The Great Hall's Halloween decorations that evening were exceptionally perfunctory. Professor McGonagall conjured a few fake jack-o'-lanterns and hung them from the ceiling, while Professor Flitwick used spells to create a heap of floating skulls and bats, then called it a day.
All that could be said was that Hogwarts's professors had relied too heavily on Hagrid. Without him, they suddenly had no idea how to decorate for a holiday.
The Great Hall might have been decorated carelessly, but the students had taken their costumes extraordinarily seriously.
By the time Harley and Hermione finished applying their makeup and reached the Great Hall, it was already packed to the brim with a wild assortment of demons and monsters.
The young wizards had given full rein to their imaginations, dressing up as all manner of supernatural creatures.
Thanks to the Six-Wizard Tournament held just a year ago, aside from the competition between the champions, the foreign wizards who had not been selected had also engaged in extensive exchanges with Hogwarts students.
As a result, not many students chose to dress as traditional vampires or ghosts. Instead, many creatures from the country where Mahoutokoro was located became popular costume choices.
Even more unexpectedly, the portraits Snape kept hanging in his classroom had become the young wizards' favorite costume templates.
After getting over their initial discomfort, they suddenly realized that the wizards in those portraits, miserable beyond words, were perfect subjects for imitation.
Thus, all sorts of exceedingly wretched costumes were born. The professors frowned at the sight, but the students were quite pleased with themselves.
Still, Harley seriously suspected that some of the students trying to use magic for their makeup were courting disaster.
A glance around showed her at least ten cases of students who had cast Transfiguration on themselves, only for