Chapter 14

Halloween, Pranks, and Detention

It turns out that school flies by really quickly when one is waiting for a certain day. The day I happen to be waiting for is Halloween, or Halloween night at the school feast. The Twins and I came up with the perfect prank for this night, we were going to become the three headless Gryffindors, rideing in on the Thestrals I met in the forest. I'm the only one in our group that can see them, I saw my friend die from cancer in the hospital. It was a blessing, not that I lost my friend, but that she is now out of her misery.

But, back to the plan, George found an obsure spell to induce partial invisabilty in body parts. I figure, If we come riding into the Greathall on invisable "horses", invisable to most of the school's population at lease, with out heads, maybe adding some pumpkins to the mix, we'll have a great prank that will go into history.

After a lot of excitment over Harry Potter being the newest Quidditch seeker of Hogwarts, it was finally Halloween. Back to Potter though, he somehow didn't get into trouble, but then neither did Draco, for flying around on the first flying lesson we all had together. Better him than me, I'm still not the best flier, though I am better than Neville and Hermione, which doesn't say much, but yeah.

The other students were happily going down to the Halloween feast at 6:30, while I was running across the school grounds, on my way to the forest. I had a couple of newly dead chickens that I borrowed from the house elves in the kitchen, they were to be my offering of blood to the Threstals, not the elves, but the chickens.

"Oh, I'm off to find the Threstals, the wonderful Threstrals of Hogwarts," I was singing and skipping along the trails to the clearing were the Threstrals normally gather. I heard a howl off in the distance, and howled a greeting back, it's a good thing I know all the werewolves in the forest.

I took the pocket knife from my robe, and quickly cut up the chickens, making sure to not get any of the still warm blood on my self, though it might highten the effect of the Halloween prank. As soon as the copper blood smell hit the air, the sound of feathers flishing and hooves landing on the ground. I turned around to see my favorite Threstal, the one I named Mortis, he was the head stallian of one of the mini-herds in the forest. With him, were his two mares, Shi and Thana, both were rather placid, which would be good for Fred and George, as they have only ridden brooms, and not horses. After feeding them, I looped a bit of rope around their heads to stear them out of the forest and to the twins.

"Hey George, Fred, I have them. George, Shi is the one butting you, and Thana, is the one closest to you, Fred. So are you two ready? Do you have the pumpkins and the spell ready?" I gave the twins the leads to their respective mounts, and waited for their answers to my questions.

"Yeah, the pumpkins are over there," Fred pointed to a burlap bag that I somehow over looked.

George quickly did the spell to turn our heads invisible, then we grabbed our pumpkins, then mounted our rides. We rode towards the front doors, I opened the door somehow without my wand, it just kinda sprang open, I didn't really care how it happened, it just did.

Crashing into the Greathall, we came to an abrupt halt. There was no one in the room, it was only 10 after the beginning of the feast, the whole school should be here.

Disappointed that our prank was a complete flop, we made our way back out of the Greathall. To our suprise, Professors Snape, McGonagall, Quirrell, along with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, all walked out of the first floor female bathroom. We all kinda just stopped and stared, complete shock in both parties.

The Twins and I took off before the other group could respond to our presence. When we got outside, we quickly released Mortis, Shi, and Thana back to the forest, tossed our pumpkins and then made our way up to our common room. When we walked in through the painting, we were met with the shocked faces of the Gryffindors eating and Professor McGongall.

"Um, why are you all staring at us, we are only a little late to this feast in the common room." I was a little scared, the students just kept staring at us.

"Miss Zeak? Is that you?" McGonagall has a way of making her students want to answer her questions.

I looked over to the twins before I answerd, and realized why she was asking and all the students looke shocked, our heads were still invisible. I undid the spell, and looked back at the head of my house.

"Hello Professor...uh...how are you?"

She just sighed and shook her head, " Miss Zeak, Mr. Weasley, and Mr. Weasley, you three have detention with me tomorrow at 7pm, don't be late." We couldn't even defend ourselves before she walked out of the room, not that it would have made a difference as she saw us come out of the Greathall earlier.

Darn, my first detention, oh well...there is always next Halloween.