The double attack on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick turned what had been nervousness into panic, mostly it because of Nick that caused everyone to worry.

"What can possibly do that to a ghost?" people asked each other in hushed voices afraid the attacker was close by "What could possibly harm someone who was already dead."

"It depends if they are actually dead to begin with," Jack said calmly one morning when he heard this question, getting a lot of attention "If they're dead dead, argo not living, breathing, heart not sending blood around their body anymore-ing, then not a lot can harm them."

"However," he paused to make sure everyone was following his words "If they are living dead, such as ghosts, spirits, zombies, vampires, other monsters, and such then quite a few things can harm them. Not as many things as if they were still alive, but they can still be hurt."

Before anyone could ask how in the world Jack would know all of this he said he had to get off to his lessons ignoring Baby Tooth's tweets about how he nearly blew his cover.

"Aww… no need to be like that little tooth fairy," Peeves' voice called out, making Jack stop and look up "I for one think that that was a perfect explanation about how what happened to Nicky, happened."

"Here to give me some more news on Malfoy?" Jack asked grinning.

"Yes indeedy," Peeves said coming down. "He's been boasting about how his father is working on trying to get Dumbledore sacked all because of these attacks. Makes me think Lucius is the one causing them."

"I doubt that Peeves," Jack said but in a thinking way "But he might have some part in it. Anything else?"

"No," Peeves said pouting "Snapey kicked me out of the dormitories before anything good came from the boys big fat mouth."

Nodding in understanding, Jack thanked Peeves and caught up with Harry Ron and Hermione, as they saw more students going to see Professor McGonagall to change their names to the 'Going home for Christmas' list.

At this Ron said: "At this rate, we'll be the only ones left. Us, the Dale's, Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle. What a jolly holiday it's going to be."

"Well in my opinion, I'm glad almost all of the school is going home," Jack said not caring how uncaring this sounded. "I'm getting tired of everyone ignoring me and avoiding me as though I have the plague."

"Yeah, and I'm tired of all the muttering and rumors," Harry said agreeing.

Just then Fred and George came up to the two of them and in proud voices walked in front of the boys calling out:

"Make way for the Heirs of Slytherin! Seriously evil pair of young wizards coming through…"

This made Jack roll his eyes but smirk at the same time.

Percy who saw this came over and said firmly "This is not a laughing matter."

"Oh get out of the way Percy," said Fred shoving his brother aside "Jack and Harry are in a hurry."

"Yeah, they're nipping off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with their fanged servant." George said chuckling.

"Actually boys," Jack said freeing himself from Fred's hold "We're heading off to our Charms lesson."

"Well then allow us to escort you so you might spare our lives, Heir of Slytherin," Fred said bowing and he and George led Harry and Jack, and their friends to their lesson.

As they walked towards the classroom they passed Malfoy who looked really annoyed about something.

"It's because he's bursting to say it's really him," said Ron quietly "You know how he hates being shown up and you both are getting praise for his dirty work."

"Not for long," Hermione said in a satisfied tone "The Polyjuice Potion's nearly ready. We'll be getting the truth out of him any day now."

Jack rolled his eyes and ignored it as they reached their class room with Fred and George bowing to him and Harry.

"Arise servants, you have done us good and therefore for now we shall not harm you for disrupting put paths," Jack said his nose in the air looking all posh and fancy like he remembered aristocrats did back in the 1800's.

Giving their thanks, the Twins left and the group went into their lesson.

During the last few days before Christmas Jack was exploring the school with Luna, Annie and Elisa.

With almost the whole school gone, it gave them almost complete free reign of the place.

Days were mostly set on snowball fights and playing outside, while evenings were them spending time in the Room of Requirement.

At the moment they were in there having some hot chocolate and listening to some Christmas songs while they played some games.

One game they all seemed to like was a Muggle game called Articulate.

"Your go Luna," Jack said after moving his and Elisa's piece, handing the cards to her who took the first one and looked where her and Annie's piece was.

"People…" she said nodding to Jack to turn the timer over.

"He's mostly known for coming around Christmas time, he likes red, reindeer, has lots of helpers, um… Cookies…"

"Our cousin Christian" Annie said making everyone look at her confused "What?"

The timer ran out.

"I'm guessing it was suppose to be Santa," Jack said smirking a little as Elisa took the cards as Luna nodded.

"Oh…" Annie said eyes wide blushing a little. "But they way Luna described it it sounded like Chris didn't it sis?"

"That's true," Elisa said agreeing "I think we should move the forward one space for that." she whispered loudly to Jack looking at the younger girls piece which was behind them by 10 places.

"Oh… Very well," Jack said reaching over and moving the piece. "Now come on Elisa, we only need a few more and we win!"

Rolling her eyes Elisa checked where they were, nodded to Luna to turn the time over and started describing her word to Jack.

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After winning, Jack suggested now would be a good time to stop and head to bed.

Agreeing, the girls left too.

Luna and Elisa heading to Ravenclaw's Tower while Jack and Annie headed to Gryffindor's.

As they got there, they heard and saw Harry, Hermione and the Weasley's playing a loud game of Exploding Snap.

AN: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Sorry it took a while to get this up, but life ha been getting in the way with my parents getting sick meaning I needed to look after them

Hopefully the next part will come up sooner then this one did

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