Chapter 51
Harry's Point of View
The evening passed in a series of mugs of hot chocolate, tales of school (both present from us younglings and past from James and Sirius – who had joined us shortly after lunch) and games. Wizarding chess had been a brilliant hit until Ron beat everyone. Then we moved onto monopoly – a muggle board game Lily enjoyed, which went on for several hours, leaving Fred and George (who had paired up as a team) as the winners after bankrupting all of us.
Leo and we were drowsy as we tumbled into bed at nearing midnight, but happily so, and more than willing to yield to the siren call of sleep.
Then next morning I was woken by both Leo and Charles jumping on our bed, with a sleepy but amused Ron watching on. Ginny stood awkwardly in the doorway, taking in the painted walls of out room with interest. Everyone was (in typical Christmas tradition) still in their pyjamas and sporting ruffled bed-hair.
Percy groaned as Leo threw the glass of water that we kept on our bedside table over us, providing us with a shot of energy. I didn't even bother fighting Percy as he grabbed control, grabbing both Leo and Charles' wrists and pulling them out of the room with him, running up to Lily and James' room to wake them up. I was excited, yes. But not quite that much.
Breakfast was a rowdy affair, with ten of us all wrestling for food. Lily put her foot down when food actually began being thrown at each other ("Sirius started it!") and put an end to it before any real mess could be made ("If you make a mess you can skip present opening to clear it up – without magic, mind!"). Yep. Lily was a pro at threat making.
Present giving wasn't delayed for any of us, however, and soon brightly wrapped parcels were flying thickly through the air. We received (between all our school friends) almost a new wardrobe of robes, a phone that could run on magic from Leo (and the rest of the Hephaestus cabin), "A guide to Archery for Dummies" courtesy of the Apollo Cabin, a lock-picking set from the Hermes cabin, a book on advanced potions from our godfather, and a broom-care kit from Charles. Lily and James gave us a fifty galleon gift-voucher for Flourish and Blots (correctly guessing we'd prefer to choose our own books) as well as a series of smaller presents such as new potion ingredients, a leather bracelet with five silver enchanted charms for protection, and a set of paints and brushes for our work on our room.
In return, we sent several gifts back to camp – sketches of plans copied from textbooks that the inventor never managed to complete for the Hephaestus cabin, or a warded chest filled to the brim with wizarding sweets for the Hermes cabin, and acromantula silk (the strongest material on earth) to the Apollo cabin to create bow strings out of. We had swapped for the silk with Hagrid, offering him an orphaned fae egg we'd found in the forest in return. Leo received a kit of bolts, screws, paperclips, rubber bands, tools and scrap metal along with a tonne more random objects to tinker away with. Severus was given a celestial bronze cauldron, forged by us (with Leo's help, supervised by Beckendorf over Iris Message), to experiment with the metal's effect on his potions. For Charles we had managed to purchase an all season ticket for the Chudley Cannon's matches in this year's League. James received a season ticket too, as Charles was only twelve still. Lily we gave a new recipe book we'd seen her admiring in Diagon Alley in the summer.
The rest of the day passed swiftly, without note really. Christmas dinner was a very quiet affair, with many of the Weasley's giving Severus strange looks as he sat and ate his meal next to us. Surprisingly no pranks were pulled, and we fell into bed feeling rather happy.
It was a couple of days when we found ourselves unable to sleep, and so had decided to walk around the corridors that we found a black leather bound book, lying innocently on a window seat. Percy picked it up, noting the faded gold lettering on the back reading "Tom Marvolo Riddle" before flipping through it. But the pages were blank. It rang a bell in our memory, and Percy pulled up the image of Lucius Malfoy slipping a battered black book not unlike this one into Ginny Weasley's cauldron last summer. Presumably they were in fact the one and same.
We took it to the library, picking up the bottle of ink and quill we had discarded earlier when doing our homework after lunch, and dipped the quill in the ink, hovering it over the page as we wondered whether or not it was a good idea to write in this book. A drop of ink splashed down onto the page, then disappeared, the ink apparently being absorbed into the page, but not travelling through onto the other side.
Ginny? Is that you? I'm sorry about what I said earlier.
Percy and I stared in amazement at the words that appeared in the book, written in a pretty curly hand. Percy's dyslexia didn't much like the curly style of the writing, so I read it to him.
Not Ginny, w I'm afraid. I wrote crossing out the 'w' before I could write we. Percy sniggered at my mistake, but didn't comment.
Who are you then? The diary wrote back.
Harry. I replied honestly.
Harry Potter? Twin soul with Percy Potter? Brother to the Boy-Who-Lived? The diary seemed excited now. I snorted.
No. I told you, I'm Harry. Just Harry. One soul can't be more than one person, can they? Even if I was, why would you care? If you ask me, you seem more than a little stalkerish. Maybe I should burn you…
That would not be a good idea, little Harry. My diary isn't flammable.
Your diary, huh? Does that mean you are Tom Marvolo Riddle, the boy whose name is on the back?
The diary didn't reply for a while. Yes and no. I am his memory, preserved in a diary for fifty years. Please could you give me back to Ginny? I owe her an apology. Besides, it isn't nice to steal other people's belongings.
She left you lying on a window seat. Picking you up is hardly stealing. I scoffed, and Percy sniggered again. You must have been a Gryffindor, with such high morals over stealing.
Gryffindor! Gryffindor! If one could stutter in words, Tom Riddle did so now. I'll have you know I am a Slytherin, born and breed! One could say it was even in my blood…
'Harry! Harry! Harry!' Percy grinned. 'He's got to be the heir of Slytherin! He said it was in his blood!'
'Like being Slytherin is in Draco's perhaps. Every Malfoy since the dawn of their house was a Slytherin – with the few Ravenclaw exceptions – so he could have been a bastard of some ancient line. Or similar to Snape – if he mother defected from her family rules and fell in love with a muggle.' I reasoned. 'Besides, if he is, as he said, a memory preserved in a diary, then how would he be terrorising the school? It just doesn't add up!'
'He could be possessing someone, like Voldemort with Quirrel last year.' Percy pointed out.
I shook our head. 'But he's a memory. Thus he can't have a soul to possess someone with.'
Still there Harry?
No. I retorted sarcastically. I've gone to Spain.
Touchy. Tom wrote in his fancy writing. Percy and I burst out laughing.
Writing sarcasm doesn't have the same effect. Especially when it's all to do with how you put stress on the word. Anyway. I'm now pondering whether physically ripping apart your bindings would work.
Absolutely not! Must you insult me so? Just give me back to Ginny. At least she's polite!
At least? Got other problems with our dear Ginny, do you?
That is none of your business, even if I did, which I don't. Now, please. I'm asking politely now. Give me back to Ginny!
Fine. We sighed. In the morning. She'll find you right where she left you. How's that, your lordship?
Perfect actually.
'Smug git!' Percy huffed. 'Leave it be, Harry, I'm getting tired.'
'Same here, actually. Draco and Blaise are coming over tomorrow, and Draco said Blaise is bringing that awful cat of his. Felix indeed!'
Percy groaned. 'I hate that beast. Can't we get rid of it?'
'No!' I exclaimed. 'Percy, that's rude, besides, Blaise is besotted with the creature. And he's our friend. If Blaise wants a cat, and we still want to hang around him, then sod the cat, I for one value friendship better.'
'Hump!' Percy yawned, ruining his moody pout. 'Bed?'
'Bed.' I agreed, forcing our tired limbs into action and dragging us to our room and into bed.
Tomorrow we would worry about cats named Felix and diaries named Tom Riddle. For now, sleep was needed. A long, restful sleep…
First of all I am so sorry for the pitifully short chapter. I have a summer school at University College London learning Ancient Greek at the moment, and it is surprisingly tiring sitting on a train for an hour in and an hour out of central London and spending four hours learning one subject. Anyway, I wanted to get this up now because I'm on camp this weekend and Zeus only knows when I'll next be able to update. But there will be more! I promise.
The Khajiit Ra'Koor: Thank you for clearing that up for me, i was just a little upset that you were going to skip such a major part of the story that i did not check the chapter more thoughly. however now that i have seen the new voldie scene that you made i cannot stop thinking of a sort of mini scene where percy gets distracted due to his adhd and starts taunting voldimort by singing his name over and over :D.
i can't wait untill your next update, so please update soon.
That sounds funny :) I might actually write a one-shot if I get the time :D
TMNTLeoiswesome: Hello! This story is going quite well! I am glad to see that you are not leaving it on cliffhangers for a long amount of time! Anyway, will Percy and Harry get any idea that Ginny is involved when they see her? Or will they learn later? I think it would be cool if Percy and Harry open the chamber for Charles and Ron and Lockhart. Then they go and save Ginny!
(I know. Not my story! Just an idea!)
Thanks and good work!
~TMNTLIA
Soon! They will learn soon, I promise. Just a couple more talks with a certain diary they recently met... :D
Matt: How about you have Harry/Percy hear Ron talking about how Ginny is acting weird in the next chapter?
Not quite, but kind of close
Emi Nicole Jackson12: Because of the different personalities and stuff, and assuming that annabeth and Percy are still going to get together when percy/harry turns sixteen and stuff, around what time will there be romance development between harry and Luna and can you pin point whether or not they could be together before or after annabeth and Percy. I know you said something about it in another chapter but I can't recall which it was. Also this chapter was really good.
I don't think I have talked about that before. Um... I don't really know, I don't plan really. Sorry :/ They'd probably get together at a similar time, however, as Percy and Annabeth flirting would be similar to Luna and Harry flirting, if that makes sense?
4everfictional: Wonderful chapter, and the scene was in chapter two (chapter three if you include the prologue) right before the line break where they go to Ollivander's and Lily is like "Happy Birthday boys!" :)
Thank you! I've actually manage to find out what's going on now :) I posted that on here, but didn't have it written in my word document, hence why it didn't come up when I was searching my document. I will remedy this at some point, probably taking the scene out chapter 2 :)
Eve: Hi just wondering what will happen to Harry/Percy's friendship with Draco after the goblet of fire or are you just going to make Ron "see" him, but Draco not really being there.
And will Draco really be a bad guy at the end or will you make someone else
I love Draco! I haven't yet decided who will be picked by the Goblet, but I don't really see Draco - the boy who had everything - being particularly annoyed though. It's probably just some event thingy that he would enjoy watching, but not necessarily taking part it.
Percy'sgirlfriend: Brilliant
But I was wondering: will you put the adventure when Percy Harry Luna and annabeth go to save Grover secretly?
In other words "the c of monsters "?
Yes! That is a major plotline right there :D
Talia-Elizabeth:
Although I don't think selersting Harry and Percy in this story is a good idea I'd LOVE to see how they might struggle. It'd make me insanely happy if you could maybe possibly to a short couple(2-10) chapter side story about Percy getting his own body and the two adjusting to such a life. And people's reactions to them being separate entities.
Please please please.
I know it's a bit to ask but now I'm so curious. Pretty please! I saw the idea of them being separated in your review response and I have got to see that!
If/when I have time I will try. May be a few weeks though...
Lyrolulu592: So I will start off by saying I LOVE this story! Be that as it may I still have a few questions. I am kind of confused on the twin souls thing, in earlier chapters you have written harry in main control, but it would be in Percy's POV and have Percy looking at things around the room. How could Percy be moving the eyes to look at stuff and Harry still be paying attention to other things?
Also I personally think Leo should stay just a demigod at camp. I really like Leo and Beckendorf's brother relationship and would appreciate it if it had a bigger part of the story.
I would like to add regarding the question of adding Sally and Paul into the story that it would be cool to have them as house elves in the potter mannor, perhaps as prominent figures in Harry and Percy's formitive years (You did mention the elves having a part in raising them) as being one of the first people besides Charles to recognize them as two instead of one. I believe they could work into the plot like that because that way they would mean a lot to Percy personally and have a minor roll in your brilliant story. I would also like to add that at least Sally if not Paul should make an apearence in this because they mean so much to the canon Percy.
Well those are just my thoughts and I hope you give them some regard though I'm sure whatever you write would be absolutely magnificent and completely worth reading as this entire fan fiction has been if you don't. Thank you very much for this story. (I read it in a day) and please do keep writing, its dreadful when authors abandon a wonderful story. Cheers- Lyro
Harry is the one looking round the room, but Percy is noticing different things, or focusing on things more closely than Harry, because he's not in control, if that makes sense. Furthermore, Leo will stay as a demigod, but he is invited to the Potter's for some holidays, because he is a good friend of Harry and Percy. I will try to write more of Leo and Beckendorf's sibling-relationship too :) I'll have to see about Sally and Paul. It is a very good idea though :D So thank you for your ideas :)
Fangirl212: Annabeth and percy arent the same age annabeth is a year older cause she ran away and was taken to camp half blood when she was eight and she met percy five years later when she was thirteen and Percy was twelve
Annabeth arrived at camp when she was seven. Her birthday is in June (I think of the top of my head) So yes she probably was thirteen when Percy arrived at camp in the books, but she would only have been so for a few months, if that makes sense.
Ok! Sorry again for the short update. I am trying! Writers block and little time and many distractions are a bad mix :( But I promise I won't abandon this! I will strive to keep it up :)
Until next time (Hopefully next week sometimes, all things willing)
Smartiepants :)
