Halloween Treat from Iselima
Author: iselima
Title: Halloween and the Headmistress
Character:. Minerva McGonagall
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended.
Summary: Minerva's first Halloween as Headmistress
Notes: Dear mods, thank you for yet another year of HP_Halloween. It is and has been a fantastic feast, the highlight of Autumn for me!
With the solid bang of the heavy wooden doors behind her, Minerva left the fog and freeze outside and felt the castle embrace her.
She stepped into the empty Great Hall, scarcely lit at this late hour, and sat down at one of the long tables, feeling cold and empty like the hall.
Minerva knew the students would be safe in their dormitories - the first of the countless rooms they had restored after the devastation of the war - likely not asleep but enjoying their heaps of candy.
It seemed appropriate after this horrible year to be almost ridiculously generous with the candy. Halloween was to be a true feast - their first true feast since the horrors of May - though the state of the castle otherwise regularly reminded them of those days, betraying the hard work of the improvements.
Minerva had excused herself when midnight approached, fleeing the feast to the silence of the graveyard. If it was Halloween, it was Samhain too, allowing her some time with her many dead.