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Chapter 34

Professor McGonagall POV

After walking out of the Great Hall, I made my way to my office, before realizing that I need not drink Veritaserum due to Kingsley being the Minister. (I know I said that he is the advisor for the Muggle Minister earlier, but let's pretend that he got appointed the Minister sometime during the school year and someone else took his position). Despite this, however, I exited my office, not remembering why I went there in the first place, and made my way to Slughorn's office.

"Horace," I called out, knocking on the door, "Are you in here?"

"Oh, Minerva," said Horace, "Come on in, come on in. I was just getting the Veritaserum for that meeting with the Minister."

"Oh, I realized that I most likely won't need it," I said, "since Kingsley is the Minister now, and he knows to trust us."

"Oh," chuckled Horace, "I keep forgetting that Kingsley is the Minister. I never do pay much attention to who has what position in the Ministry these days. But, uh, do you still want the Veritaserum?"

"Why, yes, I do," I said, "I do need something to show Dolores if and when she barges into Kingsley's office trying to prove her innocence."

"Why that is always a possibility," said Horace, "you can always predict some of her actions, since she loves having power over others."

"Oh, I hope this time," I said, "once she's gone from office, she stays gone."

"I think we can be assured of that," said Horace, before leaning in and winking, "After all, Kingsley is the Minister of Magic."

Horace handed me the Veritaserum, we said our temporary goodbyes, and I went off back to my office, to Floo over to the Ministry.

Percy POV:

"Okay guys," I said, "We'll each answer one of the questions written down a day based on the houses and then any questions afterwards. For example, we'll each read the Gryffindor questions to all the Gryffindors and the Hufflepuff questions to Hufflepuff, and the same goes for Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Everyone understand?"

After murmurs of agreement, we demigods began.

"Okay, I'm first," I said, "First question: What's it like being a demigod? Like we told Hermione the other day, it depends on where you are."

"You see," said Annabeth, "Everyone has a particular scent detectable only to those of the Greek world, such as pegasi, satyrs, monsters, etc. Humans and wizards aren't as appetizing to monsters as demigods are, and as such, monsters will tend to go where there is a high concentration of demigods."

"And it also depends on where you live," said Bianca, "If you live in the country, for instance, you're not likely to get monsters because there's not many people who live in the country."

"However," said Nico, "If you live in the city, like we do, then you're more likely to come across a monster because there's a higher concentration of people in the city."

"Next question," said Annabeth, "Are there other demigods?"

"Definitely," said Nico, not letting Annabeth have a chance to answer herself, "There's a camp in America where a lot of demigods train to survive. However, if you are a female, then you also have the chance of becoming a Hunter of Artemis, one of the maiden goddesses."

"Becoming a Hunter," said Bianca, "basically means that you are one of the handmaidens of Artemis, and you travel across the country hunting down monsters. Your senses are heightened and you become a great archer, as well as hunter, tracker, and everything else that comes with having to live in the outdoors, as well as immortality, except for death in battle. However, since you are the follower of a maiden goddess, you will need to swear off males for the rest of your life."

"Why would anyone do that?" a female voice asked

"For a variety of reasons," said Thalia, "Perhaps you were hurt by males at some point, or you just don't like being around guys."

"So what if you get hurt by guys," said a different female voice, "Get over it."

"Okay," said Thalia, "Tell me that once you get raped or tortured or nearly killed by a male. Then come find me, and tell me how you simply 'got over it.'"

"Okay, jeez," said the witch, "calm down. I'm sorry."

"Fine," said Thalia, "Next question: Where do you go to train? That question's been answered: a camp, or if you're a female and choose to follow Artemis, then all over America."

"Next question," said Nico, "What other powers do you have? Well, most of the powers shown at the demonstration were powers that are given to different demigods, and the powers you get depends on your godly parent. For example, Bianca and I have control over shadows and precious metals from our father, Hades. However, I control shadows better and she controls the metals better, because that's just how it worked out. We don't get to choose our powers; it comes with the package deal of our godly parent."

"Last question for today," said Bianca, "Do your parents know you're a demigod? Not all the time. Sometimes, our parents know who our godly parent is and will know from the start that we'll be demigods. However, often, our parents don't know about who our godly parent is primarily because they weren't informed."

"There are those special cases, though," said Annabeth, "where a godly parent won't tell the mortal parent of his/her true identity because doing so might cause mental or emotional harm to the mortal parent. 95% of the time, though, the mortal parent finds out sooner or later, and the demigods are sent to camp to learn how to survive with all the monsters."

"That's all for today," I said, "next time we answer questions will be tomorrow right after dinner."

With that, we left the Gryffindor common room, and made our way to the other common rooms, and answered the questions of those wizards and witches. We did this daily, and soon, it was time for us to return back to America.

"Dang," I said, "It's been a while since we've been home."

"For us, this is home, though," said Harry

"Understandable," said Nico, "You did grow up here."

"Unfortunately," said Bianca, "Our home is across the ocean, in an apartment building in the middle of one of the most bustling cities in the world."

"Well," said Ron, "hope you have good food there."

Everyone laughed, as Ron took a sip of his Paradise Mango Pepsi (Yes , it is a thing. Look it up. We need a petition on getting it back on the shelves and I have no idea how to do it, and no I haven't gotten a grip on my mango-related petitions power, so I can't just create one.)

"Where do you get these?" asked Ron, looking at his Mango Pepsi

"I'm not sure," I said, "Dad sent it to me once, saying that we need a petition to get these back on the shelves."

"Well, tell your dad thanks for letting me have one," said Ron

"He probably knows," I said, "but I'll tell him anyways."

Just then, George Weasley came by telling us he was taking us to the Portkey.

"Why isn't Kingsley taking us?" I asked

"He got appointed the Minster of Magic," said George, "That and Angelina and I are thinking about moving to America and staying there for a while."

"What?!" asked the Golden Trio, surprised

"What about the rest of us?" asked Ron

"I talked to the rest of them earlier," said George, "You were the last one I needed to tell. I wish I could have told you sooner, but me and Angelina decided last minute."

"When will you come back?" asked Ron

"When I can get over Fred's death," said George

"Well," said Harry, not wanting George to lose sight of reality, "What about the joke shop?

"I have a decoy set up there," said George, "I'm going to need to ask you to take over for a while, until I can come back. I have enough new and old material to last a few years, if need be. I have a list of what comes out when in the back. You can't miss it."

"All right," said Ron, "well, good luck then. Hope you come back soon and just as healthy as you are now."

"Yeah, well," said George, "Can't go off getting my other ear cursed off, now can I?"

"Enough of this sappy business," said Thalia, "We got a portkey to get to."

"Sorry," apologized Bianca, when we had one set of witch and three sets of wizard eyes set upon us, "She gets easily bored with sappy things."

"I don't do sappy," said Thalia, "Now let's get moving, cupcakes!"

With that, Nico, Bianca, George, Thalia, Annabeth, and I walked out of Hogwarts for the last time and ended our one and only trip to England.

A/N: By the way, I will be removing some of the A/N chapters at some point this week, so expect this chapter to be closer to the actual number it corresponds to.

~DPM