Three demigods and a satyr stood facing the brick wall between the platforms 9 and 10 at King's cross station, London. "Are you sure it's 9 and 3/4 quarters ? You know, you too have dyslexia.", asked Percy.
"Yeah I'm sure. Apart from the ticket, Chiron's letter also tells us the same thing.", Annabeth replied, squinting at the paper in her hand.
"Well, I think this is a prank. I don't know if anyone of you noticed or not but when Rachel spoke the prophecy six months back, it was April 1. Perhaps the spirit of Delphi was checking if we remembered it or not?", said Leo cheerfully.
"Or perhaps this pathway is hidden for everyone who is not a wizard or a witch just the way camp half blood is hidden from mortals.", Annabeth pointed out.
"Well, figure it out soon please. We can't stand here all day. I'm already running out of my food supplies." said Grover, chewing nervously on tin cans.
"Umm Annabeth, don't you think it's possible that we missed the train? I mean, you said that the train will leave at half past ten but we're already fifteen minutes late." Percy said.
"The train leaves at eleven. I'd told you the wrong timings since with you two we could have never hoped to reach at time", said Annabeth, now rummaging through her backpack.
"Hey!", Leo and Percy protested, but before they could say anything else, a crowd of people jogged near them, dragging their trunks. Almost every one of them had a caged owl balanced on the top of their trunks.
"No way are they human! They must be those magic weirdos . Shall we ask them where this platform is ?" Leo said, heading towards the chattering crowd.
"No! Are you stupid ?", Annabeth said dragging him back, "How weird it would look to them if their sixth year students would ask them 'Hey. Lovely holidays. Care to remind us where our platform is? I forgot during the summer.'", said Annabeth in a bad imitation of Leo's voice.
"But they have owls! Athena's symbol. What if she sent those to help us ?", asked Percy.
"My mom doesn't help just like that. Besides since mobiles don't work at Hogwarts, they use owls for sending messages. Now you three wait here and pretend to be mortals while I go and eavesdrop on them."
"But how will you- ", Percy started.
"Like this." Annabeth said and fished out her Yankees cap.
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SON OF MAGIC
FanfictionAfter fighting a bloody war with Gaea, the demigods at camp half blood get issued a prophecy asking them to bring back a son of Hecate who was mistakenly taken by the ministry of magic to be a wizard. Their time at Hogwarts is full packed as their p...
