Percy Jackson Arrives: Hogwarts is Doomed

Chapter 18

~*~*~*<Sadie>*~*~*~

I swear, if I see another flesh eating slug in my life, I will punch the living daylights out of it's beady, boring black eyes.

You guessed it. We were learning about slugs in our first Care of Magical Creatures lesson. Slugs. Stupid, boring, slimy, gross, flesh eating slugs. Why we should learn to care for them is completely beyond me. They are annoying pests that eat cabbages. Enough said.

After I was finally free of that lesson, I decided to take a trip to the bathroom. I told Percy and Jason that I would meet them in our 'extra lesson' that McGonagall set us. That wasn't for another fifteen minutes so I had plenty of time to do girl stuff.

It was nice and all - being in the same house as two of my friends - however, they were both guys, and I would like to hang out with some girls for once. I'd missed my mortal friends, so maybe I could make some new ones at Pigpimples. Worth a shot, anyway.

I finally found a bathroom. I pushed open the door and walked in. Standing by the sinks was the ginger girl that the demigods didn't seem to like - Ginny, was it? She looked my way and smiled. I smiled back. Now was time to start making friends.

"Hi," I called.
"Hi," Ginny replied.
"You alright? You're eyes are puffy," I asked. It was true, they were very bloodshot.
"I... yeah. I'm fine," she told me with a shaky voice. I put my hand on her shoulder.
"I can see that. Want to talk about it?" She seemed to consider it for a moment.
"My brother, Fred, died in the war in the battle of Hogwarts. I just... miss his jokes. He and George, his twin, used to pull the best pranks. There was this one time when we had this awful teacher called Umbridge who made the student's lives hell, and they had invented fireworks that basically would never go out. They were exploding around the school for weeks and nobody learnt anything. Umbridge was chasing them around all day and the teachers called her when they spotted one just to annoy her. I miss Fred," she sighed. How do you reply to that? I just gave her a small, sad smile.
"My mum died when I was 6. Then my dad when I was 12. Now it's just my brother and me, plus our uncle who we never see because he's always away in Egypt. We've always had to find our own paths," I told her.

"I am so sorry," she said, now it was her turn to pat my shoulder.
"Likewise," I replied. Then, I got an idea, "would you like to pull a prank on someone in his memory?"
He eyes lit up, "who on?"
"You choose. You're brother. Who would he most like to be pranked?"
She considered if for a moment before replying, "the caretaker, Filch. He hates students. Why he works in a school when he hates students is beyond me. But yeah, he hated Fred and George more than anybody. They were constantly breaking the rules and basically trying to see how much trouble they could possibly get in. It was his mission to personally get them expelled."
"Sounds perfect!"
"You don't mind getting in trouble if we're caught?" Ginny asked me.
"I suggested it! Of course I don't mind! We won't be caught though," I replied.
"And how can you be so certain?"
"I have a few tricks up my sleeve."
"Does that have anything to do with being great friends, by the looks of it, with royalty?" she asked. I had completely forgotten about that!
"Not really," I replied.

"Oh, look at the time! I have some stupid extra lesson thing in five minutes! Do you know where McGonagall's office is?" I exclaimed as I saw Ginny's watch. I really must get my own.
"Sure! Follow me," she replied.
"Thank you!"

After quickly wiping her eyes, Ginny lead me out of the bathroom and up a flight of stairs.

"What is this extra lesson about?" Ginny asked me as we walked.
"Something to do with missing years of education and catching up to everyone else. I really couldn't care less about the actual 'learning' part of school. I come for the social side," I told her. Ginny laughed.

"Here we are," Ginny called. We came to a halt outside a statue of a giant bird.
"Wait a minute, this is the entrance?" I asked.
"Yup."
"So the entrance to the headmistress' office is a 'griffin door'. Favouritism, much?"
"Wow, yeah!" Ginny exclaimed.
"Not complaining. Gryffindor rules!" I said, "Anyway, how do we get in?"
"You need the password."
"Eerm, Sadie Kane is brilliant? Grandma's biscuits are terrible? A-bra cadabra? Open sesame! M'peh!" I yelled, trying to find out the password. On m'peh, a spiral staircase appeared around the eagle. Either McGonagall is secretly an Egyptian magician, as well as a demigod, and set 'open' as the password, or random griffin statues respond to Egyptian magic. I hope it's the second one.

"How did you know the password?" Ginny asked.
"Mwa ha ha ha! I can read the minds of griffin statues! That's my secret power!" I cackled. Ginny just laughed, and I joined in.

"I'd better go, I'm late. Wish me luck!" I called as I started up the staircase.

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A/N. I am so sorry, but from now on the updates are going to be just once a week. As much as I hate to admit, I can't spend all day every day writing chapters even though I would love to. I am barely keeping up with the updates at the moment and I don't want to disappoint you guys by saying I'm going to go it twice a week but end up missing some. I'm putting it out there: once a week until I say otherwise. Again, I am so so sorry!!! :(