This year, Halloween had been kind of awful for Gideon. His headless horseman costume idea had seemed great at first - every year the first years grew pumpkins in Herbology, so there'd be no shortage of them to use an appropriate head. Rather than take a pre-carved one, however, the boy had been adamant on carving it himself, to make it more fitting to his aesthetic. That had been his first mistake. His second was trying on the pumpkin head before he'd even started cutting out the eyeholes, or being dressed up for that matter. Now it was firmly stuck, and he'd had to blindly be assisted down to the Great Hall, his vision filled only by orange gourd-guts or complete darkness, depending on how he tilted his head.
The start of the feast was spent by Giddy trying to dig out an eyehole with a fork. It had worked, sort of. He could semi-see through a dug out crack, but once he'd actually seen the fork and how close it came to his eyes, he freaked and stopped trying to widen the hole even more. Even his newfound vision had turned out to be a bad idea. Being able to now see the food table left his stomach rumbling, but he couldn't fit a cauldron cake through the hole around his neck, and having another attempt at stabbing through the pumpkin-head for a mouth hole was out of the question.
Groaning, Gideon left the table and meandered around aimlessly, wondering if he should simply give up and try find a professor to vanish the gourd and be done with it. What he found first was what looked like a magically enlarged fairy floss, at least through the narrow window he had to view it from. That was new, and he briefly wondered if it was a prop, or some sort of communal thing anyone could take from - until it turned around and had a persons face. "OhMerlinyou'reaperson." Gideon exclaimed, surprised to see a candy treat suddenly become a human right in front of his eyes. Or eye, in this circumstance. He looked her up and down, gradually taking in the entirety of the girl's outfit through the hole. "Your costume is actually pretty cool!" He commented, now recovered from the initial shock. It sucked to miss out on seeing everyone else's outfits, and this was the first actual one he was seeing in its entirety. Everyone else was just blobs of fabrics.