Chapter VIII

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Ron POV

(Gryffindor common room)

That Percy guy was so annoying. With his perfect hair and perfect magic and annoyingly perfect perfectness.

I don't get it. Why do all the girls fawn around him all the time.

Every time he enters the room, all the girls start whipping their hair and batting their eyelashes and the guy looks like he doesn't even care!

Even the beautiful blonde girl from Beauxbaton was staring at him at lunch.

'Didn't you guys think that it was strange that Percy Jackson didn't even seem the slightest bit fazed when Moody was torturing the poor spider. He almost looked... bored. He must have seen lots of worst things,' Hermione said.

'Why do all the girls fall for him? I mean, we've got Harry, and he's THE Harry Potter! He defeated You-Know-Who when he was a baby! What's that Perseus done that's so special anyways?' I moaned, 'You know, I beat he's a Death Eater.'

'Don't be silly, Ron, you think everybody's a Death Eater. He's 17, for goodness sake. Besides, you have no proof,' Hermione said.

'Actually, Hermione, I do. Earlier, he pulled his sleeve up and I saw some kind of black mark on his arm. I bet it's the Dark Mark. And I'm sure that he's in a lot of classes with Harry to spy on him!' I said.

'Ron, that isn't proof. He could be perfectly innocent. You're overreacting. It probably was an ink stain,' Hermione said.

'And he talked with Snape after potions in another language! Because he's a Death Eater' I said.

'DID YOU SPIED ON HIM? You cannot just invade someone's privacy like that!'

'Whatever. I'm going to the Great Hall for supper,' I said.

After breakfast, we had our first lesson of Ancient Greek Mythology, when I was going to demonstrate to everyone that Percy McPerfect wasn't really that smart.

The teacher Professor Trinity, was a tall woman with thin lips and calculating eyes, and seemed super excited when I entered the class with Percy.

She took out an exam page for her to know what level we were in the knowledge of Greek Mythology.

Name all the Olympic Gods.

They are ten, right? I put Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Persefone, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hestia. I didn't know the 10th so I didn't do it.

Name the god or goddess of the hunt and the moon.

I put Athena, it sounded good 'Athena, goddess of the haunt and the moon'.

Name the big three.

I didn't know what does that meant, but I wrote Cronos, Dionisius and Hera.

Goddess of love and beauty.

Aphrodite.

Name Greek Heroes for extra points.

I only knew Hercules, so I wrote his name.

Professor Trinity charmed the exams to autocorrect themselves. I got a 10 out of 17. Not perfect, but nothing bad for being the first time. I looked at Percy with a smile of satisfaction, but It disappeared when I saw that he got the highest mark of the class! He even did better than Hermione!

Percy POV

I was on the way to the Great Hall for dinner, thinking about this very interesting day.

There was something strange about Moody, he seemed to constantly be looking at Harry strangely. Must be the fact that he used to be an auror and Harry managed to temporally destroy Voldemort, just as a little baby.

When I reached the hall, I took my seat in the Gryffindor table next to Harry, Ron and Hermione.

'So, Percy, tell us about Hecate's Academy, you seem to be much more advanced than the average 7th year,' Hermione said dreamily.

'Well, actually we do more physical work there. So if you ever lose your wand, you wouldn't be left completely defenceless. So we learn stuff like sword fighting, archery (which I'm terrible at), hand to hand combat, fighting with spears, axes, daggers and all kinds of mor- muggle weapons' I said.

'Wow, so you can also fight? Are you any good?' Harry asked.

'Uh, yeah,sure, I guess' I said.

'That is so cool!' this random girl chirped in.

'Not really, it's pretty sucky to always have to fight, actually,' I said.

'Yeah, I totally get it,' she said nodding her head pretending to understand my life.

'Well, I'm bored, anyone wants to go swimming later?' I said.

'There's no swimming pool in the school' Ron said, rolling his eyes.

'But I saw a lake outside, Don't you go swimming there?' I asked.

They all looked at me incredulously.

'No, you'd have to be mad to go swimming in that lake. It's full of weird creatures,' Ron said, ending the conversation.

I got a feeling that Ron doesn't like me all that much.

I found my way to charms lesson whilst the trio went off to their own lesson.

There was a dwarf-like man standing in the front of the class ushering the students to their seat.

I sat down next to a girl who had straight honey-coloured hair that reached her waist that she pulled back with a headband.

She smiled at me as I took my seat.

I noticed that she blinked a lot kinda like what some of Aphrodite girls do with their lashes.

Maybe some girls just have some sort of eye itch or something.

The short man at the front of the classroom introduced himself as Professor Flitwick.

'Okay, I hope you all remember and have perfected the Aguamenti charm we learnt last year before today, we will be doing that charm today, but we will be trying it non-verbal,' the professor said.

'Now, I am aware that we have a new student and I was under the assumption that you are familiar with the non-verbal charms. Is that correct, Mr. Jackson?'

'Yes, sir,' I answered.

'Good. Now, I have put a goblet in front of each of you but I have also put a tray along with the goblet because I was hoping that some of you may even attempt to do the Aguamenti charm and control the water to levitate it on top of the tray,' he said. 'Now off you go,'

This was going to be a piece of cake. I could do that before I even knew that wizards existed.

So I put my wand down and just willed the water to come out of the wand tip and levitate on top of the tray.

I could feel many pairs of eyes staring at me.

I decided to have some fun with it, so I willed the water to take the shape of two goblets pouring water into one another.

Then I willed it to turn into a shape that somewhat resembled Professor Flitwick, and made it jump up and down on the tray.

I could hear multiple gasps coming from around the classroom so I quickly stopped and put the water into the eral goblet.

'Extraordinary!' I had seen you control the water in the great hall but my, it looks even better closer,' Professor Flitwick exclaimed. 'Very well done Mr Jackson. Very well indeed.'

I hope you guys like the chapter. Sorry, that the story isn't advancing very fast, but next chapter will be the feast where we find out who the Quarwizard champions are. I'll try to update the next chapter soon!

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