The last days (hp+pjo)

8. No aquarium here

Harry  was confused on why the Americans looked all sad and grumpy. They  probably were just being wimpy. They couldn't have that bad of memories. He was confused on why Percy was a Gryffindor. He was the heir of slytherin! He is no Gryffindor! He ate his Yorkshire pudding sternly. Hermione, Evan as perplexed as she was bout the situation scolded him.

"Harry! What are you doing ? You're eating like Ronald. I know it's confusing, but at least try to be nice. Honestly!" 

"How is he a Gryffindor Hermione? He's the heir of slytherin! He's pure evil. Nothing good comes out of slytherin.  Look at him!"

 They glanced over at the Americans. They seemed to had shaken off their gloom and they were laughing. Hermione hear them say something like "pinecone face." Annabeth was next to her and seemed to be telling a story about some people. She made a pointed look at harry. Ginny did too, and then scowled at harry. Ginny was next to Thalia. She wanted to actually be friendly to the new students, not rude like harry. 

" just curious, did the hat go through your guys's memories? You seem like the lot with quite a bit of a past." She said to them. When she was talking they all got guarded expressions on their faces. Nico answered her, 

"Percy, Annabeth, and I went through," Thalia elbowed him hard in the found so he didn't give away any revealing details,"Hell last year due to some family issues. We have some really bad memories and occasional flashbacks. All of Our pasts are very complicated and not very happy. Please don't ask about them again. Why do you ask?" 

"Harry won't give up the notion that you all are weak and pure evil. He keeps forgetting he knows all most nothing about you. "

"Hey! I know enough about them to know they're evil!"

Percy just laughed and shook off the comment.  "How are we evil harry?You can't judge us or me by who we're related to. That's just weird. It's not like we all practice killing for fun." When he saw Harry wasn't anywhere near convinced he sighed. His smile faded and he start to talk in a condescending tone to harry. 

"Last I checked, I didn't even know moldy-shorts was alive til two weeks ago. I've never met him or a death eater. If you were a good spy you would have tried to get to know us. It's not like we'd explain that much or give straight answers, but it prove we're not weak. So please harry, as much as you are trying be the hero again, stop. It's not worth it. Being a hero is no fun at all and sometimes the heros turn into the villains. It's ok to be a One hit wonder. Leave the constant saving of the world to the professionals. Understood?"

Harry's nodded, then turned around and rolled his eyes. Percy just mumbled 'whatever' under his breath then changed the subject to a bit lighter one. "Death breath, does defense against the dark arts sound fun?" He said. Annabeth and Thalia held back laughs. 

Nico glared. "Not funny Percy. I already have so much paperwork to do. Thanks to that hat the nightmares will come back, and I can't even talk with Will properly. I hope I don't have to take that class. It'd be torture. It's not like you can just summon a happy meal from nowhere. Besides don't they have a different idea of dark arts? Ginny, what's considered a dark art here? "

Ginny had taken up a conversation  he whole ti with Ron about a recent quidtachge match between the holly head harpies and the chudley cannons. She was startled when Nico asked her.

"Well umm....stuff like torture and death. Anything to do with great darkness or shadiness. Nemocracy. Voldemort was a good example of purely dark arts. It's basically what harry thinks you do. Odd, it seems like only half of the ghosts are at thefeast tonight. I wonder what's keeping them away." Ginny replied.

"Great. Just great. Thanks kelp for brains. "

"Welcome neeky! Don't forget to write to Will about this. He'llhave doctors orders for you. Can't have ya slipping away!" Annabeth and Thalia laughed. Percy grinned from ear to ear as Nico started to sulk.  

( time skip- for now.... transitions take to long to think of.- scene_ outside Gryffindor common room_ Ginny is catching up with her friends inside. The golden trio is walking up the stairs.)

"I'm telling you Hermione something it's seriously wrong with them. They're  weird. That Percy guy is their leader. He has a dark side!" Said Ron. The got to the portrait. The fat lady had her friend Cooley with her. They were gossiping about the exchange students. 

"Password?" She asked.

"Hera's dove" they climbed throughout the door. The common room was almost deserted as it was pretty late. The only other people in the room was some second years playing chess, a group of fifth year girls in the corner, and the Americans.  They were sitting in some of the chairs, deep in conversation. Thalia had an angry expression on her face. Annabeth seemed to be deep in thought. Nico looked as he always did. Percy' s face had no emotion. He was fiddling with a pen in his hand.

"I'm going to bed. You should too! It's getting late and we have classses tomorrow. I hope I don't catch you meddling with the Americans. They don't deserve it." Hermione exclaimed as she headed ttowards the girls' dormitories. Ron and harry simply muttered goodnight. Then they sat down next to the fire in an attempt to here what the Americans were saying. They also were going to write to George and Lee to see if they had anything they needed tested. The Americans seemed to be talking in a different language. Harry recognized it from somewhere but couldn't quite place it. After they had tried to understand them for about two hours they gave up. Harry just jumped out of his chair and practically shouted, 

"Alright out with it! What are you hiding? You all are so pathetic. I've gone through war! I've had people die because of me. What  do you think is some much worse then that? You're obviously evil, I mean seriously. Annabitch here looks like the dumbest person on the world, yet somehow, she's only extremely stupid. Not completely stupid." Annabeth' s eyes glowed golden. She had a very frightening look. Percy looked furious himself, but tried to hold Annabeth back. He warned Harry, 

" stop. Now. You don't know what you're dealing with. We don't need to  have a body lying around. It would look suspicious. Insult us one more time and you'll never be human again. I think you'll make a nice ferret. Do you Thaila?"

"Oh course Percy, but I think he'd be better an ass. It would suit him. Do take away his stick though. He's going to try to disarm you. " She said causally. Harry had pulled out his wand by now and was standing tall pointing it at them. Ron was too, but slowly backing away.

"They're serious Harry. Let's just leave it alone. I like being a human!" Ron said in a frightened way. Percy glanced at him cocked his head. He looked just as crazy as Barry crouch Jr. He was holding Annabeth in his lap, but he let her go. He had felt her calm down a bit.  He whispered "run" to ron. The red head scrambled up the boys dormitories stairs. Nico had left a few minutes ago to meet the wizards up there and put a memory charm on Ron. He wouldn't remember a thing about what had just happened. He would remember being very tired that night, then falling asleep in his bed.  Nico smiled as Ron started to snore right after he was done with him. He made sure just to make him forget what he needed to forget. He wasn't going to be cruel. He might dislike the golden trio, but nobody deserved that. He hoped Percy didn't lose control. That would get very ugly. He already had so many unregistered ghosts to take care of. The paper work would take a month to do alone. Then he had to check for any escaped dead people. Thantos usually handled those cases, but he had to focus on expansion and traffic control right now. He sighed taking one last look at Ron and figured he'd better go down and help make sure harry was kept alive. 

(  going away all next week, no update. Not quite the plot twist yet, but it's really big. In my opinion anyways. Friendly fandom reminder, in tartus, Annabeth was frightened by Percy's dark side.  Taking a bit out of the avatars too. Cough cough one of katara' s power couch cough. Thank you all who read, vote and comment. Surprise for anyone who can sensed all the trivia questions at the end of the book. )

Trivia: How many times did Percy ever tell annabeth "never"?