Halloween Feast (also my icon is in a costume, wahey)

We went to a very good Halloween party on Saturday night (decorations/activities showed awesome and much appreciated effort, and I was staaaarving-->there was food: good all around, except we had to leave stupidly early to catch the v. last tube back home so we could sleep in a bed rather than on a crowded floor), but I still didn't want to mope around not doing anything Halloween night proper. It IS my fav holiday--not only are Americans generally very into it, my family is historically INSANELY into it. Tragically I've spent the last three:

1. In Israel, where it utterly does not exist, and where no one spoke any language I did
2. In Missouri post my mom's Kim break-up, witnessing as she tried to reinvent Halloween as a 'kooky' affair with zero severed limbs, no coffins, no grave yard, no brain/heart/hand jello molds, no dry ice, no skeletons--just some like, colorful Mexican paper chains. Utter bullshit.
3. In England, sulking. It's generally annoying that halloween is this half-assed thing they think they celebrate here. You can't even be like 'we'll have this party of my people!' because they all think 'oh but we DO do Halloween! I wore a hat once! Shit got craaaazy. One time we had a trick or treater, but that was too intense...' It's like my lame freshly post-divorce mother, but in country form.

Since English!Halloween is balls and Katy hates scary movies Leik Woah, we're in for Real Ultimate Compromise.

Thus the Harry Potter 'Halloween Feast' Party. I combed the books for all mentions of said canonical Feasts.

Decorations:

Book 1:
live bats
candles
pumpkins
gold plates
Book 2:
gigantic carved pumpkins large enough for three men to sit in
more bats/gold plates/candles
Book 4: Goblet of Fire, bats, hundreds of carved pumpkins

Food:

Book 1: jacket potato?! ('baked potato' US)
Book 4: 'extravagantly prepared food'

Activity:

Book 1: Troll in dungeon
Book 2: dancing skeletons, Death Day party, discovery of petrified
Mrs. Norris (perhaps use Liger--authentic strychnine effect would be a touch too cruel to our actual cat)
Book 3: Hogsmeade trip, Sirius breaking in

Book 5 had no mention of the Feast I could find, and I rather doubt 6 and 7 would either.

So here's my plan:

Decoration:

* label stuff we have: 'sword of Godric Griffindor', 'Hedwig' owl pillow, 'petrified Mrs. Norris' stuffed tiger toy, 'wizard chess', 'goblet of fire'
* use Katy's star lights for the Hogwarts vault ceiling, and her regular lights just 'cause
* put up posters, signs
* Put up package of cobwebs
* use all candles we have (out)
* lay out HP books, snitch, wands in pleasing fashion on table (done)
* carved pumpkins (done--MAKE SURE TO LIGHT!!)
* sign encouraging trick or treaters (done for days)

* lots of cleaning
* buy black paper to make bat paper chains
* buy more candles
* maybe make cauldron with black spray paint
* buy gold party plates?

Food:

* put out crisps
* put out candy (done)
* put out pumpkin pies (made)
* put out pumpkin seeds (made)

* buy more Hogsmeade/Honeydukes candy
* buy drumsticks
* make drumsticks
* buy potatoes, any toppings
* make jacket potatoes
* buy apples
* make toffee apples
* buy any necessary butterbeer ingredients (http://historicalfoods.com/butterbeer-recipe)
* make butterbeer
* whip cream for the pies

Activities:

* Get everything out and ready for bat paper chains
* prep Wizard People, Dear Reader and/or a decent HP film
* prep soundtracks for background noise

* potentially get witches' hats at Poundland

Can you think of anything else excellent to eat/do? And if you're free and aimless in London at 8pm tonight, come have butterbeer.