A Prophecy of Two Boys

Chapter 35

Chapter 35

Harry's Point of View

Felix. That gods forsaken cat was annoying! It seemed to have taken on some of Blaise's personality and insisted on being lazy half the time, and then incredibly energetic as soon as it saw something it liked. Such as now, as it chased our poor petrified Hedwig round the common room as she desperately attempted to bring us our letter.

Scowling, we stood up from the green armchair by the fire where we had been comfortably sitting until Felix caught sight of Hedwig a couple of minutes ago. By now, almost the entirety of Slytherin was watching the most bizarre game of 'cat and mouse' ever to have taken place in the dungeons.

"Blaise." I growled. "If you don't call your familiar of our Hedwig then I swear on the River Styx I will, and I can't guarantee that Felix will look the same afterwards."

Thunder grumbled at my oath, and Blaise, who had previously been laughing at the antics of his cat, sighed and got up.

"Felix…." Blaise called. "Here boy. Stop bothering poor Hedwig now. You've annoyed our local Potter's already, don't make it worst."

The cat seemed to pause in consideration, before sending one last regretful look at our beautiful snowy owl and stalking his way back to his owner. Hedwig alighted on the arm of our chair as we sat back down, sending an exasperated look at Draco, who simply grinned back at us. Carefully, so not to hurt our familiar or to rip the letter we untied the envelope Hedwig carried with her.

I squinted at the writing on the front, desperately trying to decipher the handwriting. It looked like it was written in Greek. I sighed, having to ask Percy for the first time in years to read something for me. As good as I was with languages and ruins, Greek always seemed to escape me, despite it being second nature for Percy.

'It's from Leo!' Percy grinned.

'Harry, Percy! How are you two Seaweed Brains? Having fun at school, I hope? (Haha! I don't have to go to one anymore!) Did Annabeth and Luna surprise you at the station? I would have paid a huge number of Drachmas to see your face!

Anyway, to the point. I was hoping to IM you sometime soon. Say… September 2nd? Around… Well. Midday here so… evening for you I guess? If possible bring our favourite daughters of Athena too!'

Before Percy could read anything else, a rainbow tinted screen appeared in the air in front of us. At first it was only Draco who noticed, but soon enough the older years did as well. Groaning, we glared as the mischievous face of the one and only Leo Valdez appeared before us in the mist.

"Hey Potters!" Leo grinned, drawing the attention of everyone in the room.

We held up his letter, stroking Hedwig absentmindedly. "A little bit more warning would have been nice. Surely, being the son of The Inventor, you can do some simple calculations to work out that it takes a while for post to travel overseas, and then a while longer for Hedwig here to pick it up from the foreign post office."

Leo just grinned. "Yeah, but I didn't want you to say no!"

"Leo, we only just got this letter, and I can tell you for a fact that there is indeed about fifty of my Housemates currently listening into this conversation." A quick glance round the room proved me correct. Only the 1st years bothered to look embarrassed and glance away. The others just looked straight back at me nonchalantly.

With a sigh and a disappointed look at our warm seat by the fire, we stood up and started making our way over to the dorms, closely followed by the Iris Message. Draco stood up and followed as well, grinning at Leo over our shoulder.