Jack arrived five minutes late to Charms explain in not too clear words why, before he said down.
"How is she?" Harry asked in a whisper.
"Not sure, I left Baby Tooth with her," Jack said getting to work on writing down the notes on the board "I'm planning on going to check on her after the lesson. You know… like a good brother would do…" he said emphasizing 'good brother' and looking at Ron who seemed to be having some trouble with his wand.
"Unicorn hair's sticking out again…" he said trying to push it back in not hearing anything that was being said next to him.
Rolling his eyes Jack was about to carry on working when Harry brought up Riddle's diary.
"I had it in my bag because I hadn't returned it to you yet," Harry said quickly knowing that would be Jack's first question "Anyway, I got so mad after what happened on the stairs, as soon as I got the I threw my bag onto the table and one of my ink bottles smashed and went over almost everything. But the diary was completely ink free."
Thinking about this Jack said they should look into it that evening, but to not write into it yet.
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After Charms, as he said he would, Jack went to go check on Ginny but couldn't find her behind the barrels.
"Ginny?" he called out looking around.
Hearing Baby Tooth he turned and saw her coming from behind the picture of the fruit bowel that was the secret entrance to the kitchen.
Following the fairy back inside, he was soon swarmed by the House Elves who worked there.
"We is welcoming you Sir" one, in a different coloured pillowcase toga, said. "How might we be's pleasing you?"
"I'm looking for a first-year Gryffindor named Ginny Weasley." Jack said accepting the biscuits some of the Elves were holding out to him before following the lead elf to the back of the kitchen where Ginny was sitting at a table with a mug of hot-chocolate and some cake.
"Hey chap, feeling better?" he asked kindly.
"A little. Still embarrassed though." she said looking into the mug.
"Well the best way to get over that, I have found over the years, is to do some pranking on those who have embarrassed you." Jack said pulling out a list of possible pranks they could do to Malfoy.
"But won't we get into trouble?" Ginny asked unsure but really wanting to get back at the snob.
"I'm sure Fred and George have already told you this honey but… You will only get in trouble if you get caught." Jack said in a whisper even though he knew that what happens in the kitchen stays in the kitchen.
"So," he said helping himself to the biscuits "What would you like dear old big brother Jack to do to that dumb old dragon?"
Smiling Ginny looked up and down the list wanting something just as embarrassing to happen to Malfoy as he made her feel, but something that wouldn't get Jack into too much trouble.
After a while she pointed to one of the listed pranks.
"How soon can you get it done?" she asked grinning the same grin Fred and George gave when they were committing 'crimes'.
"Well seeing the chance I might possibly be given detention for about one or two weeks for physically harming another student and leaving him with a bloody nose…" Jack said in a 'I-don't-care-he-deserved-it' voice, and pulling out a diary of his own to look through it "I'd say something in early March."
"Any chance on making it so the teachers don't know it was you doing it?" Ginny asked having some cake the elves just brought over.
"If we do it while it's still winter, meaning the first 21 days of March, then we can use the lakes own ice," Jack said noting this down "But the best chance of me not being found out, is if I have an alibi meaning someone else will have to be the one to do it. How trusting are you of Peeves?" he asked.
"Not all that trusting but if he's the best option ok" Ginny said nodding "Why?"
"Well one, as I said I would need an alibi meaning others would need to set the prank into action. But also if we ask for his help we could get it done sooner, meaning the alibi can be the detentions." Jack explained.
After a few more minutes of talking and ideas, Jack went to go find Peeves to tell him of this plan.
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"So are you willing to help?" Jack asked as Peeves giggled in excitement liking this 'Get-back-at-you' prank.
"Oh yes Jackie," he said doing cartwheels in the air.
"Just remember Peeves, in the center of the lake, make sure it's thick enough so he doesn't fall in, and a blanket with a warming charm on it so he doesn't get sick." Jack said making it clear "And wait until I am doing the detentions."
Saluting him, Peeves whizzed of laughing.
Taking a deep breath, Jack went to go and face Professor Snape thinking he would be the one more likely to give him the detention.
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Jack was about to go down into the dungeon corridor when McGonagall and Snape came out of the Great Hall, both looking mad, but Snape looking madder.
"Frost!" he called clentching his fists as if he wanted to hit the boy.
"Sir," Jack said smiling innocently.
"What is this I hear of you attacking one of my students?" he asked.
"I'm afraid you need to be more specific Professor," Jack said "Not that I have hurt that many Slytherins, but there quite a lot of them so you can see why I don't –"
"Malfoy, Frost!" Snape yelled at him a small crowd coming to see what Jack had done now.
"Oh…" Jack said in an 'sudden-realization' voice "Well Sir, you see it all started with my friends and I going to Charms and me asking if they had gotten any cards yet." Jack began pointing out his grammar skills to which everyone rolled their eyes and McGonagall just told him to carry on.
"Harry pulled one out of his bag, stamped 'Singing Valentine' and said he would look at it later, when Draco Malfoy came and snatched it from him, before illegally – seeing it wasn't addressed to him – opening it for everyone to listen to, and then laughing at it.
'Seeing a first year crying over this and run away embarrassed, suspecting she was the one who sent it, I got mad at him and punched him in the face and tackled him to the floor.
'I mean, wouldn't you do something like that Sir, if someone you disliked was laughing at something someone you were friends with worked so hard on?"
There was a moment silence as everyone looked towards Professor Snape for an answer.
It looked as though he was indeed thinking of something that fitted to what Jack just said, but shook it off before saying.
"One week's detention with me in my office, Frost. Starting tonight."
With that Snape ushered everyone out of the way and went down into the dungeons.
Rolling his eyes a little, Jack then turned to McGonagall to see what she had to say.
Taking a deep breath, she said "I should take at least 60 points off of Gryffindor for you behavior, Frost. But seeing as you were doing it in to a loyalty of a friend and it seems you knew of the consequences seeing how openly you were with Professor Snape, I will only deduct 30 points. But if you do anything like that again to anyone. I will have no choice but to tell the Headmaster and see you are expelled. Am I clear?"
"Yes Professor." Jack said nodding to confirm it.
With that she went back into the Great Hall with Jack soon following before he went to find Ginny at the table.
"Just got the detentions, and Peeves is ready to go." he said in a whisper "Sometime between tonight and next week, you will get your revenge on that dumb Dragon."
"Thanks Jack" she said smiling and hughing him a little before going back to her dinner.