A/N Hey guys here's chapter 10: D, thanks again for all your reviews.
Chapter 10 - IM's, Classes and Homework
We went up to the bathroom in the girls dormitories so Annabeth could IM Chiron at camp. Annabeth went over to her bed and pulled her bag out from under her bed and rummaged in it until she found a coin. "This is a Drachma" she said showing me the coin. It was gold with the names of the Greek gods running along the outside of it.
"And what does it do?" I asked, gazing at the little coin.
"Ill show you" she smiled.
We stood infront of the sink and she turned to me. "I'm going to show you how to make an iris message". She turned to back to the sink; she filled the basin with water. She walked over to the shelves and brought down the hand mirror. The door of the bedroom opened again, "Who is it?" Annabeth whispered to me. I stuck my head out of the door and mouthed back.
"Hermione".
Hermione pushed the door of the bathroom opened and looked at both of us in turn and raised an eyebrow. "What are you doing?" she asked, looking at the basin full of water and the hand mirror Annabeth was holding.
"Contacting camp" Annabeth said.
"How?" Hermione said.
"Iris message, but I need a source of light" she said, frowning.
"Oh that's easy I can do that if you want?" Hermione asked, taking her wand out of her pocket.
"Thanks" Annabeth said.
Hermione gave her wand a flick and said "Lumos". Her wand took on a green glow and made the room a lot brighter.
"Grace hold this" she said handing me the mirror, "Now I'm going to try making a rainbow, by flicking water through the line of light" Annabeth said, putting her hands in the basin.
When we finally mastered making the rainbow, Annabeth held up the coin, threw it in the sink and recited, "O Iris Goddess of the rainbow. Please show me Chiron at Camp Half-Blood".
Mist then began to rise from the basin and formed a puffy white cloud. It started to flicker and then images became clear and it showed camp. Chiron was teaching an archery lesson. "Chiron!" Annabeth called out, waving her hand.
Chiron turned round and spotted us, "Annabeth, Grace how's Hogwarts?" he asked, smiling.
"It's amazing" I said.
"Well that's good to know" he said.
"Chiron how is things at camp?" Annabeth asked.
"They are fine" he stated, but by the expression on his face things were not fine. "As long as everyone is prepared we will be fine" he said, giving us a half a smile. "I must go I have a lesson to teach" he said, waving his hand through the mist.
"C'mon we've got potions next" Hermione said, looking down at her simple watch, with a pale pink band. Annabeth pulled the plug out of the basin and we traipsed out of the bathroom.
Walking down to the dungeons was a nightmare. There was so many stairs and long corridors we had to remember. When we were at the bottom of the last set of stairs we were standing in a tiny, heavily crammed hallway. We stood outside the classroom until the door swung open and there stood, Severus looking just as greasy and mean looking from when we were in Dumbledore's office.
I turned to look at Annabeth and she was sharing the same face as I was - dread, - I mouthed "Oh crap".
We filed into the classroom and everyone scrambled to get seats. When I looked round at my friends they were all sitting in seats. The only empty chair was at the front next to Professor Snape's desk. I turned back round to my friends, and hissed "Gee thanks, you guys suck!" and stalked over to the table.
I sat at the table and crossed my arms over my chest. When we were instructed to get our books out. I reluctantly pulled my books out and banged then on my table. I brought out my quill and ink bottle, and watched the lesson drag on.
My next class was Care of Magical Creatures. Harry, Ron, Hermione and me stood infront of a small stone hut at the bottom of the hill. We were standing with other students; some I noticed were in my Potions class. There were also a few other kids who I didn't recognise.
The door of the hut opened and a large man with a long black shaggy beard and hair stepped out. He walked over to us grinning, "Alrigh', Harry, Ron, Hermione"
"Hagrid this is Grace" Harry said, introducing me to Hagrid.
"Hi" I said, he was so tall I realised that's how a tiny bug must feel when we stand next to it, he said hello and started his class.
"Righ' let's get started" he boomed, walking away from us and grabbing everyone's attention. He took us through a gap in between a couple of trees. We kept on waling until we came to a large clearing. The forest was beautiful; the trees were tall and enclosed us in the clearing. They were different colours and shades of green. I could hear noises of the creatures that inhabited the area. As I was gazing at the marvellous forest I some how realised I had been here before, but I couldn't for the love in me pin point it. I listened to the wind blowing through the trees, and thought about how it sounded like they were whispering to each other. And then it clicked, I had been there, well not in body anyway. I had visited it in my dream.
Panicked I looked round at my other classmates; they were listening to what Hagrid was saying. He stopped and put his hands over his mouth and let out a loud whistle. Then the big, black creatures - What did Luna call them? Hagrid turned to us and said, "These are thestrals". - Oh yeah that's what they're called.
A couple of Ravenclaws behind me were mumbling, 'What, Where? I don't see them' Hagrid turned back found to us smiling, "Can anyone tell me what a Thestral is?" everyone just glanced at each other and shrugged.
I looked round at everyone, almost all of the other kids were looking at each other, and raising eyebrows, I shakily raised my hand, "A Thestral is a skeletal winged horse, which can only be seen by people who've witnessed death"
"That's righ'" Hagrid said, matter-of-factly.
We continued on the lesson talking about the dietary requirements of thestrals, going into detail about their bone structure, and where you could find them. And then having time just before the period ended to write down our homework, a scroll and a half writing about a thestral.
We gathered our belongings and made our way back up to the school for lunch and our last two periods in the afternoon. When we got to the Great Hall Annabeth and Percy were already sitting at the Gryffindor table.
I sat down across from then and grabbed a plate and started filling it up. "So how was astronomy?" I asked, round a bite of chicken.
"It was good" Annabeth said, "The teacher - Professor Firenze - said he knows Chiron and we got talking to him".
"That's cool" I said, "We learned about those thestrals again" I said, shrugging. Annabeth nodded her head in response and continued eating.
Our lessons in the afternoon were boring during ancient ruins; I sat at a table with Hermione and Annabeth. I sat with my head cradled in my hands while I listened to professor Binns rattling on about different symbols and stuff. We were then given our homework - which I grudgingly wrote down off the board.
Our last class of the day was transfiguration, which was fun since we were learning how to turn our fingers different colours. I only managed to turn the tip of my index finger yellow, it was pretty fun until we had to stop because some kid jinxed themselves purple and had to be taken to the hospital wing.
When our last lesson of the day ended I grabbed my books and walked up to the common room along with my friends, we sat in the common room laughing and talking about day while we waited for dinner time. And then went back down the stairs and then returned back to the common room, I was so tired that night I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
A/N Okay so that was a hard chapter to write, I think it's because it was just the classes :/ and also the fact I don't like that chapter, Oh well please tell me what you think by leaving me lovely reviews.