As the Christmas holidays started, Ron and Harry were having way too much fun (courtesy of Jack) to worry who Nicholas Flamel was.
The three of them had the dorm to themselves, and the common room was emptier than usual so they were able to get the seats they wanted - Ron and Harry by the fire, Jack off to the side.
They spent their time roasting things using the poker and plotting ways on getting back at Malfoy and the Slytherins, which Jack wrote down and would later consult with Fred and George to see if they would like to help him and Evie and April (who could both come to his call should he want them to) put them together.
Already they had bewitched the their mince pies to come to life when they sensed someone holding them and run away.
It took a while for the teachers to get them under control.
Ron had also started teaching them wizards chess, it was a just like Muggle chess, except the pieces were alive.
Jack smirked at this imagining the pieces were his helpers he had to bring Winter to the world, so he wasn't put off by the fact that they could talk and move.
Harry on the other hand was surprised the first time he played when one of his Bishops' from a set he borrowed from Seamus said 'Don't send me there. Can't you see his Knight? Send him! We can afford to lose him.'
On Christmas Eve, Jack Fred and George had said that tomorrow there would be a costume party in Gryffindor tower, saying that you had to dress up, and had written notes to all except Percy saying 'This is a prank for Percy. Come to the party, but don't dress up.'
Smirking everyone nodded and went to bed wondering what the next day will bring.
In their dormitory, Jack was asking Ron and Harry what they were expecting to get.
"Well I know of at least one thing I'll be getting from my mum..." Ron said showing Scabbers off of his pillow "A Weasley jumper."
"I doubt I'd be getting anything," Harry said in a 'It doesn't matter, I'm used to it' voice.
"Oh don't be a Scrooge, Harry," Jack said throwing a pillow at him making him smile "It's Christmas tomorrow. Christmas is a time for fun and family and being happy even if you don't have one."
"Well then what are you expecting to get?" Ron said curious.
"No idea, but that's the fun of it right? Surprises?" he replied shaking the gift Elisa gave him to see if he can work out what it might be.
Soon Harry and Ron were asleep, and Jack went into the common room to see if he can meet up with North.
At around midnight, Jack was gently shaken awake by a grinning North his red sack next to him.
"Hey North..." Jack said yawning a little.
"Merry Christmas Jack," he said fishing out some presents. "All these are for Harry from us."
"What about the rest of us then?" Jack asked counting 5 different presents.
Just as North was about to answer, the portrait hole opened and a few of the house elves Fred and George told Jack about came in with sacks of presents themselves and started going up the stairs to distribute them.
"Ours to you are in there," North said to Jack nodding to the Elves. "Toothy thought we should send them early, but we wanted to give Harry his gifts ourselves, but they all too busy back at Pole."
"I understand," Jack said smiling a little "Happy Christmas North," Jack said heading back to his dorm room after North left and the house elves were gone.
The sun was just shining in to the dormitory when Jack opened his eyes and heard Ron say "Happy Christmas" to Harry.
"You too. Will you look at that. I've got presents." Harry said grinning picking one up and opening it.
"Well what did you expect, turnips?" Ron asked opening his presents as well.
"In my opinion Ron I would think a Turnip for Christmas is a great gift," Jack said remembering those long winters back in the 1700' where they had to ration out the food from the harvest.
"You need your head examined then Frost..." Ron said looking over to Harry who had been reading a note from his aunt and uncle.
"That's friendly," he said pulling of the 50 pence.
"Weird!" Ron said coming over to look at it. "What an odd shape. This is money?"
"You can have it if you like it that much," Harry said laughing "So Hagrid and my aunt and uncle – so who sent these?" he asked looking at the rest of his presents.
"Um... I might know who that one's from..." Ron said turning a bit red pointing to a rather lumpy present and then looking at Jack's pile and seeing he had one too. "My mum. I told her you didn't expect very much and I guess she didn't want you to feel left out Jack and... Oh no. She's made you both Weasley jumpers..."
"Well what's wrong with that?" Jack asked putting his on loving the fact it was blue with a snowflake on it.
"Every year she makes us a jumper and mines always maroon." Ron said unwrapping his own jumper.
"That's really nice of her," Harry said helping himself to some fudge.
"Beside you get bigger every year so every year you need a new jumper," Jack said reaching for Elisa's gift. "And they're probably only that colour so you can tell who's is who's."
Leaving Ron to complain, Jack looked at the tag.
'To Jack
Happy Christmas
From Elisa.'
He opened it to reveal an odd looking telescope and another note inside.
'This is called a Lunascope.
It helps you in Astronomy and moon charts because it shows the phases of the moon'
Not wanting to say that, being a Guardian, he didn't need one of these, Jack just put it to one side and was about to move on to his presents from the other Guardians when he head Ron say "It's an Invisibility Cloak..."
Looking up he saw Harry holding a silvery looking cloak and threw it over his shoulders making his body disappear.
Not in the mood to continue opening presents or hear them cheer about how wonderful being invisible can be, Jack got dressed and went down to breakfast ignoring Fred and George on the stairs.
After breakfast Jack went exploring around the school feeling that he needed somewhere to be alone, somewhere to let out his anger...
Never realizing how big the castle was, Jack in his got lost and passed an odd looking tapestry three times.
After the third time a noise to the other side of him caught his attention and to his surprise the wall opened up to show a door.
Curious, Jack went up to it and opened the door wand in hand just in case it was dangerous and stepped inside.
Inside this room there were large pillows, books, and loads of breakable things with targets painted on them.
His wonder over taking his anger Jack went over to the cushions and pulled out a book that looked to be a wizard children's story book.
'The Tales of Beadle the Bard'
Shrugging he opened it at random and started reading a story about three brothers and Death.
When he was finished, Jack looked at the clock that was there and saw he was going to be late for the 'party'.
