Halloween Traditions - Fourth Stop: Gryffindor

[Drew Thornton]

Their group had gotten bigger as they had worked their way through the castle, but it was still a band of mostly Ravenclaws by the time they arrived at Gryffindor. It was this house, for obvious reasons, that Drew had been looking forward to visiting the most. He had a feeling that a couple of others in the group were of the same mind as he was.

Dressed as the Dread Pirate Roberts, he smoothed his mustache and looked over his shoulder once he reached the Fat Lady's portrait. The woman in the picture huffed impatiently but Drew ignored her. "You guys ready?" he asked before knocking on the guilded frame and crying out:

"TRICK OR TREAT!"

[Felicity Hjort]

How exciting! While Felicity knew of the more American tradition of trick-or-treating, she'd never experienced it. Not once had she been allowed to participate with the few in her neighborhood that did the ticking or the treating, but neither had she ever been allowed to trick or treat another upon knocking. Her dad considered it a highly rude tradition to knock and expect treats, besides it being a mostly American tradition as well. However, her brother David had opened his door for the few that did it, handing out toothbrushes as well as a handful of candy to each eager face and Stephan had once had it happen to him while in America on a business trip at an apartment he was staying at. It really did sound quite exciting to the blonde and she was ball of giddiness waiting for the group to show up at Gryffindor.

When Drew had explained what they did to her, she had immediately found an order form from Honeydukes and ordered candy for them, making sure not to go overboard but at the same time get plenty of candy too.

And when she heard the knock and the shout, Felicity jumped up from her seat and ran to the portrait, wanting to be the first to get there. Making the portrait swing open, Felicity didn't even realize she'd left her candy stash sitting on the couch where she'd been impatiently waiting for the group Drew said he would have.

Being faced with the crowd and Drew heading them, she had to fight back a tease at seeing how adorable he looked in his costume. And glancing past him at everyone else, her smile widened at seeing all the costumes. No wonder Americans were fine with the holiday, everyone looked so cute all dressed in their costumes, especially Jeremy, though she wouldn't tell him that as he didn't like her all ready.

"Hi!" she greeted them excitedly, trying not to squeal with happiness at the sight of all of them.

[Anna Becket]

Anna had been walking down the stairs from her room when she heard someone say "TRICK OR TREAT!" from the portrait hole. Of course this had to be the Ravenclaws and their yearly Halloween rounds which the gryff was so used to by now. However she didn't know that Felicity had been waiting for them in the common room until the girl flew right to the portrait hole and opened it.

Now actually in the common room, Anna could get a glimps of the ravens and their costumes, Drew's was some sort of pirate she guessed but why did it look familiar. The girl was about to open her mouth the great the trick or treaters but something on the couch caught her eye. There was a stash of candy just sitting there in a dangerous spot. If any of the other Gryffindors saw it, it might mysteriously vanish due to the fact it was sugar. "Er...Felicity?" Anna called, "Do you already have the candy or is that someone elses sitting there on the couch?" It didn't hurt to be careful, so might as well check.

[Jeremy Taylor]

Just great. It was the Rock-throwing girl who answered the door. Jeremy probably would have handled anyone else, except for Drew's stupid girlfriend. Good thing he was covered head to toe. As he shrunk closer to his towering cousin, his blue eyes glaring through the holes in his ski-mask, he was confident she wouldn't recognize him.

Of course, that meant he wouldn't take her candy... or the candy of the other girl who came to the door. And the good news was if any of it was trick candy, Jeremy could blame it all on Drew and his stupid girlfriend.

[Drew Thornton]

Drew tried not to be too excited over the fact that Felicity had answered the door, but couldn't help doing a little bit of dancing at the sight of her. He had spent most of the day with her and still it was a thrill to see her again. With Jeremy clutching his side, it was hard to get a really good groove going, but Drew still managed.

"So which is it?" he asked, doing his best to look debonaire in his Dread Pirate Roberts outfit. "Trick... or Treat?" He was personally hoping for a treat, but doubted it would be the same kind of treat he had gotten earlier that day.

[Felicity Hjort]

It wasn't hard to spot the younger Ravenclaw with Thornton blood in him, especially with Jeremy clinging to Drew like he was. And the pretty blue eyes that almost matched that of his older cousin stood out to the lioness as well as she looked over everyone's costumes. But her eyes weren't able to linger too long on anyone in particular as she heard Anna's voice call out to her. Wouldn't it figure she'd be the one to leave a bag of candy lying around?

And hearing Drew's question only a second after Anna's Felicity could feel her face start to redden slightly, but she didn't answer the Eagle.

"I think that might be mine..." she trailed off bashfully. She wasn't flustered by Drew's question, knowing what he meant and that she'd answer him with treat, but she was a little embarrassed she'd been so excited about the visitors that she had left her treats for them further inside. Turning her back to the Ravenclaws, the blonde clasped her hands behind her and went in to retrieve her sweets. It was almost too bad she didn't have a trick up her sleeve for them.

"Have you guys been having fun?" she asked as she picked up the bag and made her way back towards the small-ish group. She was keenly interested to know whether they had or not, especially as she'd never gone trick-or-treating before.