Aside from when Fred and George told Jack about how they got a hold of the map, and a few snowball fights, the rest of the Christmas Holidays were actually quite boring.

Oh, and Ron and Harry also finding the Mirror.

On the last day before term started everyone came back and Hermione asked them if they had found out who Flamel was.

"Just face it Hermione," Jack said as he finished up on his homework. "He obviously just was not good enough to get put into a book."

"He has to be somewhere," Hermione said re-reading one of her new books she got for Christmas "He can't be a friend of Dumbledore's and not be in a book, right?"

"Besides I'm sure I've seen the name somewhere," Harry said just finishing up his own homework.


Once term had started again, they only had 10 minute slots between classes.

Jack and Harry had even less time because Quidditch practice is on again. In a few weeks it will be Gryffindor vs Hufflepuff.

Wood was working them hard through the rain that was starting to replace the snow.

The Twins were a little put off by this, but Harry and Jack were with Wood.

If they won this match, they would overtake Slytherin in the run for the House Cup.

"Besides," Jack said grinning "A little cold and a little water never hurt anybody right?" this getting glares from the rest of the team, mostly Gred and Forge.

But not so much as 2 weeks later did Oliver Wood come back with some bad news.

"Snape's refereeing the next match," he said.

"What?" the team asked surprised and started to complain.

"But since when he has ever refereed a Quidditch match?" George Weasley asked "He's not going to be fair if we might over take Slytherin."

"It's not my fault" Oliver said. "We just got to make a clean fast game to make sure Snape doesn't get to knock points off of us."

Which was all said and good, but Harry had a different reason for keeping Snape away, and Jack could see it in his eyes.

So they packed up early and went back to the common room where they found Ron and Hermione playing chess one of the only things she was bad at – something the boys thought was a good thing for her.

"Don't disturb me for a moment," Ron said as Harry and Jack came over and sat down. "I'm trying to concec-" he caught the look on both of their faces "What's wrong with you two? You look horrible."

After telling them the problem, Ron and Hermione had things to say.

"Don't play."

"Say you're ill."

"Pretend to break your leg."

"Really break your leg."

"We can't" Harry said "Gryffindor hasn't got a reserve Seeker, or a back up Chaser. If we back out..."

"Who said anything about me backing out?" Jack asked confused "I'll have you know I literary faced Fear and fought him and knocked him down a peg. There is no way I'm backing out of this just because of some teacher who doesn't like Harry Potter."

Just then the portrait hole opened up and Neville tumbled in, his legs bound together.

Seeing this everyone, aside from Jack and Hermione who went to go and help him, started to laugh.

"You ok Neville?" Jack asked helping him up after Hermione did the counter-jinx bringing him over to the table.

"What happened?" Hermione asked gently.

"Malfoy..." Neville said shakily "I met him outside the library. He said he had been looking for someone to try that on."

Jack was furious at this, but kept his emotions under control so he didn't freeze all of the tower.

"Go to Professor McGonagall," Hermione said right away "Report him."

Neville shook his head murmuring "I don't want more trouble..."

"You've got to stand up to him Neville," Jack said Baby Tooth having come to sit on his shoulder "Stop being a doormat and letting him walk all over you. I know you can be brave. That's why you're in Gryffindor right?"

"I guess..." Neville said glumly.

Harry felt around in his pocket for something and pulled out a chocolate frog and gave it to his friend.

"You're worth 12 of Malfoy, Neville," he said "Like Jack said the Sorting Hat placed you here in Gryffindor. And where's Malfoy? He's stuck in Slytherin."

Neville gave a weak smile "Thanks Harry... Jack... I think I'll go to bed... You want the card?"

After Neville was gone, Harry looked down at the card.

"Dumbledore again. He was the first..." Harry paused and quickly turned the card over "I found him..." he whispered "I told you I read his name somewhere. I read on the train coming here. Listen to this... 'Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of Grindlewald in 1945, for his discovery of the 12 uses of dragons blood, and his work on alchemy with his partner Nicholas Flamel'"

At this Hermione got to her feet looking as excited as she did on the day they got their first test results back.

"Wait there..." she said and raced up the girls staircase.

The boys looked at each other with confused faces, barely having time to wonder what was going on, when she came back with a large book in her arms.

"I never thought to look in here..." Hermione said setting it down and opening it "I took this out weeks ago for a bit of light reading."

"Light?" Ron asked but Hermione told him to keep quiet.

"Yes! Here it is!"

"Can we speak yet?" Ron asked grumpily but Hermione ignored him.

"Nicholas Flamel, is the only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone."

"The what?" Harry and Ron said but Jack was running over what Hermione had said.

"Hang on. You said you checked this out 'weeks ago' Just how many weeks is that exactly?" Jack asked.

"Since before Christmas," Hermione said.

"You mean to tell me... You had the answer this whole bloody time in your room in that dumb fat book!" Jack said rather loudly.

"Well... As I said I never thought to look in here..." Hermione said surprised that Jack was acting like this.

"But you didn't anyway just in case did you?!" Jack asked grumpily ignoring everyone's eyes saying he needed some air and leaving the common room, Baby Tooth behind him.


Jack thought he would go up to the Owlery to visit Archie, or perhaps the secret room from before so he could 'let off some steam' over the information he just received.

He was in the middle of deciding, when he bumped into someone.

"Hey!" the someone said "Oh Jack, it's you. Are you alright you look mad at something."

It was Elisa.

"Sorry Elisa," Jack said helping her pick her stuff back up "I'm fine, just a bit put off. Nothing you should worry about."

"What happened?" Elisa asked saying hi to Baby Tooth.

"You remember before Christmas my friends and I were always in the library looking in books for something?" Jack asked.

"Yeah?"

"Well we just found that something... In a book Hermione had in her room."

"Oh..." Elisa said then burst out laughing.

"What's so funny?" Jack asked.

"Well, it's just that most of the teachers are calling Hermione Granger 'The brightest young witch of her age' But if she couldn't even to think of looking in a book she herself took out of the school library – the one you were all looking in, I'm not so sure about that myself."

This made Jack a little better and he started laughing too.

"Um... Thanks for the Lunascope," Jack said remembering his present he got from her.

"You're welcome, and thanks for the teddy bear, it's so cute, where did you get it from?" Elisa said as the started walking on, Baby Tooth in Jack's pocket.

"I happen to be related to the maker, so I 'burrowed' one to give to you." Jack said smiling, pleased that she liked it.


Back in the Gryffindor common room, Hermione had Ron and Harry read a small snippet of who Nicholas Flamel was, and what the Stone did.