Chapter 74: the effect of a single photo
When Jack came to the great hall he went to the kitchen to speak to the house elves there. He likes all kinds of food and usually wanted to try new kind of food all over the world. So he gave some recipes to the house elves and got what he liked.
He even helped in the cooking and tasting process. House elves are very good and a small act of kindness can easily win their favor. This was actually noticed by Hermione which increased her affection to 35 points.
She did not expect that Jack would be so gentle and would be so close to the house elves that many noble families despise. She did not know how to understand Jack. While she is thinking the owls came to deliver letters and news papers.
Jack's pet Goldy also arrived here with a news paper and a letter which is actually pink. Many girls looked at it and immediately understood that it was a love letter. But they are not surprised because Jack is so handsome that he can really get love letters.
Still they are very jealous of the bold person that sent him a love letter. Romilda still sat beside Jack. She wanted to observe Jack for a while before making her choice. Jack doesn't mind having the company of a beauty sitting beside him.
She was very curious to see who would send a love letter to Jack. Jack did not show this to her but she was still able to watch the name of the sender. The name she was actually made her shocked. It was actually "Rita Skeeter…"
She was really shocked but at the same time she was also curious to find why a lady of over 40 years would send a love letter to Jack that is around 14 years old. She wanted to ask Jack but she is not stupid enough to ask it here when so many people are around.
When Jack got the letter he immediately hid it in the coat pocket behind the wizard robes. Hermione and Ginny are curious about the sender but they are not close to Jack to ask about that.
'Who are they to ask him about his personal things?' That is the question in their minds at this moment. Well if they asked and Jack asked the same question they would be embarrassed to face others.
So they are silent. Right then, Ron got a red letter that immediately attracted their attention from Jack towards Ron. They know that the red letter is a "Howler". Also they know that it should be from molly Weasley for what Ron did yesterday.
Before the letter started speaking Jack opened the front page of the news paper where there is a big image in it. In the image Harry is hanging in the air holding the door of a magic flying car.
Ron on the other hand is driving the magic flying care inside with one hand and using the other hand trying to help Harry pull back into the magic flying car. Just the image of it looked very dangerous.
It is a magic image that moves, so their struggle of survival in the flying car was recorded. Now they are charged with multiple reasons from using illegal magical items to underage driving and risking their lives.
The incident became so big that Dumbledore has to clean up their asses again. Ron receive the shouts from his mother making his face as red as his hair. Ginny was embarrassed to call herself the sister of Ron Weasley.
Coupled with the last blame that Jack dropped few months ago the current blame is even higher. They actually got to the situation of staking their lives. So they were severely punished by professor Mcgonagall.
Well Dumbledore wiped their asses clean using his connections again. After breakfast Jack left here to the lake as there is still time for the first class. He went to read the letter from Rita Skeeter.
She is boasting about her performance pulling the legs of Harry and Ron. She also got good amount of money for the article. She is asking Jack if he wanted a share. Also she wanted a special reward like a kiss from Jack for her efforts…..
Jack read through the letter and then wrote a reply to her immediately. As soon as Jack called Goldy it immediately came to him and took the letter back to Rita. In the letter Jack told Rita that there are more good news later and the reward of the kiss.
Well the reward kiss, he can give her later when she comes over. As for the money she got would be saved for now and will be used later when he tells her. In the next year Jack is going to start a special financial firm with the cooperation of the goblins from Gringotts.
He can let her have some share at that time as an investor which would be a good thing. After dealing with this Jack came to the herbology class with the time table he got from professor Mcgonagall.
The class is shared with Hufflepuff. There are quite a few good women in Hufflepuff like Hannah Abbott and Susan bones. Jack don't have to approach them directly as things would move according to their own pace.
Today's class is about changing the pots for mandrake seedlings. Usually Neville that did not put the ear plugs properly would lose his consciousness. With the remainder from Jack he put the things properly.
Jack completed the process very smoothly and the mandrake in his hand cooperated well feeling the strong sense of a vitality power from Jack. Jack wanted to try and see if he could make the mandrake connected to him.
With the life energy he possess and the strong power from the druid heart that mixed in with his heart, Jack was able to influence the mandrake into shutting up…
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