"Hey guys," laughed a brown-haired Gryffindor boy sheepishly. He was hanging upside-down from the ceiling; somehow in the grasp of a large plant with twisting vines.

"Steve!" Gloria yelled, "what in the world happened?!"

"I'm here too," a timid voice whispered from behind the boy.

Luro twisted her neck to find a short-haired Gryffindor girl also hanging behind Steve, except she was right-side up. She pushed her hair out of her face and pouted.

"Edith?" she asked.

"We were practicing our spells on the plant Lizzy lent us," Steve explained. A pigtailed Hufflepuff smiled awkwardly and gave a small wave from beneath them.

Richard gave a hearty laugh, "Hang on, I'll go get a prefect to sort this out." He turned around to leave, them looked back at his sister, "Don't you think our conversation is over, Glor," he smirked. Gloria stuck out her tongue and he smiled and left.

"Gloria," Tobias complained, "Why are you always going off about everything?"

"I am not!" Gloria snapped.

"Guys, calm down!" Luro tried to cut in.

"I got a pre-fect!" Richard walked back in cheerily with a boy from Slytherin. The prefect grumbled and waved his wand at the plant, casting a couple of spells to counteract what the young students had done.

The plant released the students and shriveled back to its normal size. Steve and Edith fell to the ground with a thud, being helped up by a regretful Elizabeth.

"You're lucky I don't deduct some house points," the prefect warned, "Now you three had better behave yourselves or I'll be calling a professor." He made a stern face and swept his robe away, strutting off.

"What's his deal?" scoffed Elizabeth.

"Are you guys okay?" Luro asked, ignorant to Lizzy's question.

"Alright, no more practicing on stolen plants," Richard scorned. He picked up the pot and held it out to his sister, "Gloria, can you please take this to the common room?"

"Why don't you do it?" She retaliated.

"Because it's on your way!" her brother said in a warning tone. Gloria groaned and took the plant, scurrying off with her friends.

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"I can't wait for the Halloween feast!" Luro grinned.

"I've starved myself of lunch for it," Gloria agreed, "I'm going to dig in on the biscuits!"

"Don't forget the pie!" Tobias added, "And the scrumptious chicken." He closed his eyes, as if to dream of the taste.

Luro laughed, "Glor, I thought you wanted to sneak into a certain forest." She raised her eyebrows playfully.

"I'm going to eat first, of course," Gloria lifted her head, "besides, were here already anyway."

The students looked up at the grand doors that led to the great hall. They were opened, and the three strolled in and took their seats at the Hufflepuff table. They got an excited wave from Greg over at the Ravenclaw table.

"He's in a better mood," noted Tobias. Luro nodded.

"What do you mean?" asked Gloria.

"He wasn't himself earlier today," Luro explained, "He was being kind of grumpy."

"But I'm glad he's back to being friendly," added Tobias.

Soon they were all digging in to the delicious food of the Halloween feast. Gloria headed straight for the treats, with Tobias taking multiple slices of pie (and plenty of chicken) and Luro enjoying the mashed potatoes best.

Gloria clapped her hands, "Good feast, I say! Hey, where are Steve and Edith?" She had noticed that the two were missing from the Gryffindor table.

"I heard they went to nearly-headless Nick's death-day celebration," Tobias noted.

"Well how come I wasn't invited?" Gloria pouted, then laughed, "Only joking. Anyways, I'm going to go now." She stood up and turned to leave, when Luro grabbed her arm.

"We just got here," she protested, "What's the hurry?"

Gloria pulled her arm away, "Don't you know?" She gave a suspicious smirk and started off.

"You're not actually going?" Tobias asked, getting up himself, but Gloria just kept on walking.

Luro stuffed one last piece of candy into her mouth, standing up as well and speaking as she chewed, "We haffa go affuh huw, wite?"

Tobias nodded, and the two of them shuffled closer towards their friend.

But she was already out the door.