolate bar.
"You missed one thing in this whole day, sadly," Lily said, getting up. "Is there a way that we could get all the students into the great hall one last time?"
"Of course, just ask Dumbledore, but what do you have in plan?"
"It's a secret," Lily winked and headed for the door, "Go and get Dumbledore for me."
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Everyone met back in the Great hall, most of them taking their candy with them.
Lily got to the front, and after James sat down at the Gryffindor table began to speak, "Before you all go to sleep, I just wanted to tell you a story that I found in a hidden diary I found in the Library. Is it true? I'll answer that later. Do you have to believe it? That's up to you."
She began to walk around the tables, "This is a story about Leila Duncan who went to this school about 47 years ago… maybe more, maybe less. I found her diary, and this is it," She pulled out a large black-leathered book. It looked quite old, in fact it was pretty much falling apart, "Now I will tell you all some of the passages I read," She flipped a few pages and began.
"Everyone is making fun of me. They won't leave me alone. I just, I can't stand it. I'll kill them if I have to… I'll kill me… I'll kill whoever's looking into my private thoughts," Lily stopped to look up at the students. They weren't eating candy anymore, they stopped moving as much. Lily then flipped a few pages and pointed at a random article, beginning to read.
"My hair is now turning blood red…the color the teacher was when I killed him just a few minutes ago… he embarrassed me in front of the class, asking me a question I told him I didn't know and he still kept asking. The class laughed at me… and I'm going to kill them all… their death will be their apology. If someone ever hears my story and laughs at me… I'll personally take my hands and pull out their hearts, putting it on my wall… by my collection of everyone who I hate… or hated."
Lily looked up again and pulled out a quill. Walking back to the front, she turned the book back to the back page and told them, "This is the interesting part. I write something in, even if it doesn't have ink on my quill, she'll reply… I'm not sure how, but it's been working for as long as I found it. Shall we try asking it something?"
The hall burst out in small suggestions when Lily held a hand to silence them. Lifting her quill, she said aloud, "I heard the suggestion, 'What's going to happen to us now?'" She scribbled into the diary and waited, "Here's the reply: I roam the halls on the day of my death. Those who read it on that day will be the ones tortured. Be lucky as you may, for if you truly are lucky today isn't the day of my death." Lily looked up, "Any more suggestions?"
A first year Slytherin raised his hand, Lily pointed at him and he asked the question everyone was thinking, "What was the day of your death?"
Lily scribbled into the paper. Waiting a bit while twirling the quill through her fingers she eventually looked up, "Here's the reply: The day of my death is the day of unlucky, for this day filled with sadness is," Lily's eyes widened and she dropped her quill. Taking a big gulp she said loud enough for the hall to hear, "All Hallows Eve."
"The hall was still, and Lily looked up. Staring at each one of the students she murmured the word, "Run." And they did as they were told.
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"Today on November first," Dumbledore looked at the students the next day, "Marks a beautiful day. Feel free to roam the school yards. But let us first thank the Heads. James Potter, well done on the plan you pulled that kept us all entertained for the whole day. And Ms. Lily Evans," He smiled at her.
Lily smiled back and said so everyone could here, "Making up stories on Halloween was always my strong point. What did you guys think?"
"WAIT A MINUTE!" Amos Diggory stood up and looked strait at Lily, "You made that story up? The story that made barely any one sleep due to the fact that your story haunted us?"
Lily nodded and smiled back at him.
The hall erupted in applause for her job well done.
"And now," Dumbledore silenced the plaudits, "Have a great Sunday!"
=End Chapter=
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