SON OF MAGIC

A LITTLE PROBLEM.

As they made their to the train, they saw teenagers and kids of all ages and sizes. Their parents, who had come to drop them, were waving and chattering carelessly. The whole platform was filled with the hoots of owls. 

They steered the way with their backpacks hung on their shoulders and Annabeth leading them.

Boarding the heavily crowded train was easy, finding an empty coach was not. All the students had boarded the train and the train had started moving but the four of them were were stuck going from coach to coach to find an empty seat.

Finally they found a coach at the end of the train which was almost empty except for one black-haired boy. 

"Hey! Can we sit here?", Percy asked.

"Sure.", the boy supplied. All of them sat down comfortably, opposite to the boy, except for Grover who said, "I'll be in the corridor. I need some fresh air, everything smells odd here."

Once settled, their backpacks in their lap, Percy said, "So can we discuss the evil prophecy please? The last line is giving me nightmares." 

Before Annabeth could say anything, the black haired wizard said, "The prophecy was destroyed last year. You couldn't have known what it said."

All of them stared at him, apparently realizing that they had an audience. "What do you mean the prophecy was destroyed? No one can destroy a prophecy.", Annabeth said.

The boy looked at them suspiciously but before he could say anything the door opened revealing a a boy and a girl. 

"Malfoy's not on prefect duty. I can't believe why he will - ", the new boy who had arrived stopped short, apparently realizing that he too had audience.

Annabeth saved them from the awkwardness by getting up. Holding her hand out to the newcomers, she said, "I'm Annabeth. This is Percy and that's Leo."

The newcomer girl took her hand and made the introductions. "I'm Hermione Granger and he's Ron Weasley."

"And who are you?", Leo asked the boy sitting opposite to him. The moment the words were out of his mouth, he knew he had said something wrong. Hermione gasped and the Mr. Unknown boy stared at him.

"You don't know who he is?", Ron Weasley asked shocked.

Leo turned to Annabeth pleadingly, silently mouthing A little problem over here. Annabeth rolled her eyes and explained, "We're new here. Straight from Long Island. So, there are many things that we should probably know but we don't. Like the name of your friend here".