Book 1: Swords and Wands: The Chamber of Secrets

Summary: The Seven are sent back in time, deaged, become witches and wizards, and get to attend Hogwarts in Harry Potter's second year. Mission: Help Harry Potter in the fight against Voldemort. Problem: They are a bunch of eleven-year- olds. How long will they have to stay at the school of witchcraft and wizardry? Is there more to their mission then what it seems?

My Book References: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (first year stuff), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (events)

Disclaimer: I do not own PJO, HOO, or HP and I never will.

Chapter 8: Cat Got Your Tongue

That October came quickly like the clouds before a storm. Madam Pomfrey, Hogwart's nurse, was busy all the time due to the rise of colds from the damp, chilly air. After Jason and Piper told Percy Weasley of Ginny's paleness, he bullied her into taking some. The three first years joked of how she looked like her hair was on fire afterwards, even if Ginny still was pale.

It rained all the time, the lake was starting to rise, the flower beds were now just muddy streams, and the caretaker's, Hagrid, pumpkins have grown double the size they were before. The demigods' meeting spot had to be changed to the library where they were not allowed to talk, so they mostly just whispered questions about their homework to each other.

This went on for quite awhile until finally the Halloween feast arrived. The Great Hall was decorated with live bats, Hagrid's pumpkins that were now lanterns big enough for three men to sit in, and the place was just glittering with gold plates and candles.

Up front, a troupe of dancing skeletons danced for the students as they ate. At the Slytherin table, they ate their food and listened to Draco and some other older Slytherins tell scary stories.

Ravenclaw kids ate their food and told stories of the truth behind Halloween. Leo invented something, ate, and listened to Luna tell her story about monsters called Slarers that invaded your mind and made you feel fear.

At the Hufflepuff table, Percy, Frank, Hazel, and their fellow Hufflepuffs laughed at Halloween jokes together, Percy occasionally scaring a friendly Hufflepuff and then they would laugh together.

At the Gryffindor table, they told jokes, scary stories, and watched the skeleton dancers. Jason and Piper were barely focusing on Ginny, who muttered an excuse about the bathroom before leaving, unnoticed.

By the time the feast ended, everybody was full and all together scared or happy. That was until they saw the scene of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger staring at the message 'THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE." Mrs. Norris hung under it, stiff as a board, eyes petrified.

Everybody was silent. That was all until Draco Malfoy stepped forward, eyes alive, pale face pink, and he was grinning. "Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods!"

"What's going on here? What's going on?" Filch shouldered his way through the crowd, Percy didn't even notice when he got shoved into a seventh year Slytherin, who didn't notice either.

Filch clutched his face in horror. "My cat! My cat! What's happened to Mrs. Norris?"

His eyes fell on Harry. "You! You! You've murdered my cat! You've killer her! I'll kill you! I'll-"

"Argus!"

Dumbledore, followed by his staff of teachers, had arrived. He passed Harry, Ron, and Hermione and detached Mrs. Norris. "Come with me, Argus," He said to Filch. "You, too, Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley, Miss Granger."

Lockhart already stepped forward eagerly.

"My office is nearest; Headmaster-just upstairs-please feel free-"

"Thank you, Gilderoy." Dumbledore sounded like he didn't care.

The crowd, still silent, let the entourage pass. The minute they did, everybody began talking at once. Annabeth made her way to Percy, as the rest of the demigods joined up by one of the windows opposite to the message.

"Was this in one of your books, Annabeth?" Percy asked. He looked nervous and…was that fear?

"I'll have to check again." Annabeth looked worried. "But this doesn't seem like the war we're here to fight."

"No, it doesn't." Jason shook his head.

"We've got to stop this," Piper crossed her arms. "Preferably before it goes after a person."

"We have to be careful, though." Annabeth frowned. "This isn't our area. Just keep our eyes open, we'll research this next time in the library, understood?"

Everybody nodded their agreement, but then the prefects were waving the crowd off to bed and they had to listen or they would be in big trouble. With the thoughts of the attack in their heads, they fell asleep eventually.

For the next few days, the only thing anybody at Hogwarts talked about was the message on the wall. It didn't help that Filch guarded it all the time and when he wasn't he was lashing out at students. The words didn't go away, no matter how hard he tried, and they shined red on the wall, a constant reminder to the students.

Jason and Piper were busy comforting Ginny, who was greatly distressed over the cat's situation. When Ron tried to comfort her and only made it worse, they glared at him and then stood up, taking her to a different area in the common room and trying to take her mind off the matter.

With Percy, still troublemaking as usual, they were getting different sides of the story. He and his two "sidekicks" were sick and tired of hearing Justin Finch-Fletchley saying how he refused to talk to Harry Potter and then telling the common room rumors he's heard.

In the Slytherin common room, Annabeth got sick and tired of people repeating themselves. "They are finally going to get what's coming for them." "Mudbloods better watch their backs" It was all the same to her. She decided the library was a much better place where she would constantly be researching. Rachel would sit there with her, the auburn-haired Slytherin more interested in why the cat got petrified then what petrified it, not really bothering to research and doing her homework instead.

Luna and Leo had also read up, searching through the Ravenclaw's library. They would join Annabeth and Rachel in the library with their books stacked up, reading until they were seeing double.

When Luna was reading Hogwarts: A History (her own copy she brought), she spoke up. "It seems pretty similar to the Chamber of Secrets, don't you think?" Luna's voice said dreamily, in other words, her normal voice.

The other students at her table all looked up at her. "I mean, it says here that Salazar Slytherin sealed the Chamber of Secrets so that would no one would open it except his true heir and the heir would open it and purge the school of all who were unworthy to study magic."

The three students stared at Luna with wide eyes while she just went back to reading. "Luna, can I see that?" Annabeth asked. Luna gently handed it over. Annabeth read it and nodded.

"This is it."

A few days later, dinner was filled with whispers of the tale of the Chamber of Secrets, the Gryffindors telling all they knew to their friends. People called Harry 'Slytherin's Heir' like it were a big, bad thing; there were also whispers of the new message: The Chamber of Secrets has been Opened.

It made the seven demigods feel like typical kids again, gossiping and spreading rumors. The first year students around them were overexcited about this matter. Ginny was still upset, thinking Ron would get expelled.

There was even more talk when Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Harry Potter didn't show up to dinner that night.

Tension was high in the Gryffindor common room. After Ginny called an early night in, When Ron, Harry, and Hermione's conversation got their attention, Piper and Jason decided to eavesdrop just a bit.

"If, in a month or so, you feel like explaining, you will let us know, won't you?" Ron sounded irritated.

"All right, what we'd need to do is to get inside the Slytherin common room and ask Malfoy a few questions without him realizing it's us." Hermione's voice was cold as ice.

"But that's impossible." Ron laughed as Harry said those words.

"No, it's not," Hermione said. "All we'd need would be some Polyjuice Potion."

"What's that?" Ron and Harry's voices were said in unison.

"Snape mentioned in class a few weeks ago-"

"D'you think we've got nothing better to do in Potions than listened to Snape?" Ron interrupted.

"It transforms you into somebody else. Think about it! We could change into three of the Slytherins. No one would know it was us. Malfoy would probably tell us anything. He's probably boasting about it in the Slytherin common room right now, if one we could hear him."

"This Polyjuice stuff sounds a bit dodgy to me," Ron frowned. "What if we were stuck looking like three of the Slytherins forever?"

"It wears off after a while," Hermione didn't sound worried. "But getting hold of the recipe will be very difficult. Snape said it was in a book called Moste Potente Potions and it's bound to be in the Restricted Section of the library.

"Hard to see why we'd want the book, really," Ron said, "if we weren't going to try and make one of the potions."

"I think, that if we made it sound as though we were just interested in the theory, we might stand a chance…" Hermione proposed.

"Oh, come on, no teacher's going to fall for that," Ron said, "They'd have to be really thick…"

Piper and Jason shared a look. They had got enough. They'd have to ask Annabeth about this Polyjuice Potion tomorrow.

Annabeth raised her eyebrow when Piper and Jason said they overheard Harry, Ron, and Hermione. The blonde Slytherin was in the library reading up about Hogwarts related things, her auburn-haired friend nowhere to be found.

"Overheard?" Annabeth used air quotes.

"No, but it sounded politer." Jason reasoned.

"We don't learn about Polyjuice Potion this year, but I did read about it. It causes people to turn into a different person for an hour or so." Annabeth explained.

"We'll just have to keep an eye on Harry Potter and his friends then, won't we?" Piper asked.

"Like the rest of the school." Annabeth commented mildly.

"Like the rest of the school." Jason and Piper agreed.

And so the two Gryffindors and the Slytherin parted ways, both on the same mission.

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