hphalloween_mod (hphalloween_mod) wrote in hp_halloween, @ 2014-11-07 08:55:00 |
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Entry tags: | !2014, #gen, *dragyn_42, ^albus dumbledore, ^harry potter, ^luna lovegood, ^minerva mcgonagall, ^neville longbottom, rating: g |
Halloween gift for _hannelore (and the community)
Here is our final post for the community. dragyn_42 went above and beyond in writing his gift, so here is all three parts (part 2 was posted on the day of). Enjoy!
Gift for: hannelore
From: dragyn_42
Title: Tricks and Treats (I, II, and III)
Characters: Luna, Neville, Harry, Dumbledore, McGonagall
Rating: G
Summary: Luna has always loved trick-or-treating at Hogwarts.
Notes: hannelore, this idea came to me from your prompts, and I couldn’t figure out when it should happen. I tried it several ways, and what developed was a sort of triptych.
Neville was rounding the corner of the hallway with Harry, both returning from finishing their homework in the library, just in time to see Luna Lovegood hold out a bucket to a blank stretch of wall.
“Trick or treat!” she cried out happily.
“Um... Luna?” asked Neville.
The blonde turned her head and noticed the two boys standing there. “Hi!” she chirped at them.
“What are you doing?” Neville asked.
“Trick-or-treating,” she responded.
“It’s... I... wha?” stuttered Neville. He looked to Harry, but his friend just shrugged. “It’s a wall.”
“It would be a trick,” she explained, turning back to the wall. “A trick and a treat. Wouldn’t that be neat?”
Two caramels popped out of the stonework and into Luna’s candy pail. He turned to Harry, wanting to check if he was seeing things, only to catch his friend palming his wand.
“Yay!” cheered Luna. “This castle has ever so many tricks to treat students with.”
She skipped off down the hall, and Neville saw Professor Dumbledore watching them bemusedly.
“Headmaster,” greeted Luna.
“Miss Lovegood,” he responded.
Luna turned to the wall with her pail, crying "Trick or treat!" and the headmaster surreptitiously pulled out his wand...