The Last Reappearance

Things had been hectic for Harry with the addition of all the work they had put in on the prank but he had taken it all in his stride. He had continued his rigorous training regime and managed to complete all of his homework without any problems.

The truth was that he was keeping himself busy on purpose so his thoughts did not wander on to things he no longer wanted to think about, but there were times that being busy was not enough and those thoughts would surface and he would be forced to swallow deeply and work through his occlumency tactics to rid himself of them.

The one thing that had managed to truly make him smile was the night that he had spent his next adventure with the Marauder's in their animal forms to help Remus through his monthly change. The other boy's had officially named him as a fully certified Marauder and had given him his own nickname; shade, simply because he could barely been seen in the night, only his emerald eyes were visible. They had even gone to the effort to add his name to their version of the map as only James was aware that Harry had one of his own.

The time for the feast arrived and the group made their way to the Great Hall, all four in attendance both eager and nervous to see if and how successful everything would turn out to be. Harry entered the room and caught sight of Bellatrix who simply narrowed her eyes at him, something she had gotten into the habit of doing on the rare occasion that they would catch sight of each other.

From what Harry had heard she had quite badly cursed Rudolphus and the others and had landed herself an extra month of detention so he was not the only one who was no longer in her good graces.

He had learnt to shrug off the animosity she clearly had for him and even now he simply shook his head before taking his seat to wait for the show to start.

The room had been decorated for the occasion as he always remembered it being. There were charmed bats flying around their heads and several dozen pumpkins spread throughout the hall along with several other charmed decorations. The ghosts of Hogwarts were also gliding around the room attempting to spook unsuspecting students, with Peeves of course taking it too far by throwing sweets at people, causing him to be chased from the room by a furious Bloody Baron.

As planned, it was around 15 minutes after Dumbledore had taken his first sip of his goblet that the first signs that their plan had been successful was seen as a thick green smoke quickly enveloped the entirety of the staff table, hiding them from view.

Many of the students stared at the smoke, nervous about the unusual happenings that were taking place.

Eventually it was cleared, evidently by Dumbledore who was stood, clutching his wand and looking nothing short of comical, in fact, the entire staff table had indeed been affected, much to the delight of the four Gryffindor's. Once the shock had warn off the entire room burst into laughter as the professor's began to realise what had happened and began to urgently point at one another.

"Is this your doing Albus?" McGonagall hissed.

Dumbledore shook his head.

"I assure you Minerva it has nothing to do with me, it seems that we are the victims of a practical joke" he sighed. "Though you do make a fine chicken, if I may be so bold" he added with a chuckle.

"How is that possible, I thought you could detect such magic?" McGonagall questioned with a frown.

"Alas, I believe that the concealment charms were cast to perfection, even I were not aware of them" he explained. McGonagall and Flitwick immediately looked towards the Gryffindor table to where the Marauder's were hunched over, clearly in fits of laughter.

"Impressive" Professor Flitwick squeaked sincerely.

"Filius, your hair is green and you have an orange face" McGonagall pointed out.

"I believe he is an oompa loompa" Professor Burbage cut in amusedly.

"A what?" McGonagall inquired.

"Small orange men from Loompaland, it's a muggle thing" Burbage answered dismissively. "Wha' am I spose ta be?" Hagrid asked. Burbage sighed.

"I believe you are supposed to be a bigfoot, a muggle creature of myth" she explained. "Ahh" Hagrid deadpanned. "It looks as though I have some detentions to hand out" McGonagall grumbled as she made to stand.

"Now Minerva, it is all done in jest, I am sure it will wear off soon" Dumbledore spoke, trying to placate the woman.

McGonagall sighed.

"I suppose that it is rather impressive magic" she conceded.

"Indeed it is" Dumbledore agreed. "That will be ten points to each person involved" he called loudly and turned his attention to the four house hour glasses to see the Gryffindor one increase by the given points.

"Just as I thought" McGonagall growled.

Harry and the others looked on in sheer joy as the results of their efforts could be seen in front of them. Most of the staff had taken it in good nature but a few were clearly unhappy, Mortlake in particular looked murderous as Count Dracula and Slughorn gave them a respectful nod as he accepted the fact that he had been dressed as an actual walrus.

Dumbledore was currently Captain Hook and Merrythought had been turned into a very creepy clown.

"I can't believe we actually pulled it off" Sirius exclaimed.

"And we got rewarded for it" James added, shaking his head in shock.

"I told you it was better this way" Harry pointed out. "And now we know the Christmas one will work too, but we can add to it to make it better, but we will need Remus for that" he finished cryptically.

The other boy's eyes lit up at the prospect of improving what they had already achieved so Harry explained his idea to them knowing that they would not give him a peaceful moment until he did so.

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