On that day, Halloween arrived, and Hogwarts was exceptionally lively. All the students and professors gathered together in the Great Hall.
The long tables were draped with pitch-black tablecloths, and thousands of bats flew and swooped beneath the ceiling, looking like an upside-down storm cloud.
The tables were laden with sumptuous food: roast pumpkins exuded a sweet aroma, caramel apples gleamed with an enticing sheen, and bizarrely shaped "bloody" jellies trembled slightly in the candlelight.
Chapter 24