Deleted Scenes:
Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows (Encounters with the Percy Jackson crew)
Encounter One: The Flying Ship
Harry and Ron were at camp in the woods, right after Ron came back to Harry and Hermione. Harry was catching Ron up, when Hermione came back from the water, where she was trying to catch fish.
"Um, guys?" she said, after her slight emotional breakdown when she saw Ron. "I think you should come see this."
Hermione led Ron and Harry out to shore, where there was a huge flying ship. On the side of the mysterious vehicle was printed, 'Argo Two'.
"I wanted to know if you thought we should check it for suspicious activity. It wouldn't be difficult for a strong Dark wizard to bewitch the ship to fly, so that they could complete a mission for You-Know-Who." Hermione told them, in her usual matter-of-fact voice.
"Maybe we should check it out. A simple motion spell would be able to make the ship fly." Harry said, with doubt. Just then, a boy looked over the edge of the ship, and noticed the three travelers looking up.
"Percy," the boy called to another boy on the ship. "I think we have some unexpected guests."
Harry, Ron, and Hermione were escorted on to the ship, and the two boys called the rest of the passengers out to the dining hall. Everyone sat around the table, and one of the two boys pulled over three extra chairs.
"Let's start out with simple introductions. I'm Percy, and this is Jason. Before we can tell you anything else about who we are, we need to know that we can trust you, so please, do tell us what you were doing in the woods, and why you felt it was your job to intrude our mission."
"Dude," Jason said, rolling his eyes. "Did you seriously need to make it sound like we're evil FBI agents planning to blow up the universe?"
Hermione quickly defended Percy by saying that she shouldn't have led her group into something that wasn't their business. Then Jason continued.
"However, Percy was right. We can't trust you unless you trust us. So, that means that we need to know who you are and what you were doing."
Harry glanced at Ron, whose expression read, "Hey, do whatever you want to do, mate." Then, out of the corner of his eye, caught a nervous Hermione contemplating what to do. He decided that since they were all on a mission, if they could help each other if they knew their mission. He started to talk.
"My name is Harry Potter, this is Ron Weasley, and then next to me is Hermione Granger. You may think that this is a joke, but it is entirely true. We are wizards." Harry looked slightly scared, as if he thought that some big, terrifying creature was going to swoop in and carry him off just for saying who they were. He heard Percy mutter to a girl next to him,
"Strange, eh? Why do you think he was so scared to say that out loud? It's not like he'd be hauled off to prison by a monster just for saying who he was." The girl elbowed him in the ribs. After a final check of the sky, Harry continued.
"We are in these woods, because of a very serious situation. See, there are lots of other wizards and witches out here. And many of them aren't exactly friendly. They are known as Dark wizards, and they work for one master: Voldemort. He was once just a curious boy, named Tom Riddle, but he turned himself into the darkest wizard of all time. To make himself nearly immortal, he split apart his soul, and placed them inside of many different lost relics that were special to him. And we are on a mission to find and destroy all of the pieces of his soul, so that when he attacks our wizarding school to find and kill me, we are capable of killing him first."
Percy stared at him, not wanting to believe. Finally, he asked, "You say that he's the ultimate Dark wizard, and that he's crazy powerful and all that stuff. Why would the most powerful Dark wizard have special interest in personally killing you?"
"Oh, yeah. I forgot to mention that part. Voldemort murdered both my parents, but wasn't able to murder me. So, now he's obsessed with sending me to the afterworld." Harry completed. One of the other boys grinned at his remark, then realized that he was being rude.
"So, now that we know who you are, let's make this quick. We are the children of Greek and Roman Gods who happened to have kids with regular human people. How about we all introduce ourselves? I'm Jason Grace, and I'm the son of Jupiter, or better known in Greek form, Zeus."
"I am Percy Jackson, and I am the son of Poseidon, or Neptune in Roman form."
"I am Annabeth Chase, and I am daughter of Athena." (Hermione smiled at Annabeth after hearing of her mother.)
"I am Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite." Ron tried to look like the guys Ginny found attractive, but everyone in the room knew that it was an epic fail. He ended up looking like a boy who attended way too many popular boy band concerts.
"I am Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus"
"I am Hazel, daughter of Pluto."
"I am Frank, son of Mars."
"Okay, now that you know who we are, let's just figure out how we can help each other and…" Jason looked into Hermione's unapproving eyes, and realized that names and parents wouldn't cut it for Hermione. She wanted detail.
"Okay, fine. Detail. We are Demigods, and we have two different camps here in America." Hermione frowned, and asked Harry where it was that he apparated them to. He shrugged, and reminded her that no matter where they were, they had gotten rid of one Horcrux already.
Jason continued. "One camp is for children of Roman heritage, the other for Greek heritage. There, we are trained so that we can go on quests to protect the planet, because the Gods are too lazy to do it themselves." A flash of lightning came shooting down, and missing Jason by about a centimeter. Hermione gasped, and ran over, just to see that nothing had happened. Jason explained that even if it had hit him, he couldn't be electrocuted anyway.
"We are on a mission to return something that there was multiple huge battles over, so that the two camps can be friends again, and ward off the rebelling less-important Gods, monsters, and awakening Earth Goddess, who are becoming the ultimate destruction team as we speak."
Both groups sighed in unison, knowing that no favors could be done between the two of them. They did make sure that they remembered who they were, so that they could help if need be. Harry promised that they would come back to the demigods someday. Ron blew a kiss to Piper, and both Piper and Hermione rolled their eyes at him. Then they went their separate ways, because they knew that they had a lot of work to do.
