Perseus Riddle *REWRITING*

Chapter 38

3rd POV

"Hermione it's not that bad."

This was apparently the wrong thing for Perseus to say. She scowled at him and stood in front of him, causing him to stop walking. "Not that bad? You blew up a cauldron and you have detention on your first day! Not to mention the loss of fifty points!"

Perseus rolled his eyes and gently grabbed her shoulders and turned her around before continuing to walk. Though now his arm was casually around her shoulder as he explained himself. "I understand where you're coming from, I really do but I have been expelled from school for doing less. Or more, it really depends on how you look at the blowing up of a bus versus the blowing up of a cauldron. My point is I'm still in school, the cauldron was repaired, no one was hurt and I'll earn back the points."

Hermione look up at him incredulously. "You blew up a bus?"

"Now I know what you're thinking-"

"I doubt that." Hermione interrupted.

Unphased, he continues. "Persus why on earth would you blow up a bus?"

"I take it back, you do know what I'm thinking."

"Stop interrupting. Now the story is quite simple. I know it's hard to believe but I, Perseus Jackson-MacDougal, was tricked-"

"It's not that hard to believe. Wait, Jackson-MacDougal? I thought your name was just Jackson?"

"Yes a story for another time, so stop interrupting. I was tricked into blowing up the bus and it's all my teachers fault. So she-"

"You shouldn't blame your teacher for your mistakes."

"Like how I shouldn't blame the potions Professor - I never did learn his name - for letting me go off on my own when he knows I've never done potions before in my life?"

"His name is Snape and I suppose that could be an exception but please do explain how you were 'tricked'."

"I'm glad you asked Hermione. This teacher is also an exception. Picture this, little old me going on a field trip. I'm maybe ten or eleven, very impressionable. My class goes to some type of war museum and my teacher points out this cannon to me, a cannon she specifically said no longer worked. Then she told me to fire it to see how it would have worked. Well, she lied to me and when I fired it, it actually fired and hit the bus we came in on. No one was hurt, no one believed me that the teacher told me to do it and I got expelled."

"You were right, that teacher was an exception. Why do you talk so casually about just blowing a bus up?" They continued walking to their next class - Care for Magical Creatures.

"Oh I've got tons of stories just like that one, although not all of them are me blowing stuff up. I did blow up a dormant volcano before but I think that's my only other explosion story. I've been expelled six times by the way, I'm hoping this school won't be number seven."

"Six schools?" Hermione sputtered out. "You were expelled from six schools? I'll need to hear the stories you have about those then."

Perseus smirked. "I'll tell you, not right now as that would give away all of my mysterious bad boy quality."

"You didn't have any to begin with."

"Ouch, I know you're lying but it still hurt." Perseus feigned hurt whilst still smirking showing he was pretending. Hermione merely smiled at him as they walked outside and down to a small hut on the school grounds.

They walked down the hill, his arm still around Hermione as he used her to help keep his balance. "What class is this again and who's the teacher?"