Jacob’s Sibling

“I heard that Penny’s been trying to reconnect the school ghosts with their families.”

“Who?”

“Penny Haywood? Sunshine Hufflepuff girl? Her sister was trapped in a portrait last year?”

“Huh. Well, she never came to me.”

“You never leave the bathroom, mate.”

“....”

“If you could leave... is there family you’d like to see again?”

Duncan was never particularly close with his family. While they weren’t cruel, they weren’t warm and affectionate either. His fondest childhood memories were all related to one person. His Muggle Gran, second wife of his paternal grandfather. While his grandfather was alive, the rest of the family just about tolerated his second wife’s presence. But they never went out of their way to include her in any family affairs. Her only consistent interaction with the family was looking after Duncan, who she always enjoyed having round at her home. Now being dead several years, Duncan has no idea what’s become of his gran since then.

“where does your Gran live?”

“Belfast. If she’s still alive, that is.”

Honestly, Freyja was hoping to get something out of this interaction. She was getting bored and restless around the castle, and was looking for something, some sort of challenge or job to do. If that something was finding a way to get a ghost into another country, so be it.

"‘if I found a way to get you there, would you go?”

A night time trip to the Restricted Section, with many hours of reading about the nature of ghosts, souls and binding magic. Working on the theory that ghosts are actually human souls and not just imprints of the soul, Freyja comes up with a (completely experimental and definitely reversible) way of tethering Duncan’s soul to herself, allowing him to follow her as far as she goes.

((FREYJA KICKING IN THE DOOR TO THE PREFECTS BATHROOM AT 5 A.M.))