playinginsand | An AU to AU-Hogwarts: Graduation Night

"This will always be one of the best days of my life."

Jo grinned at Sokka, trying to shout that over the roar of festivities around then, even when she was barely feet away. Hogsmeade had exploded in an evening celebration of the graduation of the newest class.

Tomorrow there would be packing. And the train. And the first ever real goodbyes to places and people they'd all known and grown up with. But today everyone in their class was running and laughing, drinking and playing still.

Jo totally saw a good deal of the frivolity as their fault, too. Their last prank had been epic. Lee'd stolen and returned all the graduation hats. Sokka'd potioned them. Jo'd spelled them.

And at the end of graduation every hat had turned into a small shiny house-colored dragon, zooming into the air and then they'd roared all at once before turning into a shower of flower petals that fell on everyone.

And while usually their trifecta was quiet and smirky about their deeds -- they were graduated now, what was anyone going to do? -- and there was laughing, bowing, grinning, hugging. And flower petal bombing.

Yes. Yes, indeed. One of the best ever.