AN: So I'm glad you guys liked the last chapter! It means so much to me to hear how what you think! I hope I can keep making you guys happy! So on with Chapter 13…
Disclaimer: I don't own anything Percy Jackson or Harry Potter
Harry's POV:
I was fuming. I didn't even do anything after she gave me detention, but I got in trouble anyway! Percy and Annabeth really seemed to not care at all. It had been pretty funny though, I mean they had said exactly what everyone was thinking. Are all Americans like that? I lead them to the teachers lounge just as McGonagall was coming out.
"Mr. Potter, Mr. Jackson, Miss Chase? What are you doing out of class?"
"Professor Umbridge told us to come to you and give you this." I handed her the scroll. She tapped it with her wand and it unrolled. She read it over and looked back at us.
"Follow me" she said sternly.
We followed her as she led us to her classroom. Percy and I pulled chairs, we sat down and Percy pulled Annabeth onto his lap, and she leaned back against him.
"Mr. Potter" she turned to me "It says here that you yelled at Professor Umbridge?"
"Yes Professor"
"And called her a liar?"
"Yes Professor"
"And said that Voldemort came back and killed Cedric Diggory last year?"
"Yes Professor"
"Mr. Jackson, you talked on a muggle device during class?"
"Yup"
"Called Professor Umbridge a 'pink toad'?"
"Uh-huh"
"Disrespected her in front of the whole class?"
"Pretty much"
"Miss Chase? You took said muggle device after being told not to?"
"Yes ma'am"
"Said Professor Umbridge was not teaching her class?"
"Yes ma'am"
"And overall disrupted her class"
"Yes ma'am"
"Please, all three of you, have a biscuit" she said as she held out a plate
"What?" I asked
"Uh, I don't mean to be rude, but those are cookies not biscuits"
"Seaweed Brain, that's what they call cookies here" Annabeth told him. She took two and handed one to him
"Oh"
"Potter, you of all people need to be careful around Delores Umbridge" she sounded very anxious, which was highly unusual to hear from McGonagall "Misbehavior in her class can cost you more than House points and a week of detention"
I almost choked, Percy actually did, until Annabeth whacked him on the back.
"Wait, a week!? She only said today" I told her
"Well on here it says a week for all three of you, Potter you must be careful, you know who she works for and whom she reports to. Now please wait outside my classroom for Percy and Annabeth, I dare say they will need help getting to the common room and I have a meeting to attend to after this"
I nodded and walked out of the transfiguration classroom.
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Annabeth's POV:
When Harry walked out McGonagall turned to face us.
"I have put a monitoring spell on him while he waits outside, so if something happens while we are talking or Delores comes around and talks to him, or anything, we will know, also a silencing spell so he cannot hear us" we nodded and she continued "Now, I am correct to assume that you two tried to get that detention?"
"Yes Professor, it's our quest to protect him, he couldn't have detention on his own with that woman. I feel like she has something planned, especially since he stopped arguing after only one detention, yet she added on a week" I observed
"I agree with you whole heartedly Miss Chase, and I understand that out of all the demigods that have come, you two are the most powerful"
"Yes ma'am, however, Percy is the really powerful one, he is just to modest"
"Then I am happy that you are here, and I must thank you and your friends for coming to aid us in this war. I would like a full report on what goes on in these detentions."
"Of course Professor McGonagall. Actually I have a question for you, would it be possible for the demigods to be able to visit other common rooms? That way the others can come into Gryffindor tower meaning they can help protect Harry, Ron and Hermione as well"
"I'll speak with the Headmaster but I'm sure that will be possible. Now I would go if I were you, we don't want to keep Mr. Potter waiting any longer"
We nodded and I got off of Percy's lap and led him out the door and up to the common room where our friends were waiting. We decided to start on our homework until dinner, well the demigods and Hermione. Harry and Ron were not as eager.
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Percy's POV:
After dinner in the Great Hall Harry, Annabeth and I bid our friends goodbye and headed to the toads room for detention. When we got there, Harry knocked.
"Enter"
You know how there is some medicine that has that sickly sweet taste to it? Give it some vocal chords and you have Delores Umbridge's voice.
"Ah, Mr. Potter, Mr. Jackson and Miss Chase, please come in and sit down."
I looked in the room and shuddered. The office was painted a disgusting pink color with cats pictures all over the walls. Harry walked in and we followed. I led Annabeth to a desk and sat down next to her.
"Mr. Jackson, please let go of Miss Chase or I will be forced to separate the two of you."
"Yeah no can do toad face" I said casually, enjoying the color red her face was turning, "As Dumbledore has informed you, we have been through a very traumatic experience and need to use touch to reassure that the other is alive. If you don't like it, take it up with the Headmaster, and as for forcing us to separate, you try? And I'll drown you in the black lake, or maybe give you to the giant squid, he seems kind of lonely."
"And what makes you think you have that kind of power?"
"I studied wand less water magic at Brunner's Magical Academy. I was the top of the class. I basically have it perfected"
"And what makes you think you can threaten me?"
"Oh I didn't"
"I believe you just did Mr. Jackson"
"No. I TOLD you what I would do, meaning I would actually do it. Without hesitation"
She paled a little at that but continued to interrogate me.
"And I was never informed of what this 'traumatic experience' was"
"You don't need to know, no one does, and we are not willing to talk about it. Now if you try to separate us you will find yourself in the lake by morning, and without a job seeing as Dumbledore would fire you after you directly ignored a rule appointed not only to the students, but to the teachers as well" I was starting to get angry. Harry was staring at me as if I'd just gone nuts. Can you blame him? I was arguing with a teacher while in detention with said teacher. Annabeth put her hand on my arm and I started to calm down.
"Look, we are here for detention, so maybe we can get on with it?" She asked
"Fifty points from Gryffindor for disrespect Mr. Jackson" she looked like she wanted to argue with us more about being separated, but she wisely kept her mouth shut as she laid down a sheet of parchment in front of each of us, along with a quill.
"You will be writing lines. Mr. Potter, you are to write 'I must not tell lies' while Mr. Jackson and Miss Chase will write 'I will respect authority figures'"
"How many times" Harry asked
"Let's say until the message sinks in"
We started to write, it was not until I was done with the first line when I realized something was not right with these quills. It felt like my hand was being cut into, and I realized with a start, that it was. I looked over and saw the same thing happening with Harry and Annabeth. I was staring at my hand. It felt like when the empousa had cut into me, or when the Arai were cursing us… I was about to go into a flash back, I knew I was, what pulled me out was the ear-splitting scream from my girlfriend. I snapped out of it in time to feel her hand leave mine as she fell to the ground, trapped in the memories of Tartarus. Her hand, like mine was bleeding with words that she had just written. Harry jumped up in shock and bewilderment while Umbridge just stood up. I went down to Annabeths side and carefully picked her up bridal-style.
"What the heck is this? What is the matter with you?!" I whispered in a deadly calm voice to Umbridge who only stood indignantly.
"I don't know what sort of game Miss Chase is playin-"
"A game?! You think she wants to do this? You know what's happening. She is trapped in the memories. Horrible memories. This is not over. Come on Harry, I need you to get me to the common room as fast as possible, I only trust Will with this"
Harry ran out of the room with me following as Annabeth gave out another scream that bounced off the walls in the corridors. I could feel the portraits watching us. Some students were lingering in the hallway and stopped dead when they saw us. As she screamed again, I could feel the tears starting to well up.
"PERCY! NO!" she screamed and it made my heart break.
"Shh, Annabeth please, it's okay, I'm right here, I'm alive, we're okay" I told her gently as we ran. We reached the portrait whole and Harry, out of breath said the password and we went in just as she let out another scream. The common room stopped and stared.
"WILL!" I yelled out after not seeing him in the common room. Will, Ron and Nico came down to the common room from the dormitories, Thalia came down from hers with Hermione as well.
"What happened?" Will asked
"I'll explain in a minute, Harry you better come too, Thalia go get Professor McGonagall, tell her it's urgent, now!"
Thalia ran out of the common room at top speed, she was the fastest runner, and she already knew her way around most of the castle because she is a hunter, and is able to commit things like that to memory pretty fast. I whispered the password to our separate room and Will, Nico and the Golden Trio followed us in, leaving behind a stunned common room full of students. I gently laid Annabeth on the bed and sat down next to her. I explained to Will what happened. Annabeth calmed down and was no longer screaming, but she had worn herself out and fell asleep. I laid down next to her and held her close while Will took Annabeths hand after getting out his medical supplies. Just as the portrait swung open and McGonagall walked in with Thalia at her heels.
"What happened"
So I explained once again what happened.
"So you were writing in your own blood?!" Thalia asked outraged.
"Yeah, I think we were, the ink came out blood red" Harry explained, I guess I missed that while we were back in detention.
"She used a blood quill on students? Those are illegal. She won't get away with it, I'll have to speak to Albus right away, I'll also send a patronus to Professors Flitwick and Sprout, and they can explain what happened to your friends. They can come into the Gryffindor common room, I cleared it with Dumbledore earlier, would you like them to come?"
I had no idea what in Hades a patronus was, but I nodded. Normally I wouldn't want them in here while Annabeth or I were in this state, but I wanted them to know what happened.
"Well, the scars will be there for a few days, but it should go away soon, maybe. It's hard to say, I've never dealt with this kind of thing before" Will told us as he finished with Annabeth and started on mine.
"Thank you Mr. Solace, 20 points to Gryffindor, and Mr. Potter 5 point to you for helping Mr. Jackson get Miss Chase here so quickly. Now I must go cast the patronusis and speak to the Headmaster"
She turned on her heel and left. Will finished with me and started on Harry. Ron and Hermione were both a little pale after they were told what had happened. I could tell that this was going to be a long night. Our friends came in a little while later, I'm guessing their Heads of Houses told them the password for Gryffindor tower and our room, since all the Professors, minus the evil toad knew our password. Nico was in charge of explaining everything while I just laid next to Annabeth quietly playing with her hair with one hand, the other around her protectively.
AN: So a little bit different, but I think you guys will like what happens next, I'll be telling you Umbridges fate in the next chapter. Along with maybe a little surprise? And a plot twist! Ooh! Exciting! Please keep reviewing! You guys are awesome!
