Pumpkins

It was Hallows Eve, and they entire Weasley/Potter clan were at the Burrow, getting ready to carve pumpkins. They had gone to the pumpkin patch the previous day, and were now ready to carve some very scary faces!

"Mines gonna be so scary!" Rosie exclaimed. "No one's even gonna wanna come up to my house!"

"Then we can have all the treats!" Hugo exclaimed excitedly. "Mine's gonna be scary too!"

"Well mines gonna be a happy smiley face." Victoire said.

"Ewe, why?" Dominique exclaimed in disgust. "That's not Halloweenie!"

"Halloweenie?" Molly questioned and Dom just glared at her.

"It could be a word!" Dom defended.

"Well what are you gonna do?" Victoire asked Dominique, going back to their earlier conversation.

"It's a surprise." Dom said with a smirk.

"Whatever." Victoire turned away from Dom, and looked at Lily who was seated at her right. "What are you gonna do, Lily?"

"Daddy's gonna help me!" Lily said excitedly. "I want a happy face!" Lily bounced on the chair she was currently standing on, and Victoire placed a hand on the chair.

"Be careful, Lily-love." Victoire told her with a smile. "And I think that that is a wonderful idea."

"I just wanna eat the pumpkin seeds!" Lucy said excitedly. "They're so good!"

"Yeah they are!" Roxanne agreed. "I'm gonna do a Quidditch pitch on my pumpkin!"

"That has nothing to do with Halloween!" Fred argued, but Roxanne just raised her eyebrows.

"So? I like Quidditch, so that's what I'm gonna do." Roxanne told him.

"No Quidditch." Angelina told her daughter ruefully as she walked over to the table. "Muggles are going to see these pumpkins."

"Fine." Roxanne murmured darkly.

"Do a scarecrow, or a bat, or a black cat!" Angelina suggested. "You could do a witch on a broom, since Muggles think that witches have some stupid thing to do with Halloween." Angelina looked as if this deeply offended her, before she smiled and was on her way again.

"I wanna do a black cat!" Rosie exclaimed. "I'll have a black cat and a witches hat on mine!"

"I don't know what to do with mine!" Albus fretted. "I don't have any ideas!"

"You should do something that you like." Teddy told his little brother.

"What are you gonna do, Teddy?" James asked.

"A werewolf." Teddy told him, and James smiled, knowing what that meant to Teddy.

"Cool." James told him, before turning back to his pumpkin that he was drawing on.

"What are you doing?" Fred asked James curiously.

"I'm outlining what I'm gonna do." James told him as he began to worry his bottom lip. "I want it to be perfect!"

"What's it gonna be?" Fred asked.

"I'm telling you!"

"Why's everyone being so secretive?" Rose asked. "I told everyone what I was doing. Maybe if we all said what we were doing, ideas would fly."

"I don't know…" James looked over at his cousin. "Most of your ideas seem to backfire."

"They do not!" Rose exclaimed, suddenly looking angry.

"Yes they do!" James egged Rosie on, knowing she had the Weasley women temper.

"You're so stupid, James! You always find some reason to pick on me, and it pisses me off!" Rose glared at him, before turning back to her pumpkin.

"Oh Rosie, don't be like that." James said with a smirk, but Rose didn't answer him, she didn't even look up. "Rosie…" James called in a singsong voice, but she still ignored him. Everyone laughed.

"Haha, James!" Louis mocked him, and James stuck his tongue out at him.

"She'd ignore you too if she was smart!" James told Louis, before turning back to his own pumpkin, and beginning to draw some more.

"This is boring!" Roxanne exclaimed after a while of everyone just working silently on their pumpkins. Everyone was gathered around the table, even the adults to assist the little ones, yet things were almost silent. "We need to talk!"

"What do you wanna talk about, Roxie?" Lucy asked.

"This stuff is so icky!" Victoire all of a sudden exclaimed, and everyone looked over at her. She blushed. "It is!"

"Yes it is!" Molly agreed. "It's too sticky!"

"I wonder what it tastes like," Fred said absently, and he grabbed a bit of Pumpkin gut and shoved it in his mouth.

"Ewe!" Almost everyone exclaimed, but Fred just smiled.

"It's not half bad!" Fred exclaimed and he took a little more. "Not what you'd expect."

"Well they do use this stuff to make different foods with." Grandmum told the kids. "What do you expect it to taste like?" She bustled around the kitchen, making a bunch of patches of pumpkin, chocolate chip cookies, and cooking the pumpkin seeds as well.

"True." Fred nodded. "It's almost addicting."

"Well I don't want you eating tons of it." Angelina told him.

"I think I'm gonna try." James said, and he grabbed a bunch, and then ate it quickly. "I agree with Fred, not that bad."

"That's nasty, James!" Rose exclaimed, before quickly covering her mouth.

"You talked to me!" James exclaimed. "You talked to me!"

"Ugh!" Rose glared at him. "Not on purpose!"

"You still talked to me though!" James mocked her. "Oh don't be so mad at me all the time."

"Then don't do stupid stuff!" Rose told him seriously, and James just smirked.

"Well since most of the stuff I do is stupid…" He let his voice trail away, and Rose just looked away.

A few hours later, the pumpkins were mostly done. A few kids were still finishing up, but for the most part, they were done. They had all the pumpkins lined up, in a line from the oldest to youngest jack-o-lantern carver, on the kitchen table. They had taken many picture of all the pumpkins together, and now they were waiting for their treat to be done.

The seeds were already done, and Lucy had finished off most of them by herself easily. Audrey too loved them, for she had fond memories of eating them from her childhood. It was a Muggle tradition that Hermione and Audrey had introduced to the family long ago.

"Well look at them all." Grandmum smiled as she looked over all thirteen pumpkins. The last one had been finished and the cookies had just come out of the oven. One cooling charm, and they were quickly devoured by everyone. "They look wonderful."

"Yes they do." Granddad agreed. "Everyone kneel in front of your pumpkin and we'll take a picture!" He instructed.

Everyone scrambled to their pumpkin, before smiling up at the camera.

"Smile!"

-finished-