Percy Jackson at Hogwarts

Chapter 23: An enriching discussion.

Percy PoV

"Well, how is he going to contact you? When is he coming?"

Harry nods, showing me the fireplace.
"Now."

I turn around and...
"Wow incredible!"

A head had appeared in the fireplace.
I approach slowly.
"Doesn't it burn?"

The head laughs, coughing ashes.
"That's your first question?"

"Yeah, no, you're right."

"How you doing, Sirius?"Ask Harry.

"It doesn't matter to me. But how are you?"

"Yes it doesn't matter, you have your head in the fireplace, but everything is fine." I say.

Sirius is looking at me.
"Who are you, by the way?"

"He's my cousin I told you about in my letter. If he's here it's because he's a champion too."

"Oh, I see. I've heard about him. The article in the press. Nice to meet you. You're very brave to go into an event like this."

I shrug my shoulders.
"We'll see how I'm going to get through it."

"Sirius, we're going to have to face dragons. And Percy will have to face two dragons alone!"

"What's that? What do you mean dragons?"

And Harry began to tell him all about it.
That he wasn't the one who put his name in the cup, the lying article in the gazette, and he also talked about Ron.

And finally, about what the first task was going to be.

Sirius seemed worried.
"Listen to me carefully. Dragons are one thing, but we can fight them. Even if Percy you'll have to be doubly vigilant."

"Don't worry about me. It's Harry I'm worried about."

Sirius stares at me for a while and then nods.

"You must be wary of Karkaroff. He was a Death Eater. He was in Azkaban but was released."

"What?!"Ask Harry, surprised.

To tell the truth, I wasn't surprised. He seemed suspicious with all his fine words.

"Something else. I read Rita Skeeter's article."

"The article? The rag you mean!"I say.

Sirius smiles.
"From what I saw, you must have pissed her off pretty bad."

"We had a few disagreements indeed."

Sirius laughs.
Then he looks serious again.
"In this article, I saw that Moody had been attacked the day before his arrival."

"Certainly one of his many fits of madness,"Harry says.

"Well, it wasn't. I think that's what the ministry wants us to believe. Despite all this the attack was particularly violent, and Moody knows a real attack when he sees one."

I'm thinking.
I can't tell them what Moody did to me. But with what Sirius has just said, an idea crosses my mind.

"Moody is really strong, isn't he?"I ask.

"He's the best Auror we've ever known. He has a strong sense of justice."

From my point of view, I don't really find the person I know to be justice-loving.

But what if this famous attack was not just imaginary? What if he was really attacked?
Would it be possible that someone...

"I'm running out of time. Let's talk about the dragons, that's the priority," said Sirius, cutting me off in my thoughts.