Chapter 12: Halloween
"Hugo!" Rose said, looking at Hugo's astonished face.
"H-how do you know about this place?" Hugo said.
Jamie shrugged "I actually have no idea what this place is," he said.
Hugo looked around the room.
"Well, you haven't done much damage," he said, peering around the room, "You have to go now, and don't repeat anything you saw," he said, pushing the four through the wall and back into the library. They were all sprawled across the library floora after being pushed to the other side. "What was that about?" Pip asked as they got up slowly.
"It's best not to question it," Rose lied, patting her robes to make sure the book was still in there.
"It is Halloween," Albus said, "We should probably be in the Great Hall soon."
"Oh yeah!" Jamie said, jumping to his feet and running out of the library.
Albus, Pip, and Rose followed him until they were in the Gryffindor Common Room.
In the Common Room, Rose was trying to comb her tangled bushy hair so that she could tie it back. She tied a ribbon around it, but her hair was too strong and the ribbon sprang out. She sighed and put her black Halloween cloak over her regular robes, and pulled the hood over her head. Pip and Albus put on their Halloween cloaks, and they were sitting around the fire waiting for Jamie when he finally came out. He was wearing a purple cloak and carrying a large toad.
"Jamie! You can't wear that!" said Pip, jumping back at his resemblance of Alamaster Gold.
"Why not?" Jamie asked loudly.
Albus pointed his wand at Jamie, and the cloak turned black and the toad disappeared. Jamie sighed and pulled the hood over his head as they walked down to the Great Hall.
The Great Hall was decorated with many floating pumpkins and the tables had miniature skeletons that were dancing and talking to all of the other students. Bragwond was strolling around, his beard in two braids and wearing a royal blue Halloween cloak, adding new skeletons to the tables with a flick of his wand. Rose laughed as a skeleton started singing and tap dancing and ran over to the Hufflepuff table to show Marcie.
"Marcie, did you see the skeletons?" Rose asked once she had gotten there.
"I don't think that is very funny," Marcie said firmly.
"What?" Rose laughed, pushing Marcie's shoulder, "You think everything is funny!"
"Stop that!" Marcie yelled, swatting Rose's hand away harshly.
Rose looked down. First Hugo, now Marcie? How many more friends can I lose? She thought as she walked back to the Gryffindor table, turning her head to see Marcie walking to the Hufflepuff Common Room. She turned her head around and pulled a string of curly hair that had escaped from her cloak back behind her ear. When were things ever going to change?