Chapter 8

PERCY

"So let me get this straight. There was an evil wizard named Voldemort, and he basically tried to take over the wizarding world. The guy tried to make himself immortal by makng these things called horcruxes. He made seven of them by killing seven people. And then he hid all of them in different places. And then this guy called Harry Potter came along. Voldemort had lost power because he had tried to kill ths Harry guy. And then Voldemort came back at the end of Harry's first year at Hogwarts and tried to steal the sorcerer's stone, in which he miserably failed. Harry destroyed a horcrux, rediscovered the Chamber of Secrets, found his godfather wasn't actually a mass murderer, and then got selected in the Triwizard Tournament, in which an evil impersonator Death Eater disguised as a teacher, put his name in. He then got transported along with Cedric Diggory to a graveyard where the actual mass murderer who have information to Voldemort made Voldemort rise again. Harry escaped and told everyone about it but nobody believed him, and Voldemort got into his head and starting messing up his mind, due to which he went to the Department of Mysteries, where Sirius Black died. Then he basically went on a horcrux treasure hunt, and the evil potions master, Snape, killed Dumbledore, and then Harry, along with Ron and Hermione, destroyed the horcruxes. There was a huge war at Hogwarts, and Voldemort finally kicked the bucket."

His mother looked proud. " You finally got it."

"Yeah. But why do I need to know this?"

"Because every kid in the wizard ing world knows it. And you also need to realize the importance of the story, since you are related to Harry."

Percy looked suprised. "I'm related to Harry?"

"Yes."

"How?"

"Cousins."

Percy frowned, but he knew that his mother wasn't going to reveal anymore information. But he had another question.

"Mom? Did you go to Hogwarts too?"

She looked taken aback. "Of course I did."

"But I thought your parents died in a airplane crash and you lived your uncle. You left college to take care of him!"

"No Percy, I didn't. My parent didn't die until I was old enough to take of myself. And in honesty, I left the wizarding world years ago after the death of James and Lily."

Did she know them personally? Percy thought, but didn't voice it out.

"Why did you leave the wizarding world?"

What Percy heard next was one of the strangest things, and he knew of a lot of strange things.

"They should have given him to me. Legally, I was supposed to care of him. I could've raised him along with you. But Dumbledore had to give him to Petunia, of all people. Petunia! She hated the sight of Harry! She didn't want him! I would've taken him in gladly! But Dumbledore had to give him to her! It has to be blood from the mother's side. Well, why? The father's blood is just as fine! But he didn't want to take the chance! What if Lily's blessing only constrains to her own blood? No Sally, it has to be her, not you. See how that turned out!"

"Uh, what?"

His mom looked at him as if she's just noticed that he was present in the room.

"Doesn't matter. I'll tell you when the time comes. Only the teachers at Hogwarts will really know what happened."

"Oh-kay, I guess."

His mom looked at him. But Percy had way too many questions in mind. And he planned on asking all of them.

As the first of September approached, Percy got more nervous.

In the morning, he woke up an hour early than he was supposed to, and paced around in his room, thinking about Hogwarts.

He talked to Chiron and Annabeth, though they were not too happy about being woken up from their sleep. Because of the time difference, it was night in New York.

Chiron seemed to have known a lot about the wizarding world, but he had told us that he couldnt tell them abiut it because he thought it was best not to. He had warned Percy of centaurs at Hogwarts.

"They will be nothing like the party ponies," He said said. "They will be rude, vile and mean, but you must not dwindle with them. You cannot talk to them. They are not kind or helpful, but will harm or misguide you, if not kill you immediately."

Percy had repeatedly assured him that he would certainly not fraternize with the centaurs. His conversation with Chiron had basically consisted of how to take care of himself, which animals and creatures were safe and which were not.

With Annabeth, too, he had had the almost same conversation. She had told him to not let his guard down, and that she had found a book called Hogwarts: A History, written in Ancient Greek in the Big House. She had told him of the four founders, the game of Quidditch, the wars fought, the rise of Voldemort, Harry Potter's great powers, Dumbledore's cleverness, and many other things.

Percy thought he knew all he could about Hogwarts when Annabeth finished her lecture. She ended the Iris Message by telling him not to go into the Forbidden Forest, the secret passageways, and about a hundred other things.

When it was time to leave, Percy and his mother left for Kings Cross Station on a cab. They reached the station by ten thirty, well in time to catch the train.

The part about getting into the platform was tricky. There was immense magic involved in transporting him to platform nine and three quarters. He had to lean against a barrier to get through.

When he got to other side, he knew that people were going to stare at him. He was a seventeen year old who had never been seen at Hogwarts. It was bound to be interesting.

As he got into the train, he searched it for an empty compartment. He finally found one at the end of the train. A girl with shiny blonde hair and large, strange glasses, was reading a magazine called the Quibbler upside down.

"Oh hello." She said, when Percy walked in. "You must be Percy. Our letters this year specified that someone called Percy was joining us at Hogwarts this year. I'm Luna."

"Um, hello Luna." Percy said, keeping his luggage away.

"You don't need to worry about being old, you know? Most of us are doing our seventh year again because of the war last year, so we're all turning or already are eighteen, like you."

"Oh, um okay."

At that moment, the train compartment door opened, and two children stepped in.

"Hey Luna," a plump faced boy started. "The others will be coming soon. Ron and Hermione were having some trouble, I think, and Harry stayed back to help them-"

He broke off on seeing Percy. His companion, a girl with flaming red vivid hair looked at him and asked, "Who are you?"

"This is Percy." Luna said breezily. "The boy from that letter. He's quite nice. Percy this is Ginny, and that's Neville." She pointed to both of them respectively.

"Hey Ginny and Neville."

"Hey Percy." they said together.

"You know, its weird." Ginny remarked. "I have an older brother with the same name, but he is quite different compared to you."

"Is that a good thing or bad?"

Ginny laughed. "Definitely good. Believe me, you don't want to be like my brother."

Percy grinned.

And then three more people stepped into the train compartment.

The first was a boy with flaming red hair like Ginny's, so he might've been her brother. The second was a girl with bushy brown hair all in her face, with her nose buried in her book. And the third was a thin boy with dark hair and green eyes, and a lightening shaped scar on hid forehead.

The scar was a giveaway to who he was. Harry Potter