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Chapter 4: A Strange Encounter
Harry's POV
We were sitting around the table eating our dinner and like usual Hermione was scolding Ron for eating so sloppily. Nico came into the great hall about thirty minutes later and sat down at the table. He grabbed a single piece of fruit out of the bowl and sat down. "Did you see that, he only took one piece of fruit and nothing else." We all turned our heads to see what he would do. "It could just mean he isn't hungry." Hermione reasoned. "Yeah, but he didn't eat breakfast or lunch." Ron reminded her, "I could never go a whole day without eating." He said in a solemn voice.
"Ron you couldn't go an hour without eating!" I said in a joking tone. "I think we should follow him." Hermione blurted staring at nothing in particular. "What?" I asked bewildered that she of all people would follow someone without a completely valid reason. "I think we should follow him." She repeated looking strait at me.
He got up from the table and started walking. We waited a few seconds before getting up and following him. We walked until we reached a corner and the rubber sole of Ron's sneaker skeaked against the granite floor. We hid behind the corner but Nico already turned around. He put his hands on his hips and glared at us. "Why are you following me?" He asked. "We weren't following you." Ron tried but his face gave us away.
"You are a terrible liar Ronald Weasley." He said crossing his arms over his chest. "Come on, out with it." He tried again. "We just wanted to know what you were doing." Hermione said trying not to give to much away. "Mmmhmm," he said sucking on his teeth, "I'm just going to bed." He turned on his heels and kept walking.
We all let out a sigh of relief as we leaned on the wall. "That was close." I said. "Way to close." Ron added. "Way, way to close." Hermione finished and we all let out dry humorless laughs. We just stood there in silence until it was definitely time to head back to the tower. We walked there together pondering what had just happened.
Ron and I walked up to the boy's dormitory and Hermione walked up to the girl's. Nico and the other boys were already asleep so Ron and I got ready and went to bed to. I feel asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. Thank God it was a dreamless sleep.
My peaceful sleep was disturbed when I was woken up by a sound like someone was choking. Everyone was woken up by the sound except Nico so we all knew it was coming from him. He was kicking his legs like he was trying to be heard but couldn't. He looked like he was having a really bad dream.
"Should we wake him up?" Seamus asked. "No," Dean informed, "that could be dangerous."
"But we can't just leave him to the mercy of his dreams." Neville said with a worried look on his face. "I'm afraid we have to." I admitted. We all settled back in our beds and tried to fall back asleep.
The next morning we all woke up before Nico. We were rushing around trying to get ready when Nico started to stir. We all stared at him as he lifted his head off of the pillow and sat up. "Why are you all staring at me?" He asked a little annoyed. After a long silence Seamus spoke up, "You were crying in your sleep."
We all went back to getting ready and left the dormitory. Ron and I walked to breakfast and saw Hermione already sitting there. "Hey guys." She said with a smile on her face. "We need to tell you something" Ron said. "Last night Nico was having a really bad dream, he was kicking and crying in his sleep." I informed her.
"He wouldn't talk about so we assumed it was really bad." Ron finished. She was pondering this and looked like she was having a mental argument. "We definitely need to keep an eye him." She decided and Ron and I nodded in agreement.
The rest of the day wasn't really interesting except for History of Magic. Ever since Nico got here the ghost has been a lot more jittery. Everything was great the rest of the day except for DADA with Professor Lupin. That was pretty eventful...
Nico's POV
When I entered the classroom I was a little confused because all of the desks were pushed over to one side. The professor told us all to stand in the middle of the room in front of a wardrobe.
"Now," the professor began, "does anyone have a guess to what is in there?" He asked and there was a loud crash that came from the large, dark, wardrobe. "That's a boggart." Dean spoke up.
"Very good, now does anyone know what a boggart looks like?" He asked. "No one knows," Hermione informed, but when did she get here? "Boggarts are shape shifters. They change into the form of what ever the particular person fears the most."
"Good, good, now there is a simple charm to repeal a boggart, listen to me closely Ridikulos."
"Ridikulos." The class repeated. "Veary good, but the charm alone isn't enough what really finishes a boggart off is laughter." He informed us. He looked over us like he was looking for someone, "Neville!" He sounded quite enthusiastic.
"Yes?" He said stuttering like usual. "What terrifies you the most?" The Professor asked. "..." he said it so quietly I couldn't hear.
"Sorry?" He asked. "Professor Snape." He said in a much louder, clearer voice as all the boys snickered. "Professor Snape," the professor chuckled, "he frightenes all." He finished in a much more series voice. "Now I believe you live with your grandmother yes?" He asked
"Y-yes but I don't want that boggart to turn into her either!" He stuttered and everyone burst out laughing until the professor calmed us all down. "Now here's what I want you to do." He started then leaned in and whispered into Neville's ear.
"Wand at the ready." Professor Lupin advised, "One, two, three." And he opened the wardrobe from a far with his wand. Professor Snape stepped out of the darkest corner of the wardrobe. It took Neville to the count of three till he raised his wand and did the enchantment, "Ridikulas!" The Professor stood their in Neville's grandmother's clothes!
Everyone burst out laughing! "Now everyone form a line and think of something funny." He put the needle down on the record and music started playing.
Everyone rushed to get in the line and everyone was so squished together the line was wobbling from side to side. When the line finally settled down the boggart started to change. Standing there infront of Ron was a giant black widow spider. He was shaking from head to toe as he pulled out his wand.
"Ridikulus!" He chanted. The spider was trying to stand up on roller skates and some of the kids were rolling on the floor clutching their sides. He got out of the line and went to the back of the classroom.
A severed hand, a banche, and two snakes later it was Harry's turn. The boggart started to shift before it was in the form of a dementor. "No!" The professor yelled as he jumped infront of him.
It changed into a cloud covered full moon. "Ridikolus!" He chanted and it turned into a popped balloon and drifted around the room until it came infront of me. It stopped where it was and started to shift.
It felt like fifty butterflies had just come to life inside my stomach, they were twisting and turning my insides like milk in a butter churn. I was terrified that my worst fears were about to be shown infront of the whole class. I couldn't stand my fears I've been trying for years to lock them away, but now they were put up for show for everyone to see.
It kept shifting until standing there was a black haired, black eyed man draped in a black toga, and deathly pale skin. My father Hades god of the Underworld was standing right there infront of me.
"Nico di Angelo," he boomed, "you are a disgrace." He continued with an evil sneer. "What?" I said in my smallest most frail voice. "I wish you had died not your sister, she would not have been such a disappointment." My eyes turned glassy with tears as my father said these words, as he started to shift into a young girl with long black braided hair, olive toned skin, a silver parka and a bow and quiver sling over her back, with a freckle splashed face, and skull hair pin clipping her bangs back.
"B-Bianca?" I asked the tears threatening to spill. "I hate you Nico di Angelo!" She screamed, "I hate you! I'm actually kind of glade that I died, that I chose rebirth." She admitted with a smug look on her freckle splashed face, "Because that was the only way I wouldn't have to remember you, and I could truly escape you. You were the worst little brother ever." She said the last sentence in a small voice and started to shift again as I sunk to my knees.
When the boggart was done shifting standing there was a younger girl with mocha skin, cinnamon toast colored hair, hazel almost golden eyes, a Roman helmet tucked under her arm, a purple Camp Jupiter T-shirt and jeans, and an Imperial gold cavalry sword attached to her belt.
"Hazel?" I asked looking into her golden eyes. "Yeah," She said in an un-Hazel-like way, "and I wish I had never convinced the others to come and save you from that bronze jar, I wish I just let you run out of those death trance seeds." I knew this was my fear because this was definitely not the Hazel I know and love.
"Maybe if we hadn't have stopped to save you Percy and Annabeth wouldn't have fallen into the eternal abyss. You just stood there and what he's as they fell, we couldn't have lost precious time when you told Percy you hadn't met before. Don't get me wrong I'm completely great full you brought me back from father's domain but that's the only thing I'm greatful for that you did."
I didn't stop the tears from falling but I still didn't burst out sobbing. It started shifting again until standing infront of me was a seventeen year old boy with raven black messy hair, sea green eyes, an orange Camp Half-Blood T-shirt and jeans. "Percy?" I asked in the smallest voice I had ever spoken in.
"Hey," He said in a dark tone, "I just wanted you to know Nico that I am absolutely disgusted by you." I thought I was going to break out sobbing at those words. "By your feelings, by your parentage, by your secrecy. I mean I could see why you were so embarrassed," said in a sing song voice, "your little crush on me, I mean come on cousin just say it out loud one more time for everyone."
I couldn't take the emotional abuse anymore so I reached for my hidden dagger then remembered where I was and instead reached for my wand. I couldn't think of anything funny just what the people I love said so instead I raced out the classroom door and down the hall. I ran and ran until I was outside.
I stopped at a large pine tree and sat down with my back to the trunk and sobbed...
So how did you like the chapter? Stay tuned for the next up date! The golden trio is even more suspicious of Nico and we get some Draco Malfoy action!
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