Hey everyone. This is another chapter of Little Moments. This was written for Fortnightly Challenges Thread's Leaf Pile Challenge. I used the Green (settings) prompt of Hogsmeade. This is Bellatrix's first trip to Hogsmeade. I hope you all enjoy Hogsmeade Trip.

An air of pure excitement is exuding from Bellatrix Black as she dresses on the first Saturday she able to visit the village beyond the great castle's walls. She's been dreaming of this day for almost two years and can hardly contain herself. Pulling on a light sweater in the Slytherin colors over her light green tee shirt she admires her look in the mirror.

"Bella," exclaims her best friend, Beatrice, as she runs over and stands next Bellatrix in front of the mirror, "are you excited about going to Hogsmeade? What do you want to do first?"

Bellatrix finds she can't keep up with the flood of questions that her excited friend is spouting off at her. She laughs as she tells the other girl to slow down a little as the two make their way down to the Great Hall for breakfast.

There is a buzz of activity in the Great Hall today because all the third year students are talking about the prospects of what could happen in Hogsmeade. Bellatrix can't help the smile taking over her face as she sits down at the Slytherin table and helps herself to a bit of toast with eggs and bacon. She wants to get breakfast over with so she can go and explore this new site that's now open to her.

"Slow down, kid" says one of the older students as he laughs at her antics. "Hogsmeade's been there for generations. It ain't going no where." He turned back to his friends laughing and gesturing at Bellatrix and the rest of the third years.

"Why are they laughing?" someone groused nearby. "They must have been like this on their first trip to Hogsmeade. Right?"

Bellatrix heard someone agree as she got up and made her way out of the Great Hall to wait for the long awaited trip to Hogsmeade. Soon enough she was joined by the rest of the school that were allowed to go to Hogsmeade. She smiled excitedly at Beatrice as they all made the walk from the school to the village.

"What do you want to do first?" Beatrice asked.

"Let's go to Honeyduke's," suggested Bellatrix. She had heard that they had some of the best candy at Honeydukes. Her father had even brought some home for her and her sister after one of his trips to Hogsmeade.

"I heard they have some of the best candy there," was the reply. "Have you ever had any? My Papa and Mama usually bring some home when they come here for work."

"Me too."

The sweets shop was easy for the little girls to locate it was the shop clustered with students. Pushing her way through the throng of students to get in the door Bellatrix couldn't help stare in shock at all the candy. If she'd have known there was this much candy here she'd have insisted that Papa always bring back more. She raced around to all the shelves and began shoveling candy in a bag.

"Slow down, young lady," came a older voice from behind her, "you don't want to spend all you're money in one place. Now do you?"

Bellatrix blinked up at the old man but knew that he probably was right. She stopped shoveling candy into her bag and went to pay. The next thing she knew she was being drug off down the street by Beatrice to Zonkos.

"I didn't know that you were a prankster," Bellatrix remarked. "My cousin Sirius thinks himself quite the prankster. You two would definitely get along great when he gets to Hogwarts."

Beatrice blushed a little. It was a known fact that the other girl had a crush on her cousin Sirius so Bellatrix made it a point to bring him up in every conversation just to get a reaction out of her friend.

"Bella," her friend chided, "you did that just to get a reaction from me. Didn't you?"

Bellatrix laughed as she followed the other girl around the joke shop. She could picture this being one of her younger cousin's favorite places to visit once he was able to. She decided to pick something up for Sirius. She ended up buying him a couple of trick trinkets and some fake blood. She knew full well that Sirius would give poor Aunt Walburga fits but she didn't really care. She knew this would make her little cousin very happy.

The girls ended up going to Three Broomsticks and buying drinks as their time in Hogsmeade dwindled down. There were still things that Bellatrix wanted to explore at Hogsmead but there was always next she thought as they made the walk back Hogwarts.

I hope you all enjoyed Hogsmeade Trip.