The next morning after one of the massive group runs with all of the houses, they found out why Voldemort had been so happy the previous night. There had been a mass break out of Azkaban, the wizard prison, and the Ministry of Magic was blaming Sirius Black for the breakout. As they were discussing this Jake whispered to Harry asking him how Sirus did get out. Harry whispered back to him about him turning into a dog, as Jake had seen him do that back on September first he figured that made sense.

They then discussed about how the ministry was covering things up, Jake looked at them and said "governments do things like that all the time."

Ron turned to him and said "what do you mean by that?"

Jake said to him "ok take me for example you know the story I tell people and my real story, it's the same with governments when they realise things to the public. Another example the meteor crashes a few years ago, they had something to do with the SGC and that's all I'm saying for now. No more questions?"

They all nodded as they understood some of what he was saying, they then turned back to the newspaper as they saw an article about a ministry employee by the name of Bode who had been strangled to death by Devil's Snare well in St. Mungo's. Harry remembered meeting him when he had his herring at the ministry earlier in the summer and Ron mentioned that his dad said he was someone who worked in the department of mysteries.

Just as they were finishing breakfast Hermione got up and said that she needed to send a letter to someone. Also well they found out from Hagrid that he had been put on probation by Umbrige which meant that she would be at every Care of Magical Creatures class.

Also throughout the day everyone was discussing the breakout from Azkaban and was also trying to talk to the people in the school that knew some of the victims of the attacks.

Jake saw that Neville seemed to be avoiding people a lot and cornered him, walked him into an empty classroom and closed the door before he could say anything. Jake sat next to him and said "look what I'm going to tell you right now is really hard for me to tell anyone and also you cannot repeat anything I tell you except to Harry, Ron and Hermione."

Neville looked like he was afraid at that moment as he had seen how well built Jake was and he knew that he wasn't someone to be messed with. When he looked at him he saw that he had almost the same look that he had had on his face on Christmas when he had told them about his parents, he wondered if it had something to do with that. He then looked Jake in the eye and said "what are you going to tell me that I can't tell anyone other than Harry, Ron and Hermione?"

Jake closed his eyes and lowered his head and said "I know what it's like to be tortured by someone who doesn't give a shit about what they do to the person or those that care about them", Neville was about to interrupt him when Jake said "you know how I sometimes talk about my Uncle Jack in the US Air Force Right" Neville nodded as Jake continued "well I'm not really his nephew I'm a clone of him that was created by accident and I have all of his memories including some of him being tortured."

Neville then started crying and said to Jake through his sobs "I've never told this to anyone not even my Gran but I want to tell you as maybe you will understand, I saw them tortured".

Jake grabbed him and hugged him well he said to him "Neville I'm sorry that you have such horrible memories of that and I know that words can't take the hurt away, but I want to let you know that anytime you want to or need to talk to someone you can talk to me about it."

As the two of them pulled apart from the hug Neville whipped the tears from his eyes with the sleeves of his robs and said "thanks, it's kind of good in a way that I told you that and that you shared something with me about yourself. I guess I always thought of you being the tough guy who doesn't have any feelings, but when I saw how you looked when you found out about my parents I thought that you must know something that you weren't letting on."

Jake looked at him and said "I'm only tough on the outside, mostly from my military background, but once you get to know me, believe me I'm not all that tough. Oh and one thing, I am very protective of anyone I consider a friend and your one"

Neville looked up at him and said "you mean that, you consider me a friend?"

Jake looked at him and said "why wouldn't I? Especially after your Gran said that you consider me one."

Neville looked at him as he shrugged his shoulders and said "I just thought because you were here to protect Harry that you didn't really care about me"

Jake looked at him and said "true I may be here to protect Harry, but that doesn't mean that I can't make friends and besides I don't really have any my own age. Most of the people I consider friends are old enough to be my parents. Also you remind me a bit of myself sometimes."

Neville looked at him and said "how do I remind you of you, I'm no good at anything besides Herbology, and I don't know what I'd do if I was confronted by a death eater."

Jake looked at him and said "you remind me of myself because from what Harry, Ron and Hermione told me and from what I saw when Malfoy said something about St. Mungo's, you're willing to stand up for what you believe is right even if it means taking on your friends, I do that too sometime and so does Jack. Also I want you to know that the first few times you that you attempted spells on me I didn't try to block them until you showed more confidence in yourself that and when you managed to throw me into a bookshelf with a stunner and If Harry wasn't watching you might have found yourself flying into it as well. You remind me of another friend of mine too, Daniel he's really smart and knows about 30 languages but he will fight when he has to, just like you would too. Sometimes it's best to not think about what you're doing in a fight and just do what your gut tells you. Now come on its lunch time"

The two of them got up and left the room. As they were heading to lunch Neville asked Jake some more questions, Jake answered most of them but there were some that he just said he would tell him later. When they got to the great hall Harry, Ron and Hermione saw the two of them coming over to them.

Harry asked Jake what he had been talking to Neville about and he just said "stuff."

Ron asked with a full mouth "what kind of stuff?"

Jake looked at him and said "first swallow before you talk and second it was personal between me and him," as he turned and nodded to Neville who was loading up his plate.

As the weeks went on between having lessons with teachers being on probation, both Trelawney and Hagrid, and Snape's Occlumency lessons the only thing that they truly could look forward to were the DA meetings.

One Saturday afternoon Jake told Harry that he wanted to take the class. Just after dinner about an hour before the DA meeting Jake slipped off to change into his track paints and he also went to prepare the room and himself for what he wanted to do.

When Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville came into the room of requirement they saw Jake sitting in the middle of the room, shirtless, surrounded by candles and sitting cross legged he looked like he was in some sort of trance, if they hadn't seen his dog tags moving when he took a breath against his bare chest they would have thought he was dead. Neville whispered "should we say anything to him, to tell him that we're here?"

Jake opened his eyes and said "Oh hey guys I was just doing some mediation."

He then grabbed his shirt as the candles vanished from the room and it expanded into the usual room except the bookshelves were replaced with padded walls and the floors had an extra layer of padding on them too. As everyone walked in they were looking around at the room as it looked different than normal.

Harry then addressed all of the members and told them that Jake would be teaching them today.

Jake then stepped forward and said "as much as I hate the sound of this phrase now I'm going to say it anyway 'Wands away please' you're not going to need them today"

Zacharias Smith then spoke up and said "so how are we supposed to defend ourselves without a wand?"

Dean Thomas then spoke up saying "well obviously Jake is going to teach us some techniques to deal with someone in that situation."

Jake stood at the front and said "exactly, now would anyone like to come up to the front and let me demonstrate with them?"

He looked around the room and said "If I don't get any I will pick someone."

Neville's hand shot up and he stepped forward, Jake looked at him and said "are you sure?"

Neville nodded as he stood beside Jake.

Jake then turned to the rest of the group and asked if anyone else wanted to volunteer. Ron stepped forward as did Fred and Gorge who said to Jake "just retuning the favor"

Jake looked at them as they said "from when you tried a fainting fancy."

Jake laughed at that as Zacharias smith said "so are you actually going to teach us anything or are we just going to stand around well you talk to your friends."

Fred and Gorge looked at each other then at Jake who raised an eyebrow like Teal'c often did as the twin approached Zacharias and garbed him by the arms pulling him to the front. Jake then looked at him and said "it looks like you have just become the last volunteer and my first victim, sorry I mean assistant."

As Jake said the last part he had a look on his face that showed everyone that he meant business. He then handed his wand to Harry and then said to Zacharias "ok Mr. Smith let's see if you can put your money where your mouth is."

He looked at Jake as if he had grown an extra head or something and said to him "what you want me to attack you, your unarmed, you just handed your wand to Harry. You're no match for me."

He then pointed his wand at Jake at the same moment Jake ducked under the stunner that Zacharias sent at him and quickly got to his feet well simultaneously grabbing him from behind and put him into a head lock.

Jake then realised him well he complained that it wasn't a fair fight as Jake didn't let him know what he was going to do. Jake then said to him "you honestly think that an enemy is always going to fight fair?"

Zacharias looked at him and said "yeah of course it's proper dulling."

Jake the turned to Harry and said "when you dulled Voldemort last summer did he fight fair?"

Harry looked at him and said "yes and no. He essentially mocked dulling by trying to force me to bow with the Imperio curse. So no he didn't fight fair."

Jake then turned to him and said "if you were to fight me would expect me to fight fair?"

Harry then said "it would depend on what I did to you."

Jake then said to Harry "how about this I'm a death eater that has just been disarmed my wand is nowhere in reach, what would you expect me to do?"

Harry looked at him and then said "I would probably try and stun you."

Jake then said to him "do it try me and I'll show everyone a truly unfair fight."

Harry nodded as he pointed his wand at Jake, he hopped Jake wasn't going to harm him in anyway. Just as he was about to hit Jake with a stunner when he felt Jakes arms wrapped around him and something cold brushing across his neck. Jake had pulled up his paint leg and grabbed the knife that he had there and had pulled it out on Harry. He then pulled it away and said "you should never, ever assume that an enemy is unarmed just because you have seen him or her lose whatever weapon they were trying to use on you." He then threw the knife behind him and it hit a target that appeared in the room.

After that everyone divided up to practice some moves that Jake had demonstrated with the others.

By the time that practice was over everyone there was tired and soar and immediately hit the showers upon returning to the dorm rooms.