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Chapter 17: Ignoring me?

Recap: Lily is not a fan of Halloween and can't sleep as it draws in, she attempts to start a homework essay in the common room but is distracted by an owl with a letter for her, it is a recruitment letter on behalf of the deatheaters, she runs to Dumbledore's office where she is met by James who too has received one, they agree to ignore them and protections are placed on their families. Upon waking several hours later, they received the news there has been an attack in Hogsmeade and two Aurors have been killed, and it was Sirius' cousin who had lead the attack.

Chapter 17 – Ignoring me?

"So boys?" James questioned, rubbing his hands together. "What are we doing to celebrate Halloween?!" the marauders were hauled up in their dormitory avoiding the commotion of the common room and the sombre mood that had settled amongst the girls. Frank Longbottom too had joined them and was idly throwing Bertie Botts every flavour beans at Peter who was attempting to catch them in his mouth.

"What do you mean?" Frank asked and Sirius smirked at his naivety.

"I think you know Longbottom." He grinned and Frank shook his head, secretly excited at having a hand in a marauders extravaganza.

"It needs to be good though, something everyone will remember!" James added.

"Nothing much then." Remus muttered, James was sure to come up with something amazing, but the strict time limit worried him, something was bound to go wrong!

"Good to see that badge hasn't corrupted your brain too much Prongs!" Sirius teased, ruffling James' hair.

"Corrupted me? You did that years ago mate." James winked, to which Sirius looked affronted and Frank laughed.

"Well, what do you have in mind James?" Peter asked, eager to get on with planning; after all, they didn't have long left if they wanted to make the feast tonight!

"I say we enchant the food to dance!" Sirius offered, but James shook his head.

"We did last Christmas in fifth year and got detention from McGonagall." He sighed, leaning back onto his pillows; he tried to wrack his brain to think of something.

"Well its Halloween," Peter began. "there's sure to be pumpkins everywhere, we could make them explode?" James mused over it for moment, that could work, he concluded.

"I think I know how we could do that." Remus added.

"I like it." James grinned.

"But after they explode, we should do something with them..." Sirius chipped in, rubbing his chin to try and gain inspiration.

"Fireworks?" James asked, but Sirius shook his head, they'd already done fireworks that year. Silence fell upon the group, until Frank had a suggestion.

"Have you tried changing the colour of something? Like people's robes, or their hair or something?" he offered eager to contribute.

"That could work." Remus replied, we'd just need to do a simple colour switching charm, but on a larger scale. It wouldn't need much preparation either." He added with a nod.

"Up top Longbottom!" Sirius called, out, high fiving his fellow Gryffindor who seemed quite pleased with his idea.

"So, the pumpkins explode everywhere and get everyone messy, then we make the lights go out -" James concluded.

"And when they come on again, the pumpkins have put themselves back together and everyone's robes have changed colour!" Remus finished, he was pretty satisfied with this plan, it would be memorable, it would make people smile, and probably wouldn't land them in detention!