This is Halloween

"… Harry Potter."

And just like that Harry knew he would not be getting a normal school year. Not like it wasn't predictable since he knew somehow someway someone would screw him over the moment it was mentioned a highly dangerous tournament was going to be hosted at Hogwarts this year.

Now he was standing in a room listening to people argue and fuss over this and being told he HAS to compete or lose his magic, typical. Oh well looks like some of his plans will be getting pushed forward. Harry coughed to get everyone's attention.

"Excuse me but I just want to clarify that the Headmistress and Headmaster's of Beuxbatons, Durmstrang, and Hogwarts, along with the Ministry representatives Crouch and Bagman not to mention the Supreme Mugwump of the ICW, and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot are all agreeing that I, Harry Potter, will have to compete in a competition that was explicitly for ADULT wizards?"

There were nods and some saying yes. At that Harry did the one thing no one expected him to do, he began laughing loudly. "Oh Merlin! You know even though I didn't enter myself into this I think I should thank whoever did so! This is just hilarious!" Some mumbled that the poor boy has finally lost it, to which Snape scoffed. Harry's face then broke out into a large grin and he held a maniacal gleam in his eyes "You all might want to rush to the Great Hall, I wouldn't want you all to miss the show~" and with that Harry Potter vanished from sight.

"Oh Dear." Was Albus Dumbledore's reply. As Harry's outburst did not leave him feeling like anything good was about to happen and that many of his plans may now be broken. Him and the others rushed into the great hall just to see it darkened a bit with a foggy mist clinging around the first foot of floor. The doors slammed shut behind them. The students were panicked as they couldn't get out of their seats and neither could the staff that were left behind.

(This is Halloween – Marilyn Manson - Danny Elfman)

Music began to emerge from the surroundings but no one could pinpoint the origin. Shadows began to twist about as the music played and the ceiling changed to show a large starry night sky with a full moon. "Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange?" The shadows on the walls began to take humanoid and monstrous form "Come with us and you will see, This our town of Halloween"

Some of the mist on the floor was beginning to gather in certain spots "This is Halloween this is Halloween, pumpkins scream in the dead of night" to which the floating Jack O Lanterns let out shrill screams. "This is Halloween, everybody make a scene. Trick or Treat til the neighbors gonna die of fright!. It's our town, everybody scream in this town of Halloween!" In between each table formed a large bed where one could see the darkness under them. From the darkness form glowing red eyes and sharp toothed smiles like a sharks "I am the one hiding under your bed, teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red" Said the creatures and gnarled yellow claws began to emerge from the darkness before the beds vanished.

"I am the one hiding under your stairs" Came a voice from the upper floor causing everyone to look up to see a strange creature with long lips and beady eyes. It had striped arms and stood hunched over the banister. It's fingers seemed to be snakes and the top of it's head was crawling with what looked to be spiders, one of the spiders was even lowering down to the banister from the creature ear. "Finger's like snakes and spiders in my hair!" The creature then backed away from the banister and left the students sight.

"This is Halloween, this is Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!" Came voices from all around once more "In this town we call home everyone hail to the pumpkin song. In this town don't we love it now. Everybody's waiting for the next surprise!" a mundane metal trashcan popped into the hall near the wall " Round that corner, man hiding in the trashcan" The lids lifted a bit to show the furry claws and head of a werewolf "Somethings waiting to pounce," the werewolf snarled at the students causing them to scream but still unable to move from their seats "And how you'll Scream!" the trashcan and werewolf vanished

"This is Hallowen Red n' black and slimy green!" Slime's of all three of those colors began to ooze down the walls "Aren't you scared?" Some nodded "Well that's just fine. Say it once say it twice take a chance and roll the dice! Ride with the moon in the dead of night! Everybody scream everybody scream in our town of Halloween" A clown appeared in a flash on top of the teachers table holding a red balloon "I am the clown with the tear-away face" it said before using it's free hand to remove it's face showing a hollow, dark and empty skull. "Here in a flash and gone without a trace!" then it vanished.

"I am the who when you call who's there" a voice came from the shadows "I am the wind blowing through your hair" A wispy voice came in with a breeze. Then a voice came from above causing them to look up at the ceiling "I am the shadow on the moon at night" a shadow appeared on the moon with eyes and mouth "Filling your dreams to the brim with fright" The shadows became Bats that flew around the hall. "This is Halloween this is Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!"

"Tender Lumplings everywhere Life's no fun without a good scare. That's our job but we're not mean. In our town of Halloween. In this town don't we love it now? Everybody's waiting for the next surprise. Skeleton Jack" A rattle is heard "might catch you in the back and scream like a banshee. Make you jump out of your skin! This is Halloween, everybody make a scene! Won't you make way for a very special guy" All the shadows pointed to the upper floors where a scarecrow with a pumpkin head stood and moved around

"Our man Jack is king of the Pumpkin patch everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now!" The Scarecrow now named Jack started dancing around "This is Halloween this is Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!" The Scarecrow grabbed one of the candle and held it to himself quickly igniting his body on fire. He threw the candle away and began to twirl. A fountain of greenish water formed in the middle of the hall and the Scarecrow jumped from the upper floor, did a few flips and dove into the pool "In this town we call home everyone hail to the pumpkin song"

The fountain water began to bubble heavily and from inside a figure slowly rose. The figure was in a hooded robe with a skull mask, many began to think it was a Death Eater and tried to cast spells at it only to find that none of the spells could reach the creature "La la la la la la la la la la Halloween Halloween! La la la la la la la la la la Halloween Halloween!" The music began to fade and the figure lowered it's hood and took off his mask revealing the grinning face of Harry Potter.

Among the silence Harry spoke "Well don't all start clapping at once, though I do hope you all enjoyed my Halloween treat" the Great Hall now looked just as it did before the champions were called with Harry standing in the middle of the hall.

"POTTER! 100 points from Gryffindor for your prank!" Can you guess who shouted that? If you guessed Snape then congratulations you deserve a cookie, if you didn't then shame on you.

"Yea yea yea I really don't care right now." Snape of course took off another 20 points "Anyway to all the first and second years you will find a nice thing of candy and toys on your beds in the dorms as an apology for scaring you. To the third years and up who were scared I don't care."

"Potter how just how did you even pull all this off?" Asked a random Ravenclaw who is too insignificant to deserve a name and is only here to ask that one line.

"Ah a bit of Magic and some tamed boggarts"

"YOU CAN'T TAME BOGGARTS!" Another cookie if you can guess which character shouted that. If you guessed Hermoine 'Know it all' Granger then hurrah!

"I did. Now I'm gonna go before someone tries to lecture me and I will be back sometime tomorrow" With that Harry vanished with a pop

"You can't apparate in Hogwarts! It says so in Hogwarts a History!" Yelled the irate bushy haired Gryffindor. The other students began to talk among themselves. Fred and George cheered at their friends marvelous prank while Ron in a fit of ever present jealousy began to grumble about how arrogant Harry was and how he should have told Ron how to enter into the tournament.

"Students" Said Albus too many names Dumbledore "Please head back to your dorms, carriages and boats. Also if you see mister Potter please tell him to come see me immediately." He then called an emergency staff meeting to discuss how Harry could have pulled this off, especially under Dumbledore's nose.