"So..."
It was about twenty minutes or so later. All of them were seated in Dumbledore's office (with an expection of Mrs. O'Leary, who got couldn't fit, so she just stuck her head in the doorway.)
Percy, Nico, and Annabeth were talking to Dumbledore; Grover seemed to be having an intense conversation with Fawkes the Pheonix; while Tyson explored the office, fasinated by everything, constantly trying to touch things-and McGonagall repeatedly scolded him for.
"So..." Nico said, "what are you exactly?"
"We are wizards," Dumbledore told him.
Hermione's jaw dropped open. "You just told them? Just like that?"
"You mean kind of like how you did to me?" Annabeth asked.
Hermione's face went red. "That...that was different. I didn't know."
"Wizards?" Nico nodded, like this was perfectly normal. "That explains so much."
"Young man," Dumbledore said, looking at the boy with curiousity, "where are you from?"
Nico looked troubled. "I...I don't really know. It's fuzzy."
"What do you mean?"
Nico looked at the floor. "I'd rather not talk about it."
"That's okay."
"So, since you were honest with us, I guess we should be honest with you," he sighed. "We're half-bloods."
Hermione looked at him. "Oh." she said as if it was completely normal.
"What do mean 'oh'?"
"Well, we have lots of half-bloods at this school."
"Really?"
"Sure."
"But you do know what a half-blood is, right?"
"Of course!"
"One parent is mortal, and the other..."
"God," Nico said.
And at the same time Hermione said. "Wizard."
The two looked at each other oddly. "What?" they said in chorus. Then. "Huh?"
"What do you mean a parent is half god?" Hermione demanded.
"You know, like the Greek gods."
"What?" Hermione laughed. "Are you telling me that your father is Posiden?"
Nico smiled. "Close," he said, "his father is Posiden," he pointed at Percy, "my father is Hades."
Hermione made a disgusted face. "Lord of the dead?"
Nico clentched his hands into fists, and reached into his jacket pocket for his sword. Hermione pulled out her wand.
"Hermione, I do believe that if they came here to harm us they would've already done so," Dumbledore said.
Hermione looked annoyed, but obeyed.
Nico looked at Dumbledore. As if he had the nerve to question the son of Hades! But Percy's look told him to listen, so he did.
Hermione turned to Annabeth. "Who's your father?"
She smirked. "Frederick Chase."
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