Wristbands | Sirius Black [1]

Chapter Six

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[Chapter Six: Wristbands]

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As time passed, Hogwarts grounds darkened with the shorter days. Cold weather swept across the area and the trees shriveled and wept with death alongside the Scottish landscape. Even the Quidditch Pitch began to look dreadful, muddied with frozen skies that gave at least one player frostbite per practice. Overall, mystical castle of Hogwarts had to become depressing. Although, the upcoming holiday seemed to keep everyone in their spirits as a placeholder for Christmas holiday.

Hallowe'en.

Each year, it was Hogwarts tradition to make Hallowe'en into a school wide and week long event. They celebrated hard, like the muggles. They took mystery and twisted it with magic, presenting it around in both worlds as no one questioned how the woman in a witch hat was making marbles float on the side of a busy London road. It was Hallowe'en! That being said, students were being captured all around by disgruntled professors for trying to asking to the local muggle villages to wreak playful magic. It was initially a permitted endeavor, a way of allowing students freedom and presenting them with a trust with a hopeful outcome–that all stopped the Hallowe'en of '65 when a Hufflepuff student, dressed as muggle physicist Marie Curie presumably died as a quirk of their costume. The villagers went wild with grief, the students parents were contacted by the local police department, and the media deemed the student an "inspired fan" with a "rocky imagination," encouraging anti-Hallowe'en missionaries to hash out protests and riots.

The student wasn't dead. They, as the media told, were an, "inspired fan" with a "rocky imagination." While they received many laughs and praises after returning to Hogwarts, they also became the first person in the 20th century of wizarding world history to have to fake their death and consume a permanent polyjuice concoction.

Hallowe'en was also a time of more viscous mischief for those in the Dark Lords regime, they'd attack unsuspecting muggles and create notorious disaster zones that the Ministry would need to discreetly clean up. In Europe, the only place reputably safe on the night of Hallowe'en was Hogwarts, and even then it was consistently destroyed by a certain group of boys: The Marauders. They thrived on Hallowe'en, it was the day where they could spread horror without an explanation other than 'it's bloody Hallowe'en!' So when Hallowe'en came around every year, the Marauders took that as their queue to wreak havoc. Them and Peeves, the school's poltergeist. However, so far that '78 Hallowe'en there hadn't been any grand Marauder prank as of yet. It left the schools population on edge. Especially Filch and the Slytherins, the main victims of just about anything that happens ever.

Although, it was only the afternoon. Meaning, the Marauders still had time to pull off their final Hogwarts Halloween prank before they graduated. Just an hour past noon, Aspen was on her free period. She decided to go to the girls bathroom and pay a visit to her ghostly friend.