Disclaimer : I DO NOT own any of the Percy Jackson and Harry Potter Characters, RICK RIORDAN & J.K ROWLING does. However I DO own the character, 'Olivia Bailey'.
Chapter 4: The Return of the Dead.
PERCY
We are on our way to the Headmistress' office right now; she sent us an owl telling,
'All demigods should be in my office, before breakfast. The password is "zonkos and three broom sticks".
McGonagall''
"Good morning, demigods," McGonagall greeted us. "Please take your seat. It seems that your parents have sent you presents. But, before I hand this over to you, can I have your wands please?"
We, demigods, handed over our wands, which Chiron gave us, only to find out she took it from us, so she can break it.
"Why are we getting expelled?" asked a furious Annabeth.
"Who said you are getting expelled?" questioned McGonagall.
"Hermione said, 'they break your wand, when you are expelled,'" replied Reyna.
I, however, wasn't interested in why we were going to be expelled, but, what did the gods sent us.
"Oh, no, that is not why I broke your wands. I broke it because the gods, themselves, have made you new wands." McGonagall informed. "Leo Valdez, your wand is made of tinder, with the core being a hair of a donkey."
I guess that made sense, seeing as Hephaestus' sacred animal is a donkey.
"Piper McLean, your wand is made of the Golden Apple tree, with core being a dove's feather. Reyna Ramirez-Arellano, your wand is made of torchwood, with the core being fire of a torch… interesting. Annabeth Chase, your wand is made of olive tree, with the core being an owl's feather. Hazel Levesque, your wand is made of a mint tree, with core being feather of a Screech owl. Thalia Grace, your wand is made of Celery, with core being a wolf's hair. Nico DiAngelo, your wand is made of a tree from Asphodel, with core being a Screech owl, same as Ms. Levesque. Olivia Bailey, your wand is made of a pine tree, with the core being a Pegasus' hair. Jason Grace, your wand is made from an oak tree, with the core being a feather of the Golden Eagle. Perseus Jackson, your wand is made of seaweed, with the core being a hair of Poseidon."
What? I thought, you must be kidding! My wand actually has my dad's hair in it.
"I would also like to inform you that, these are the most powerful wands created yet," said McGonagall.
(By the way, Harry did not break the elder wand)
"Is it stronger than the Elder wand Harry has?" asked Annabeth immediately.
"No, but it has equal power as the Elder wand was created by Thanthos, God of death, himself." McGonagall replied. "You may leave now, or you will miss breakfast."
THALIA
"Zat'z brillliiant," exclaimed Ron, with food in his mouth, as soon as we told them. "Noo onne, eeven iff Voldemmorttt comes back, can beet uss now."
I knew he was definitely wrong because Chiron was very serious when he said another war is yet to come, and I felt many evil monsters stirring, including Typhon.
After having breakfast, Percy said he was going to the room of requirement to train.
"I'll come with you," said Jason "I haven't trained in nearly a week now."
"Me too," said Reyna.
"Me three," said Leo. Typical.
"I am coming too," I said.
In the end everyone (demigods) including the four wizards (Harry, Ginny, Hermione, Ron), ended up going. The Wizards just sat there and watched us train and duel each other. After couple of hours we went back outside, seeing as there is a Quidditch match today- Gryffindor v Slytherin – meaning Ron, Harry, and Ginny will be playing.
We were sitting and watching the empty Quidditch field when Lee Jordan, Fred and George's fiend, current assistant to Madam Hooch at Hogwarts, started introducing Gryffindor.
"And here comes the Gryffindors," yelled Jordan over the crowd. "Harry Potter, Katie bell, Ginny Weasley, Demelza Robins, Jimmy Peakes, Ritchie Coote"
The team walked onto the field to a tidal wave of noise, while Lee Jordan started to introduce the Slytherins.
"Draco Malfoy, Urquhart, Vaisey, Blaise Zabini, Jude Riptil" (the boy who got rude at our introduction and had to kiss the ground) "Gregory Goyle and Jonah Deamen"
HARRY
"Captains, shake hands." Madam Hooch said.
Draco and I shook hands and I was quite surprised he did not say anything rude about us, but he actually smiled. I smiled back thing he must have changed.
"Mount your brooms," said Hooch, "three…two…one…"
At the sound of her whistle, fourteen brooms took off into the air. I was immediately looking for the golden snitch.
The match was not going as good as I expected we were losing sixty to forty. The snitch was nowhere to be seen.
"Gryffindors are back in possession," yelled Lee Jordon, "Bell has the Quaffle, passes to Robins, Weasley, Robins again, Bell, Weasley. Oh wait is she gonna score? Oh that is a bad tackle. Penalty for Gryffindor."
Ginny scored the penalty and then Slytherin was back in possession. That was when I saw it. The Golden Snitch. But before Draco saw it and before I went after it, Jude hit the Bludger which went straight for Ginny and hit her head. She was falling down and no one was near enough to get to her. That was when she stopped falling down, from mid air. There were a lot of gasps.
JASON
Ginny was falling down and I couldn't just sit here and watch a girl fall from fifty feet high. I looked at Thalia; she seemed to be thinking same thing. I closed my eyes and concentrated. I used my will power and demanded the wind to catch her and when I opened my eyes, she was floating in mid air. Thalia and I took off from our seat and flew straight towards the floating Ginny. We took her hand and zoomed downwards where her broomstick lingered.
"Guys, thank you for saving my life," Ginny thanked.
"No problem," said Thalia.
"Yeah," I said, "forget it and now get back to your game."
She mounted her broom and took off, as we flew back to our seats.
(A/N: in case you're wondering, Thalia is not scared of heights anymore. Why? Long story, maybe for another time.)
As we go to our seats, the game continued. The score was ninety- ninety, when Harry and Draco started chasing the- what was it? - Golden snitch. They were closing in on it, flying side to side. They were flying very low, almost touching the ground, holding out their hands as they got closer… and closer… and one of them got it but, both fell to the ground.
Madam Hooch approached the seekers. Tension was spreading across the stadium, some excited, some worried. She made both of them get up and they both held up their hands. Malfoy caught a wing, but Harry caught the other wing.
"Students, for the first time in History, both of the teams will be awarded hundred-and-fifty points, meaning the scores are two-hundred-and-forty for Slytherin and two-hundred-and-forty for Gryffindor. This match is decided to be a draw. The league stands Ravenclaw first, with three points. Slytherin and Gryffindor second, with one point. Hufflepuff fourth, with zero point."
HARRY
"Good game, Harry," said Draco Malfoy surprising me. Wow! He really did change.
"You too," I said smiling. "I think we should start all over again like in our first year. Hi, I am Harry Potter." I introduced and held out my hand for him to shake.
"Hello, I am Malfoy, Draco Malfoy." He shook my hand.
At dinner…
LEO
"That was awesome, guys" I told Harry, Ron, Ginny and our new friend Draco.
"Thanks," came the reply from Ron, who was probably the reason for Gryffindors not losing the match as he saved the Quaffle about forty times.
"Hello students, today there will be a feast." Started McGonagall.
Lots of question raised.
"Why-"
" – is someone coming, here today? -"
"SILENCE," yelled McGonagall. "As I was about to say before being rudely interrupted, I don't know who asked the elves to make a feast today but they have. So, if you are involved in this, step forward or the punishment would be severe."
As she finished her sentence, someone, well two people apparated in front of her. I think it is called apparition when you transport magically by having your focus on a desired location in your mind, then disappear from your current location and instantly reappear at the desired location. It's teleportation, basically. Yeah! Thats right, I know stuff!
I knew stuff, but everyone just gasped. Why? I thought.
"Dumbledore and Snape," Ron was saying under his breath.
Well, that answered my question. But weren't they meant to be dead though? Now all the demigods found themselves confused. All the demigods except, Nico and Hazel.
"Hello students, I told the Elves to make the feast because I am two weeks late and missed the feast at the beginning of the school year," said Dumbledore smiling.
"But Professor, you died," said McGonagall, " didn't you?"
"What do you mean dead? It is true that when I woke up, I was in a grave but no, I did not die." Replied Dumbledore. "When I looked for my wand, the elder wand, it wasn't there. I tried to break the grave bit I was helped by Severus as he blasted it open for me. Anyway the wand wasn't mine after all, when I died."
"The wand, as you said was not yours when you died," said McGonagall. "It was Draco's when he disarmed you at the Astronomy tower. But, Harry disarmed Draco at the Malfoy Manor. So, it lies with Harry now as his previous wand has been broken."
"Very well, I bought a new wand anyway."
That was when Nico interrupted.
NICO
"You did die," I said over the silent crowd, interrupting Dumbledore.
Hazel and I then walked over to him.
"Yeah," Hazel reassured, "you did die,"
"What do you mean we died," questioned Snape.
"You came back from the dead," replied Hazel.
"How do you know?" asked Dumbledore.
"We are children of the God of the Underworld," said Hazel.
"Did you died during April or June?" I asked.
They nodded.
"Well, that explains it. You died during the Giant War. You died when Thanthos was kidnapped," I explained, "Thanthos is the God of Dead. When he was kidnapped, some people did not die, even though they were meant to be. So, after he was rescued by Percy, Frank and Hazel, he took back the souls from the people that were meant to b dead. But, he did not take the souls of people, he thought deserved to live and not die. You two were probably really good Wizards and that's why you are still alive after coming back from the dead."
"Yeah," said Hazel, "you two are like me because I am meant to be dead too."
"Okay, now that's sorted. I would like to say I resign my job as the headmistress and give my post to professor Dumbledore. I therefore will be the head of Gryffindor again," said McGonagall, heading back to her old seat.
Dumbledore, the old and new headmaster of Hogwarts, finished his speech, "Let the feast…begin."
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