Professor McGonagall's classed were always hard, although Jack was rather good at them if he did say so himself, but it seemed that everything from last year had slowly leaked out of his head over the summer.

And it seemed he wasn't the only one thinking this as Harry and Ron were having trouble too.

They were meant to be turning a beetle into a button.

So far only Hermione had managed to do it correctly, but Jack had changed his too...

It just still had six legs and antennae.

Jack took a calming breath as he remembered a life lesson he heard from a show his believer Jamie Bennett had watch a while ago.

A kid had been failing his classes but the teacher wouldn't let him quit, saying she was sure he could do it.

The boy asked 'What if I can't?'

'Then you fail. After which you try again.'

That was the lesson Jack had taken from it. So taking a deep breath, Jack visualized what he wanted to button to look like and then waving his wand, said the spell correctly and in a puff of smoke, the half beetle half button thing before him was a perfect looking coat button with a pattern of his signature snowflake as it's pattern on it.

Grinning, Jack showed McGonagall and asked for a couple more beetles to see if he could do it again.

After the fourth puff of smoke and another perfect button, Ron leaned over and asked him how he was doing it.

"Just keep trying," Jack asked grinning.

At the end of the lesson only Jack and Hermione had managed to do the spell correctly even though Jack had told everyone, on McGonagall's behalf that the trick was to visualize what they wanted it to look like.

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"I can't believe you managed to get her to give you 15 points," Ron was saying as they went to have lunch.

"And why is that?" Jack asked pretending to be offended.

"Well I think that's the most she's ever given anyone, ever, and she definitely doesn't do it in the first lesson of the year." Ron said munching on some chicken.

"What have we got this afternoon?" Harry asked changing the subject.

"Defence Against the Dark Arts," Hermione said stashing away her buttons and looking at her time table.

"Why!" Ron asked annoyed snatching it "Have you outlined all of Lockhart's lessons in little hearts?"

Blushing Hermione snatched it back and did not answer.

They finished their lunch and went out into the courtyard for some air.

Hermione sat down on one of the steps and got back to reading her copy of 'Voyages with Vampires'.

Jack meanwhile, was messing with the other students there by using his frost powers to make them slip and fall.

He was wondering if he should try it on Lockhart when he heard a high voice behind him asking Harry for a picture.

Quickly he turned around and saw a first year with a camera.

"I'll give you a picture if you want kid." he said coming over and guiding Colin away before his high pitched voice and request reached Lockhart's ears.

"Really?" he asked eyes wide.

"Sure, I can," Jack said and dug into his pockets and pulled out a picture of a flower he had copied from a book in North's library.

Using a copy charm he gave the copy to Colin.

"There you go kid. One picture." Jack said and turned away.

"But I wanted one of Harry," Colin said tugging on Jack's sleeve holding him back "And I really wanted him to sign it to."

"Kid," Jack said coming back and kneeling down so he was the same height as Colin, pointing him towards Harry. "When you see Harry. What do you see?"

"I see the Boy-Who-Lived who defeated You-Know-Who." Colin said getting all giddy and confused "And I see he's a great wizard. And that he's very powerful. And awesome. And..."

"That's not what I see," Jack said cutting Colin off before he could continue. "I see a 12 year old, orphan boy, who like you, still isn't sure where his place in the world is just yet." he started "I see a boy who doesn't like it when people swarm around him to gape at his scar – which he barely remembers getting. I see a child, Colin. Not a big time super star. You get where I'm saying?" he asked.

"I think so..." Colin asked looking down at his camera frowning a little. "I can still be friends with him though right?" he asked hope in his eyes.

"I'm sure you can, but perhaps wait until you're both older and he's actually famous for something he remembers before asking for an autograph. He might still say no, but still."

Nodding Colin went back over to Harry, apologized to him and then went off to his next class.

Grinning Jack got up and came back over to his friends.

"How did you do that?" Harry asked shouldering his bag as they all headed to their next class.

"I told him that you were a kid. Not a star. And kids don't like being swarmed by fans." Jack said Baby Tooth nodding along as she rode on his shoulder.

As they reached the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom, Harry, Ron, and Jack – Baby Tooth still on his shoulder, took up seats at the back using their combined books to make a wall so Lockhart couldn't see them.

Hermione took up a seat at the front.

Wither it was to get a better look at the board or the teacher, the boys didn't know.

"Well if that's the case, let's just hope Creevey doesn't run into Ginny," Ron said a smirk on his face "Or they'll be setting up a 'Harry Potter fan club'."

"Shut up," Harry said through gritted teeth peeping over the books to check where Lockhart was.

The last think he wanted to for him to hear the phrase 'Harry Potter fan club'.

Over with Jack he was trying to work out what was wrong with Baby Tooth.

She was acting scared and flitting around more, her eyes dashing between the door and the windows and the covered birdcage next to the front desk.

"Baby what's wrong?" Jack whispered cupping her in his hands and bringing her closer "Something under there?"

She nodded looking scared before ducking into his pocket just as Lockhart came out of his backroom to start the lesson.