All a Dream

Chapter 20

In Charms class, which was first on Fridays, Harry's class was set the task of levitating the giant pumpkins in the Great Hall for the feast, and creating an invisible barrier above the four tables that neither the live bats nor their guano could cross. Each of the students were told to carry umbrellas for this task to protect themselves. Harry and Drake Malfoy ended up helping each other: Harry couldn't levitate one of the biggest pumpkins by himself, and Drake was being dive-bombed by a really obnoxious ghost bat. In a weird way, this seemed to bond the two (in a completely platonic way, of course.)
Herbology, which was second, was easier but slightly boring. All that needed to be done was take notes on certain fertilizers and their specific uses. Homework was reading and taking more notes.

One thing Harry had learned on his first week in school was that hardly anyone ate lunch in the Great Hall. Most people went there to see if a teacher could help them with an assignment. So Harry collected together some tasty comestibles and went outside to join in the antics.

People dressed up in costumes, like any other Muggle children. Well, almost like any other Muggle children. The costumes were, of course, charmed to drip, bubble, sparkle, make very realistic sound effects, and other things of the like. Most of the older students decided that being a seventh year was about the scariest thing imaginable, and remained costumeless (Not robeless, though. Nobody wanted to see...um...that.)

Potions and Defence class were, quite basically, combined, as both of the teachers were in and out of their classrooms, avoiding each other via secret passages, to steal the other's equipment to turn it into something decidedly Hallowe'en-ish. This all stopped after Remus and Severn together pranked Professor Delgado by transfiguring his very messy desk into a large pumpkin pie. This started a pie fight like Hogwarts had never seen, and ended when McGonagall got a sloppy, blueberry pie right in the face. She gave everyone detention, including the teachers involved, and the set task was to clean up the mess with one scrub brush per person. No magic, please. With the amount of students involved, each student (and teacher) was given a square foot to clean, which wasn't very hard at all.

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The feast that night was glorious beyond imagining. The food was excellent (though no one was quite sure what could be found in the "opaque jelly surprise"), and nobody tried to stage a food fight again. The Headless Horsemen ghosts made an appearance, terrifying those who weren't used to the caterwauling and hollering. And a pirate ghost that Harry didn't know told tales of his sea voyages to anyone who asked. He introduced himself as Captain Jonathan Snarly, but you could call him by his last name if you wanted, and could you please pass the ham. Oh, wait, never mind.

Drew ended up eating some of the opaque jelly surprise. It turned out that it made him speak in a very high voice for the rest of the evening, as though he'd inhaled some helium. After that, of course, the jelly was a huge hit across all the tables, and each different jelly did something different to your voice. The most infamous one was the pink and purple coloured jelly that made you speak in anagrams until you ate the green and yellow jelly that didn't really do anything.

"Laseep saps teh reneg nad weylol lylej!" Bobby screamed at Dave Olson for the fourth time.

Dave just looked at Bobby, confused. Bobby gave up trying to talk and pointed emphatically at the yellow and green jelly, thus getting the point across and fixing his speech patterns.

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The day couldn't have gone much better in Harry's opinion. He'd finished his homework before midnight, the feast had been a blast, and the next day, was the free weekend, not to mention the day that Hagrid grew back his beard. He'd have to figure that event into his schedule.

As his dorm mates turned off their lamps, Harry slept, dreaming of the days to come.

A/N: This was one of the more fun chapters to write. It's short, but (I think) rather fulfilling. Three cheers for imagination!

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