life unexpected

by blue skies fade to gray

(nico pov) Chapter 1

As my eyes fluttered open to the warm sunlight streaming through my window, i heard the familiar screech of an owl on my desk. I rubbed my eyes and rolled out of bed, walked over to the winged creature that gripped a letter tightly. The owl screeched in protest as i raised my hand to grab the letter. I glared darkly at the animal before snatching the letter from the creature's leg. I assumed it was yet another letter from soon to be brother-in-law frank or my "bro" percy. I glanced at the seal to find an unfamiliar stamp, i eyed the symbol wearily before ripping open the envelope,it read: dear Nico Di Angelo we are pleased to inform you that you have been invited to the hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. My eyes widened and, i let the letter fall from my hand shocked. I sat down at my desk and stared at the black walls of my semi dark bedroom. I have been invited to hogwarts, me….. Scary nico, invited to hogwarts, i thought to myself. All last year i heard about it from frank and hazel percy and piper about it. Mostly i heard about percy's girlfriend annabeth and piper's boyfriend jason, but frank and hazel (who got engaged last year ) told me all about. They had kept where they were a secret from me for years this whole time i thought they were at a boarding school they are now sixth years. they had told me something about houses they were both in hufflepuff, i think is what they called it. Percy is in gryffindor and piper is in slytherin. They had said something about there being a list in the letter. I quickly rose from my chair, causing it to spin in circles,and rushed over to the paper and envelope lying on the ground. Inside the envelope was another paper, a list of school supplies. I quickly read over the material i would need before stopping to think. Where the hell am i supposed to get this crazy stuff, maybe the letter will explain it. I grabbed the letter and sure enough it said something about diagon alley and platform 9 and get on the hogwarts express whatever that meant. I was about to change my clothes when someone knocked on my door, "yeah!" i called to the door. "There is someone here to see you come on down son" the muffled voice of my father sounded. "Be right down" i called back. Who would be visiting me at this time of day.

Once i got downstairs i saw my dad go back into his study and i saw my stepmom persephone sitting on the sofa across from a guy who looked to be in his late twenties he has short cropped brown hair and a long nose with brown eyes, he was wearing a trench coat " Hello Mr. Di Angelo, i am professor Lupin i am a teacher at Hogwarts, professor dumbledore, who is the headmaster, sent me to help you get the supplies you need and to help you get to Hogwarts safely. do you have any question?" professor lupin finished. I eyed my step mom,"Persephone would you excuse us for a minute" i said mustering up every ounce of politeness i could offer the woman who i had no respect for. she looked at me and then at professor lupin he nodded slightly, a movement i would have missed if i hadn't been watching the both of them so intently. Persephone got up and marched into the kitchen and began preparing some tea. "okay, what exactly is this Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry?" i asked professor Lupin. "it is exactly how it sounds, Hogwarts is a school where a selected amount of students are invited to attend and learn sorcery," he said, " so... you guys just pick random kids off the street and tell them to join your little club". i asked dryly. "Mr. Di Angelo..." " i am not my father!" i said my voice raised a bit. " I calmed down and said "My name is not Mr. Di Angelo it is Nico". seeming a bit shocked professor Lupin continued "Nico hogwarts is anything but a 'club' and we only select children who have magic running through their blood or have the potential to learn magic. the one's who are born from non magical parents, have one magical parent or have both magical parents." "and which category do i fall in" i asked curiously. "well from the information i have gathered it seems your biological mother Maria Di Angelo was a full blood and so is your father Hades Di Angelo, that would mean you are a full blood" "what!?" i said flabbergasted. " Mr. Di...er..um.. Nico we don"t have a lot of time you can ask the rest of your questions once we get to diagon alley, in the meantime i need you to get ready to leave" " okay" i said getting up from the sofa and retreating for the stairs to get a shower

once i had gotten a shower and put on fresh clothes (okay semi-fresh, i wore them for a couple of hours yesterday). I ran down stairs to meet professor Lupin. as my foot touched the last step i said " okay we can go now" " oh good we must hurry we don't have a lot of time/ there is one little stop before we start getting your school supplies." " ughh we have to get there by bus " professor Lupin said more to himself than to me. we got to a bus stop and waited for a bus. Once the bus got there it was an hour and a half trip to what looked like the middle of nowhere, then we walked for another half hour before we stopped professor let out a strained bret and said " finally we're here" i looked up at the building we were standing in front of. "The leaky cauldron...you've got to be kidding me" ignoring my remark he said "follow me" he went behind the building and stood in front of a brick wall " um... no offense but are you doing alright upstairs" i asked a bit worried. " i'm fine, now let me concentrate" he said not turning around to meet my eyes. " we are standing in front of a brick wall what is there to concentrate..." as i was finishing my sentence the wall began to move (i'm sure now you're thinking Nico are you alright upstairs) i'm serious it literally started to part, not like it grew legs grabbed it's suitcase and was like 'see ya' but the wall opened okay. Professor Lupin stepped inside and there was a bustle of people walking around, animals wandering and kids who seemed about my age or a little older running around, we made our way to a hage building that read 'gringotts wizarding bank' as we walked in a cluster of short scary looking creatures with pointy ears and sharp teeth turned their heads. " what the hell are those things" i whisper shouted in fear. " those are goblins we are going to withdraw some money from your vault, but there is one thing i have to tell you before we do, before you were born your parents gave up magic all together and set up a vault for you and put all the money they owned in it so, you have more money than most kids your age". I expected him to say something like 'use it wisely' but he didn't. we followed a long haired particularly ugly goblin (uglier than most that is ) to a cart that looked like it was going to take us on a rollercoaster. as soon as we got into the cart it sped away following a track that didn't look very sturdy. we stopped in front of a giant door the goblin first got out the Lupin then me. the goblin ran his hand down the door and it opened. the vault door swung open and my jaw hit the ground there was so much money. " go on it's all your" professor Lupin said " that's all mine " i whispered. he nodded and gave me a push towards one of the many piles of gold and silver. i grabbed two handfuls and professor Lupin said " you won't need that much" i dropped a hand full and he nodded i put it in a small drawstring bag and we left.

once we were outside of the building i asked " what are we going to get first, he just smiled and said " you'll see"

author's note: sorry this is an extremely short chapter i cant promise the next one will be longer but the third one definetly will be long

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