The new girl, Piper, was pretty. I've got to admit that. The way her hair was braided with feathers and her eyes changed color. But I didn't like the way she charmed Sirius. Perseus claims he never knew about magic and here comes his friend, obviously cursing Sirius.

But she was pretty.

I'm pretty sure I saw her in Percy's scrapbook but I can't be sure. They seemed to be talking in codes. I still remembered exactly what they said.

"Hey Beauty Queen." Percy said. He noticed she was crying. "What's the matter?"

"Oh Kelp Head," she sobbed, "Repair Boy's returned! We've got a message. He came back with Calypso and Festus!"

"That's great!" Percy said. "How did you manage to find the time to come though?"

"Miss Metal Detector and Fai went back to help Reyna. Fai has a lot of stuff to worry about now that he's in charge. Death Breath and Sparky have to help their fathers with things... Owl Face went to Boston and McShizzle's with Calypso. They said something about a repair shop."

I didn't understand a single bit of it. When Piper and Percy went on a run, me, Ron, Hermione and Ginny went up to the girls room to talk.

"I don't like this." Said Hermione casually, "Why would Dumbledore be letting them come to stay with us? Do you think that Piper girl cursed him the way she cursed Sirius?"

"It didn't seem like a curse," argued Ginny, "Her voice just seemed powerful, sweet."

"Yes, that spawn of evil has a sweet voice, sure." Said Ron.

"I agree with Ron and Hermione. Sorry Ginny but that seems really unlikely. But you have to hear this, last night I had a weird dream..." I told them about Percy and the Annabeth girl hanging over the cliff and falling into the deep hole.

"Bloody hell." Muttered Ron after I finished.

"It can't be real." Said Hermione after a moment of silence. "It just can't be, you couldn't have looked into his memory that's for sure, and he never talked about anything like that so it can't be real. You must have just seen a picture of that girl and boy somewhere which then influenced your weird dream. That's the only explanation."

"Or maybe..." Started Ginny but she was interrupted by Fred and George apparating into the room.

"So-"

"What do you-"

"Think about-"

"The new people?"

"Sketchy, weird, mysterious, dark, evil and definitely Death Eaters." Replied Ron.

"What do you think about them? Do you think they could be death eaters?" I asked.

"Naw," said George popping a chocolate frog into his mouth, "they have too much humor to be Death Eaters."

"We talked with them and they told us all these stories about a summer camp they go to and all the pranks they've pulled on the other campers." Continued Fred.

"When did you talk with them?" Asked Ginny.

"Just now, we walked on them fighting."

"Like real, punch and kick fighting."

"They said they were training."

"They do it all the time as a safety method."

Hermione looked deep in thought as we went down for breakfast the next day. She kept shooting glances at Piper across the table.

Percy and Piper were telling a story to Fred, George and Ginny but the whole table was listening.

"While we were sailing towards Greece, we were attacked by these pirates. Their leader was this guy named something like Golden Dude. I grabbed a pipe from the railing but he disarmed me so fast I couldn't even see it. We were all captured and they started to rob us. What he didn't know was that I still had my sword. Piper and another one of my friends, Hazel, started thrashing around to distract him giving me an opening to attack. But again he moves so fast and disarms me.

"Thing is, he was crazy in the head. He claimed that he was the legendary 'Chrysaor' from Greek Mythology so I used that as an advantage. I learned a lot about Greek legends in school so I told him that our captain was Dionysus. In the myth of Chrysaor, him and his team captured the god Dionysus and tried to rob him, this ended in Dionysus turning them all into dolphins.

"Golden Dude didn't believe me that Dionysus was our captain, but his crew became nervous as I pulled out a Diet Coke from a nearby cooler. 'Behold!' I shouted at them. 'The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!' I told them that it was Dionysus driving Hazel and Piper mad, that's why they were thrashing around."

Piper then continued the story. "While Golden Dude was trying to restore order to his crew, miraculously a dolphin jumped up onto our deck. I saw it and signaled to Percy and my friend Leo who's really good with mechanics. Percy then shouted at the pirates. "Save yourselves!" He warned. "It is too late for us!"

"Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank, another friend, was hiding. "Oh, no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" When nothing happened Percy repeated, "I said, Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin." Frank finally understood what was going on.

"He stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. "Oh, no," he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter. "I am turning into a crazy dolphin.

"Earlier Leo had put a type of machine next to Frank. He pressed a button and smoke flew out and covered everything. Frank switched places with the dolphin at that time. It seemed as if the dolphin knew what we were doing. Earlier it was staring at us calmly, not at all bothered that it was on the deck of a ship, then when the smoke left it started thrashing and screeching at the attackers. I swear it winked at me!

"During the whole time, Leo had broken everyone's bounds and supplied weapons. The pirate crew ran away in terror and seeing as he was surrounded, Golden Dude ran away and jumped into the sea where he probably drowned."

"Wow," breathed Bill, "A crazy pirate that's afraid of Diet Coke. That's something alright."

"There were also the monkeys that stole our stuff." Said Piper

"The guy with the smelly feet and turtle pet." Added Percy

"The ice lady,"

"And the ninja ladies."

"We had some run ins with not so friendly werewolves, "

"And a dude with one eye that had very ugly sheep."

"The flooding room."

"And a sorceress turned me into a guinea pig."

"Too much adventures for my liking." Finished Piper, laughing. "Just give me a break. Now excuse us, Harry, when you're done come up to your room. We need to talk about this Hearing."

They left with Hermione scowling at them. I've never seen her this distrusting. She believes in giving people chances. I didn't like it either but Mrs. Weasley was looking at me.

"Coming." I mumbled through a mouthful of food.

I quickly finished my pancakes and ran up to the room I shared with Ron and Percy.

They we already in there, talking in hushed voices but when they saw me, they stopped immediately.

I raised a questioning eyebrow but they ignored me and instead Piper patted spot next to her, gesturing for me to sit down. Reluctantly I walked towards them and sat on the bed in between Piper and Percy.

"Now talk." Said Piper, "Give me all the facts, everything that happened that night."

So I told them all about the dementor attack. They listened intently and didn't interrupt. After I finished they gave each other this weird look of concern, but it vanished so quickly I didn't know if it was real.

"So, this Ministry is going to try to kick you out of school but we need to prove you innocent. I think I know what to do." She got up and started walking out the door.

"If you want to come with us-" Percy started but I cut him off. "I'll come."

True, I didn't trust them all the way but I really wanted to know what they were doing.

"Can Hermione and Ron come?"

Percy looked at Piper and she nodded, "Yes but make it quick. I want this over with."

I ran out of the room, up the stairs, and into the girls room. Ron and Hermione were talking in hushed voices.

"They might have done something to him, Hermione."

"I don't trust them but Percy has a weapon. We have to sneak in there."

"Guys I'm right here." I said, startling them.

"Bloody hell, we were worried 'bout you mate." Ron popped a chocolate frog into his mouth.

"I'm going somewhere with Piper and Percy and I was wondering if you could come with me."

"Sure Harry," said Hermione, "Of course we'll go."

"Where to?" Asked Ron with a mouthful of chocolate.

"I don't know." I said truthfully. "They just said that we're going somewhere."

Ron and Hermione exchanged looks. They obviously didn't want to go but were going to for me. "You don't have to go if you don't want to." I said.

"Don't talk rubbish Harry! Of course we're going!" Hermione stated furiously.

"Come on, I need to tell mum or else she'll kill me." Said Ron.

After telling Mrs. Weasley that we were going somewhere, we went into the living room where Percy and Piper were already waiting.

"Come on let's go outside." Said Piper, "Percy's got a friend."

Percy smiled and went out the door, whistled, and after a few awkward moments, a Pegasus swooped in.

"Wow!" Exclaimed Hermione, "I thought those were extinct."

"Ya well, in America they're pretty common. I didn't know I was a wizard but I knew I could do magic stuff when I lost control. And somehow I learned how to talk to horses."

The Pegasus whined something and Percy burst out laughing.

"What'd he say, mate?" Asked Ron.

"Oh just an inside joke. Anyway, who wants to take a ride?"