Right I'm sorry if you don't like this chapter. Again I'm sorry about Hermione being OOC but maybe she's a bit jealous and she doesn't like not to know things and they are probably the biggest mystery she's ever been presented with. Sorry if updating becomes slow but I have a few other story ideas whizzing around in my head so I might become a bit distracted. Sorry it's so short the next one is longer.
Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson or Harry Potter … Why? Why?
Chapter 4: Death Boy slips up.
Ron's POV
I couldn't believe what the new kids had done in Transfiguration. Only Hermione had been able to bind people but they were doing it without wands! They weren't saying the right incantations either but they said that it was how they had been taught.
As they went to tip some of their food in the fire Dumbledore had conjured – something I still couldn't believe – Harry and I turned to Hermione. "We asked the transfers about that Rachel girl," I said. "They just said that she was a friend, as if we didn't know that already," I snorted. Hermione groaned "You idiots," she hissed. "I meant listen on them, spy on them, see if they slip up or drop any hints. You've put them on their guard now, they won't mention her again." I was confused, she'd asked us to try and found out about Rachel so we'd tried. "Look, we made a mistake, okay, we're sorry. We'll just have to think another way of finding out about them." Harry said quickly.
"Look we'd better get back to the common room. We've got astronomy at midnight." I said. Overhearing us the Americans followed us.
Up in the Astronomy tower Professor Sinistra told us to identify the constellations and fill in the sheets. While we were struggling to see patterns in the mess of stars in the skies Percy and the others had finished and had the air not of someone bored and disinterested but of someone who already knew this and wanted to be taught something they didn't know.
When Professor Sinistra had finished they turned to each other and started talking amongst themselves. I nudged Harry and motioned to him to go over and listen in. as we drew closer I could see they looked sad. Their eyes had the sadness I had seen in Harry's after Diggory had died. I heard Annabeth saying "Zoe… poor Zoe…" Percy put his arm around her and said "I know…" suddenly looked around and switched to the weird language again. But he couldn't have seen me and Harr, tucked away in the shadows. We quickly hurried back to our place before professor Sinistra noticed we had moved. When, on the way down, we managed to whisper to Hermione what we had overheard she just groaned. "We keep getting more and more questions to answer!" I had to say I agreed with her.
Nico's POV
Annabeth had been upset by Astronomy as it had reminded her of Zoe; we all thought it was boring we already knew all the constellations. She hadn't even known her that well but she had been impressed by the fact that she had gone on the quest knowing she was one of those her were going to die, added to that she had been one of the first people to die in the war. Percy had been comforting her when the shadows told me of Ron and Harry hiding. I passed the message to Percy who looked around and spotted them. He nodded to me as he switched to ancient Greek before they heard anything important. It was a close shave but, I reasoned, it wasn't that big a slip up.
On the way down I met a ghost. Brilliant! I silently cursed myself for thinking that before wasn't a big slip up. "I am sorry Lord… Please…" I looked at him
"You had hidden from death. Ran away from the fate that every man must endure. You cling on to the life you should no longer had. For this you shall be punished." I was growing angrier by the minute; these people were flouting my Father's rule. The ghost bowed and stuttered something about making amends. "Be gone," I said, the ghost bowed looking relieved that nothing worse had happened to him. People were looking at me funny, I sighed too tired to care. Thalia, Percy and Annabeth jabbed me in the ribs. "Well done Death Boy," hissed Thalia "could you be any more obvious." I shrugged, hopefully they would all be too tired to remember this or dismiss it as a dream.
A Note: I'm not sure about how Annabeth felt about Zoe so I made it up because it isn't mentioned in the books, that I can think of anyway. But I just felt that Astronomy would bring her up and Annabeth seems the one most affected by deaths in the war because of Luke, sorry if that doesn't make sense. I also thought that Nico would get upset about Bianca when thought about the quest but I don't know… I can't think how he would react.
