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Chapter 2 A Slight Delay
Percy nodded and shook Harry's hand graciously. "Well I've got to go." Percy said briskly and started to walk out of the office before Harry could speak. Harry nodded but looked at his phone which was bursting with messages, his ring tone playing over and over; he opened it and stared at the spammed messages. "Professor Longbottom! I mean Neville! Why are you spamming me?"
"Well, Harry, I was just wondering if you could help Hogwarts by….becoming the next Defense against the Dark Arts teacher. Professor McGonagall insisted I call you, since of course, everybody knows you're the best at it." Neville said briskly. "Got to go, one of my students is asking me what Asphodel is, I'll take your silence as a yes." Harry was just about to say, no, but Neville had hung up. "Percy! Wait!" Harry called as he ran after him.
Percy turned around and looked at him as though: This Better Be Good, "Yes?" He responded. Harry said again in his usual business like tone, "One of the professors in Hogwarts wished me to become the Defense against the Dark Arts teacher, how long will we need before Kronos and Voldemort will be revived?" Percy nodded, "That is a problem, but the Oracle said something like:
Two worlds collide,
Two will lead the light,
The dark will rise,
Gods and humans together only will prevail,
Old Nemesis rises,
Two years, the fate of the world will be sealed forever
Harry looked slightly taken aback, "I thought when you said they were revived; I thought they were really revived, so is this Oracle thing always accurate?" Percy looked offended,"Uh duh, it's the Oracle of Delphi, teller of the prophecies of Apollo, the Slayer of, screw that, never mind." Harry nodded, "I guess I'll go to Hogwarts then."
Without another word, he walked out of his office. He took his broomstick with him. Harry flew towards Hogwarts with amazing skill. He did flips and swerves as though he was still playing Quidditch. That was his wife, Ginny's job. About an hour later, he landed on the quidditch field. He had the invisibility cloak on, so he didn't interrupt the game at all. Okay, maybe he did, by hitting a Quaffle to one on the Gryffindor team and pushing both of the Beaters towards the goal.
He appeared next to Neville on the teacher's stand. "W-wha? Harry? What are you doing here?" That seemed to disrupt the whole game. Madam Hooch had shouted a time out. The whole teacher stand was staring at him in disbelief. A voice from behind him exclaimed, "Long time no see Harry!" He turned around and saw Seamus Finnigan, who seemed to be the new charms teacher. Harry nodded, but it seemed like he was the center of attention among teachers and students alike. The Gryffindors were staring in awe, Ravenclaws, with a gleam of historic delight, Slytherins with jaws dropped, and Hufflepuffs with great honor.
"Now, now, you guys must get used to seeing me around here; I am the new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher." Harry said politely. One of the students shouted from the crowds, "What happened to Professor Cracklenote?" Headmaster McGonagall announced, "Professor Cracklenote has resigned, therefore, Harry Potter, an old student of mine, will be in place of him!"
Harry nodded in agreement. As soon as the Quidditch match was over, (Gryffindor won.) he and McGonagall were speaking to each other in private. "Voldemort has been revived." Harry hissed quietly. McGonagall responded with fire in her eyes, "Such a lie Mr. Potter, must you be fired on your first day?"
Harry shook his head and walked down the hall, near the teacher dorms. There, he saw a Gryffindor being bullied by a Slytherin. He went to them and turned the Slytherin into a weasel. The Gryffindor stared at Harry in awe, but Harry spoke with wisdom, "I don't like when people pick on people smaller than themselves." He walked towards the teacher's dorm and landed on his bed. He knew that this would be a good year…of busting Slytherin butt!
Percy, who had walked all the way to Camp Halfblood, was relaxing in a chair, playing pinochle with Dionysus. Dionysus had insisted he try it, since Chiron had left, he had no enjoyment available. "When will 100 years be over?" Percy complained to himself. Dionysus said in his usual dazed tone, "I didn't make that punishment, my father did. So complain to him instead." Dionysus exclaimed, "I'm going to win this time, finally!" Percy shook his head and made a final move, "In your face Mr. D!"
Percy watched in admiration as Annabeth assisted her cabin with the chariot. She now had 13 beads on her Camp Halfblood bracelet. Her eyes darted between Percy and the Big House, where the Oracle was. Percy walked to his cabin, which was now like Hermes because the oath was now gone, since there was no prophecy like his time anymore. It was full of people and they respected Percy since, of course, he was the Activities director and their senior counselor.
Percy smoothly closed his eyes and announced, "Since the hunters of Artemis are here, I'm proud to say, Capture the Flag is this Friday!" Everyone clapped and there was a chatter that started a rumor about all the cabins going all out on the hunters for once. He walked back to the Big House and laid in the wheel chair that Chiron once used. Dionysus looked at him with surprise, "You aren't secretly a centaur are you? If so, whoopee, I can tell my father that the son of Poseidon who saved us was a centaur!"
Percy shook his head and closed his eyes to sleep. That day of course, was a Wednesday, but it seemed awkward enough to be a Thursday. So let's skip all the way to Friday. When Percy woke up, all of the cabins except Artemis were awake. They were preparing themselves. The Aphrodite were polishing their finest magic items, while the Ares where sharpening their swords. The Poseidon was practicing dashing towards the water, while the Demeter was practicing growing Venus Flytraps. The Zeus cabin was lying in the sun, since they had already knew, (Thought) that they knew everything there is to know. The Hades was summoning their skeletons and training them how to fight, the Athenians, was reading books, of course. Beckendorf and the rest of his cabin, (Hephaestus) were at work creating magical swords for the Ares and Athena cabins. Hermes was hard at work, stealing magical items from the camp store while the Apollo was shooting poison arrows.
Percy nodded with satisfaction; they seemed to really want to beat the Hunters, since they had won for the 56th time last year. About an hour later, the Artemis cabin woke up, to find that nothing happened, it seemed to them as though it was automatic win. But everyone was already up and cheerful. Percy announced, "The capture the flag event will now take place!"
The Hunters wore blue sashes for the event, since they were the blue team. Thalia mightily walked with pride, towards the flag that only Percy and the Hunters knew. Percy wasn't going to participate, but he stood in the middle border lines and watched with interest. The Ares Cabin was border patrol; they threw Percy evil looks as they spread out, to make sure that no one would get near.
Annabeth and Beckendorf were running towards the flag with Beckendorf in camouflage armor and Annabeth with her invisibility cap. Percy couldn't help but feel a little bit jealous, but he kept chanting, "Red team!" Suddenly Beckendorf tripped into one of the hunter's traps' and collided with a tree.
The Aphrodite, who was pretending to look at themselves in the water, dashed towards the hunters with high heels and tied them with a really pretty scarf. Apollos had shot one of the hunters on the helmet and the hunter, without any shame, shouted for help. That gave Annabeth and Beckendorf a chance to tear after the flag and run like there was no tomorrow.
Annabeth had got the flag, but one of the hunters had shot a fart arrow. Beckendorf snickered a bit and then took the real flag, (He had created a fake one.) and tore after their base, which he safely got to, since the Ares were now keeping a sharp eye for intruders. Annabeth grinned, "We won, and I had the fake flag."
Percy clapped and announced,"The campers have won for the 1st time in 56 years!"
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