Hey everyone,
So I did some more thinking and I decided to mix PJO with HP just a little more this chapter. So Harry will spend some time at Camp, but he will also return to Hogwarts and introduce his new teacher and new bodyguards to all those that matter. And with that I don't just mean all those that matter to him, hihi.
Have fun,

Venquine1990


Chapter 12
Camp And Hogwarts

20th of September 1991
Camp Half-Blood, America
Harry's POV

The last few days have been incredibly great and awesome. Every morning I wake up in either the Zeus or the Poseidon cabin with either Percy or my sister Thalia before they take me to the place where I became an official son of Poseidon, which has been changed back into a Dining Pavilion after the ceremony was over.
After that I would either swim or ride horses with Percy or I would spar and train some of my father's skills with Thalia, who would lend me her incredible weapons, the shield known as Aegis and the collapsible canister that turns into a spear. Though she does also often use it against me and the thunder it releases hurts.
This makes me really grateful for Ambrosia and Nectar as well as Will Solace, the Head Counselor and Ruler of the Apollo Cabin as the young adult is really good patching up wounds, cuts and even bones that I thought Thalia had broken in such a way I would be going back to Hogwarts in a wheelchair or something.
What surprised Percy was the fact that, apparently, my name is the only one that Mr. D. – also known as Dionysus the God of Wine and one of my future teachers – actually says right, even if he constantly refers to me as Herodus and not Harry. But considering I don't feel close to the man like I do my friends, I am fine with this.

What I'm not fine with, and what makes me move over to the Long Island Sound and look out across the waves many a time the last few days, is the fact that no news seems to be coming from Hogwarts, even though Percy did say that the lockdown was over, meaning that Neville and the others should be able to use Hedwig.
Yet it's been almost a week and I haven't heard a thing. And while I keep asking Percy about his battle and who was involved, does Percy not lose his temper or his patience with me. The young adult keeps being incredible caring and understanding and keeps repeating his earlier statement about Neville, Dumbledore and Quirrell.
That last one is also something that really shocked and even shortly worried me, were it not for the fact that Quirrell has been cleansed and the dark energy that was controlling him had been seen shooting out of Hogwarts, even causing for the lockdown to break and be undone, allowing Madam Bones entrance to the castle.

The woman herself is another reason I feel concerned about the school as I blame her for Dumbledore putting the school under lockdown in the first place. The woman is the Head of the DMLE, has been for years and has known Dumbledore since her own years as a Hogwarts student and she still tried to challenge him into leaving the school.
It was something that only the kids from the Ares cabin could appreciate, yet I constantly reminded them: "These aren't trained Demigods, they're wizarding kids that have known nothing but peace for the last decade, remember?" And they had grudgingly admitted that that added to the level of danger in an unnecessary way.

"You really need to just go back there." I then hear a calm, slightly childish voice tell me and I turn to see a young adult who still has a boyish face and with a goth-like look standing next to me as I am once again standing at the edge of the Sound, my feet shoeless and my toes getting drenched by the flowing waves.
I sigh and say: "I know, but – father sent me away and sent for Percy for a reason. I feel I'd betray that reason if I just – went up and left. Not to mention how worried Grover would get." At this Nico snickers as Grover had practically demanded he'd be my Keeper, yet my father Zeus had told him only here in the Demigod world.
Grover had been shocked at this and had then heard that I would be enjoying the luxury of a Demigod bodyguard whenever I wasn't being taught by my new teacher. Yet other than sharing a grin filled with devious promises with his brother, had my birth father not told anyone who this was going to be, forcing us to wait.

"Well, I have some good news." Nico says and I turn to him as he says: "You know how I've been busy with that crazy ex-Demigod from Egypt that kept trying to take over my own gift and use it to raise the dead back from their graves? I finally caught him and took him to Olympus, even if he's actually Egyptian and not Greek.
Your father put a full bind on his powers and ordered for him to be dipped into the River Lethe, you know the one that wipes memories down in the Underworld. I did so and there father told me some amazing news." By now I wonder where this is all going and what this has to do with my desire to return back to Hogwarts.
I then notice that Nico actually has the same smirk that father shared with father Poseidon and instantly I get why. "No way." I whisper and Nico gazes in pride at his finger nails as he asks: "You think Dumbledore would be foolish enough to go against the Son of the Lord of the Dead – and his father?" To which I laugh and say:

"Even he doesn't have that kind of a dead wish." And Nico starts laughing hard, at which I realize the meaning behind my words. Realizing the unintended pun I just made, I laugh even harder, Nico using his arm to hold me up as I bend down through my knees, which are shaking with the effort to keep me upright as I laugh.
I wheeze at the end and try to catch my breath as I ask: "So, when do we leave?" And Nico says: "You will have to wait another 24 hours as father needs to settle a few things down below, but I guess that will give you time to pack up and say goodbye to the others." At this I grimace, yet I nod as I know that he's right.

The next morning

When Chiron heard that I would leave Camp, he actually ordered the Nymphs and other employees at Camp to make me an entire feast worthy of someone who just conquered a quest with grace and flying colors and everyone, even the Demigods I just can't find myself agreeing with or liking, actually toasted to me at the end.
I know I made a few enemies – or at least people who are jealous of my close compatriots at Camp and wish they were in my shoes, but it seems as if Percy, Annabeth, Grover, Nico and Thalia are popular enough – or in Nico's case, intimidating enough – to keep these people at bay and have them just send me disturbing looks.

This was definitely one of the reasons Thalia took my training so seriously, yet I didn't slack off myself as I really wanted to be ready the next time Hogwarts was under threat. And while I enjoyed father Poseidon's lessons, were they just not good enough to have given me an edge if I had been forced to face Dumbledore.
Thalia had acknowledged this during practice and even now, while I am tending to my new horse friend who will get me back to the English shore the same way the other one got me to these shores, does she softly bump my shoulder and say: "Don't forget your training. I'll be testing you next time you get back here, you hear?"
I nod at her, feeling slightly guilty towards Percy as I just like having an older sister a little more than having an older brother and I know this has nothing to do with the fact that I was, more or less, adopted into the House of Poseidon. There is just something about Thalia's traits as an elder sibling that speak to me.
Thalia proves this by playfully ruffling my hair and saying: "Stay safe, little Striker." The nickname something she came up with after she noticed how quickly I was able to switch from dodging to striking back or parrying and one that she usually mentions when speaking to me in pride or with a bit of advice for her to give me.

"Do you truly believe that anyone would dare touch your family with me around, Thalia Grace?" A sinister voice then asks and the ground cracks open just beside her, yet thanks to the night of the Opening Feast, do I know what to expect. And Thalia herself seems no less shocked as she watches the Lord of the Dead appear.
"I doubt they would attack my little brother, Lord Hades, but they might attack his friends and I can tell that he will not take kindly to that. My words were more aimed at that, really." At which the ethereal being nods and then tells me: "Nico and I will travel by Shadow, we will meet you and your steed at Red Point."
I nod at him and after Percy, Annabeth and Grover each voice their own care for me and their concern for what can happen if I'm not around the Lord of the Dead and after I promise to make sure I will have either Sirius, the twins or Neville around me at that time, do I gently mount my gorgeous black stallion and set it into moving.

A huge wave comes out of the Sound and swallows us after which a bubble surrounds us, allowing us to remain at a constant height, just beneath the surface, even as the ground under us goes down deeper and deeper and turns darker as it reaches depts unable to be touched by water. And like this do we start to cross the Atlantic.
And just like last time is this just an incredible experience as the sights of the Atlantic and all that lives in it is a sight to behold, one I know I can view a thousand times or even just once and never forget. All kinds of water animals, friendly, kind, gentle, shy and even a few territorial and deadly ones pass us as we ride.
Yet it seems as if father Poseidon desires to see me safely pass through the Atlantic as even beasts as ferocious as the three Great White Sharks that we encounter and that make me and the horse very concerned and make me want to reach for a sword, swims past us, his black eyes only focusing on us for the shortest of time.
It also happens several times that we pass large gaps and even a few underwater canyons and the sight of these make me uncomfortable, make my steed neigh worriedly and makes me know that we both wonder what's down there, but nothing seems to stir or move within the murky darkness as we pass over it, much distance between us.

Then the ground starts getting closer to us again, the gaps and canyons now far behind us and even though we are covered by a bubble, do I just know that we have entered bits of water and the ocean that are more affected by the human world. We pass a couple of islands and then, somehow, end up at our required destination.
"That bubble must have been equipped with some kind of direction system, huh boy?" I ask as I recognize Red Point, this having also been the point where I entered the ocean on my trip to America and the horse neighs as I get off and give it some love and care, knowing it deserves some treatment for all the fears it went through.
"You're a little later than we expected. Surely you didn't get into any trouble?" I then hear someone ask and I answer: "Not really. It was just so that we noticed a couple of predators approach us and we slowed our pace as we weren't sure if it would attack us or not. And three of those were Great White sharks, just to be clear."

The God of Death nods and says: "A fair enough reason. Now, seeing your ascension you should be able to send that steed of yours to Hogwarts just through the waves. Do so and then we'll follow it through Shadow Travel." I nod and ask: "Would you mind getting wet a bit, boy? Hagrid will dry you off when you arrive."
The steed happily neighs at this and I focus on the surf behind me, using a wave that is just about to crash to focus my power on and allowing it to swallow the steed while I have the Black Lake clear in my thought. I feel the beast be swallowed and moved and when I am sure it has arrived, do I move the wave back into the surf.

"Come on, this way." Nico then says, motioning for me and while I love that a person in his early twenties can still behave as if he's my age, do I move over to him. Both father and son lie a respective hand on each of my shoulders and then guide me into the small, but dense forest where they had been waiting for me to arrive.
And like the wave, do I feel the shadows to surround me and swallow my form. Yet unlike with the wave, do I not feel like a bubble has come to surround me or as if something solid yet not is protecting me. Instead of that do I feel as if everything but my own shadow vanishes, my bones, my body structure, my very magic and core.
This sensation lasts only a few minutes yet I still feel like taking deep breaths and grasping at my chest as we arrive at one of the darker edges of the Forbidden Forest. "You best practice your breathing. Perhaps some meditation exercises. I do intend to teach you this technique." Lord Hades tells me and I nod, accepting his orders.

We then move into the school, yet only then do I take notice of it. Where in the Long Island Sound the sun was halfway up over here it looks as if Lord Apollo took his Sun Chariot and set it into overdrive as the sun is actually quite close to the surface of the Black Lake. "Wow, guess I didn't take the great time difference into account."
I think as I look at this sight of water and fire showing off a spectacular show together and then we enter the majestic and powerful castle, that I now know, thanks to tales of my mother, was build by four of the few first people ever to be blessed by Lady Hecate. Yet mother also told me that their tale isn't what it's believed to be.
"Hmm, might be something for me to look into when I'm done with all of my teachers." I think as we move into the Entrance Hall and for some reason the doors to the Great Hall are closed. "That's unusual. I guess that's something they decided on after the lockdown. Probably Dumbledore in the hopes he can get the upper hand."

I think, yet Lord Hades shakes his head and says: "Locking yourself and innocent lives within one single confined space. That man is a right idiot who has no right to be a Headmaster or be the guardian of young kids. Let's make sure he knows it." Which makes both Nico and I smirk at the man before he slams the doors open.
Everyone inside gasps and some even scream or yelp in fright and that while I can tell that Lord Hades isn't even trying to be his rumored, legendary self. Yet while the man doesn't let off a deadly aura or a presence of darkness, does he still smirk in a satisfied way that almost makes him look menacing as he jovially says: "Greetings, Hogwarts."


Oh Hades, Hades, Hades.
So yeah, Harry has gotten close with most of the main cast of the PJO series. Part of me did want to add HoH series, but I think I will leave that for another time. Maybe when Harry goes into his Second year. That might take a while, but considering how many teachers Harry still has to go through, that's no problem.
Next chapter: Hogwarts experiences different reactions to the arrival of the Lord of the Dead, yet Harry, Hades and Nico also get an interesting discovery thrown at them in regards to the man they have grown to hate over the last few weeks – Harry – and several years – Hades. Uh oh, what is Dumbles up to now?
Yep, an AN cliffie,

Venquine1990