AN: STILL ALIVE!

Sorry for being late in updating, i have been working on other things (stories and non-fanfic things)

Either way i hope you like this chapter ;)

2/2/22

After a quick breakfast, as there will be a roast dinner for lunch later, everyone came back to spend the morning cooped up in the surprising empty/quiet Gryffindor Common Room.

The reason why it was empty was because it was only Harry, Ron, Hermione, Jack and Baby Tooth there (She had been seeing Tooth and her sisters for a few days as they all prepared for the Christmas Candy run – the time of the year when Tooth Fairies were second most busiest (most busiest being Halloween and a few days after)).

The reason why it was quiet was because, Hermione wasn't talking to Ron, Ron wasn't talking to Hermione, Jack didn't really want to be killed in the attempts to get them to make up with each other, and Harry was busy admiring his new broomstick.

When she came back, Baby Tooth looked at it, and inspected it also wondering who sent it.

"We don't know, Baby," Harry said letting her make a nest in his hair so she could rest her wings. "The only thing that came with it was its certificate of authenticity, stating its number."

"Yeah... You might want to take a note of that," Jack said from where he was, as he tried to teach himself a new game Jamie Bennett had sent him. "Something tells me you might need it at some point in the future."

"Um, ok," Harry said unsure, and not noticing Jack give a look to Hermione as he looked for a pen and some paper to make a copy if the numbers on the handlebar.

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As it got closer to 1 o'clock, the five of them (Baby included) left the common room and headed back down to the Great Hall.

When they got there, they saw the house tables were pushed to the sides again and instead there were two tables, one holding all the adults – Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, Sprout, Flitwick, Lupin (wearing his new Moonband, Jack spotted), Fitch in his ugly fancy dinner jacket, Madam Pomfery, Bunny, Hagrid, Professor Sinatra of the Astronomy Tower, and Professor Vector – the supposedly strict woman who teaches Arithmancy, on the right.

And the other table for the kids, which held a grumpy looking Slytherin 5th year – Antony, if Jack remembers correctly, and two nervous looking first years (one a Ravenclaw and one a Hufflepuff) on the left.

Spotting them, Dumbledore welcomed the Gryffindor's and Baby Tooth into the Great Hall.

"Merry Christmas," he said happily. "As there were so few of us it seemed foolish to use the house tables – "

"So instead we're using a kids table and a grown-up's table." Jack said for him.

"Jack, behave," Bunny said glaring at him a little.

Rolling his eyes, Jack went to the 'kids table', Baby Tooth and the others following close behind.

Once everyone was sat down, and the food appeared, Jack got a little happier by all the good food there was and asked one of the first years to pass the gammon.

"Crackers!" they heard Dumbledore say enthusiastically. After a pause there was a 'BANG' as the cracker was pulled apart.

As Jack was focusing on getting the best bits of gammon he didn't see what the prize was, but looked up when Ron and Harry started snorting and trying not to laugh.

Looking around at the teachers, he saw Dumbledore now had on his head, a large pointed witch's hat topped with a stuffed vulture.

Grinning, Jack held out his cracker to the Antony.

Rolling his eyes, he pulled and that prize turned out to be a small new pack of Gobstones which almost landed right into the mashed potatoes.

"You have them," he said in a bored voice.

"But you won," Jack said putting his short end of the cracker down. "You got the bigger end."

"Those dumb squirting marbles are stupid, and so is this hat," he said holding up what looked like a circus clown's hat "And this stupid joke."

"Cracker jokes are supposed to be stupid," Jack said as he read it grinning "That way the reader doesn't get embarrassed when no one laughs at it. Please just let me say it to you."

"If it will get you to leave me alone, fine." Antony said putting the bowl of roast potatoes back on the table.

"'What should you do, if you're in a cold room?'" Jack read out to everyone listening.

"Use a heating spell? Put on warmer clothes?" Antony said giving logical answers.

"'Go and stand in a corner, as they're usually around 90 degrees.'"

This got some groans and eye-rolls and/or small laughs from the others but Ron Weasley and Antony just looked confused.

As Harry tried to explain the joke to them, as a Slytherin wouldn't listen to Hermione due to her blood status, Jack got himself some more food, consisting of some vegetables, some roast and mash potatoes and some stuffing.

Baby Tooth was investigating the gobstones, squealing when one shot a sticky, smelly something at her, just because she tapped it, the stuff getting onto her wings meaning she couldn't fly until they were cleaned off and dry.

Jack took up a napkin and gently tried to do just that, but that didn't help and just made her more upset.

Picking her up, Jack was about to get up and head for the kitchens as it was closer, when Simon – the Ravenclaw handed him a glass of water.

"Thanks," Jack said and set Baby onto the rim of the glass.

"Can't she fly when something gunking up her wings?" Simon asked as Baby Tooth quickly washed herself wanting to get the horrible stuff off her.

"No." Jack said cutting up his potatoes "But would you be able to, if you had something on your wings?" Not waiting for an answer he added "She can't fly if her wings get wet either."

After about 5 more minutes of silence (not counting the scraping of knives and forks) the doors to the Great Hall opened to reveal, what looked like a human-ized dragonfly.

"Err... who's that?" Jack whispered to Harry who sighed a little.

"That is Professor Trelawney," he said ignoring her and returning to his roast potatoes.

"Sybill, this is a pleasant surprise!" Dumbledore said, standing up from his table in greeting.

"I have been crystal gazing Headmaster," she said in a dreamy easily-annoying voice, "and to my astonishment, I saw myself abandoning my solitary luncheon and coming to join you. Who am I to refuse the promptings of fate? I at once hastened from my tower, and I do beg you to forgive my lateness..."

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"Is she always like that?" Jack asked in a whisper to his friends who all rolled their eyes, sighed and nodded.

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"Certainly, certainly," said Dumbledore calmly, pulling out his wand. "Let me draw you up a chair –"

Looking over his shoulder to see what baby Tooth was excited about, Jack saw Dumbledore literally 'drawing up a chair' in mid-air before bringing it down to sit between Professors Snape and McGonagall.

But Professor Trelawney was coming over to the children's table.

"Sybil, your chair is here," said Professor McGonagall, impatiently.

"Oh, but I dare not join you, Minerva," she replied "If I join you, we shall become 13! Nothing could be more unlucky. Never forget that when 13 dine together, the first to rise shall be the first to die."

"We'll just stay sat here for the rest of our lives then, and let the ankle-biters run around the school causing chaos, shall we?" asked Bunny a small smirk mixed with an annoyed glare towards her on his face.

"We'll risk it, Sybil," Professor McGonagall said ignoring Bunny. "Do sit down the turkey is getting stone cold."

Nervously Professor Trelawney came to her seat and sat down, her eyes and mouth, clutched tightly shut as though an explosion might go off as soon as her bottom touched the cushion on the chair.

"Right, now that you're here, tripe Sybil?" Professor McGonagall asked after pouring half of a large spoonful onto her own plate.

Trelawney ignored her and looked around the table.

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Jack went back to focusing on his Christmas dinner, drowning out the conversations happening on the Grown Up table, and focusing on some that were happening on the one he was sat at.

Having finished cleaning herself, Baby Tooth was now playing a card game with Simon using cracker mini playing cards.

Ron was stuffing his face with everything within reach of him.

Harry was explaining some more cracker jokes to Antony.

Hermione was focusing on her manners and keeping to herself, her eyes shooting over to Professor McGonagall every now and again.

And Derik – the Hufflepuff was in the middle of eating a small pile of mini sausages.

There didn't seem to be any problems until just after Harry and Ron left to go back to the common room, Hermione – as Jack predicted went over to speak to Professor McGonagall.

"Well lets go and see this broomstick," said the Transformation teacher, about to stand, when Professor Trelawney shrieked loudly making her stop.

While the 'Grown Up's' fought over this, Jack and Baby Tooth got up themselves and headed to the common room to prepare the other boys for what will happen as soon as Trelawney lets McGonagall get out of her seat.