Third-Person PoV:
Piper clutched onto Jason's arm as they trailed after some of the Gryffindor's that were in their room. The Gryffindor's and the Ravenclaw's had Charms together that morning, a double period, not what Piper would've liked first thing in the morning but when learning Charms it didn't sound like it would be a bad lesson. Besides, Jason had said that Professor Flitwick was a fun person so she guessed that his lessons would be just as fun.
"You better not pull any pranks in Charms Connor." Thalia eyed the son of Hermes who smiled back at her innocently.
"I would never try to stain the image of our family Thalia. I can't believe that you have such little faith in me, after all these years." He leaned onto Clovis's shoulder who nearly toppled over if it hadn't been for Frank standing next to him who steadied his movement. Thalia scowled at him with her arms folded.
"I might need to remind you that I was absent for six years as a tree." Connor snorted while Frank did a double-take at her statement before he could ask Hermione materialized from behind them.
"Excuse me, I didn't mean to overhear-" Connor held in another snort while Thalia muttered a 'Yeah right' underneath her breath, Harry glared at her but quickly stopped when she met him with one of her own, Hermione continued like nothing happened "but you said that you were a tree for six years. How is that possible?" Thalia winced and bit her lip. Connor smirked at her and opened his mouth to respond to Hermione's question.
"Connor." Thalia's eyes seemed to flash with lightning, thunder boomed outside taking Ron jump in surprise and bump into a Slytherin student in the hallway, the boy sneered at him and walked away. Connor's smile dropped and he nodded his head in understanding.
Thalia turned back to look at Hermione, a hard look in her eyes. "I would greatly appreciate it if you could continue to not mean to overhear, I do believe that it's incredibly rude to eavesdrop on others' conversations wouldn't you agree?"
"S-sorry, I just-" Thalia held up a hand to stop her stuttered apology.
"I shall not be telling you how or why I was a tree for six years, if I find out that any of you attempt to dig into the case there will be consequences." Her eyes flashed again, lightning seemed to dance dangerously in her irises, she huffed and stalked into the Charms classroom, taking a seat next to Cedella. The rest of the demigods followed her, giving small nods to the trio who stared after Thalia.
"So I guess that's the end of that then?" Ron cocked an eyebrow at Hermione, who seemed to have come back to her senses and whirled around to fix Ron with her stare.
"Of course not! We'll just have to be careful. I don't want to find out what sort of consequences there would be." They all shivered at the thought and walked into the classroom, they took three seats the row in front of where the demigods were sitting, hoping to catch anything that might prove to be significant in their 'investigation' of them.
"What's got you storming mad?" Cedella asked Thalia.
"I hate it when people start digging about in stuff of my...past."
"I understand, who doesn't hate nosy people?" Harry could practically feel her smirking at them from the back of his head.
"So is Professor Flitwick a good teacher?" Frank steered away from the previous conversation.
"One of the best in my opinion. Well, I think most students would agree too, his teaching methods don't put you asleep like Professor Binns does, it's quite fun and he has a great sense of humour. I'd say he has the perfect balance between being fun and strict. So it shouldn't be too much trouble for you all to listen to."
"Thank the Gods, having five ADHD teens in one room is a nightmare." Connor sighed in relief.
"Thank goodness I'm not ADHD." They all laughed at Frank's comment, from his peripheral vision Hary saw Clovis head plant onto the pillow, letting out a series of small snores. Just then Professor Flitwick walked into the classroom and waved his wand at the door shutting it behind him, the chatter died down and the small Professor hopped up onto his stack of books.
"Welcome back, as many of you know this is your O.W.L year, the second most important examinations that you will take in your life. What you must remember, is that these examinations may influence your futures for many years to come! If you have not already given serious thought to your careers, now is the time to do so. And in the meantime, I'm afraid, we shall be working harder than ever to ensure that you all do yourselves justice!" His squeaky voice seemed to be overcome with excitement.
"Before we get learn any new spells I believe we should spend this lesson as a revision lesson going over the Charms and Jinxes that we've learned in previous years. I do hope that you spent some of your summer revising." Professor Flitwick winked at the class, turning around to use his wand to write some notes in chalk onto the board. Some of the Gryffindor's let out quiet groans while the Ravenclaw's seemed quite content.
"Thank goodness Lady Hecate made us go over the British Curriculum." Harry heard Jason mumble.
"Let's start off with the Banishing Charm. Who can tell me the incantation for the charm and the intent of it?" Hermione and a few others raised their hands rapidly.
"Miss McLean, give us your answer." Professor Flitwick pointed at Piper, she sat up straighter and her smile widened.
"The Banishing Charm is used to send objects or people away from the person who is casting the spell and the incantation is Depulso, Latin for to push away."
"Well explained Miss McLean, five points to Gryffindor, take an extra five for that translation into English." The Professor grinned at the daughter of Aphrodite who gave a side smirk to her boyfriend that gave her a thumbs up.
"Now can anyone remember the wand movement for this charm?" Hermione's hand shot up again, she stretched her hand up, she was practically off of her seat trying to get the Professor to notice her.
"Miss Patil." Flitwick pointed at Padma.
"You sweep your wand away from you Professor."
Professor Flitwick nodded his head in agreement, a large grin spanned across his face. "Correct, take five points for Ravenclaw." Her fellow Raven's gave her small smiles. The half-goblin clapped his hands together and looked around the class. "Well it seems like we all looked over our spells this summer, let's crack on and practice it now shall we?" He pointed his wand at them and a ball appeared in front of each student. The scrape of wooden benches on stone echoes around the room as the Fifth Year Gryffindor's and Ravenclaw's stood up to practice the spell.
"Want to partner up Cedella?" Thalia asked the girl sitting next to her.
She gave her a shy smile and nodded, "I would be delighted." Jason and Connor partnered up and Piper went with Frank, Clovis was still asleep on the table and it didn't look like anyone else needed a partner, either him, Ron or Hermione had to practice with him and with the amount of time that the guy spent sleeping Harry had doubts of him even being able to be sorted into Ravenclaw.
"Ron wanna partner up?" He quickly spoke up before Ron could ask Hermione. Ron was halfway turned to Hermione and open and closed his mouth, he sent Hermione a sheepish look.
"Sorry 'Mione, guess you'll have to find someone else to partner with." The tips of his ears reddened. Hermione frowned slightly but nodded her head in understanding, she glanced around the room, she too then noticed that Clovis was without a partner a small look of distance crosses her face.
"He's been sleeping before the lesson even began! How am I supposed to work with someone who doesn't even know what we're meant to do?" She hissed under her breath and started making her way to the son of Hypnos, she raised her hand and reached out to touch his shoulders and gave him a rough shake. Clovis blearily sat up and blinked owlishly at Hermione.
"Wah?"
"We're meant to be revising the Banishing Charm, not sleeping in class." She crossed her arms and glared down at him. Clovis sat up straighter and pulled his wand out from his pillow and scowled at her.
"I can't help falling asleep, my magic tends to center around dreams so I'm tired a lot." He lazily flicked his wand at the ball and pointed it at Hermione, a white light flashed at the tip of the wand and the ball zipped right past her head to the wall behind her, the bushy-haired girl gasped and whirled around staring at where the ball had gone. "Is that good enough for you?"
The Gryffindor blushed and ducked her head. "Sorry." She muttered and walked back over to her two friends.
"Excellent demonstration of a non-verbal spell Clovis, five points to Ravenclaw!" Professor Flitwick squeaked from the front of the classroom.
Clovis stretched his arms and rubbed at his face, he opened his mouth and yawned wide enough to swallow a cow, all of a sudden everyone else in the room felt a bit sleepy and yawned too. "May I go back to sleep Professor?" He rubbed at his eyes and fluffed his pillow.
"S-sure, you seem to be fine with your Charms." The half-goblin struggled out a yawn as he responded. Clovis wasted no time and snuggled back into his pillow, his fellow demigods chuckled at him, Frank took off her cloak and used it as a blanket to cover him.
"Bloody hell Hermione! Did he just out-do you?!" Ron said in a loud voice, a sharp draw of breath sounded behind them and they whipped around to see Thalia with a vice grip on Cedella's arm, her wand limp in her hand and her lips trembling her eyes far away. She quickly caught the attention of the rest of the class and the Professor.
"Thalia?" Jason's voice asked, his voice quiet as he cautiously stepped towards her. Cedella turned to look at Ron, her face grim as if she knew what was coming.
"B-blood. So much of it. They're dead." Her body quivered. Her head languidly shook from side to side. Her grip on the Gryffindor's arms was so tight that small droplets of blood blossomed from the small punctures of her nails, the girl didn't flinch but locked eyes with Professor Flitwick who gave a subtle nod and turned to the class.
"I would like everyone to leave the room." Some of the students nervously packed away their belongings and edged towards the door, some still stood in confusion staring at the frightened punk girl.
"Who's dead?" Someone muttered, it was obviously meant to be asked to their friends but the classroom was so quiet that everyone could hear it.
Thalia let out a wail and scratched her nails down the side of her face, she fell down to her knees. Electric blue eyes gazed at something that wasn't there. "It's my fault! It's my fault! I should have never lead you into that battle! You're all dead and it's my fault!" She let out a heart-wrenching sob and curled up onto the ground, her bawling increased in volume and she thrashed about on the ground.
"Out now!" Flitwick's voice didn't go above a shout but it was loud enough. The Ravenclaw's and Gryffindor's scrambled to get out of the room, just as they exited the classroom Harry turned to catch one last glimpse of Thalia.
"Thalia, you're not there anymore. Please." Jason rubbed a hand on Thalia's back, she was sprawled out on her front, her pupils were constricted and her mouth wide open, her arm was outstretched and she lied down like she was trapped under something large.
"My sisters..." She trailed off and her body began to convulse. They began moving her body into the recovery position.
"Someone get Will!"
And the door shut.
Sooooo? You guys like, was gonna do some Solangelo but didn't wanna skip dw will slip in my OPT soon, probs be there in next chapter UwU, yeah like how could none of the Hunters at least be the least bit traumatized by how much Hunters they lost in the Battle of Manhattan?
Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter until next time!