Chapter 35: pity and sympathy are greatest weapons for covering a villain
Hagrid involuntarily reveals that the three-headed dog, Fluffy, is his, and that what the dog is guarding is a secret known only to Albus Dumbledore and a man named Nicolas Flamel. Even though Jack is not here he knows what is going on in Hagrid's hut.
Well it was all nonsense and he does not care about them. Instead he prepared about the things that can let him fill the gap created by Slytherin in house points after they won the Quidditch match.
He excelled during the classes and gained 100 house points for Gryffindor in the next 20 days. With that the big gap that was created by Harry and Ron was covered by Jack. Many people in the Gryffindor started to appreciate Jack about this matter.
The month of December started on that next day and Jack saw Draco teasing Harry. Christmas is approaching. Malfoy teases Harry about having to stay at Hogwarts for the holiday, as he does not have parents.
Harry, however, is looking forward to spending Christmas away from the Dursley's, Especially because Ron is also staying at Hogwarts, as Mr. and Mrs. Weasley are going to visit Ron's older brother Charlie in Romania.
Jack is also staying at Hogwarts for the summer because he was not invited back to the Malfoy mansion till the summer break unlike Draco. Well Jack doesn't care about that. Draco not only teased Harry but also teased him.
He also said that Jack has freeloaded at his house for so long that he should not come back to their house anytime soon. Many people looked at the entire incident weirdly. This happened in the great hall and many people realized that Jack is also an orphan in a way.
His grandmother is dead; mother is dead there are no other black family members alive or close to him. His father that he did not even see since birth is in jail. So there is nothing left for him.
Also he is staying in the house of another person. Harry that was also the great hall felt Draco as Dudley and Jack as Harry in Dursley's house. He sees himself in Jack right now. At that very moment many of his previous thoughts about Jack started to shake violently.
Jack never did anything bad to him. Jack never scolded or teased him. Jack tried to indirectly tell him that he should not go out during the dangerous times.
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The more he thought about that the more he felt that he was the one that originally wronged Jack. Jack never did anything wrong to him. Also Jack was as much as of an orphan just like him living in the house of others.
He realized that he might have really mistaken Jack over the time. Even after all the things he and Ron said and did Jack did not say anything to him. Jack never showed him anger either. While Harry is realizing things, there is another person that realized the things too.
It was Hermione that thought bad about Jack. She now understands why Jack tells her not to break the rules. She thought that Jack was punished for breaking the rules in Draco Malfoy's house making him very particular about breaking rules.
This made her heart tight as she misunderstood him even after he saved her before. All he did was to tell her not to break the rules the same way she said to Harry and Ron. Even after saving her life she did not even say thank you to him.
Instead she avoided him more and more. But Jack never said anything to her in both in front of her and behind her back. Thinking of this she realized that the prediction of Jack has come true as she started to hate him without a reason.
Not that she realized is she started to feel the greatness of Jack and also guilt for not thanking him before. On the other hand some professors and others that realized this also have different opinion.
But the most common thing is actually pity. They pity him. You know the greatest benefit of a man being pitied is the support of everyone. Even politicians use the emotions of sympathy and pity on them by the public to win the elections in most of the cases.
They would do many stunts to show that they are pitiful and gain sympathy of the people to make a lasting impression. At the same time they would show that they are helping many people to gain the support of other voters.
Combining these two they would create a righteous image for themselves and win elections. But knowing this is not enough one has to learn from this. If a person can gain the authority to rule and trust of so many people with these simple two things, why Jack would let them go.
So he planned the things slowly and purposefully made Draco say those words. Actually Draco did not have the habit of saying these words from few years ago. This was done because of the provocation of Jack.
Well Jack doesn't have to work hard as Draco's original nature is like that. With the simple plan and right timing and situation Jack's plan to make Draco utter those words was created and succeeded.
When hearing the words of Draco, Harry showed anger. On the other hand Jack did not show any fluctuations. It is as if he has heard these words many times. This would deepen the thoughts of others about the suffering of Jack more compared to the suffering of Harry.
Well they did not see either of them suffer over the years. But they just imagined based on the emotions showed by the victims of the same incident. So Jack gained another benefit right now and any and all suspicion that he got during this time would be removed completely.
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