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"All Hallow's Eve, my favourite holiday!" squealed Josie as she and Frank walked to the Great Hall for breakfast on Sunday, October 31.
"Why in the name of Merlin, is Halloween your favourite holiday?" asked an exhaperated Frank.
"Why not Frankie, why not?" Even though Frank had only known Josephine for a few months, he already knew just about everything there was to know about her, or at least what she was comfortable with him knowing, anyway, back to the plot line. Frank knew her quirks more than anyone, other than Andie that is, so this is why he just accepted her loose-ended answer with a shrug.
"Hello, Hayworth." came the greeting of James Potter. Josephine didn't realize he had been there and jumped about five feet in the air.
"Spoiled Sour Cream! You scared the heffalump out of me!"
"What in Merlin's name is a Heffalump?" piped in Sirius Black.
"Why is everyone saying Merlin so much?" inquired Josephine.
"It's a wizard expression, we use it instead of saying God like muggles do." supplied Remus.
"Ohhh, that makes tons more sense, thanks!"
"Will you two stop blabbering and tell me what the bleeding hell a Heffalump is!" cried James.
"Now, Mr. Potter, there is no need for foul language." said Josephine in what she thought was an immpecable McGonagall impression.
"Plese just tell us." begged Sirius.
"A Heffalump is a fictional elephant thingy in a muggle children's series called Whinnie the Pooh."
"That's incredibly boring."
"Well, you asked James, and I answered. Now, let's get to breakfast before Snape get's grease all over our seats. I imagine he is taking advantage of our absence and is talking to Lily." As soon as they walked, well, sauntered in two certain someone's case, into the Great Hall, Josephine was proved right. Snape was indeed getting grease all over their seats. The odd group went to sit down in their seats and Snape, by some miracle, just walked off with a sneer. No taunting or anything.
'Hmm,' thought Josephine, 'Must be because I'm with the Marauders.' Josephine began pondering this whilst eating a piece of toast.
"Well, that was a delicous meal. Wouldn't you agree Hayworth?" asked Sirius loudly.
"Hmm?"
"I said, wasn't that a great meal?"
"I suppose, why d'you ask?"
"I dunno, you were spaced out."
"She does that a lot, you might as well get used to it." offered Frank.
"Thanks for the tip." said Remus.
"No problem."
"Are you guys excited for Halloween tonight?" asked a suddenly energetic Josephine.
"I guess." was Jame's reply.
"Excited enough, I suppose." was Remus's.
"Umm, sure." came Frank's.
"Mhhm." mumbled Peter.
"OF COURSE I AM EXCITED! HOW COULD YOU EVEN ASK THAT? HALLOWEEN IS THE BEST HOLIDAY EVER!" yelled Sirius.
"HOLY COTTAGE CHEESE SIRIUS! YOU ARE THE ONLY OTHER PERSON I HAVE EVER MET WHO LOVE IT AS MUCH AS ME! THIS IS AWESOME!"
"SAME HERE!"
"CAN WE STOP YELLING NOW? MY VOICE HURTS AND PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO STARE."
"Oh yeah, sure." said a sheepish Sirius.
"But, seriously..."
"Haha, you said my name!"
"Please don't cut me off every time I say your name. Back to what I was saying, this is really awesome. Why is it your favourite holiday?"
"It's the only holiday that my parents enjoyed. They were happier on Halloween. It was nice."
"Are they not alive?"
"No, they are." answered Sirius tensely.
"I'm sorry, that was rude to ask. It's not my business."
"It's okay, you didn't know." An awkward silence followed, but they were once again rescued from it by Remus.
"Why is it your favourite holiday Josephine?"
"You have such freedom. You get to leave the house and have fun. People are happier, like Sirius said. It's the only time that you don't have to be youself."
"Those are good reasons."
"I know." A few minutes passed and the group was joined by Lizzy, Sapphirre, and Andie.
"You guys do realize that you are they only people left in here, right?" asked Andie.
"Umm, no we aren't. You guys are here. Duh." said Josie. With that remark she recieved a hearty 'glare' from Andie, who still wasn't good at glaring.
"Let's go outside Josie." offered Lizzy.
"Okay, Frank would you like to join us?"
"Sure, sounds like fun."
"Wait a second, no offense to Frank, but this was supposed to be a girls day. We haven't had one of those since school started Josie. You've been with Frank twenty-four-seven."
"But Frank's my friend. You guys aren't being very fair to him."
"Really, it's fine Josie. I'll just go read or something." said Frank.
"That's not being fair to you though, it would be selfish of me."
"Listen, Frank can hang out with us. He is our roommate after all." offered James.
"Would that be okay with you Frank?" asked Josephine.
"Sounds good to me. You have girl time and I have guy time."
"Well, okay, but we have to meet up before the feast. Okay?"
"Okay."
Josie's Girl Time Experience
"So, Sapphirre, what have you been up to as of late?" asked Andie.
"Oh, this and that, tit and tat."
"That's good, I guess."
"Oh, it is."
"Good."
"Well I want the skinny on Josephine's boyfriend Frank." said Lizzy.
"He's not my boyfriend. He's just one of my best friends."
"Doesn't seem like it." added in a pouting Andie.
"Why are you pouting? Do you fancy him or something?" asked Josephine desperate to take the attention off herself.
"No I don't fancy him! How could you even think that?"
"Seems like ya do."
"Well, I don't."
"Okayyyy, whatever you say Andrea, whatever you say."
"That's right, whatever I say." smiled Andie.
Frank's Guy Time Experience
"Well Frank, ole boy ole pal. What's the skinny on you and Hayworth?" asked James in his blunt way.
"What do you mean 'what's the skinny'?"
"I mean, is she your girlfriend?"
"No, she's not my girlfriend, she's my best friend."
"Well, that's boring." complained Sirius.
"Not really, she's really a handfull. She's always wanting to do crazy things that would get us in trouble. Like setting off stinkbombs in Potions or sneaking out at night to, as she says, 'explore this bugger of a castle.' She is not your average girl. She also spaces out a lot and says random and sligtly alarming things all of the time."
"I didn't know she was cool like that! I mean I knew about the spacing out part, but not the other stuff. Does she actually have stinkbombs?" asked an excited Sirius.
"Unfortunately yes, but she won't be happy that I told you about that stuff, so keep it on the down low. Okay?"
"Urghh, okay." agreed a reluctant Sirius.
"Same goes for you others, if she knew I was talking about her, she would die of embarassment."
"Why is she so insecure?" asked James.
"Umm, remember how you guy treated her at the beginning of the year? Well, that's how everyone in her hometown treats her, other than Andie of course."
"Why, she's pretty cool."
"Why did you guys? You didn't try to get to know her, you just saw the outside and picked on her because of that."
"Oh, what about her parents though?"
"You'll have to ask her about that. She doesn't like to talk about them. It was only out of necessity that she told me."
"Well boys, seem as if we have a mystery to solve." said James deviously.
"Maybe we shouldn't snoop about her personal life you guys. We should just let her tell us if and when she wants to." said Sirius much to the surprise of the other boys.
"He's right, we shouldn't snoop." concured Remus.
"You know, you guys are a lot more mature than I thought."
"Only when we have to be." replied James.
"Well, it's still refreshing to see it in action."
"Yes, it is." agreed Remus. "Yes it is."