Chapter 8
Night on roof
And there it was. The golden sand flew through the window into the room. Jack watched how dreams formed over the boy's heads. Most of the boy's were dreaming about Quidditch, only Dean was dreaming about football and Neville about some exotic jungle full of strange plants. Jack had to laugh a little about the dreams.
Jack grabbed his wand and turned it back to its staff form. He looked a last time at Babytooth who was sound asleep on his pillow. She was sleeping all the time in the train because they didn't want people to see her and ask questions. She was quite in a foul mood when she had to stay into a cage like all the other pets. Jack hoped she would forgive him for having her let alone while he was at the Great Hall and she in this room on his bed wondering when he would already come. Jack opened the window quite as possible and flew out into the night air. He had to avoid the dream sand so he wouldn't fall asleep and fall to the ground.
As he saw Sandy he flew to him.
"Hey Sandy. So how is it on the North Pole?"
Sandy formed some symbols above his head. Jack could mostly understand the symbols by now.
"It's all right. The elves are a sad. Also the other guardians miss you. I'll bring you a letter the next time."
"See you soon. And greet the others for me." Jack flew away so Sandy could do his job. He flew to one of the schools roofs and landed. He planned to experiment a little with his wand. He didn't want to do it in front of the others in the train or when they came to the dorms. He didn't want someone getting hurt if it goes wrong or if he couldn't use a wand that no one saw him. It would be a little suspicious if he weren't able to use it.
He turned his staff back into a wand and gave it a swing. Nothing happened. He tried again but this time he concentrated his will power on the stick in his hand. And this time it worked. Light snow started to fall in a circle around him.
He started to practice some of the easier spells that he read while he was at the North Pole, most of them worked at first try but some he had to practice. When the sun started to get up on the horizon he had control over most of the spells a fifth classer had to master.
He slowly flew back to the still open window. It was good that it was still so warm outside so the breeze didn't woke any of the boys in the room. It would be bad if someone closed the window and he couldn't fly back into the room. Yes he had mastered the spell for opening doors but most of the windows were charmed so no one could break into the castle that way.
As fast as he could he got to his bed and lay down as if he was asleep the whole night. Babytooth had woken up as Jack jumped on the bed. But she just got back to sleep.
A few minutes later the boys started to wake up. Harry was the first to stand and made it his job to wake Neville, Ron and Dean, he let Seamus sleep, Ron who rolled out of bed seamed to remember that they had a new member in the room and went to wake up Jack. And he did it as gently as Bunny always did. He shoved him out of bed. Jack was quite confused, because he managed to fall asleep the last few minutes and was know starting to remember all what happened the last day.
As He lifted himself from the floor Babytooth flew from under his covers where she got tangled as they both were shoved from the bed.
"Ron you don't have to be rude to our newcomer." Said Harry.
"I wasn't rude I just woke him up. It would be rude to let him sleep in on his first day of school."
"It's all right. I'm familiar with this kind of wake up call. Bu-... Er.. my brother used to wake me up in this manner, so it doesn't bother me." Said Jack.
"What's that?" Asked a still sleepy Neville pointing at Babytooth.
"This is Babytooth, she is kind of a hummingbird breed." Said Jack. He had already thought that someone could ask him such a thing so he had an answer at hand.
"It is really cute. I'm sure all the girls will go crazy when they see it." Said now Seamus whit a sneer.
"SHE! Not it." Corrected Jack as he saw how Babytooth was ready to poke Seamus eyes out.
"You lot should get ready if you want some of the breakfast." Said Ron.
"It's not a tragedy to miss breakfast Ron." Said Harry. Jack hurried up and slipped in his uniform and hurried after the others in the common room where they were already waiting for him. Hermione and Ginny were there too.
Together they went to the great hall.