Frightful magic
Chapter 3
Jack stared at the two tone metallic liquid in the vile that was handed to him.
"So this will makes me, in all senses… appear human?"
The two witches looked at each other, before the tall, thin one spoke up.
"yes even to your own senses, you will once again be mortal in the sense of flesh and blood but you will still be with out the shortage of life that all mortals possess.
The short, stout witch spoke up next, she sounded meek yet her voice held warning.
"There is a catch though…."
Jack raised an non existent eyebrow "go on"
"On the night of all hollows eve, from the start of noon to dawn of the next mourning, your soul shall slowly break the spell…"
The tall one interrupted at that moment "don't worry wheel send someone over with another reanimation potion at midnight"
The short one opened her mouth to continue, but Jack Asked a question.
"This potion in my hand is a reanimation potion?" he asked out of general curiosity. The tall witch nodded, the short one looked annoyed at being interrupted again "if it works" Jack continued " I should learn how to brew it my self for emergencies, as a 'just in case'"
The short witch had enough of being interrupted and cast a silencing hex and a full body binding curse at her tall friend…she would have done the same to Jack….if he wasn't there King that is. Clearing her throat she suppressed her anger and politely asked Jack if she may continue what she had been saying, he nodded politely.
"like I was saying, from noon to dawn you will start to slowly change back into the Pumpkin king we all know and fear, the changes will be slow at first, than it shall slowly accelerate until you are fully back to being Jack. Even though someone will be by at midnight, the new potion will not work until noon the next day, or 24 hours after the potion started to where off." She took a breath and continued "also……if you die in your human form all living functions shall cease except those you have in you natural skeleton form, AKA speech, thought capacity and movement. In other words, if you die, your heart will not beat, you will not have a pulse and you will not breath. You will still have skin and hair and such…but if you get cut, the skin shall not heal and you shall not bleed. In other words…Don't Die"
" I'll keep that in mind, also when should I take the potion?"
"you should take the potion as soon as possible, it will take at least two weeks to get used to the extra weight from the skin and muscle."
Jack nodded "I'll take it as soon as I get home, now I must get going ,Sally will be home soon and I want her to watch the transformation and help if needed" as he went to walk out of the stone hutch that the two witches lived in, he paused. "you should probably unbind your friend there"
The short witch sighed "yes Jack" and did as he said.
Walking out of the house Jack heard the two witches screeching at each other about politics, curtsies and who did what.
Walking for a while, waving to his friends and random creatures on the way, he finally reached his tall crooked House and went inside.
"Sally! I'm back." Jack called out "Sally!"
there was no response, "huh she must still be out" He shrugged before ascending the long spiral staircase to his office.
Whistling a creepy tune he set the potion in a test tube holder, and sat down at his desk. After a few minutes he sighed and started tapping his fingers in boredom.
"I wish my advisors hadn't taken those Christmas town playing cards" He moped in boredom.
After 20 minutes passed, with no word from sally Jack was a little worried, it was getting late, he hoped she was ok. After a moment of worrying he shook his head, ridding himself of those thoughts with a laugh.
"After all Oogie Boogie was destroyed five years ago, and I after that there's nobody else that would oppose me." He grinned "maybe she's getting me a present, after all my Death-Day is coming up in a few months…I think." He spun on his chair to the calendar on the wall a few feet away. "Ah-ha, yes there it is. October 30th…Mischief night. Huh, I'll be at that silly school I believe, that just won't due and I Just know that they'll try to keep me there for that day and Halloween, after all I am there precious Boy-who-lived" he cackled loudly "more like the boy-who-lived-to-die-and-become-the-Pumpkin-king" he jumped off the chair, standing at a his full 7'4 foot height he turned to the table with the almost forgotten potion.
"well I guess I'll take the potion now, It'll be a frighteningly fun surprise for Sally and the kids" taking the potion vile in one bony hand he examined it again. For a moment he just stared at it wondering how it would 'get into his system' after all he was just bones. "well there's only one way to find out" and with that he tossed his skull back, opened his jaw and downed it in one swig.
Jack then took of his Suit and accessories and looked at where he would soon have a stomach and saw that the liquid had formed a spiny looking ball in his core and was just floating in place.
"huh that's a little odd, I wonder when something will actually happen though"
the minutes ticked by and Jack was getting a little frustrated and just as he was reaching to pull out the fist size blob out of his core. The spines in the blob wiggled before exploding and covering every inch of bone it could find. Jack's yelp of surprise was soon quieted to a gurgle as the goo invaded his mouth and eye sockets. It covered his entire body and soon jack collapsed as new sensations such as pain of nerves, the stretching of muscles and skin and the pounding of blood in his new ears. It was so overwhelming that for the first time since he was alive, Jack Skellington, Pumpkin king extraordinaire, ruler of all things truly dark…fainted.
At Hogwarts
Albus was worried, he knew Harry had finally gotten his Hogwarts letter and yet there had been no response and it had been weeks. After a moment of sitting in his office he stood and put on his normal happy face. It would do no good if his order saw him like that. Descending the spiral staircase he walked to the great hall where the order of the phoenix was waiting for him to arrive. As he walked into the large room he sensed something was off. Looking around discreetly he didn't see anything odd.
Shaking off the feeling he started the meeting. "As you all know we have started the search again for Harry Potter…and have not yet gotten a response…Accio!" in a split second Dumbledor had his wand out and had it pointed up at the enchanted ceiling, startling all of the others in the room. A few seconds went by and nothing happened. Then all the sudden the sky like ceiling started to ripple and out flew … a leg?
It flew to Dumbledor, who caught it, looking down he stared in horror. The disembodied leg was still moving!. Loosing his usually calm composer he tossed the leg away form the himself and the others. Everyone watched in horror as it pushed itself across the floor. After a moment it stopped, causing every one to start talking at once.
"Is that real!?"
"how'd it move!"
"Where's the body!"
"ENOUGH!" shouted Albus, the people quieted a bit.
People stared at the leg with mixed feelings, all of them bad. It looked like a girls leg with the colorful sock and Mary Jane shoe. It also had lines of thick black stitches all over it.
After a moment a scream was heard, people turned to see a girl falling from the ceiling. Dumbledor, shocked, cast a cushioning charm seconds too late and the girl landed hard and almost impossibly twisted.
"OH MY GOD" screeched Molly Weasly. People started to get up and run over to her. She had stringy red hair almost like thin yarn and pale skin that varied slightly in color.
Her dress was patchy and had lots of bright colors and bold patterns.
People watched with morbid fascination as the girl's eyes blinked open, showing the eyes of a doll. They backed away as she untwisted her self and shook her head while looking around. Muttering to her self she looked around and spotted her leg. It was sitting about a yard from her. Looking up she saw the horrified people around her….she smiled gently.
"Hay…can someone hand me my leg? I'd rather it not rip a stitch trying to get over here." She laughed a bit "after all it is a stone floor, snags do happen."
No one moved for a moment and then the crowd parted to show… Dumbledor staring at her , eyes devoid of the twinkle that he was known for.
"look My names Sally" the girl said getting irritated " I'm sorry about intruding on your clubs meeting, but if you want me to go I need my leg…"
after a moment Dumbledor spoke calmly "I'm sorry we cant let you go."
"I…what?! Why?" Sally demanded
"it wouldn't be good for the public to see such a dark artifact walking around…so I'm sorry to say, but you'll have to be destroyed since your obviously of necromadic origin".
She started to laugh, confusing everyone. After a moment she calmed down. "destroy me…not to sound conceded but you wouldn't want to do that…" Sally reached into her sock causing everyone to draw out there wands and become defensive.
"and why is that!" shouted a short man with a funny magic eye "the dark lord set you up to exsplode!!"
Sally blinked "No, that would be silly" she then finished pulling something out of her sock she held it out to Dumbledor, It was a black envelope.
Dumbledor mumbled something while scanning the letter with his wand, deeming it safe he took it.
Looking at the front he saw it was addressed to "the headmaster of Hogwarts" witch caused him to raise an eyebrow, after all…who didn't know that his name was dumbledor? Turning it over he saw a orange crest in the shape of a pumpkin with the initials J.Sacross it.
Breaking the curious seal, he took out the letter inside and unfolded it reveling elegant stylized cursive. He started reading it out loud.
"dear Headmaster
my name is Jack Skellingtion but you probably know me by another name Harry Potter." Everybody gasped " …its not as… Nice?( Is that a word?) as the name I go by, but I guess I'll have to live with it coming September first. To tell you the truth it took the school letter and an owl that would not go away to find out that Harry potter was my birth name. I only have a few requests for attending your school I shall tell you them when we meet, though I insist that I have my own room for various reasons.
May your dreams be filled with screams….
Jack S.
P.S. don't shoot the messenger because I'm sure its Sally, she can never let others do something she can do herself…
P.S.S if you want to see me just say" pumpkin patch" and this letter will teleport up to 6 people to my house at midnight
You could cut the silence with a knife. Than one by one people started to talk, and shout and ask questions.
" Not know his name?!" shouted one Molly Weasley in horror
"Sally? Isn't that the name of that thing on the floor?" said Miverna
as everyone was talking one Sirius Black was for the first time since askaban, worried about his godson and the life he had lived. Not that he was un-thoughtful he just had this feeling that his godson was ok. But now he wondered How Harry had been living and if that odd girl was anything to go by….what kind of people he had been raised by?
"look" sally spoke frustrated "there's your letter showing that Jack excepted….now can I have my leg please!"
Sirius felt sorry for her…so while no one was paying attention he got up, got her leg and was about to hand it to her when a booming voice yelled for him to stop. As Sirius turned to ask Dumbledor why, sally grabbed her leg out of his hand and wobbled so her back was facing the crowd of worried people. Taking what looked like a needle from behind her ear and some thread from her pocket. She sewed her leg back on and when she was done she slowly and unsteadily got to her feet.
Brushing herself off, she double checked the stitches and nodded satisfied. She turned to the shaggy haired man with a smile.
"thank you Mr.?"
Sirius looked startled that he was being spoken too but replied anyway "black, Sirius black"
"thank you Mr. Black for your kind helpful attitude, I'd say you're a better person than the others in this room"
"now" she said turning to face everyone " like Jack Said five of you will be able to meet him at midnight. So" she paused "…..who's going?"
Hi folks, I'm sorry this took so long but I get writers block often, hope it was worth the wait. please review and tell me what you think.
also sorry for any spelling mistakes i was trying to post as soon as possable