"Aging potion!" declared Fred and George to Harry, Ron, Jack and Hermione on breakfast next morning
"This won't work" challenged Hermione
"It will!"
"It won't!"
"It will!"
"I don't think an aging potion will fool a great wizard such as the Dumbledore, and even if you did pass the age line, you can't fool the cup" said Hermione
"I think Hermione is right" said Jack "but you can try anyway" he said and smirked at them
"Jack!" said Hermione disapprovingly
"Oh, we will" said Fred grinning
"right after the breakfast" said George
"and you are welcome to watch" said Fred, and the twins left
"I really can't wait to watch what will happen" said Jack
"Why?" asked Ron
"I read about age lines, and know what will happen to anyone under the age who'll try to pass it" said Jack
"What will happen?" asked Harry
"Oh, you will see" Jack said
Fred and George were now heading to where the cup was, and they stopped outside the age line, there was a crowd watching, Fred and George made the first step, nothing happened the both looked at each other smiling, they high fived each other, but a second later they were pushed out of the line, and had grew a white beard to match Dumbledore. The whole crowd started to laugh, even Fred and George did
Harry, Ron, Jack and Hermione were laughing loudly as well
"I told you it won't work" said Hermione smirking at the twins who just approached them
"We'll find a way to do it anyway" Fred say
"We can ask one of the seventh years to put our names" said George
"But before, we'll try do it ourselves" said Fred
"Good luck then" wished them Jack
"I want to enter the tournament as well" said Ron
"You are still too young" said George
"little brother" continued Fred
"What about you Harry?" asked Fred
"I don't need neither fame, nor honor, nor eternal glory" said Harry
"Well, of course" said George
"You're the famous Harry Potter" said Fred
"We gathered that for ourselves, thanks" said Jack, sarcastically
"and what about you?" Fred asked Jack
"No, thanks, I'm not interested" replied Jack
"We can do it for you" said George
"We won't tell your girlfriend" said Fred winking at Jack, and Hermione glared at them
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"Jack! Jack! Wake up" said Hermione
"What?" he said waking up
It was a week before Halloween, they were in the green house, they had Herbology first
"You are sleeping in the middle of the class!" she told him
"Sorry, I just fell asleep" he said
"You didn't sleep well last night, did you?" she asked
"No I didn't" he admitted
"Why? What were you doing?" she asked
"I just couldn't!" he replied, yawning
"What were you thinking of?" she asked
"I weren't thinking of anything, I just couldn't sleep, that's all" he said
"Is it that dream of Harry with Voldemort torturing Lucius Malfoy?" she asked, lowering her voice so no one could hear her
"No!" Jack said
"Then what is it? What's wrong?" she asked
"I just couldn't" he said slowly
"are you hiding something from me?" Hermione asked
"What? No! why would I?" he asked
"Because it's not the first time you are waking up so tired, if waking up at all, you are not sleeping well since the opening of the tournament, what's wrong?" she asked angrily
"Hermione, please, if there was anything, I would let you know, but it's really nothing" he said, and went back to sleep
"It's a green house, not a dormitory, Mr. Kendall" Professor Sprout said
"Sorry Professor" he woke up again, Harry and Ron laughing, Hermione looks worried
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When they first arrived to the common room, they found Ginny crying, she was sitting in the corner of the common room so no one could notice her, Ron ran toward his sister to see what's wrong
"What happened?" asked Ron
"Ginny are you okay? What's wrong?" asked Hermione, while Harry and Jack watched the scene without saying a thing
"I just went to my dorm, to find my trunk opened and a lot of things out of it, I thought that someone stole something, but there's nothing stolen" she said
"Then why are you crying?" asked Ron
"Because it's awful, Ron" said Hermione
"When did that happened?" asked Jack
"Now, I just finished lunch and came to here" she answered him
"Do you know who did it?" he asked
"No, but it has to be someone from Gryffindor, unless it's a staff member" said Ginny
"It's okay, Ginny, nothing had been stolen" Hermione tried to comfort the girl
"I'll go check my trunk" said Jack, and went upstairs
"Should we as well check our trunks?" asked Ron
"I think if he sees something suspicious he'll tell us" said Harry, before Jack returned
"There wasn't a mess, so I suppose nothing's stolen" said Jack
"Weird!" said Harry
"It's like when Quirrell broke to Gringotts but didn't find what he wanted so he didn't steal anything, I think the thief didn't find whatever he wanted" said Hermione
"But what would the thief want from Ginny's trunk?" asked Ron
"I don't know" answered Hermione slowly as though she was thinking
They thought about it for a while, then Jack broke the silence, yawning
"I'll go to sleep before dinner, I'm exhausted" said Jack, as he went to his dormitory
"He was sleeping all the day, nearly every teacher except for Trelawny woke him up at least twice" complained Hermione to Harry and Ron "What was he doing last night?" she asked
"Actually," said Harry "It has been like this since the other schools arrived, he was searching the Marauder Map, but when we asked him why though, he said that he was making sure none of the visitors are up to something"
"Something like what?" asked Hermione
"We didn't ask" said Ron
"But one night he forgot the Map activated, and I saw he was watching the Great Hall" said Harry
"The Great Hall?" asked Hermione "He's watching the Goblet! But why though?" she was now talking to herself more than to Harry and Ron
"You can ask him when he wake up" suggested Ron
"I will" she said, and left to the library