As Jack woke up the next morning, he looked at the calendar he had put up on the wall for the boy to share, and was surprised to see that it had almost been two whole months since they came here.
"Halloween, better keep an eye out for Evie then and her tricks," Jack said to himself.
Grinning, Jack got dressed, not bothering to brush his hair, and was about to go down to breakfast when a little squeak caught his attention.
Turning around he saw Baby Tooth with a reply to his letter he sent to them last night.
"Ah, you missed me," he said to her grinning, making sure to show off his teeth making her blush.
'To Jack, we would be glad to come and watch your Quidditch match on 3rd November at 11 o clock
Hope you're enjoying the school, and are learning lots and keeping out of trouble
The Guardians.'
Smirking, Jack let Baby Tooth fly into his pocket and went to go find Professor McGonagall to tell her his 'Family' would come to watch him during the match.
"I'll be sure to save them some seats then Frost," she told him as he came across her in the Entrance Hall.
"Thank you Professor," Jack said smiling and went into the Great Hall for breakfast feeling the happiest he ever felt.
As he sat down, Fred and George joined him.
"Happy Halloween Jack," one said a big grin on his face as though he wanted something.
"And to you, so..." Jack said taking a sip of pumpkin juice "What do you want?"
"We would ever so much would like you to introduce us to Evie, when she comes," the other said in a whisper because some Hufflepuffs were passing them.
"Well one, you will have to believe in her to see her, and two she might not even come here, but if she does, it will be this evening. She prefers the night to the day." Jack said looking around to check whether she was here or not, but she wasn't.
However...
"Happy Death-Day Nick!" he called to Nearly-Headless-Nick as he glided into the room.
"Thank you Jack, I was actually wondering if you would like to come to my party," he said "Just a get together you know."
"I'll think about it," Jack said smiling.
Smiling back Nick drifted away.
"What was that about?" Fred asked eyeing Nick.
""Huh? Oh Nick was killed on Halloween on October 31, 1492," Jack said.
"And you know this because..." George asked not knowing this himself.
"I'm older than I look remember," Jack said tucking into some pancakes "And I've been around a lot. You pick up things."
Finishing up, Jack went back to Gryffindor Tower, collected his things and went to his first lesson of the day, Charms.
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Once Professor Flitwick had taken the register, he looked around on top his stack of books and asked everyone to get into pairs.
Not wanting to get stuck with Hermione, and seeing Harry was already with Seamus, Jack went with Neville – this unfortunately left Ron with Hermione instead.
"Now today," Professor Flitwick said climbing down and pulling a box of feathers out "We are going to learn to make things fly." he said going around placing feathers on the desks.
However since he was about the same size as the desks, it was a little difficult.
"Let me help you Professor," Jack said getting up.
"Well thank you Mr Frost," Professor Flitwick said giving the box to Jack. "5 points to Gryffindor for helping me. One feather per person please."
With that he went back to the top of his stack of books.
Once everyone had a feather, and Jack was sitting down again, the lesson continued.
"Now don't forget the nice wrist movement we've been practicing," Flitwick said looking around "The Swish and Flick. Remember the Swish and Flick. And saying the spell correctly is also very important – never forget Wizard Baruffio, who said 's' instead of 'f' and found himself on the floor with a buffalo on his chest."
This got a slight snort from Jack.
It was hard work, there was a lot of swishing and flicking and a lot of 'Wingardium Leviosa's' but no one seemed to be able to so it.
However everyone did get a little surprised when Seamus' feather burst into flames because his poked it too much.
Everyone was also, just as, if not more, surprised when Jack somehow made his feather start to glow as bright as the moon.
Jack guessed it was because he said 'Win-guardian Leviosa' instead of what he was meant to say.
On the next table over, Jack could here Hermione telling Ron off for waving his wand a little hard.
"Stop, stop, stop. You're going to poke someone's eye out," she said "Besides you're saying it wrong. It's Wing-gar-dium Levi-o...-sa. Not Levio-sar. Make the 'gar' nice and long."
"You do it if you're so clever, go on!" Ron snarled.
"Wingardium Leviosa" Hermione's voice said and silence came as her feather lifted higher and higher.
"Oh well done!" Professor Flitwick said "See here everyone Miss Granger's done it!"
Jack looked over his shoulder to see Ron in a bad mood and Hermione with a pathetic smile on her face, her pinky on her hand holding her wand held out.
Frowning, and not wanting to be over shadowed by this... this show-off Jack had another try, made his feather lift of his desk, covered it in ice and shot it at Hermione's making both of them fall and be get damaged beyond repair.
There was a lot of silent cheers for Jack as everyone saw he did that on purpose, despite what he said to Hermione and Professor Flitwick.
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Even though he was pleased that Jack had literally shot down Hermione, Ron was in a very bad mood as they left Charms.
"'It Levi-o...-sa'" he mocked getting slight chuckles from everyone "She's a nightmare, honestly. No wonder she doesn't have any friends."
"Oh she's not a nightmare," Jack said agreeing with Ron "My family has to deal with nightmares all the time and they are way easier to stand than her."
Just then someone knocked into Harry as they hurried past him. It was Hermione, and it looked as if she was crying.
"I think she heard you," he said.
"So?" Ron asked but a little put off "She must have noticed she didn't have any friends."
Jack was torn between going after Hermione and agreeing with Ron.
But from the look Baby Tooth was giving him he went with the first option.
"I'll catch you in Transfiguration," he said and sped off.
Jack looked around the school looking for places an upset 11 year old girl may want to hide in to be alone.
Jack was passing the second floor's girls toilets when he heard crying.
"Oh come on..." he said to himself, but Baby's stern look made him look around knock and enter.
"Hermione?" he called from the door.
The crying stopped, but no one came out to meet him or kick him out.
"Hermione, it's... It's Jack, can you please come out so we can talk?" Jack asked and waited.
Still nothing.
"Look I know what me and Ron said was wrong ok, but, the way you always show off, and try to prove you're better than the rest of us, just doesn't help you in defending yourself."
Again – nothing.
"You may not believe me but I know what it's like to be alone, and not liked, and wanting to show I can actually do something, but always going around and showing off how smart you are, doesn't help." Jack finished sighing "That's all I wanted to say. I'll go now."
And with that Jack turned and left not noticing the ghost of a girl coming out of one of the cubicles seeing him go, a confused look on her face.
Hermione didn't turn up for Transfiguration, or any of the other classes that afternoon.
"Wow, we must have really upset her," Jack said to himself as they went to the common room to drop their bags off, wondering if he should go and check up on her.
But before he could he was bombarded by Fred and George.
"Oh, right," he said remembering his promise and led them to Hagrid's pumpkin patch having an idea that if Evie did turn up that is where she'll be.
And as he thought after five minutes there was a glow of light and a small pop and there she stood.
"Jack?" she asked smiling and assaulting him in a hug "What the hell are you doing here? And why do you look like that?"
"I'll explain later Evie," Jack said taking her hand and leading her to Fred and Gorge "For now, I would like to introduce some human friends who wanted to meet you. Fred and George Weasley this is Evie the Spirit of Halloween. Remember you have to believe in her to see her." he added seeing their confused looks.
Thinking hard, Fred and George looked at where Jack was looking and closed their eyes muttering 'I believe, I believe.'
When they opened their eyes again they were surprised to see a teenage girl in an orange dress, white and black stockings, black buckled boots white hair done into a pony tail wearing a witch's hat, and holding a broom.
"Hi," she said smiling and waving.
"Hi," they replied massive grins on their faces.
"So you two, why did you want to meet Evie?" Jack asked in a 'couldn't care less' voice.
"We were wondering if she would like to help up prank the Slytherins," one of them said "We finally got Peeves to tell us where their common-room is and what its password is."
"Yeah, and all it took was our entire supply of Dr Fillybuster Fireworks'." said the other.
"Oh I would LOVE to!" Evie cheered smiling "Race you to the castle!" she cheered getting on her broom and speeding off.
"HEY!" Fred and George cried and ran after her.
Rolling his eyes Jack smirked and was about to set off as well when he heard a snapping of a twig and the sound of a cloak gliding along the ground and the crunching of dead leaves.
Hiding behind a rather large pumpkin, Jack watched and saw to his surprise, Professor Quirrell coming out of the forest and fast pace towards the castle himself, not noticing Jack.
Confused and wondering if he should go into the forest to try and see what he was up to or follow the man, Jack got up.
After a bit and a look at the sky seeing how dark it was getting, Jack chose to follow Quirrell.
Jack lost him however as he was getting back inside the castle, and a swam of students were making their way to the Great Hall for the Halloween Feast.
Spotting Harry and Ron he made his way over to them, catching Parvati Patil tell Lavendar Brown that Hermione was still crying in the girls bathroom and wanted to be left alone.
This made some of the joy ease out of him hearing this but seeing the decorations brought it back.
All the bats and the jack-o-lanterns and black candles.
Once everyone was sat down, the food appeared and it was all just as good as the start-of-term feast.
Jack was just about to tuck into some chicken when Professor Quirrell came sprinting into the hall, his turban askew and out of breath, terror all over his face.
He makes his way up to the Teacher's table screaming "TROLL... IN THE DUNGEON! TROLL IN THE DUNGEON! Thought you ought to know!"
With that he fainted and there was complete panic.
Right away Jack looked up and down the table looking for Fred and George spotting them look confused.
Jack was about to catch them when Dumbledore blasted off purple firecrackers from his wand and brought silence to the hall.
"Prefects please lead your houses back to your dormitories immediately," he said "Teachers please follow me, to the dungeon."
Percy was in his element.
"Gryffindor's follow me! First-years stick together!"
Jack caught up with Fred and George.
"A Troll! Seriously!" he whispered in a mad voice not seeing Harry and Ron run off.
"Hey that beast has nothing to do with us," Fred said defending themselves and Evie.
"Yeah we planted paint bombs in their common-room" George said as they reached the Fat Lady "We made it clear to Evie, nothing dangerous."
After ten minutes, food was sent up so the feast could be finished there.
After five more minutes Jack noticed Hermione, Harry and Ron come in, Hermione looking a little better.
Jack was going to get up to go talk to her, but he was pulled back by a loud squeaking Baby Tooth who shook her head saying to see her in the morning.
"Fine," Jack said giving her some cookies, thinking "Hey you guys," he said to Fred and George "If you guys didn't let the troll in... who did?"
"Don't know," Fred said shrugging George doing the same.
