Originally Posted by Zoerawrr

"Let me guess," Jake suddenly exclaimed, talking fluently and looking up at the heads of Slytherin and Hufflepuff houses. "A great jumble of numbers and letters to make the happiest alphabet in all the magical kingdom... ahhhhh, such tranquility," he sneered mockingly, tipping his chair onto its back legs and resting his feet on the desk.

Pssssshhh. Runes. These kids were better off in the real world. Lupa hadn't even recognised the stones he had shown her... passed them off as nothing. If they knew what was good for them, they would just leave the class right now.

Hmmm...

Not that Jake was complaining about her ignorance.

"Runes and Arithmancy are pointless," he sneered again, examining the finger nails on his right hand. "What use are they against... dark arts? Look at the professors... someone who can't tell a real set of runes when she looks at them, and someone who doesn't even know where her wand is."

Smirking, Jake held back a little laughed and then stopped. He blinked once... twice... and looked around himself. Wait... what?

But then, he blinked again... and stretched his arms out before placing his hands behind his head (a posture he had picked up from Lawson). "The relationship... both ridiculous."

Originally Posted by Zoerawrr

As Jake sat there, a third presence seemed to come over him, an angry kind that knew exactly what was going on and didn't like it one bit. This boy was his... HIS! Nobody else's.
For a moment, as the Jake-that-wasn't-Jake began to try and fight the spell, the boy looked up at Cope.

He was on The List.

Buuuuuuuut, then the warm and fuzzy feelings came back, and Jake was content to do whatever Copernicus told him once more.