Halloween Treat for Raktajinos
Gift for: raktajinos
From: inamac
Title: The dangers of missing Muggle Studies
Characters Minerva, Nearly Headless Nick, Sybill Trelawney (other students and staff by implication)
Rating: Gen/U
Warnings: Puns, literary references, unexpected cuisine.
Summary: Minerva helps with Hogwarts' Halloween arrangements.
Notes: Dear raktajinos, thank you for an open prompt - hope this meets your expectations!
Halloween was a busy time for Hogwarts staff - ghosts, elves and Professors alike. Minerva spent much of her time de-transfiguring things which the more talented pupils (and some of the less responsible Professors) thought would enhance the occasion.
Pumpkin coaches weren't a problem (she took House points for lack of imagination and unseasonal relevance). Animated bed sheets received the same treatment, though not before one had sent Nearly Headless Nick into conniptions. Giant spiders and bats required a charm to check that they weren't invaders from the Forbidden Forest, or roaming Boggarts, but were otherwise simply dealt with.
It was the more adventurous pupils who provided her with the greatest challenges. Some literate wag transformed Sybill's black-lacquered writing desk into a raven (spellwork which Minerva secretly admired even as she poured another cup of calming chamomile tea for the jittery Divination teacher).
And then there was this latest creation. She had been stalking the confused creature through the darkened corridors and finally backed the fluffy white mass into a corner before reducing it to its component parts, onion-ring eyes, sausage nose, baked-bean teeth, and fluffy white potato. Really, some students needed to brush up on their Muggle Studies. Monster mash indeed!