Chapter 17
Trick or Treat?

It had been two weeks since Jamie and Romeo had served their detention polishing trophies. Halloween had finally arrived. There were rumors that the Halloween Feast would be replaced with a Ball, but McGonagall had confirmed that this was not true, but that there would be a Ball right before Christmas Break in December.

Jamie and Romeo's relationship was still secret, and it seemed that Professor Lupin had been thinking a lot about his conversation with Romeo and Jamie. This was apparent... Jamie, who was used to being called to the front of the Defense Against the Dark Arts Class to demonstrate a spell, had only been called up once in the past two weeks. Romeo hadn't been called up at all.

It had also been two weeks since Jane and Joseph got back together. Two days after they made up, nearly everyone in the school knew that the "Head Couple" had gotten back together. Jamie hadn't seen Jane so happy then she did in the past couple of weeks. Even her schoolwork had improved. Though this didn't say much as Jane had always done good with her schoolwork. Jamie had assigned one more Quidditch Practice and, right off the bat, Jamie knew Joseph had gotten better because of the fact he had gotten back with Jane. In fact, the only times Jane and Joseph were not together, was when they were either in bed or in class. They had even done their Head Boy and Girl duties together, and most of the students in the halls could get away with anything because the Head couple were too busy talking to each other.

Halloween had finally come and Jamie was still asleep in her bed with daylight had entered the dormitory. She was only woken up when she heard voices coming from around her bed. Hoping she could get some more sleep, she closed her eyes.

"Oh, just let her sleep," Alice said, barely above a whisper.

"She's had enough sleep," Jane said, "Besides, it is Halloween. She can't over-sleep on my favorite holiday!"

Even though Jamie pretended to be asleep, she still heard the curtains around her bed open.

"Oh, Jane, don't do that!" Alice said.

"Agua..."

"Don't even think about it," Jamie said, opening her eyes.

Jane had her wand in her hand. She jumped back at the sound of Jamie's voice.

"Holy Merlin, Jamie!" Jane gasped, "You nearly gave me a heart attack!"

"Serves you right," Jamie said, getting farther under her covers.

"Come on, get up!" Jane said, "It is Halloween! We always have fun on Halloween. This is our day to have fun and not get in trouble for it."

"The Head Girl actually wants to be the one who is causing the mischief?" Jamie asked, "That is... shocking. Besides, I thought you would want to spend the day with Joey again."

"I can spend the day with both of you, can't I?" Jane asked.

Jamie didn't answer this. She had been hoping she could somehow spend the day with Romeo. They hadn't had alone time in a while now.

"I don't want to intrude, Jane," said Jamie, "And besides... spending all day with you... when everytime I see you and Joseph, you two are glued by the mouth? No, I will pass."

Jane blushed and said nothing.

"Fine, fine, I will get up," Jamie said, pushing her covers off of her.

Jamie quickly dressed and walked with Jane and Alice down to the Common Room. They met up with Joseph (whom was greeted by Jane with a kiss) and walked out of the Gryffindor Common Room.

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When Jamie and the gang had entered the Great Hall, the Halloween decorations were already being set up for the big feast that night. Candle-lit pumpkins hung with no support above the four House tables. A few of the live bats were already flying around the Hall, annoying the few owls who had already made their way in for mail duty. Jamie even spotted Nearly-Headless Nick popping out from the tables, trying to scare the students who were eating breakfast. But, unfortunately for Nick, all he was doing was causing laughter.

"Heh, it looks like Nick is still trying to get into the Headless Hunt!" Joseph said, smirking, "Looks like Sir Patrick has asked Nick to see if he can scare us again."

And sure enough, when Jamie and her friends sat down at the table, Nick popped up and un-latched his head from his neck.

"Nick, that didn't scare us back in first year," Joseph said, "And it isn't going to scare us today."

"Can't you at least act scared?" Nick said, grimly, "Just this once. Patrick announced last night that they were going to play 'Bobbing for Heads' today and I really want to join!"

"And how, may I ask, are you going to bob for your head?" Joseph said.

"Hmmph!" Nick said, "You may be Head Boy, but you are still have the same attitude you did back in first year!"

Nick floated away. Joseph laughed as Nick failed once again at trying to scare one of the second years.

"Will he ever learn?" Joseph said.

"I don't think so," Jamie said, watching Nick leave the Great Hall. As Nick left, Jamie noticed that Romeo had entered. He gave her a small smirk, and Jamie smirked back affectionately.

"What are you smirking at, Jamie?" Jane said.

"Huh... oh, uh, nothing," Jamie said.

"Uh-huh," Jane said.

"A girl can smirk if she wants, can't she?" Jamie asked.

"You were smirking at Romeo," Jane said.

"No I was not!" Jamie said, quickly, "I... was smirking at Nick. He tried to scare Romeo! I thought it was funny."

"Uh-huh," Jane said.

Jamie rolled her eyes. Jane wasn't going to believe her, she just knew it. Besides, she knew Jane would eventually see what was under her nose, and see that Jamie was going out with Romeo. Jamie knew this, but she still smiled at the fact that even the proclaimed "brightest witch of her age" wasn't smart enough to realize her cousin and best friend had someone to... in her own words, write notes to.

"Hey, did you hear?" Joseph said, "The Weird Sisters are re-uniting just this once to sing at our feast tonight! I cannot wait for that!"

"Really?" Jane said, "That won't be something to miss. Can you believe it has been nearly five years since they had broken up?"

"I remember when they broke up, Jane," Jamie smirked, "You were sitting in our dormitory and wouldn't come out cause you were so mad."

"Hey, they were my favorite band!" Jane said, "Hey, Jamie! Isn't that Ares?"

"Huh?" Jamie said, looking around the ceiling of the Great Hall.

At once, she noticed her owl, Ares, flying through the air among the bats with a letter tied to her leg. Ares swooped down and landed beside the plate of bacon.

"Thanks, Ares," Jamie said, untying the piece of parchment. Ares then flew off.

"Who is it from?" Jane said.

"I don't know, hold on," Jamie said. Jamie looked at the letter and, at once, noticed Romeo's hand-writing.

"I... have to go somewhere," Jamie said, "Talk to you guys later."

Ignoring the complaints from Jane, Joseph and Alice, Jamie got up and walked out of the Great Hall. She then walked over to the steps and sat down, then opened the letter again.

Dear Jamie,

I know we haven't spent much time together in the past couple of weeks and I apologize. I really want to make up for that. I was thinking of ditching my friends and walking around the lake. Are you up for it? If so, meet me out in the Entrance Hall after breakfast.

Love,

Romeo

Jamie smiled and folded the piece of parchment, then pocketed it.

"So, is that a yes?" a voice said.

Jamie looked up. Romeo was standing in the doorway of the Great Hall.

"Of course," Jamie said, smiling. She stood up, walked over to Romeo and kissed him on the cheek.

"Good, I have been looking for an excuse to get away from those dolts," Romeo said, "Jasmine won't shut up and it annoys me."

"Does she know you were the one who cursed her?" Jamie said.

"No, not yet," Romeo said, taking Jamie's hand and leading her though the front door of Hogwarts, to the Hogwarts Grounds.

Jamie and Romeo walked down to Hagrid's hut and walked around it. They heard grunting and noticed that Hagrid was looking through his pumpkins.

"Come on," whispered Jamie, "I don't want Hagrid to see us..."

Too late. Hagrid turned around just as Romeo and Jamie were walking by.

"Oh, hullo Jamie," Hagrid said, "Who's that...? Romeo Malfoy?"

"Yeah, uh, we were just talking a walk," Jamie said.

"Oh, are you an' Romeo..." Hagrid said, "There were rumors that you were together."

"Rumors?" Jamie said, "Who told you these rumors?"

"Jasmine Nott," Hagrid said.

Jamie and Romeo looked at each other.

"Oh, but I have not told a soul," Hagrid said, quickly, "I thought it was jus' a rumor."

"I knew this would happen," Jamie said.

"What'sa matter?" Hagrid said, "Has Jasmine bin causin' trouble?"

"Not yet," Jamie said, putting the emphasis on the word "yet".

"Well, we are going to leave you, Hagrid," Romeo said, "Looks like you are busy."

"Yeah, I got these extra pumpkins fer tonight's feast," Hagrid said, "Most of em' are fer decorations, but a few are going down to the elves. These will make the bes' Pumpkin Juice and Pumpkin Pie 'round. I can guarantee dat."

"Can't wait Hagrid," Jamie said, motioning for Romeo to leave.

Romeo got the picture and he and Jamie left and walked around the forest to the edge of the lake.

"Can you believe that?" Jamie said, "First Lupin and now Jasmine and Hagrid knows."

"Doesn't matter that much to me," said Romeo, "Who cares if people see us holding hands and snogging. I couldn't care less what they think."

"Good, because soon the whole school is going to know," a voice said.

Romeo and Jamie turned around. Jasmine Nott was standing there.

"You little..." Romeo began.

"Ah, ah, ah," interrupted Jasmine, "Haven't you learned? It isn't nice to swear in front of your girlfriend. And speaking of which... Potty, how are you this fine Halloween?"

"Actually I was doing pretty well," Jamie said, through gritted teeth, "Then I was rudely interrupted. Tell me, Jasmine, how is single life suiting you."

"I wouldn't know, Potter," Jasmine said, "When Joey broke up with me, well, I just moved on... to bigger and better things. Oh, Cope... come here, won't you?"

"Zabini?" Romeo mouthed.

Suddenly, Copernicus Zabini revealed himself from his invisibilty cloak. Jamie knew who this boy was. He was the Keeper for the Slytherin team, and also a seventh year.

"Cope, you are going out with Jasmine?" Romeo said.

"Duh, Romeo," Copernicus said.

"You see, Romeo," Jasmine said, "When you and I were dating, I was also snogging Cope on the side. Looks like I found myself a Keeper."

Copernicus laughed dully at Jasmine's joke. Jamie just rolled her eyes.

"You were supposed to be my friend, Cope!" Romeo said.

"Your friend?" Copernicus said, "I don't want to be friends with a guy who is spending his free time snogging Gryffindors."

"Oh, but didn't you know, Cope," Jamie said, "Your own girlfriend was snogging a Gryffindor on her free time. Or are you too thick to realize it?"

"Potter, don't you get it," Jasmine said, "I was using Joey to get to you and Romeo."

"He WAS under an Imperius Curse!" Jamie said, shocked, "You little..."

"Ah ah ah," Jasmine said again, "Let me finish. You see, I knew Romeo was snogging you in his free time. And I knew that this information could have been used to black-mail you. But I wanted something more. I wanted to get at one of your friends... then it came to me. Why get at one of your friends... when I can get at two? So I went and had a little talk with the Head Boy and in the end, he couldn't help but fall in love with me. He may be Head Boy and a Professor's son, but he was too thick to even realize he was under the Imperius Curse. Even his father believed him when he said he wasn't under the curse. But then, of course he gets hit with that Bludger and the Imperius Curse wore off. But I had already done enough damage."

"It didn't work, Nott," Jamie, "Joseph and Jane and still together."

"Potter, I didn't care anymore about Lupin and his Half-Blood girlfriend," Jasmine said, "Why do you think I confronted you outside the Hospital Wing?"

"That didn't work either, Nott," Jamie said.

"You got lucky, Potter," Nott said, "You are just like your father. You have learned to slither out of things easily. And you have your friends to help you. But that ends now..."

"Jamie, get out of the way!" Romeo said.

Jasmine whipped her wand out of her pocket. "Sectumsempra!" she yelled.

Jamie dove just in time. She took her wand from her pocket and pointed it at Jasmine. "Expelliarmus!" she yelled.

The spell missed.

"Ha!" Jasmine laughed, "You need to learn to concentrate, Potty! Even a lousy Disarming Spell missed!"

"And you need to learn to watch your back, Nott," a voice said behind Jasmine.

Jasmine turned around. Jamie saw Cope standing with his wand pointing at Jasmine.

"Cope?" Jasmine said.

"Stupefy!" Copernicus said.

The spell hit Jasmine square in the chest. She fell to the ground, stunned.

"What is going on?" Jamie said, looking from Cope, to Jasmine, then to Romeo.

"I guess I am single again," Copernicus said, "Ah, well... I have to make some sacrifices."

"Sacrifices?" Jamie said, "Romeo, what is going on?"

"Well, let's just say Jasmine got a little trick when she was hoping for a treat," Romeo smirked, "I had to get back at Jasmine, Jamie, and I knew she could hurt you. So I told Cope here about us, and our little feud with Jasmine."

"You told your best friend about us?" Jamie asked, "Why?"

"I had to, Jamie," Romeo said, "It is the only way I could get Jasmine to leave us alone."

"Well, I guess I can't stay mad at you for that," Jamie said. She picked herself off the ground and walked over to Romeo, then kissed him.

"Well, I guess I should leave you two alone," Copernicus said, "I am going to take Nott up to the Hospital Wing. I'll just tell Madam Pomfrey that Jasmine tripped and knocked herself out. She will believe me."

Copernicus conjured a stretcher and lifted Nott onto it. He walked with the Stretcher back towards the forest and out of sight.

"So you aren't mad at me?" Romeo asked.

"Mad?" Jamie said, "No... besides, Jasmine deserved it. And you deserve this."

Jamie grabbed Romeo around the waist and kissed him again.

Jamie and Romeo took their long-awaited walk around the lake and spent time with each other until the sun was nearly behind the horizon.

I know, I didn't put the Halloween Feast in, but I couldn't think of any more. I had loads of references in this chapter though. And it was exciting wasn't it?

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