Halloween

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. When I was a kid I would always go trick or treating with my cousins, my aunt married a muggle, so he thought us about a few muggle traditions. I thought it was kind of odd, but hey, it got me sweets, and I never say no to sweets. They are probably my biggest weakness. Note to self, never tell anyone this!

But at Hogwarts, the feast will do. This year Halloween fell on a Sunday, so I spend the day with my friends outside by the lake enjoying one of the last warm days of the year. During the day I noticed Katie was a little off, she acted weird around the twins and me and stayed close to Alicia and Angelina. Maybe she was on her period or she had one of her weird girly-girl days. But now I was thinking about it, she had been acting odd for the past few days. And I've been friends with her long enough to know how she acts when she is on her period. If she was acting like this in a few days I would ask what was going on.

We made our way to the Great hall for the feast, it was great, as always. We had loads of fun and I was already looking forward to next year, which would be my very first Halloween on my own. After the feast, we returned to the Gryffindor tower, but at the last staircase, everybody stopped. What was going on? Did somebody forgot the password? Wouldn't be the first time, haha. But this was taking way too long…

"The fat lady, she's gone!" I heard someone scream.

Well, that shouldn't be a problem, she was visiting her friends all the time. But then I got a look at her portrait, it was torn…

Who would have done that? At that moment Dumbledore came. We found the fat lady a few portraits further.

"Ohh, headmaster, he was here! Sirius Black!" she yelled.

Sirius Black… in the castle, this couldn't be good.

"Everybody, back to the great hall!" Dumbledore said.

Back in the great hall, we soon got graced with the presence of the other houses.

Dumbledore got everybody a purple sleeping bag. Me and my friends searched for a place together. I made sure I had everybody in my team close to me, I didn't want them away from me in this situation, I only missed Harry, but I saw him with the twins' little brother Ron and the bushy haired girl, so I knew he would be safe.

When I was sure my team was safe I went looking for Lizzy, I had to make sure she was oke, she would be so scared right now. I saw her sitting with some of her friends at the other side of the great hall.

"Are you oke, Lizz?" I asked

I saw her friends giggling at the sight of me, but now wasn't the time to play popular boy, my sister had to be safe.

Lizzy told me that she was oke and that I should go back to my team to comfort them. I gave her a quick hug and walked back to the team.

Katie was again acting really strange towards me, when I laid my sleeping bag next to hers she immediately moved away from me closer to Angelina.

I decided that the next day I would ask Ang or Alicia what was going on with her. It took a while for everybody to fall asleep, because everybody was talking and making up theories about how Sirius Black could have entered the castle. The team and me also spend some time thinking about how he could have gotten in. Alicia was sure he was a animagus and could change into a very small animal, I thought that was bullshit, he wasn't registered as animagus, I checked the register last year and I'm really sure Sirius Black wasn't on the list. Around 11 most of the students were quite and sleeping. I listened to the breathing of the others, when suddenly Katie turned around and was laying really close to me… too close. I didn't really think about it and I put my arm around her and soon I fell asleep too.

The next morning I woke up pretty early because of the light, almost everybody was still asleep, including the team. I still had my arm around Katie and during the night she had taken hold of my hand so I couldn't move without waking her up. I kindof wanted to take my arm back because of how she acted to me yesterday. I was scared that she'd get mad at me. Carefully I removed my arm without waking her up and I got out of my sleeping bag. I decided to search for a teacher somewhere and ask how everything was now.

The moment I walked out of the great hall I walked into professor Lupin.

'Professor, did you find him?" I asked.

But Lupin shook his head.

"No, sorry lad, I'm afraid he got out of the castle."

For a moment I was too stunned to speak, how could he have gotten out of the castle without anybody seeing him, but nobody had seen him, not a student, not a professor, no ghost, not even the Dementors.

I thanked Lupin for the information and headed back to the common room, apparently none of the other portraits had wanted to take the job, but once I got there a portrait of a ridder on a fat small horse hung on the place where the Fat Lady' portrait had hung.

I hoped the old password still counted, and fortunately it did. I walked to my dorm where I saw Percy already sitting in his bed.

"Hey Perce" I greeted him.

"Oliver, how did you manage last night, my brothers and sister are oke right? I haven't had the chance to check up on them yesterday." He asked me with a sad face.

"Yeah, the twins are fine, pretty shocked like everyone else, but fine. And they checked up on Ron and Ginny, they were fine too." I reassured him.

"Thanks, I'll check up with them later too." And with that he walked out of the room.

I took a quick shower went down to the common room again, hoping that there would be some more people now. At the noticeboard I red that all classes until lunch have been cancelled, good, because I had a double potions that morning, I wasn't too sad to miss that.

I just hoped everything would get back to normal soon.