On the eve of April Fool's Day, Fred, George 'borrowing Harry's cloak', and Peeves (Jack was staying out of it because he didn't want to get into more trouble) headed down to the dungeons to get into the Slytherin common room and lay out the pranks.
"You know Freddy and Georgy," Peeves said as they made their way down the stairs "You could have come to me first for pranking stuff. April's stuff is only good for friendly laughs, mine to humiliate the prankie."
"Peeves we're trying to stay out of trouble remember," Fred said as the twins carried the supplies
"And we don't want you to get into trouble either." George added quickly when Peeves opened his mouth.
"I'm still better at this then April is," he said pouting "She only has one day to do it, I get the whole school year."
"Are you jealous of her?" one of the twins says in a thoughtful voice as they reached the Entrance Hall.
"How would I be?" the poltergeist asked hanging upside down.
"The fact that she gets a holiday and you don't?"
"The fact that she can possibly pull more pranks in that one day than you can in a week?"
"The fact she's Queen and you're... not king?"
"Don't we have some snakes to scare?" Peeves said after a bit leading them to the brick wall that was the hidden door to the Slytherin common room, Fred and George grinning to each other under the cloak.
A few hours before the sun came up, they were done and the boys were back in Gryffindor Tower, an expecting Jack waiting there with some food from the kitchens as a thank you tribute.
"Happy birthday you two," he said right away helping himself to some ham and butter sandwiches.
Thanking him, the Twins tuck in.
"So was it just Malfoy and the rest of the snakes you set traps on or did you head for the badgers and the eagles too?" Jack asked helping himself to some butterbeer.
"Oh we go them set too, but the snakes have it worst," George said, handing Baby Tooth a mini cookie.
"We can even prep some up in here if you want so it will be harder for the teachers to work out who did this," Fred suggested looking around the room.
"Oh I've already done that," he said explaining that every room had a trick wire across the door way which when triggered will pour freezing cold water over everyone in that room, no matter where they are.
"Wait you got the girls room rigged as well?" George asked surprised.
"Yes, don't worry, I didn't look into the rooms I was only outside their doors," Jack said helping himself now to some cold chicken.
"You managed to get up the stairs?" Fred asked.
"Didn't we just go over this?" Jack asked.
"Well it's just, the girls staircase has a spell on it, that makes an alarm sound, and shift the steps into a slide, when a boy tries to go up them," George explained.
"And yet the girls can come up our staircase just fine," Fred carried on.
"Something about the responsibility of teenage/young adult boys, I guess," Jack said shrugging "Seeing as my age is older than the ages of anyone that's not a ghost here, I think it dubbed me worthy enough to let me up."
With that the three of them stayed in the common room and once the sun was coming up, left to go and hide out the morning in the Room of Requirement requesting magic mirrors that let them see the other common rooms.
It was the best Weasley Twin Birthday/April Fools Day Fred and George ever had, and the best part – just as predicted the teachers couldn't pick up on who had done this so they were weren't in trouble.
For Jack, the best part was seeing the Slytherins all covered in paint, glitter, feathers, and confetti.
A few days after April Fool's Day, a letter was finally sent to Charlie Weasley concerning Norbert – the name Hagrid gave the baby dragon.
On Wednesday night, Harry, Hermione and Jack were sitting around in the common room long after everyone else went to bed.
The clock on the wall had just chimed midnight, when the portrait hole opened and Ron came out from underneath Harry's invisibility cloak, he had been helping Hagrid feed Norbert who was now eating rats by the crate.
"It bit me!" he said showing them his hand, which was wrapped in a handkerchief. "I won't be able to hold a quill for weeks! I tell you - " he began, only to be interrupted by Jack.
"You won't be able to hold anything in that hand if we don't get it seen to right away Ron," he said "Remember what I said when the dragon hatched? If they're born with teeth they have more venom. If my friend's book is right, unless your hand's treated it will swell up to twice its size and become all black and blotchy and once your hand's conquered it will go up your arm, and then all around the rest of you and-"
"Thank you Jack, I think we get it," Hermione said making him stop.
"Besides we can't get it looked at, otherwise Hagrid will get into trouble, remember?" Harry said.
"Just saying," Jack says shrugging returning to his game of cards with Baby Tooth.
"Yeah... so as I was saying," Ron said coming over to sit in one of the chairs "That dragon's the most horrible animal I've met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit or something."
This made Jack laugh loudly tears of joy coming from is eyes and the strength of the laughs leaving him breathless.
"Er... What's so funny now Jack?" Hermione said being the bravest and speaking up.
"Just... Just that... I've seen a 'fluffy little bunny rabbits' that can be even worse than that dragon, especially when they're mad." Jack said calming down.
"And when it bit me, Hagrid told me off for scaring it. And when I left he was singing it a lullaby," Ron said finally concluding his rant about the baby dragon.
"Well how else is a baby meant to get to sleep?" Jack asked rolling his eyes "Honestly I would have thought you'd have had the most experience with baby/younger siblings Ronald."
"Oh and what do you know about them Jack?" Ron asked a bit annoyed.
Before Jack could answer there came a 'tap tap' on the window.
"It's Hedwig," Harry said smiling, glad of the subject change "She's got Charlie's answer."
The five of them put them – Baby Tooth was floating above Jack's head, came together so they could read the note.
-.-
Dear Ron,
How are you? Thanks for the letter – I'd be glad to the Norwegian Ridgeback, but it won't be easy getting him here. I think the best thing will be to send him over with some friends of mine who are coming to visit me next week. Trouble is, they can't be seen carrying an illegal dragon.
Could you get the dragon up the tallest tower at midnight on Saturday? They can meet you there and take him away while it's still dark.
Send me an answer as soon as possible.
Love Charlie.
PS Say hello to Fred and George for me.
-.-
They all looked at each other.
"We've got the invisibility cloak," Harry said "I think the cloak was big enough to cover two of us, and Norbert."
It was because of how bad the last week had been, they the others agreed to it – anything to get rid of Norbert, and Malfoy, although as Jack has thought he did seem to back off a little thanks to his 'make over' a few days ago.
There was a hitch however...
