"What happened?" Hermione asked as her brother and his friends walked up to her finally joining them for dinner, Harry opened his mouth to respond but a moment later they had entered the Great Hall, where the Halloween decorations put their conversation on hold. A thousand live bats fluttered from the walls and ceiling while a thousand more swooped over the tables in low black clouds, making the candles in the pumpkins stutter. The feast appeared suddenly on the golden plates, as it had at the start-of-term banquet. Harry was just helping himself to a baked potato with sour cream, bacon, chives, cheese and tomato sauce when Hermione cleared her throat and stared at him with her eyebrows raised.