Who: Natalie Fairbourne and her housemates When: Evening of October 26th Where: Gryffindor common room What: Carving the pumpkins taking up the common room and hanging out Status/Rating: Open to Gryffindors/Low to start
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Originally, Natalie had planned on leaving the decorations for the Halloween party Saturday to the core group of students that had offered to help, but at the last minute she had decided why not make it fun and let all her housemates help. The pumpkins had been dropped off, courtesy of Professor Hagrid, and had been taking up considerable amount of space in the common room for a few days. To help combat the problem and while she waited to others to show up, Natalie levitated a few (as suggested) and used it as an opportunity to practice her shrinking charms on several. They could use the now smaller ones for some sort of decoration. She also put out a few bags of candy so people would have something to munch on while they worked their magic.
Throughout the course of the evening she would carve several pumpkins, all in the classic Jack-O-Lantern fashion as she's not really too artistic. If anyone wanted to know how to conjure a magical flame to light their Jack-O-Lantern she would show them as she doubted they would be allowed to use real candles that could start a fire. As people finished she would direct people where to place their pumpkins or let those that had offered to help with the decorations decide where to put them.
Other than that, Natalie would wonder around and socialize and remind people of the Halloween party on Saturday, take volunteers to help set it up, thank those that already offered, and make general plans for their party.