First, I would like to thank everyone for supporting this story. We just hit 3500 views! I also appreciate all the reviews. Thanks TeamZ55 - Eclipse Shine for the feedback on how to best improve this story. I will try to include the Seven more actively in the role of the plot. In my defense, the last few chapters aren't that focused on the demigods as I want to catch up to the Hogwarts plot. So thanks for the constructive criticism and I will do my best to improve. Also, about what god to aid Lord Voldemort, I like the idea presented by George Saurus, being Eris, the goddess of Chaos and strife. I'm not really sure between Ares, Nemesis or Eris. I'll be debating this. Anyways, thanks!

Chapter 14: Percy

Yesterday, Harry seemed very preoccupied. I decided that today, the rest of the demigods would confront them about their issues. I woke up in the dorm and raced off to have breakfast. I found all the demigods, who woke up earlier than me, crowded around Harry and Hermione, who were holding a Daily Prophet.

"Guys? What are you looking at?" I asked. Annabeth gestured to the paper, obviously inviting me to read it. The headline read,

MINISTRY SEEKS EDUCATIONAL REFORM

DOLORES UMBRIDGE APPOINTED

FIRST EVER HIGH INQUISITOR

"High Inquisitor?" I questioned. Annabeth impatiently gestured to the piece of paper again.

In a surprise move last night the Ministry of Magic passed new legislation giving itself an unprecedented level of control at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

"The Minister has been growing uneasy about goings-on at Hogwarts for some time," said Junior Assistant to the Minister, Percy Weasley. "He is now responding to concerns, voiced by anxious parents, who feel the school may be moving in a direction they do not approve of." This is not the first time in recent weeks that the Minister, Cornelius Fudge, has used new laws to effect improvements at the wizarding school. As recently as 30th August, Educational Decree Number Twenty-two was passed, to ensure that, in the event of the current Headmaster being unable to provide a candidate for a teaching post, the Ministry should select an appropriate person.

'"That's how Dolores Umbridge came to be appointed to the teaching staff at Hogwarts," said Weasley last night. "Dumbledore couldn't find anyone so the Minister put in Umbridge, and of course, she's been an immediate success-" '

"What?" I exclaimed. "She's been a what?"

"There's more Perce." Jason replied. I continued to read the paper.

-an immediate success, totally revolutionising the teaching of Defence Against the Dark Arts and providing the Minister with on-the-ground feedback about what's really happening at Hogwarts."

It is this last function that the Ministry has now formalised with the passing of Educational Decree Number Twenty-three, which creates the new position of Hogwarts High Inquisitor.

"This is an exciting new phase in the Minister's plan to get to grips with what some are calling the falling standards at Hogwarts," said Weasley. "The Inquisitor will have powers to inspect her fellow educators and make sure that they are coming up to scratch. Professor Umbridge has been offered this position in addition to her own teaching post and we are delighted to say that she has accepted." This new move by the ministry has received enthusiastic support from many parents.

"I feel much easier and happy sending my child to Hogwarts, now that I know that Dumbledore and his teachers, are subject to fair and objective evaluation." Said Lucius Malfoy, 41.

"Many of us have the best interests of the school at heart and we have been concerned by Dumbledore's recent decisions when it comes to the appointment of new teachers. We are very glad to know that the Ministry is keeping an eye on the current situation."

I looked up and saw all of us staring at each other in disbelief, it was Leo who broke the silence.

"So, that's how we were stuck with Umbridge! Fudge forced this, Educational Degree on her that forced her on us! Now, she's got the power to inspect other teachers. I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS! THIS IS UNNACCEPTABLE!" He shouted. Piper clamped her hand over his mouth, as he was attracting uneasy looks from other students, and some teachers by the staff table. We packed up our stuff and ran off, before the Golden Trio could follow us, for fear of being late to our first inspected lesson. However, we need not have worried, as Binns' lesson was still as boring as ever.

She wasn't even lurking in the dark corners of Snape's dungeon. I got back the moonstone essay that I turned in and I got an 'A'. I was told that this was a pass, which was encouraging at this early stage. We left the room quickly, with Hermione chattering in our ears about the grades in our OWLS. We had a quick lunch and left for the North Tower. We stepped into the heavily perfumed room and I sat with Annabeth. Apart from the fearful and eventful first lesson, Divination was extremely boring. I pulled out my dream diary, only to be poked by Annabeth.

"Ow. What did you do that for Annabeth?" I asked.

"Seaweed Brain, use your eyes." I glanced around the room and my eyes fell to a shadowy corner. In the corner, I saw the shadowy figure of Umbridge. She was inspecting our Divination lesson. It was common knowledge that some people thought Trelawny was a fake, and I was incline to believe it too, except my mind kept flashing back to the first lesson. I put the matter from my mind and decided to actually try this lesson, no matter how freaky our teacher was, I wasn't going to try get them sacked. Umbridge chose that moment to draw attention to her,

"Hem Hem!" she coughed. Trelawny, who was handing out copies of the Dream Oracle, spun around.

"Good Afternoon, Professor Trelawny. I trust that you received the note I slipped you?" She said, with a wide smile. Trelawny nodded, and continued to give out her books. Umbridge pulled out an armchair and marched to the front of the room. She plopped down on her armchair and pulled out a bright pink clipboard. Trelawny, obviously disgruntled pulled the shawls over her head and attempted her usual mystic voice.

"Class, we shall be continuing our study of prophetic dreams today. Divide into pairs and interpret the other's dreams, with the aid of, The Oracle. I pulled out the book and opened the book.

"Annabeth, say one of your dreams, we don't want to get in trouble with the toad." I said.

"I don't really remember my dreams. I haven't had a nightmare of Tartarus in absolutely ages! Let's just say I was flying on my owl." She said, beaming. I nodded and opened the oracle.

"Would that be Flying or Owl?"

"Pick any, but be quiet, I wanna hear what the toad says." I opened the book and turned to flying, it said that flying was an omen for a good breakfast. What sort of thing is that? I thought. I too stared at the conversation between Umbridge and Trelawny.

"So, how long exactly have you occupied this post?" Umbridge simpered. Trelawny crossed her arms, before replying

"Almost sixteen years."

"Quite a period." Umbridge replied, quite surprised. "It was Professor Dumbledore who appointed you? Correct?"

"Yes, that's correct." Professor Umbridge made a note on her clipboard.

"And you are the great-great-granddaughter of the well-known seer Cassandra Trelawny."

"Yes."

"However, unless I am mistaken. You are the very first seer in your family since Cassandra Trelawny."

"Er… Yes. These things often skip three generations," Professor Trelawy stuttered. Umbridge's smile grew wider and she noted another thing on the clipboard.

"Well, now that that has been cleared up. I wish for you to make a prediction." Trelawny frowned as though that were something alien.

"Yo-you wish for me to make a prediction? The Inner Sight does not see on command!" she replied, scandalized.

"I see." Umbridge noted, making another note on her clipboard.

"I—but—but… wait!" said Trelawny, attempting her usual mystical voice, but it was marred by her anger. "I think I do see something. Something very dark. Dangerous. You, are in grave peril," she said, pointing her long finger at Umbridge. Umbridge nodded and noted something on her clipboard. Umbridge later walked out, leaving Trelawny standing, her pupils dilated in anger. We walked into Defence Against the Dark Arts and saw Umbridge sitting at her desk, her toad-like face alight with happiness. We walked into the class and got seated in our normal seats. I sat right at the back, along with the demigods.

"I would like all of you to read, Chapter Two, Common Defensive Theories and their Derivation." At this, Hermione's hand darted up.

"I have already read the entire book." She chanted. Umbridge raised an eyebrow and replied, cooly

"If you have read the entire book, you should be able to tell me what Slinkard says about counter-jinxes in Chapter 15."

"He says that counter-jinxes are improperly named. He says that counter jinx is a term people use with their jinxes to make them more acceptable." Hermione then went on about some stuff and I zoned out. However, my attention was brought back when Harry stood up.

"Oh yeah, Quirrel was a brilliant teacher, the only problem was that he had Lord Voldemort attached to the back of his head." This was followed by silence and Umbridge punctured it again.

"I think that another week of detentions will do you some good Mr. Potter." Harry sat back down again. He looked fuming. I glanced about at the demigods and they were all staring at Harry in disbelief. The rest of a lesson passed in a blur. We scurried out of the classroom and I herded the rest of the demigods together.

"Does anyone know what has happened with Harry in the last few years? All I know is that his parents were killed as a kid and last year he fought Lord Voldemort, who killed his friend." Everyone shook his head, except Annabeth, who seemed to be thinking.

"I think it's time that we confront Dumbledore about this." She stared at the rest of us and Piper added her two cents,

"Guys, Dumbledore will know everything. Also, lets bring some Drachmas, we may need to IM some people." The Golden Trio turned up half way in between her sentence, unbeknownst to Piper. Hermione narrowed her eyes in her direction and we marched off to the Great Hall for Dinner. We couldn't sit together for dinner, but we arranged to meet up after dinner. Piper, who was the best with words, when she knew them convinced McGonagall to give up the password to the gargoyle outside Dumbledore's study. I had dinner quickly and we rushed to the foot of the staircase. Harry had his detention and Ron and Hermione decided to get ahead with their homework. It took a while, but once all the demigods were piled outside, Piper uttered the words,

"Fizzing Whizbees." Leo snorted and the gargoyle showed a pair of stairs, that lead up to Dumbledore's study. I knocked on the door and Dumbledore's voice echoed out.

"Enter." All of us entered, I took in a moment to survey Dumbledore's study. It was truly magnificent. He had a pet Phoenix, that completed the picture of a majestic headmaster. Dumbledore looked surprised to see us, but conjured up chairs. We all sat down.

"So. What is it you wished to talk about? Demigods." He asked. Annabeth explained how we wished to know a bit more about Harry's experiences, to know what Harry was talking about. Dumbledore chuckled and told us the story.

"Well, as you know Harry Potter's parents were murdered by the dark wizard Voldemort. He was brought up at his Aunt and Uncle's house. On his eleventh birthday, Rubeus Hagrid came and collected him. He went to Hogwarts and was sorted into the Gryffindor house. In his first year, he and his friends came to know that Hogwarts was concealing the Philosopher's Stone. Which, Voldemort intended to use to regain his body. Harry and his friends went through a series of challenges and managed to get to the room where the stone was hidden. To Harry's surprise Professor Quirrel was there, instead of Professor Snape, whom they suspected. Quirrel wanted to give the stone to his master, Voldemort and restore him to power. However, he couldn't get it. Harry managed to obtain it though, Voldemort was actually revealed to be on the back of Quirrel's head, and told him to kill Harry. However, since Harry's blood was pure and his cause was just, he didn't die, and Quirrel died by trying to touch Harry.

In his second year, attacks started happening throughout the castle, and Harry could hear a voice saying that he wished to kill. Harry discovers that he is a Parselmouth and can speak to snakes. Thus, many people believe he is the heir of Slytherin, unleashing a monster to try and kill students. However, Harry enters the Chamber of Secrets to help save Ginny Weasley, who was being manipulated by Voldemort to open the Chamber. He used Fawkes and the Sorting Hat to blind and kill the basilisk. He then destroyed the memory of Tom Riddle, and saved us again.

In his third year, Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban and was believed to be hunting Harry. As a result, Dementors are stationed around the school and Harry is affected by them. He is helped to fight the dementors by the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Lupin. Harry has multiple close calls with Black when he breaks into the castle. Ron is then kidnapped by a dog and dragged into the Whomping Willow. There he finds out the Black didn't kill his parents. Peter Pettigrew did, who happened to be disguised as Ron's rat. Peter escaped and Lupin, who was a werewolf transformed. Dementors tried to kill Sirius but Harry couldn't drive them off. Hermione used her time turner to save Sirius and Harry who managed to drive them away.

In his fourth year, Harry was put in the Triwizard Tournament. He had to face many threats, such as a dragon, retrieving something from the bottom of a lake in an hour. The final task was going through a maze with multiple threats. He managed to get to the Triwizard Cup at the centre, but Cedric Diggory got there at the same time. At the time, they were transported to a graveyard. Cedric was killed right in front of Harry. Harry's blood was used to bring back Lord Voldemort's body. They dueled but Harry managed to come back alive. That is what has happened to Harry over the last few years."

All of us were quite stunned. He seemed to get in a traumatic experience once a year. That wasn't as bad as demigods, but it was probably worse than most wizards. We needed to know more about Harry's past to connect with what is happening to him right now. We marched up to the common room and went to sleep. That night I had an extremely odd dream. I was running towards a door. I kept running. I wished for the door to open but it didn't. Just as the door was about to open I woke up.

The next few weeks were uneventful, and we spent a lot of time around the Golden Trio. Harry's detentions were finally over and we were all doing well in our studies. However, every night since I learnt about Harry's past, I kept having dreams about running towards that door. Even sometimes, I thought I saw glimpses into Harry's life. I saw him fighting off dementors. Sometimes, I even swore I saw that graveyard. Anyways, the ten of us were sitting in the library, looking up potions ingredients. We were sitting in silence, studying. Hermione broke it by asking Harry an odd question.

'I was wondering,' Hermione said suddenly, 'whether you'd thought any more about Defence Against the Dark Arts, Harry.'

'Course I have,' said Harry grumpily, 'can't forget it, can we, with that hag teaching us-'

'I meant the idea Ron and I had-' Ron cast her an alarmed, threatening kind of look. She frowned at him, '-Oh, all right, the idea I had, then-about you teaching us.' All of us exchanged confused looks. What about Harry teaching us? We didn't know anything about this. Harry spent a lot of time thinking before responding.

"Yeah. I guess I've thought about it a bit.

"And?" Hermione replied, eagerly.

"I dunno. You did listen to me saying it was all about luck, right?"

"Yes Harry, but look at all you've done. You are the only one who can produce a patronus in the year! They kept rambling on until I interrupted.

"Hmmm… Guys? Why haven't we been told about this? We need to know stuff aswell." I said, bored. They looked ashamed and repeated what they were talking about. Well, other people also wanted to think and talk about it.

"Other people?" Harry asked. "Hermione, I'm a nutter, no one will actually believe me."

"You'd be surprised. We're going to be meeting up at the next Hogsmeade weekend. We can't talk about it anywhere else as Umbridge wouldn't be pleased if she found us what we are up to." With that, they returned back to their work. The seven of us sneaked off to IM some people and discuss strategies. I IMed camp and updated Chiron on our quest. We then IMed Olympus and we tried to talk to Hecate and she wished us well, telling us some information and giving us guidance on what to do from now on. We returned to our respective common rooms at around midnight.

Harry:

I truly enjoyed being with the American Exchange Students, and I sensed Hermione was warming up to them too. However, she insisted on having that list. It was a list of all the suspicious activities that happened so far.

Hermione's List

They have all lost one parent

They all speak an old language

They have odd nicknames for each other – Seaweed Brain, Wise Girl, Beauty Queen

They all radiate power

Most of them seem to be older and more mature than fifteen

Percy, Jason seem to know some wandless magic

Percy didn't get wet from the owls.

Percy didn't get hit from the stinksap

They referred to Drachmas. Old Greek currency

They talk about IMing. Not sure what that is

Truth be told, they sometimes did act suspicious, and being able to perform wandless magic at age fifteen? They must be really powerful. I doubted they were Death Eaters, but I couldn't shake my doubts. I still really liked them, but something was off recently, and it was highlighted in Hermione's list. Anyways, teaching them Defence Against the Dark Arts would be cool. I couldn't wait for the Hogsmeade visit. I crawled up to my dorm and passed out on the bed. That night I again dreamed about the door. I again woke up. However, something suspicious happened. Percy woke up at the exact same time as me. It certainly wasn't daybreak…

Cliffhanger. Sorry guys. Anyways, I need some more feedback and I would love to hear more opinions on what god should aid Lord Voldemort. Anyways, hope you enjoy this chapter. It definitely revolves more around the demigods. Hope it was a nice change of pace. Next chapter will be Hogsmeade, so that chapter will feature Harry Potter more. But I promise to try and feature the demigods as much as possible throughout the story. Anyways, 3500 VIEWS! YEAH!

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