"So, my name is Percy Jackson, and my favorite color is blue," his friends smiled at him while everyone else in the room looked a little confused, like how he thought liking blue was a personality trait.
"My name is Annabeth Chase, I want to be an architect," Hermione perked up at Annabeth's words
"My name is Jason Grace, um… I got this scar on my lip when I was two, I was trying to eat a stapler," Thalia smiled at Jason in a loving way, are they together?
"My name is Thalia, I have a last name but if you use it I'll slit your throat, I'm Jason's older sister and I am bound to be a maiden for eternity," Definitely not a couple, then. Everyone looked a little shocked but got distracted when Nico started talking.
"I'm Nico di Angelo and I am very old fashioned when it comes to manners,"
"I'm Will Solace, I was raised in Texas and I know how to make the best ice tea in the world," Nico laughed a little while the other members of the group nodded in agreement.
"It's true, I had dinner with them a few months ago and Will made iced tea. It was incredible, almost as good as my mom's blue cookies," Percy got some weird looks but Will looked very happy.
"Be glad he only made that, I let him cook once and the place smelt like burning for a week," Nico raised an eyebrow at Will who blushed.
"I'm Hermione Granger, Gryffindor fifth year, and I've been keeping up with the muggle school curriculum over the summers," Harry and Ron both shot her surprised looks while Ammabeth nodded.
"I'm Ron Weasley, Gryffindor fifth year, I knocked out a troll with its own club in first year," Percy laughed and smiled a little.
"I'm Harry Potter," Harry expected reactions to his name but none came so he continued, "My best subject has always been defense against the dark arts,"
"I'm Sirius Black, this is actually the house I grew up in, not that I like it," he shrugged.
"I'm Remus Lupin, I used to teach defense against the dark arts at Hogwarts in Harry's third year,"
"I'm Alastor Moody, but most people call me Mad-Eye," Percy could see why, "I've filled up most of the cells in Azkaban by catching filthy death eaters," Mad-Eye clearly wanted to intimidate the new group but they all burst out laughing.
"Who would want to eat Thanatos," Nico choked out which made their laugh double in volume.
"The guy is good looking, but not appetizing… well," Will raised his eyebrow, earning a stone-cold glare from Nico, Will just smiled.
"Bitch, you better not," Nico whispered which caused the strange group to burst out laughing again.
"I'm joking, sunshine, who's next?" Will looked around and Mrs. Weasley smiled at him.
"I'm Molly Weasley, but you can call me Mrs. Weasley, I am usually the person who cooks in this house," she sent a playful glare to the other adults in the room.
Everyone else introduced themselves and you could feel the new group becoming more relaxed in the space once they knew people's names and a little about them.
"Oh! Look at the time, you lot better get off to bed while the grown-ups have a talk," Mrs. Weasley shooed Harry, Hermione, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny up to their rooms then shut the door and placed noise-canceling spells on it.
"Damn, now we won't know what's going on with those new guys, that Nico kid didn't even look of age!" Ron exclaimed, Harry couldn't help but agree with him.
"It is strange, isn't it, they all seemed quite on edge when they first got here, not to mention all of the sexual jokes they make," Hermione blushed while Fred and George snickered.
"I think we'll get along great," they said in creepy unison but Harry still looked confused.
"What was sexual about what they were saying?" He asked and Fred's mouth hung open while George laughed.
"Everything, that whole 'get a nice drink of Sunny D?' Thing that Thalia said," Harry still looked blankly at them and soon that stare turned to horror at all the things Fred and George described.
"I think you've traumatized him," Hermione said in a monotone voice while Harry stared at the wall in complete shock.
"You knew all this?" He asked Hermione, shocked, she just shrugged.
"I read a book about it, but most of it I was able to figure out by myself," They talked on the stairs for a while longer, Harry still numb from Fred and George's words.
They all stopped when the door below them opened, revealing Will carrying a very disgruntled Nico in his arms.
"Mio amore, I love you but please put me down," Nico gave Will a pleading look but Will just smiled.
"Nope, sorry sunshine, you're too cute," Will kissed Nico on the nose but the younger boy refused to blush.
"How about I make a deal with you," Nico smirked and Will raised an eyebrow, Nico then leaned in and whispered something to Will who immediately set Nico down.
Nico gave Will a kiss on the cheek before running upstairs, "Why does that work every time," Will whispered before he noticed the small group on the stairs.
"Hey, guys, what are you doing here?" Will asked then seemed to remember that they lived here too.
"What did Nico whisper to you," Fred asked and Will blushed, looking upstairs where Nico had disappeared.
"Let's just say that Nico has an outfit that I like to see him in," Fred and George laughed while Hermione smirked a little. Ron and Harry both looked confused.
"If he's your boyfriend, shouldn't you like him in all outfits?" Ron asked and Will turned even redder.
"Of course I love him no matter what he's wearing, but-"
"It's basically sexy underwear," Hermione spoke and Ron's eyes bugged out while Harry still looked confused.
"Anyway, Nico will kill me if he knows I told you this, so I'm just gonna go upstairs and pretend this never happened," Will gave them a smile before running upstairs while Fred and George wolf-whistled. (AN: don't kill me, Nico is 16 and Will is 17, everything is fine, this is 2 years after BoO)
"I do hope they know how to cast a silencing charm," Hermione mumbled which only caused Fred and George to laugh harder.
"I've been scarred for life," Harry sat on his bed and rubbed his face and Ron patted him on the back,
"Me too, mate, me too,"
"You're both being so dramatic, it's not that big of a deal, just a way people can express love physically, and they are both of the legal age of consent, there are no real problems," Hermione sounded exasperated at the pair.
"If you two want to try any of it out, just remember to be quiet," Hermione smirked at Harry and Ron's horrified faces.
"Oh, get out of here, Mione," Ron threw a pillow at the door Hermione had just closed.
Ron and Harry didn't have much time to recover before their door burst open again, this time revealing Percy and Jason.
"Hey, we were just coming to give you guys some information about the meeting, if you're going to survive you need the facts and we are not bound to follow Dumbledore's every word," Jason grinned while Percy looked more serious.
"Look, Voldemort is trying to get something from the department of mysteries in the ministry of magic, a prophecy of some type, they couldn't tell us the contents, but we've delt with prophecies before," Percy took a breath as though reliving a memory.
"No one knows how he's going to try and get it," Jason picked up where Percy left off, "but it has crucial information that could give Voldemort more insight in how to kill you," Harry's mind began swimming with images.
Jason put a steady hand on his shoulder, for some reason this made Harry feel more grounded and kept his thoughts in check.
"So, if Voldemort got access to the prophecy, he could have a better idea on how to kill me?" Harry looked into Percy's eyes, wishing for someone to laugh and say 'nope, just kidding, there's no prophecy,' but no one spoke.
"Listen, man, we know what this feels like, we can help, that's why Dumbledore asked us to be here," Jason tried to comfort him but this just made Harry feel worse.
These people had lives, they obviously didn't want to be here, but Harry was so incompetent Dumbledore had called them in, disrupting their lives, all for Harry.
"Alright, thanks guys, you can get some rest, I'm sure traveling is tiring," Percy looked as though he didn't believe him but walked upstairs anyway.
"I would suggest not going into Nico and Will's room," Ron called after them which made them both laugh,
"Don't worry, we learned that lesson a while ago," Jason assured them before following Percy.
Both Ron and Harry changed into their pajamas before climbing into bed and turning off the lights.
"Do you think that Thalia girl was serious about being a maiden forever?" Ron asked in the dark and Harry felt like facepalming.
"I'm pretty sure she was, otherwise she wouldn't have mentioned it," Harry said exasperatedly,
"She might have been joking though," Ron mumbled and Harry decided not to respond, Ron would see himself if she was serious or not and probably get kicked by her combat boots in the process.
It wasn't long before Ron's snores filled the room and Harry also drifted off to sleep.
