Between the water-firework display and the last day of term there wasn't really much excitement happening at Hogwarts.
There was no Quidditch Final because too many matches had been missed – this thankfully meant that Gryffindor was allowed to hold on to it, but Jack admitted he would have liked to have won it rather than let it stay on the shelf in McGonagall's office.
Exams went on as they usually did, students sitting in hot stuffy classrooms trying to remember all they had learnt that year.
Due to the 'teacher' being unable to provide plus the fact he hardly taught the students anything at all, nobody had to do Defence Against the Dark Arts exams.
Instead when it was Jack's class' turn they were out by the lake where they quietly welcomed the cool summer breeze and revised to get ready for their next exam.
Jack as usual making a game out of it my making a board game where to move ahead the people playing had to get the information right.
"Ron, what was the name of the Goblin King who ruled between 1864 and 1975?" Jack asked reading the 'History of Magic' category card.
"Um..." Ron asked thinking hard "Robert the Revolting?" Ron asked really hoping this was right because he was loosing by quite a way.
"That is... Wrong." Jack said turning the question onto Harry.
"Gilbert the Gastly?" Harry asked remembering hearing this name but wasn't sure about the dates.
"That is... Correct. You can move forward one square." Jack said placing the card at the back of the box of other cards and passing it on to Ron who grumpily waited for Harry to roll the dice.
"4 Transfiguration" he said looking to Ron for the question.
"What is the incantation for turning a beetle into a button?"
Harry tried to remember back to the first class of the year but couldn't remember the words, so passed.
Hermione got it right away of course, getting her 5 squares away from the last one on the board.
They would have continued but the bell rang telling them they had a Charms exam to get to.
"I don't think that game was fair," Ron said pouting as they packed it up "Jack knew all the answers because he was the guy who wrote the questions."
"Ron, I have a very short attention span when I'm not doing something I care about," Jack said rolling his eyes "I had forgotten what I had wrote on the first card by the time I got to the 10th one. Why'd you think some of the questions were the same?"
But Ron still mopped about it.
The game, in Harry's opinion, however did help them do better then they normally would have if they hadn't played it at all.
"I think you should make copies of this to give to the other houses" Elisa said once hearing about it.
"You do?" Jack asked while hanging upside down from a tree that weekend.
"Yeah if it can help someone like Ronald Weasley actually remember something from class, it can help anybody."
"Yeah... and have a different box of cards for each year so anyone can play it" Jack said letting out his ideas and jumping down to join Elisa in the library to start making a 3rd Year card box, - He'll worry about the other years later.
Soon the exams were over and it was the Leaving Feast.
Thanks to the points Gryffindor had gained due to Harry, Ron, and Jack they had won the House Cup for the second year in a row, so of course they were the loudest table there.
The Guardians had come to join them again as they did last year, Tooth for one seeming a little happier than she did last time Jack saw her.
At the moment she was telling Annie, Ginny, and Hermione about one time where she hit a man so hard in the face a couple of teeth came out.
Smirking as he ate his roast beef, Jack stayed quiet as the girls asked what the guy did to make her so mad.
"He was a bad man who stole lots of things from others, and put other still in danger" Tooth said calmly saying if the girls wanted, she could teach them how to fight and punch like her.
"Tooth... Don't do that," Jack said with wide scared eyes "They'll use their knowledge to hurt us idiots who upset them."
Here he gestured to himself Harry and Ron, who both looked scared too.
"No they won't Jack, because the number one rule in my way of fighting is that, you don't harm your friends." Tooth said calmly "Understand girls?"
The girls nodded and began asking when they can start learning.
"Well I tried," Jack said shrugging petting Baby Tooth on the head gently as she was slowly eating her way through a cookie.
"Come on mate," Bunny said gently punching Jack on the shoulder "I doubt any of them would want to hit you. Well maybe Hermione when you start taking a mick out of her way of learning. Oh and then Annie, yeah... she's Elisa's sister so she might do it if you upset her. But I'm sure Ginny won't be any bother to yah. She's too sweet and innocent."
"That's what she wants you to think" Fred said in a loud whisper "She only acts that way to earn your trust and then... Snap! She does something and then gets you in trouble instead."
"Yeah, and um... have you forgotten who her family is?" George asked pointing to himself and his twin, the group getting a laugh at Bunny's face as he understood what they were saying.
The next day, everyone was lining up outside the school to get the carriages to take them to the train station.
Draco Malfoy was about to step into one, when a gust of wind shut the door and ice started forming over the handle.
"And where'd you think you're going Malfoy?" Jack asked coming over.
"Into that carriage so I can get rid of you and this dumb school for the summer, Frost." Malfoy said rolling his eyes wishing he hadn't packed his wand away.
"But we're not finished here yet," Jack said calmly "After all I seem to remember you and I had a bet on about these attacks and the Muggleborns right?"
"I don't know what you're talking about," Draco said firmly, but his ears were turning a little red as a small crowd was gathering.
"Then let me remind you," Jack said smiling "It was in Potions about a week or so after Dumbledore left. You were having a rather loud conversation with your gorilla's," here he pointed to Crabbe and Goyle, making some people laugh "That you 'were surprised the Muggleborns hadn't all packed up and left.' Any of this ringing any bells?" Jack asked.
"No." Malfoy said but his shaking hand and the redness in his ears were saying otherwise.
"Then I'll continue," Jack said "As the lesson was finishing you said 'You bet 5 galleons that the next muggleborn will be dead'. And then I took that bet and then doubled it, saying that they won't. Did I not friends?" he asked looking towards the Gryffindor's who had been there who now nodded.
"Well there weren't any more attacks so it doesn't count," Draco said firmly.
"Exactly, no one, Muggleborn or not, was attacked after Hermione, Penelope, and myself," Jack said calmly "Everyone stayed alive meaning I win. So please, hand over the money you owe me, please Malfoy."
There was a mix of laughter that Draco Malfoy had lost this bet and mumbles of the fact that a Slytherin was out smarted/conned by a Gryffindor.
However Malfoy stayed silent and unmoving, unless you count for the fact that his fist was shaking as if wanting to hit something.
"Just hand over the money Malfoy!" a Slytherin girl named Daphne Greengrass said "Until you do we're all stuck here, and I for one would like to spend my summer at home."
There were more mumbles and this time nodding from the other students.
"Fine..." Draco said going into his pocket and pulling out a money bag and giving Jack 10 Galleons a dark look on his face as he turned away and opened the now unfrozen door, getting into it with Crabbe, Goyle and Pansy Parkinson.
As they rolled away and the next carriage arrived, Jack turned to Daphne and thanked her for her assistance.
"You're welcome Frost, and well done for waiting until the last day to embarrass him in front of everyone." she said smiling as Jack bowed to her.
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At long last everyone was now on the train waiting to head back home.
Harry, Hermione, the Dale sisters, Ron, Ginny, Fred and George, and Jack got a compartment to themselves where they had numerous rounds of exploding snap since there wasn't really much room to do anything else.
They were almost at Kings Cross when Harry asked Ginny what she caught Percy doing that he didn't want anyone to know about.
"Oh that," Ginny said giggling "Well – Percy's got a girlfriend."
"What?" Annie, Hermione, Ron, and Harry asked in surprise, the only one that were surprised as the others already knew.
"It's that Ravenclaw Prefect, Penelope Clearwater," said Ginny "That's who he was writing to all last summer. He was ever so upset when she got attacked. I walked in on them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He's been meeting up with her all over the school in secret all year."
"Ha! Knew it! I win! Five sickles then, please, My Lady," Jack said holding his hand out to Elisa who rolled her eyes and handed the coin over."
"On Christmas Day, as we were heading out for our not-a-date-date," Elisa explained to the confused looks they were getting "We came across Penelope, and then a few minutes later Percy, coming up from the corridor that led to the dungeons, and Jack betted that they were seeing each other."
"Please, teach us your ways of becoming a true betting master, Jack Frost," Fred and George asked with wide eyes and hands in a praying position.
"First know your computation: Who you're betting with. Can you out bet them. And can you trust them to keep up their end of the deal if they lose." Jack began as he added the silver coins to the gold ones he got earlier "Then know about what it is that you're betting on. And finally, make a wild enough bet that the computation will agree to it, because they believe there is no way it can happen."
"Oh I had an idea Penelope was with Percy," Elisa said when she got looks from everyone as the twins were noting this down "I just didn't believe they were seeing each other down in the dungeons. Talk about an unhealthy place to meet."
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The Hogwarts Express finally came to a stop at King Cross.
While everyone was trying to pick out who's bags were who's Harry pulled out some parchment and wrote something down 3 times.
"This is called a 'telephone number' he explained for Ron's benefit, as he finished, tearing the parchment and handing said number over to each of his friends "I told you're dad how to use a telephone last summer, he'll know. Call me at the Dursley's, ok? I can't stand another 2 months with only Dudley to talk to..."
"And who said you're going to have to?" Jack asked folding the number up and putting it in his pocket "As I remember I said I'd ask my family if you could stay with us. But that things needed to be explained first."
"Yeah and I said that if it's too much trouble to forget it." Harry said calmly.
"Well either way you'll be welcome to run away to my place if you want," Jack said handing over a mini snowglobe North gave him last night to give to Harry. "Just say where you want to go, or who you want to be with, shake this and then smash it on the ground."
Smiling Harry put the snowglobe into his trunk before heaving it off the train joining the others.
"Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" Hermione asked in an unsure voice as they joined the crowd waiting to get off the platform "When they hear all you did this year."
"Proud?" asked Harry "Are you mad? All those times I could have died and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious..."
"Besides Hermione," Elisa said, Annie by her side "From what I heard from them from Jack who pick things up from Harry. They don't seem to want to have anything to do with Hogwarts, or Magic in the first place. So I doubt Harry can just start up a conversation just like that."
And together they all went back though the gate way to the Muggle world.
The end.
AN: FINALLY! After almost 2 years, this story is finally done.
Thank you to everyone who reviewed it, favoured it, followed and stuck with me and my long awaited new chapter updates.
I'm going to leave it for a bit before I try and tackle the third one, but I will only do that, if I get enough requests to do so.
Love (a very tired) Ugly-Duckling123