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Chapter 2: The Raising of Suspicion
Nico's POV
When I woke up the train was moving again and everyone was looking down at me. "Here, eat this its chocolate." The professor said handing me a broken off piece of chocolate. I took it from his hand and tried to sit up. The world started to spin and come out of focus but I managed to sit down in my set. "You where our for a while." Hermione said, "Longer than Harry, and he's seen many disturbing things." She finished. "What was that thing?" I asked. "It was a dementor, one of the gards of Askaban." Professor Lupin explained.
"That explains it." I whispered to myself. I grabbed my book and saw that my book mark was gone. The picture of me and Bianca that I always look at to remind me of her. I started looking everywhere for it but couldn't find it. "Are you looking for this?" Hermione asked. She held up the picture with a look of triumph on her face. "Give it back!" I said in a deadly calm voice, all three of them flinched. "Not until you tell us who she is." She coaxed.
"Fine," I huffed, "that is my sister Bianca. Happy?" I admitted, "Now give it back!" I said trying to snatch it out of her hands but she pulled it away before I could get it. "She looks older then so why isn't she here?" She asked. My voice caught and I couldn't speak. "Just give it back." I said very calmly and quietly. "Come on Hermione just give it back." Ron pleaded and Harry happily agreed. "Not until I get an answer." She told them.
"Because she is..." I almost couldn't speak the word, "dead." I said it in a whisper but they obviously heard me. "I'm sorry." She said handing back the picture, "I didn't know." After she gave it back I got up to change into my robes. About thirty minutes later the train stopped and we all got off. I walked to the cairages with the other third years.
What I saw pulling the cart was just beautiful! It looked like a skeletal pegesi. I walked up to one and pet it, other people were giving me weird looks but I didn't care. I remembered them from one of my books there called Thestrals, they can only be seen by people who have seen death. I turned around to see Harry staring at them. Obviously he has seen death. I turned back around to face the beautiful creature and muttered in Greek, "everyone avoids you because you are different, well I'm just like you." I stroked his muzzle on last time and got into the carriage.
It wasn't long before other people came into the carriage seeing how it was the last one. We rode to the castle, and as we got out a sturn looking woman came up to me. "Are you Nico di Angelo?" She asked and I nodded. "Come this way with me please." I followed her away from everyone else and twords the castle.(Annabeth would totally fan girl over the architecture.) "Now," the lady began, "you will be sorted after all of the first years. Wait here until Headmaster Dumbldor calls you in." She stopped infront of large doubledoors. I stood there and she turned on her heels and left.
It took a few minutes before Inheard a loud voice booming, "This year we are very lucky to have a new student joining us from America, he will be joining the third year students and please make him feel welcome!" He finished and the large double doors opened, I walked forward and stopped right I front of the stage like thing. I noticed the ghosts in the room were bowing to me as I walked. My dad told me not to send them to the underworld so I sent them a telepathic message to not to blow my cover.
"di Angelo, Nico." The woman from earlier called out. I walked up to the stool and sat down. The woman placed a ratty old hat on my head, but what startled me the most was when I heard the voice in my head. Oh, I haven't seen one of your kind in years! It spoke, A son of Hades no less. Let's see you aren't very intelligent or loyal except for you close friends. You are pretty cunning... Oh but you are still hiding your most painful memories! I got a little nervous because I would have to give up my memories.
You want my memories? Fine! It started screaming out loud. "This boy has seen so much blood and! Seen so many things! More than the Boy-who-lived ever will!" The hat was pulled off of my head and in a last breath said, "Gryffindor, no one can survive that without going insane." There was no clapping for me like the first year students. I got up from the stool and walked to the far end of the table I sat down in the corner trying not to meet anyone's eyes. I didn't eat even when the food magically appeared.
The Gryffindor prefex lead the first years to their dormitories and I followed the other third years to ours. I found my stuff on a bed and sat down on it. I grabbed my pictures from the front pocket of the black bag. I laid back on the pillow and sifted through them. My favorite was the one of Hazel and I sitting on Half-Blood Hill. I sat there looking at it a little while.
Harry's POV
After Nico was declared a Gryffindor Hermione, Ron, and I started talking. "Okay..." Ron trailed off. "We definitely have to keep an eye on him." Hermione finished. The twins leaned over to hear what we were talking about when the heard what Hermione said. "We are so in!" They said in unison. We nodded because we would definitely need their sneaking abilities.
After dinner we headed up to the third year dormitory. We walked in and started unpacking our stuff. I notice Nico looking through some pictures. After a few minutes he put the pictures in his bedside table drawer. He grabbed some black flannels, a black t-shirt, and a toothbrush and headed to the bathroom.
He came back a few minutes later and crawled into his bed. The rest of the boys followed his example but I couldn't fall asleep. I was still wide awake when I noticed the shadows seeping into Nico's body like they where under his control. I few hours later I was finally able to fall asleep.
The next morning when I woke up, I woke Ron up and told him I needed to talk to him. I did the same with Hermione. After that I went down to the great hall. I waited there for them until they showed up. "Last night," I began excavating and they immediately took interest in what I was saying, "when Nico was sleeping the shadows were being drawn
to him, like he could control them." When I finished Ron's eyes widened, "That settles it then," Ron started, "he is definitely a death eater." "Let's not jump to conclusions we should find out more about him before we condemn him a death eater." Hermione reasoned.
I nodded signaling I agreed with her. We went on to our lessons about twenty minutes later. Our first one was potions with Professor Snape in the dungeons. We started walking that way and I noticed that Nico had potions with us. He sat in the back closest to the for left corner.
Snape said our assignment was to make the Confusing Concoction. He wrote the ingredients and intructions on the board. Everyone was doing it properly even Neville and he's always nerves in potions class. The only one who seemed to be having trouble was Nico. He was squinting at the board, it looked like he was trying to read it.
Professor Snape loomed over him and asked, "Mr. di Angelo, tell me can you read?" "Not really." He admitted and everyone gasped, "I have dyslexia and I guess you could say English is my third language which makes it even harder." He informed everyone. After that little episode the class was dismissed.
We made our way to Care for Magical Creatures, which was going to be taught by Hagrid this year!
Nico's POV
When I woke up the next morning I was sitting on the edge of my bed thinking about the dream I had had. I got up and changed into the school uniform. I wasn't hungry so I skipped breakfast and just sifted through the pictures I brought with me. When I came to the picture of Bianca and I , I stared at it. There was no one else there so I opened my suitcase and pulled out her hunting bow and her skull hair pin that she would wear after she found out that we were children of Hades. I sat on the edge of my bed and let some tears escape my eyes.
I stared at it a little longer, and that is when I completely broke down into a sob. My big sister who had protected me all my life was dead, chose to be reborn. I wiped away my tears and put her hunting bow and hair pin away. I walked down to the dungeons for potions class and took the set in the back left corner. It was a little hard trying to read the board with all the smoke coming from the other cauldrons and my dyslexia.
When I did the potion wrong and Snape came up to me I wasn't surprised at all. I stood up to him and then the class was dismissed. I headed to the next class Care for Magical Creatures with Hagrid. When we got out into the woods and he told us to wait there. A platinum blonde haired boy came up to Harry with two other boys behind him that reminded me of some of the Hephaestus campers.
"Hey, Potter," the boy called in a mocking tone, "Is it true you actually fainted?" The boy asked. "Shove off Malfoy." Ron said in a calm but deadly voice. "D-dementor dementor!" The boy who I guess was named Malfoy called out and everyone turned to see where he was pointing but nothing was there. Once the boy got his laugh out of making fun of Harry he spotted me in the corner rolling my eyes at his antics.
"Oh, look it's the freash meat freak!" He started, "Didn't you pass out from the Dementor too?" He asked but it was more of a statement. I glared him down but he just kept going which was a first for me. "Black, black, and black, oh and look at the skull ring, looks like we got an Elmo here boys." He called over his shoulder while walking towards me. He stopped about a foot away from me and continued his insults.
"Oh and look at his eyes," he mused, "he's been crying." Okay I admitted my glare might have wavered at his last statement. "Let me guess it has to do with your pathetic family." Okay, he shouldn't have said that! I decided to voice that thought, "You shouldn't have said that," I told him, "my family is more powerful then your family will ever be especially in death." He looked a little smug obviously he thought that his family was more powerful then mine.
"Do you really think your pathetic father is more powerful then mine?" He asks with a smirk. The ground shoke a little bite and I knew father had heard the little 'pathetic' comment. Not many people made that conment and survived and then not have gone to the fields of punishment. I glared at the ground when it stopped shaking, then back up at Malfoy. "I'm surprised," I admitted sucking on my teeth, "not many people make that comment and survive." I said spinning on my heels and walked away.
I stood in the front of the class because Zues knows why, but I usually stand in the back. When Hagrid came back he had some dead ferrets in a chain hanging around his neck and a monster I had never seen before behind him. "Today's lesson is going to be on hippogriphis." He announced, "Now, you never want to insult a hippogiph they are very proud creatures and if you do insult one it may just be the last thing you ever do." He said in a grave tone. "Now, who would like to come and say hello?" He asked.
Everyone stepped back when Hagrid turned around but I didn't notice, so when he turned back around it looked like Harry and I had both stepped forward. I looked around realizing I would have to go up to the creature. "Um, animals kind of hate me so I'm just going to step back." I said taking a step back but Malfoy pushed me forward again.
Hagrid beckond me forward so I walked forward slowly. "Now just give a bow, nice and low." He instructed so I did. It reared up on it's hindquarters so I backed away slowly. I managed to get back safely and next was Harry. He was Abel to ride it and let's just say that Malfoy got what he deserved! Oh, karma how I love you so! The rest of the day was pretty uneventful and so was the rest of the week, but it seemed like every time I entered the room Harry and his friends would stare at me as if wondering what I would do...
I know sorry I'm not that good at cliffhangers but expect at least one or two good ones and maybe a few bad ones any way if you have got any ideas for me just put it in the comment section! I'm thinking about making Luna Lovegood a demigod that Nico knows from camp. Do you think I should make her a daughter of Hecate or Athena since she is in Ravenclaw? Also put it in the comment section if you think you know which one I should make her.
