So instead of updating my story I started a new one actually two new ones, but the other one didn't turn out how I wanted it to so I chucked it. I will try to update the other story though; I'm trying not to burn out by focusing too hard on just writing one story. Reviews do help in me wanting to write though.

PS. I'll probably be writing more since I'm done school until the fall, but I might not be returning after considering a few things. School that is, not fanfic. This is a huge decision so wish me luck and impartial advice would be appreciated (University Firstie FYI). I've been asking advisors and family, but I'm not sure we understand each other. Anyway, you didn't come for this so on with the story.

Percy Jackson did not think many schools would accept him after taking a peak at his school records; he had caused more trouble in his short life than most ever would in their lifetime. So it was to be expected that he was quite shocked, to say the least, that a school had actively chose to seek their demis- invite him to study at their school. Of course that was before his mother started freaking out after she'd read the letter, something about their family line being cursed to be squids. He was perfectly human, thank you very much. Well as human as a demigod could be anyway. And very good looking one if he dared say so himself.

He was snapped out of his narcissist thoughts by his mother's voice; it seemed she was calling him.

"Percy, we need to talk. About our family and some things I've kept from you for far too long." His mother told him seriously and with a hint of guilt in her eyes.

"It's fine mom you're telling me now right. I trust your judgment on when you think I'm ready." Percy ever the momma's boy didn't bother being angry about whatever she was bothered about not informing him about.

"Oh, what did I do to deserve such an understanding child like you?" She said pulling him into a hug.

The answer to her questioned was answered by her own reaction. The love and understanding she poured into him was unfathomable. He sometimes wished he were better academically just to give her something to be proud about, he knew she was already proud of him, but it did nothing to ease the guilt he felt that he had done nothing to be proud. He'd tried to be more academically inclined, but even when he could control his ADHD- he found if he just exercised himself to exhaustion it helped- enough to pick up a book and read he ended up not being able to read the books due to his dyslexia.

He was broken from his thoughts by his mother speaking o him.

"-should explain the letter first." He heard her say. Was she asking him to explain the letter? He guessed that was right since she seemed to pause.

"Pigwash school for witches. I'm pretty sure it is a joke. It could be someone from camp, there is a pair of pranksters there and they seem like the type to do something like this-." Percy started.

"Percy, it's not a joke." His mother cut him off.

"Huh, explain please." He said biting back a sarcastic comment, which was his usual defense for shock.

"Honey, I come from a family of Wizards and Witches. I myself am not magical nor were my parents or grandparents since we were supposedly cursed to be squibs-."

"We were cursed to be squids?" Percy blurted out looking down at his arms as if expecting them to change into tentacles.

"Squib, Percy. They're non-magical beings who had magical parents. As I was saying our family was supposed to be forever squibs, but I suspect that you being your father's son changed that." She patiently explained.

"You think because he's a god that it might have broken the curse? How did it we even get cursed in the first place?" Percy asked.

"I guess I should start from the beginning with all of this." Sally sighed.

Then she explained… and explained, until Percy felt his brain would explode from information overload. She explained how his family was once part of a powerful wizarding family, the Peverell's, but their ancestor was a squib. At that period in time, squibs were in a dangerous situation, so the father of their, Ignotus, upon reaching the brink of desperation set up an alliance with another family, the Blacks. The blacks were very connected and did not allow for others to mess with their members, even the squibs.

The alliance agreement was that the Blacks were to marry off a squib to Ignotus' son and they were given a book. The book could only be opened by a magical descendant of Ignotus; it contained all of the knowledge Ignotus had and much more. The blacks seeing had readily taken care of the boy at the time, but unexpectedly the child of the two families had ended up being a squib too.

The Head of the Black family at the time was unrelenting and waited for that child to grow up before betrothing them to another. He kept trying, even after everyone had considered that line to be 'cursed', but he persisted until he was at his bed where he ordered his son to continue doing so. The tradition supposedly went on until the present date, but Sally had apparently broken that tradition when she married his father.

Apparently being a Greek god had some curse breaking potential.

"How do you know about all the wizard stuff? Do the Blacks know about you? Did they tell you?" Percy asked he was sure her parents died when she was five, they couldn't possibly have told her.

"My parents had diaries explaining all this." She said shaking her head. "I didn't make contact the Blacks afraid they would arrange a marriage for me. I wanted to choose for myself."

"So this letter… it says I am to attend Hogwuzzat… all the way in England. Are there no wizarding schools in America?" Percy asked confused.

"I was told there were, but the Blacks were strictly either Hogwarts or on the odd occasion Durmstrang- another magical school-. I think they've done something so their descendant's end up in one of the two by default." Sally said thoughtfully.

"Shouldn't we find the Blacks though? If they made it happen they can change it back couldn't' they? I don't want to go all the way to England." Percy asked.

"I'm pretty sure all Wizard schools are mostly boarding schools anyway. It wouldn't make a difference. You can visit me on the holidays if you really get homesick. Besides I think this will be good for you, maybe you'll have a chance to make lasting school friends. I don't think Hogwarts kicks students out unless they kill somebody, since magical children do this thing called 'accidental magic' which basically means if they freak out their magic does odd thing, so any mishaps will be seen as normal." Sally said I seemed she had already put in a lot of thought into this, which was odd given that he received the letter not but a few hours ago. Had she suspected this might happen?

"I… I'll miss you." Percy was ready to argue, but one pleading look from his mother was all it took before he gave. He really was too much of a momma's boy.

"Thank you honey, I'll miss you too, now let's return our reply." She said before turning to the owl that had carried the letter there and gone through their window.

"On second thought why don't we wait for him to recover? The poor thing must be dead tired. Why would they make him fly so far?" she said sympathetically before picking it up and entering the kitchen.

"I'll get you up and ready before you know it-." She walked off talking to the owl.

Percy didn't even bother listening he just laid back and sighed. Before he knew it had fallen asleep, with dreams of pulling a rabbit out of a hat.

Percy was woken by a loud knocking on their door. He panicked and grabbed a bat while heading there. Nobody woke others up at such an ungodly hour for a friendly visit. He heard yelling at the door an unknown voice and smelly Gabe's, if he was lucky the intruder might clock him one. He took his time heading to the door since he was not running to his step-fathers rescue. He met his mother in the hallway and she looked questioningly at his weapon, but in return he nodded towards her hockey stick. She shamelessly chose to ignore it as they continued on. Besides his bat would serve him well it was the next best thing to riptide.

They heard a loud bang and quickly ran towards the door; while he didn't particularly care for his stepfather the visitor might be hurt if smelly Gabe brought out his very illegally acquired shotgun out. Also the visitor whoever they were had chosen to knock so he doubted they were here to harm them, he only brought the bat to show his displeasure at being woken up at such a time.

They got to the living room to see a- in Percy's case- joyous sight. Smelly Gabe was lying on the floor groaning a shotgun lay next to him and a gigantic man towered over him with an umbrella. Did he hit him with an umbrella? Percy went to grab the shotgun since he didn't want Gabe trying to use it again, but before he could the giant of a man pointed towards it and it turned into a huge meal matchstick.

"Sorry 'bout that. Dangerous litter things they are can't have people pointing 'em at me" the giant man said.

"I wasn't going to point it at you I just didn't want Gabe getting it again, wouldn't be a good thing." He answered numbly.

"Right you are. Perseus I presume?" He asked.

"Just Percy thanks. How did you do that?" He asked.

"Oh, you'll learn of it in Hogwarts." He said, then giving them a sheepish look. "I hope you don't say anything 'bout that though, not exactly allowed ter do that."

"I like the way you do things Mr. Giant." Percy said with a grin.

"Rubeus Hagrid's the name, but most people just call me Hagrid none of that mister stuff." He said extending his humongous hands.

They awkwardly shook hands.

"No offense Hagrid, but you don't seem like you're very experienced with introducing children o the wizarding world." His mother cut in.

"No offense taken ma'am, I don't usually do this kinder stuff. Second time on the job actually. Your boy is registered as a pure-blood on the Hogwarts registry so we thought he'd already known about all this. We were quite surprised by the fact that you didn't know 'bout the wizarding world. Dumbledore says that you're from a squib couple and your husband was a wizard or something like that. Something 'bout squibs still being considered magical by magic detectors and whatnot." Hagrid roughly explained. He did not understand a word of it, but his mother seemed to by the nod she gave.

"Thank you Hagrid, how long will you be taking Percy?" she asked.

"Well, err, we were hoping until the start of term you know. Dumbledore reckons since it's already August that we should give him some time to adjust in the wizarding world. No worries though we had another kid with circumstances similar to his who's going to be in the same program. I'll try my best ma'am." Hagrid said beaming.

Now usually this would be the time his mother would question someone about the flaws with their idea, but she seemed to see the already many insecurities Hagrid about him being chosen so she instead chose not to. He was glad too, he liked this Hagrid fellow and besides even if the plan was perfect and everything was considered there was a huge chance he would cause trouble anyway.

"OK can you just give us a moment to pack up? We weren't expecting this until sometime in two weeks." His mother said

"Sure, sorry 'bout that. This is a sort of last minute thing." Hagrid apologized.

"It's fine Hagrid, I wanted to see the wizard world before I headed off to school anyway." He said muttering school with contempt.

"Hogwarts won't be bad Percy. You'll be learning magic after all, best years of your life most would say." Hagrid called out from the living room.

That comment actually had Percy thoughtfully considering the school.

Soon enough they had finished packing up and after a heartfelt goodbye with his mother where he tried his best not to cry, but being the momma's boy he was he started sobbing as soon as he hugged his mother. Hagrid upon seeing him cry started bawling his eyes out, atypical of his looks he turned out to be a rather sympathetic crier.

"Are we heading to the other kids house after this or is he already waiting for us somewhere?" Percy asked after they'd managed to calm him down.

"Yeah sorry 'bout that, I was reminded of me and me father when I first headed off to Hogwarts. Oh and we are going to use a portkey to head over to London then were going to pick up the other kid, Harry is his name. Since his is a last minute thing he don't know 'bout it yet. I reckon it'll be a nice surprise for him since the muggles he lives with don't seem too happy about magic." Hagrid explained easily scooping up his luggage and stuffing them into his pockets.

"Portkey, what's that a magic bus?" He asked. He was sure 'muggle' was sort of like the squids or whatever.

"No, it's an object charmed to transport you. It should be just down this alley." Hagrid said turning into an alley.

There was nothing that Percy could identify as a transportation vehicle down the alley. He expected a big truck that Hagrid could fit in, but got none of that. There was only an ugly black boot placed in the corner in the far end of the alley, but otherwise the alley was empty.

"Err, Hagrid?" he asked hesitantly.

"Hm?" Te giant wizard answered while they walked toward the other end of the alley.

"Is this portkey invisible?" he asked.

"No, this it's right here." He said pointing towards the shoe. "Now we just need to make sure we touch it at the same time to activate it."

He wasn't sure if the boot would really do anything, but this would be the biggest confirmation for him of magic yet if it worked.

"Where will it take us again?" he asked curiously.

"Little Whinging, Surrey. Actually we will be transported somewhere else near that so we can get me motorbike first." He said.

"You own a Motorcycle? Awesome! Are we gonna ride it?" Percy said hopeful.

"Yes…"

He silently wondered how cool a magical motorbike would be completely ignoring what Hagrid was saying. Could it shoot fire or something else just as awesome? He daydreamed of all the cool features a magical motorbike might have and even if it wasn't magical it was still a motorbike. He's always wanted in ride in one.

"Ready, Percy? We grab on three." He listened back in on Hagrid just in time to hear him talking about the Portkey most likely, since he seemed to be making a grabbing motion towards it.

"One. Two. Three." Percy grabbed towards the boot just as Hagrid did and their hands touched at the same time.

The Portkey seemed o do nothing for a moment and then just as Percy was about to look around to see if he was being pranked after all. He felt the boot warm up before there was a yanking sensation and he lost all sense of direction.

After he gained back his sense of direction he found himself in an entirely different place. They were in a clearing with tall grass. He was lying on the ground and he saw a few feet away from himself Hagrid was groaning just as loudly as he was.

"That was awful." He let out.

"I know what you mean, but McGonagall said I couldn't fly my motorbike all the way across the sea." Hagrid groaned some more.

It flew! That was all it took to get Percy back up and ready, he wanted to see this flying bike now.

"Slow down, Percy, I can't quite get used to Portkeying yet." Hagrid said finally getting up.

Percy understood, if he wasn't so excited at the thought of a flying motorbike he might have stayed down for the count a little longer.

"I left me bike just over here." Hagrid said crushing the tall grass beneath his feet.

They made it to a clearing and there was a enormous motorbike, but Percy thought it quite suited Hagrid.

"Wow and this actually flies?" Percy said jumping around the bike excitedly.

"Yeah, also does a few other things. Got it from Sirius Black after…" Hagrid shut up quickly.

"Sirius Black? Do you know where he is now?" Percy asked. Maybe he could learn about his magical family, he wasn't quite fond of them, but if a member could do this, he was willing to give them a chance.

"I don't think you should mention his name to anyone." Hagrid said nervously.

He nodded in acceptance. He didn't really understand, but he would look into it later.

"So after we go to get Harry we were going to go school shopping for me right? Mom didn't give me money…" Percy said.

"I told her that your father or magical family probably left you some money so she needn't pay. Since you're a Pure-blood, Dumbledore reckons you have a vault you can access. I'm not sure how, but the goblins will fix that right up." Hagrid explained. He doubted his father a god had an account with the goblins, but maybe his magical relatives did.

Percy silently wondered if his mother could access the money too if it there was some left over after his school fees. That thought was cut off after Hagrid turned on the bike. Percy excitedly jumped on the sidecar. This was probably one of if not the most awesome thing he'd done in his short life.

The motorbike surprisingly flew straight up. There was no slow ascension like that of an airplane, but instead the bike quickly soared through the air as Percy let out a whoop of joy.

The trip was a lot shorter than he had hoped; it only really lasted a few minutes since Hagrid had purposefully parked near their destination not trusting himself to drive too well after Porkeying such a long distance. It was probably a good thing too as there were a few bumps on their trip that went unnoticed by Percy.

Their destination was a rather boring looking street all the houses were almost exactly the same with the only differences being that some of the houses may have had different flowers, not that Percy could tell. They stopped on the fourth house from the corner.

'I think I can see the people in this house disliking magic' Percy thought.

"Lemme just go get Harry and his things" Hagrid said.

Hagrid went in and he let his mind wander of all the other cool things he could do with magic. He also thought about what kind of powers he got from his godly side. He had- grudgingly and with a lot of effort on his part- read a little about what Poseidon was even the god of in hopes of finding out what other powers he may have besides controlling water and the energy he got from it. Apparently Poseidon was the god of the sea, earthquakes, hurricanes, oceans, destruction, droughts, floods and storms. His sacred animals were the bull, horse and dolphin. Also his sacred plants were the white pine tree and wild celery.

Percy wasn't sure how all that information he'd learn would help him, but he'd read whatever he deemed somewhat important. He idly thought if he could breathe underwater, he'd never felt the feeling of drowning even on the odd occasion where he might have breathed in water, but maybe that was just an odd coincidence? Could he ride horses better than others that was a rather lame power, but might be useful someday if he got tired of all this demi-god stuff he could become a horse jockey.

'At least I got the destruction bit down' he thought jokingly.

He heard yelling and looked over to see Hagrid being yelled at by a fat man with dark hair and a mustache. Percy didn't really like the man just by looking at the way he was treating Hagrid and from Hagrid's earlier words of them not liking magic he disliked them even more.

'Who doesn't like magic?' Percy thought.

He slowly got out of the sidecar and then with a little difficulty he ripped off a twig from a tree since none of the probably stuck up people in this neighborhood had even a twig lying on their o so perfect grass.

He walked up to the man pointing his stick towards him.

"Hey Hagrid is this man bothering you? Want me to turn him into a pig?" he asked.

The man seemed to pale at the sentence.

"Fine, take the boy and go. I don't want any of your lot staying here longer than necessary." The man relented.

Percy grinned at the reaction. Then he walked inside to see a mirror… except his mirror self had glasses.

"Whoa." they said at the same time.

"I never noticed how alike the two of yer looked. Could be twins I say." Hagrid commented.

"Percy Jackson." He said extending his hand.

"Harry Potter." The boy said hesitantly reaching to shake his hand.

"How about we go and get yer stuff Harry." Hagrid said saving them from a rather awkward silence.

They were led to the kitchen surprisingly. Harry's school stuff were all kept in the cupboard under the stairs. As they were moving the stuff out- Hagrid had a little place for luggage on the sidecar that could fit an astonishing amount, he just chalked it up to magic- he noticed that there were signs of the cupboard being lived in. He wasn't totally sure, but he also saw a carving of 'Harry's room' on the wall of the room.

After noticing that Harry was noticeably skinny and not in the same way he was, he silently promised himself to take care of his little doppelganger friend. Maybe a threat or two to the Dursley's if he couldn't hold back his dislike.

"Were you actually going to turn uncle Vernon into a pig?" Harry asked after they both squeezed into the sidecar of the motorbike.

"I wish! That wasn't even a real wand. I don't have one yet and we're getting me one now. Apparently they didn't expect me to not know about the wizard world when they sprung this on me, I have magical relative you see. That's why they invited you over since they wanted us who are supposed to know about the wizarding world to know a little about it before we start or something along that line. I didn't think your uncle would react so well." Percy said the last part with a laugh and Harry laughed along with him.

"It's because Hagrid made Dudley a pig's tail when he came to get me. Your choice of things to turn him into probably struck a chord with him." Harry laughed out louder, with Percy joining.

"Oh god I can't believe my luck!" Percy let out between giggles.

They spent the rest of the trip just talking about themselves although Percy was subtly trying to learn more about Harry's situation, but was actually distracted by the stories Harry told.

"You can speak to snakes? I think I might be able to do the same, but with horses. I never tried, but I think it's a family thing." Percy said. He wasn't sure if he could speak with horses, but he most likely could understand them better than most.

"Hagrid! Does Hogwash have horses?" He yelled to Hagrid over the noise of the engine.

"It's Hogwarts Percy. And no, we got Thestrals though, but you could only see those guys under certain circumstances. Oh and we have Hippogriffs, they're half horse and half eagle, if you want to see any of those you came to the right person. I know where they all are." Hagrid said enthusiastically.

"Yeah, Harry and I want to check them out. Does the place have snakes too by any chance?" Percy asked.

"I'm not sure, but I reckon I can find some in the forest if you want me ter?" Hagrid said proudly.

"We'd like that very much. Harry likes horses and I like snakes we wanted to see the different species they have in the magical world." Percy lied, more so out of habit of guarding against teachers than not trusting Hagrid. The fact that he was earnestly interested helped.

"Yeah I know all about magical creatures and a lot about dragons since I always wanted one fer a pet. Wouldn't that be great? Too bad they right illegal to raise." Hagrid said before starting on a rant of how the wizard world could better approach the raising dragons. He seemed to have some well thought out points contrary to his personality.

By the time they reached their destination, the leaky cauldron was getting some of their regulars. Hagrid sent them upstairs while he stayed down 'been a long day and I think I deserve a drink' he had said.

Percy and Harry went to their respective bedrooms, but Percy went to Harry's room when he couldn't' sleep and they talked some more. They old each other of their odd childhoods, by the time they had fallen asleep they had learned a deal more about each other. They were surprisingly alike they quickly found.

Percy sleepily thought, maybe this magic school wouldn't be so bad unknowingly mirroring Harry's thoughts.