"Hey Percy!" Draco called, his sword out. "You're on" he smirked and uncapped riptide. Everyone was currently outside, and the demigods had paired up for some fighting practice. "Remember, don't hurt each other!" Sophia reminded them as she had a knife to Connor's throat. "Soph look where your knife is" Harry yawned, he had been in and out of sleep. Sophia rolled her eyes and got up. "Yo Nico! Let's brawl!" she took out more knives and Nico took out his sword. "Is this really a good idea?" Hermione asked. "Whatever do you mean?" Annabeth said, she was taking a break. "I mean, she has knives and he has a sword!" Hermione exclaimed "Please, they're throwing knives, and Sophia has faced worse, we all have" Annabeth stretched. "My favorite was when we faced Medusa that was kinda fun" Annabeth thought aloud. "Though, if you ask Perc, it was probably the time he faced the Minotaur" Hermione blinked. "I'll explain later, darlin'" Annabeth winked and turned back to the fights. "Huh, new record Soph" she said. Sophia had Nico pinned to a tree by his cloths.
After a while, they all headed inside. Percy and Draco ended up in a tie, and where currently arguing on who technically won. "I'm just saying, if it wasn't for owl communication, you would have lost!" Percy exclaimed "Yeah, but you used water to knock out my sword, so I would have won!" They kept arguing and everyone rolled their eyes. "They're equally matched, so it's usually who can wound the other" Luna informed everyone. "Let's get back to reading" Dumbledore said as everyone situated themselves. "I will read" Professor Snape said.
Chapter 3 Enter the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Harry didn't get much sleep that night. In fact, it was very rare for him to ever get a good night's sleep.
Harry rolled his eyes, though he quickly fell asleep on Draco again, who pulled the blanket over him that Sirius got them from last time.
He always swore it was a curse, but he knew there was no use trying to go back to sleep, so he silently snuck out of the cabin and went down to the beach. He didn't wake Draco, as he usually did, because he knew Draco would need his sleep for tomorrow.
"He should have woken me up, I wouldn't have minded" Draco muttered.
Harry sighed and placed a hand into the water. "Father, please guide and help me as I go into this new chapter of my life" he murmured, and then used the water the teleport him away. "Hey Har!" his Half-sister, Sophia, greeted.
Sophia beamed and smirked at the same time.
"Hey Sophia, how are you?" he asked and they went to work. Harry often went to what was commonly known as the Shadow Realm. It was a place where he could train and show his true power. "Dray not with you?" Another voice came up. Her name was Electra Flightus; she was tall, with long Blonde hair and electric blue eyes. She was a daughter of Zeus.
"Before you ask, yes I'm another child of Zeus, she's what, 20, 21?" Thalia turned to Sophia. "I'm 17, so she's…19" she stated. Electra pouted and said "I"m right here!" Everyone laughed and turned back too Snape
"Let's get to training" they trained half the night, then Harry went to his cabin to rest. He knew he was going to be tired, but he didn't concern himself with it.
The next day, Harry woke up and got dressed quickly. He said goodbye to his half-brother and went to meet Draco at the big House. "Hello" a voice rang out and Harry looked at the man near Draco once he got there. "Hello" Harry nodded respectfully. "I'm Professor Severus Snape, Son of Hades, You will call me Professor Snape, Professor, or Sir" the tall, pale man with greasy looking hair said.
"My hair is not greasy!" he exclaimed and glared at the book in his hands, while non-Greeks just stared at him. "What?" he growled and everyone sweat dropped. "Nothing" Draco said quickly and Snape continued reading.
"Let's go" he told them as a silver Pegasus came up. "What is this?" Snape questioned and the Pegasus nodded at Harry. "Master sent me for you" She communicated "Hello Mist and he did? Why?" Harry asked. "He heard your prayers, I'm here to keep you safe and help you" "I see, then thank you, sweet Mist" Harry stroked her mane.
"For the record, yes, I can speak to horses and any horse like creature as well as fish, so can any child of Poseidon" Percy said. Everyone nodded and Snape continued reading.
"We don't have all day" Snape said and Harry and Draco got onto Mist with him. With a flap of her wings, they were off.
It seemed like an instant, but they were at the opening too Diagon Ally. "This is our stop" Harry told Mist and she landed. They got off her and she flew away. "Follow me" Snape said and he led them inside.
"This'll be interesting" Draco said and smirked at Rose Snape, or Lariana Riddle, depending on who asked. Rose just smirked back at him, amused.
Snape grumbled after they got to the other side of the portal. He led them to the bank, where he got some money out of Chiron's account. "He insist on paying for all demigods, doesn't hurt sense he seems to have infinite funds" Snape grumbled as they went to the first shop. It was the robes shop.
Draco smirked at Rose. "Chiron can do that?" Hermione asked and Annabeth nodded "Yeah, Chiron is a magical creature, a centaur; after all, he gets paid in godly, earthly, and wizardly money" "Very useful" Sophia and Electra said at the same time.
"Hello" a girl greeted them "I'm Rose Snape, I work here, I'll help you with your robes." She led Draco and Harry over to the sitting area. "Snape…you're the Professor's daughter?" Harry asked and she nodded "Yes, he's already paid for them in advance, he's off getting your books and things" she informed them as she measured them. "And before you ask, yes I go to Hogwarts, I'm a year or two older than you two, I'm in Slytherin" the two boys nodded.
"I even have to admit that she's nice for a Slytherin" Ron grumbled and the Demigods looked confused. "Long Story, my friends" Draco said, waving his hand.
After this, the boys went to the wand shop with Snape. Draco only had to try 10 wands, however, after the 100th; Harry was starting to lose hope. "Try this one" the shopkeeper said and it instantly sparked "Hm…very interesting…" was all he said before Snape paid for their wands and the boys where off. "I wonder what that was about" Draco grumbled and Harry shrugged. "Who knows?" he said. They soon finished their shopping and mist brought all three of them aback to camp. "Remember school starts in a month" Snape reminded them before he aspirated away. The two boys went to their respective cabins for the night. Harry was curious to find his Half-brother was gone, but quickly shook it off and went to his own bunk.
Rose sighed and shook her head then laughed. "What?" someone asked confused "Nothing, it's just ironic that he's actually getting sleep! I mean, he's a freaking insomniac!" she exclaimed. "Rose, control yourself" Snape warned "Yes Daddy" she winked. Electra raised a brow at them.
The next month seemed to wiz by. His Half-brother, Percy, ended up getting a quest from the gods to find the master bolt; Harry wished him luck before he and Draco rode Mist to the train station to get on the Hogwarts Express.
"Be careful, I don't want to have to come all the way back to the US just to save you" Harry told him as he got on Mist. "Yeah, yeah, I'll be fine I have Grover and Annabeth with me" Percy rolled his eyes. "Come on Har, you can't keep babying him!" Draco stated as Harry helped him onto Mist. "I can for as long as I want" He shot back behind him. Draco smirked and Harry smirked back "Don't die!" Draco called as Mist lifted off.
"Isn't that lovely? Don't die" Hermione rolled her eyes "Actually, for Percy, that's the best advice you can give him, considering he's a walking danger magnet" Annabeth stated "Seriously, wherever he goes, danger follows" Sophia said. Harry mumbled and slowly woke up. "Mornin' sleeping beauty" Sophia teased.
Once they got to the train station, they took their stuff and got off Mist, who flew away after being given a sugar cube. They went inside the train station and where greeted by Draco's parents. "Hello Mister and Misses Malfoy" Harry said respectfully. He had seen them around camp a few times, but never really met them.
Draco and Harry grinned at each other.
"You don't have to be so formal with us Harry, you are family" Mrs. Malfoy said. Publically, Harry was taken in by the Malfoys, so no one would wonder why his letters and notes and every parental thing in general was signed by them or his 'social worker' Chiron. His life was a lot easier that way.
"Tell me about it" Harry muttered bitterly and Draco stroked his hair.
"Right of course" He smiled uneasily. "Anyway, let's not waste any time! The train leaves soon!" Mrs. Malfoy led them to the platform and taught them how to get on. With one more goodbye from Draco and Harry to the two older Malfoys, they were off to the train.
"Well, time for Hogwarts" The Weasley Twins grinned. Harry and Draco chuckled
Harry sat in an empty compartment with Draco. The smaller boy knew the blonde probably would have preferred to sit with future Slytherins, but Harry didn't feel very comfortable in crowds. "You can go and sit with the future Slytherins if you want" Harry turned to Draco. "No it's fine" Draco said as a redheaded boy stuck his head in. "Hey all the rest of the compartments are taken, can I sit in here?" "Sure" Harry said and Draco moved to sit next to Harry. The redhead sat across from them. "So you're...you know THE Harry Potter right?" "Yes" Harry grumbled. Everyone, even the witches and wizards, at camp knew not to refer to his fame or stare at his scar, it made him uncomfortable.
"Yep!" all the demigods said, some even hugging Harry, who chuckled "The Slytherins know not to mention it either" he added. Rose and, many other Slytherins nodded and Electra smiled a bit.
"Can I see the scar?" the boy asked "What's your name?" Draco quickly intervened, he didn't like seeing Harry uncomfortable or upset "Ron Weasley" he responded "Draco Malfoy, it's a pleasure really" Draco held out his hand and Ron reluctantly shook it.
"I would call you out for being rude, but you were saving Harry from an uncomfortable situation so I'll let it pass" Narcssia looked pointingly at her son, who sweat dropped and nodded.
Ron was rather put off by the blonde, so he turned back to Harry. "I'm Harry" he held out his hand and Ron shook it as the door opened again. "I'm sorry but have any of you seen a toad running through here? Neville lost his" "Does it look something like…" Harry put his hand under his seat and summoned the Toad to him. "This?" he lift his hands and Neville's toad was there, sitting politely. "Yes thank you!" The boy, Neville, came up and took the toad. "How'd you do that?" Hermione asked. "Magic" Harry smirked. He often used that spell to mess with the Stole brothers, so he became quite good at it. "No I mean, you didn't use a wand or incantation or anything!" she said, clearly excited.
"Oh the days when Young Hermione Granger knew nothing of magic and I knew more than her" Harry sighed longingly. Everyone who knew Hermione laughed. Hermione tried to look offended, but the smile threatening to appear on her lips ruined it.
"That's impressive" Ron admitted. Draco stayed quiet and let Harry do his thing. He was great at charming anyone he met.
"Am not" Harry pouted. "Yes you are!" all the students and demigods said at once. Harry blushed and hid his face in Draco's shoulder. Draco kissed his cheek smirking. Snape rolled his eyes and continued reading.
"Anyway what houses do you think you're going to get into?" Hermione said after Neville ran off and Hermione went to get her stuff, and then came back. "Slytherin" Draco and Harry both said at the same time. "Really?" Ron asked "Yeah what's wrong with Slytherin?" Harry challenged. "Nothing, I'm just hoping to get into Gryffindor" Ron said quickly "I'm hoping for Ravencalw" Hermione said.
"Our little crow" Ron and Harry joked and Hermione blushed
"Then I hope we all get into the houses we want" Harry said as a lady with treats came around to the carts. Harry pulled out some money and paid for some food, including a few chocolate frogs, and thanked her. "Hey Harry didn't you grow up with Muggles?" Hermione asked "No, I was adopted into the Malfoy family, when I was five years old" he stated and Draco nodded. "Really?" she asked "Yep, we've been friends, and lived with each other, sense we were five" Draco smirked. Harry nodded, albeit a bit regretful to being just a friend, though he didn't know why.
Everyone from the Aphrodite cabin groaned "They were almost as painful as Nico and Percy are!" Dean complained. Said people looked confused, well, Percy looked confused and Nico was blushing madly, and Draco and Harry rolled their eyes. "Get used to it, it's about half-way through first year that we started to actually date and another, what three years?" Harry turned to Draco, who nodded, "Right three years until we made our relationship public" Draco kissed his cheek and their friends smiled. "Of course a year after we got together we told our friends, and they helped us cover it up, and plan our dates" Draco smiled at his friends. "We told his parents right away as well" Harry stated.
"I think we're almost there, let's change" Hermione pushed Ron out, but let Harry and Draco stay. Once they all changed, they let Ron in and he changed quickly while all three waited outside. "Alright I'm dressed" Ron said and they all went in. They enjoyed themselves and ate a bunch of food and sweets before they arrived.
"I love Hogwarts" Harry sighed happily "It's like a second home for me." Many agreed with him, smiling to themselves.
"'ome 'ight this way! First years only this way!" a giant man called. "That's Hagrid, he's the grounds keeper" Harry whispered to Ron and Hermione. They nodded and they boarded one of the boats with Draco and Harry. Soon they were off and coming closer to Hogwarts. Once they arrived, they were led into the massive castle by one of the teachers; she had such a stern look on her face that Harry wondered just how far he could stretch her limits.
McGonagall raised an eyebrow "What? Mr. D gives off the same look, only I don't test him because unlike you, he doesn't have regulations in place besides that he can't physically harm us" Harry shrugged "Yep, bloody god of wine, parties, and insanity" Draco grumbled. "Mr. D's a god?" Lucius asked "Yep, his real name is Dionysius, god of wine, parties, and insanity" Annabeth informed.
Of course, he'd have to test that later, when he was sure what restrictions the teachers had placed on them, hopefully they were strict enough to test it. "Right this way, first years, into the dining hall" the teacher led them into a huge hall.
"Oh the pranks we have pulled in that hall" the Weasley twins sighed, remembering all their Great Hall pranks. The Stole brothers smirked at them, remembering their pranks in the pavilion. "Maybe we shouldn't of let them meet" Harry whispered to Draco, who nodded in agreement. Who knows what those two pairs of pranksters could do together?
All around them in the Hall, teachers and students alike were sitting and eating. The first years were lined up, and a song played, though Harry didn't pay much attention, sense his mind started wondering. He suddenly wondered if they knew of his ADHD and Dyslexia, or if they didn't and he would embarrass himself.
"We are informed of all students who have been diagnosed with different disorders, Mr. Potter" McGonagall assured him. "I know that now, this was first year remember?" Harry sighed
They soon started calling out names, and both he and Draco started to shift, not out of being nervous, but they simply couldn't sit still for that long. Draco was called and he went up there, relived he could move. He was immediately put into Slytherin and went to sit with them. Hermione got into Gryffindor, and a few names were called until finally, Harry was called.
Everyone leaned in and Harry rolled his eyes "Guys we already know what house I was put in!" he exclaimed, though looked amused.
Harry went up calmly and silently, no use pretending to be someone he wasn't. He went in front of the teacher and waited as the hat was placed on his head. "Difficult, very difficult" the hat murmured. "It's been a while sense I've had a child of Poseidon. But were to put you…yes that's the question…" "I would prefer either Ravenclaw or Slytherin, but it is as you see fit" Harry said in his mind. "You are a fighter of justice, very loyal, but also very brave and smart, however, your ambition is strong, as well as your natural will and cunning, I see you in no other place but…" "SLYTHERIN!" the hat yelled out. The hat was taken off of Harry and he went to sit with Draco happily.
"That explains why it took so long for you" Fred teased "You were meant for nothing but Slytherin, its good qualities anyway" Hermione looked sharply at Pansy. Those two seemed to have a rivalry going on. Rose chuckled softly at the two girls, it really was amusing to watch them.
After everyone was sorted, Ron getting into Gryffindor with Hermione; they ate dinner and were whisked off to each house's chambers. "I wonder what the Slytherin chambers look like" Harry thought aloud "I heard it's in the dungeons" Pansy, another first year Slytherin, stated. "It is, but I'm saying is what do they look like" Harry told her, he hated the way she was all over Draco, though didn't know why.
Pansy smirked at him "I knew that would get you jealous!" she exclaimed and Draco and Harry gapped at her. "Yeah, Hermione and I totally knew you guys were gay before you did!" she laughed. The boys paused, and then laughed with her. Electra and Sophia exchanged amused glances.
Once they got there, Professor Snape said the password. "Salazar Slytherin" he muttered and the door opened "Remember, the password is Salazar Slytherin for you first years, never forget it" Snape then led them inside.
"We know the password now!" the Weasley twins high fived "Remind me to change it" Snape muttered to McGonagall, who nodded in understanding.
Harry looked around; it was actually a very nice common room with stone walls, green and gray patterns everywhere, and a huge bookshelf next to a fireplace. Harry was also delighted to see a small, salt water fountain in the corner. "Professor says that's for the demigods to communicate with people at camp with" Draco whispered to him.
"So that's what the fountains are used for?" Luna asked, intrigued. Although she was a demigod, she had no clue it was to contact camp. "Apparently" Dumbledore blinked. He had always thought the fountains were just decoration. "Yep, each have different design for different gods, the one in Slytherin honors Hermes, because one of his sacred animals is the snake, and Poseidon, because Salazar was a son of Poseidon" Draco informed. "That's incredible!" Hermione exclaimed. "I don't know how the others are designed…however Helga HufflePuff was a child of Hyphestis and treasured unity, Godric Gryffindor was a child of Ares, and treasured, of course, bravery and battle, I don't know much about Ravenclaw's founder…." "Ravenclaw's is designed with owls and lighting" Luna informed him. "The owls make sense, they're the symbol of my mother, Athena, she's the goddess of Wisdom and battle, Ravina Ravenclaw must have been child of Zeus, lighting is kind of his thing" Draco said. Snape continued reading. "The founders weren't fully human?" Umbridge asked, scandalized. "Don't look so shocked" Remus rolled his eyes, he was willing to believe anything right about now.
"Really?" Harry asked "Yep, our fountain, the Slytherin one, honors Hermes and Poseidon" Draco smirked and they were stopped in the common room. "For those of you who have been here previous years, welcome back, it's good to see my fellow snakes however, for those who are new, watch out for each other. The rest of Hogwarts is against us, calling us the house of snakes and the prisoners of Hogwarts. We are not liked out there so, as a basic ground rule, if you leave this common room make sure there's at least two other Slytherins with you at all times. If you break this rule, people from other houses will most likely gang up on you. Now that we got that out of the way, here's Professor Snape" Rose concluded her speech and sat down.
"This explains a lot" many non-Slytherins said, while others shifted guiltily at the demigods' glares. Sophia held back a growl, not liking people who discriminated others.
"Yes, hello" he muttered. This Snape seemed a lot different to Harry than the one he met at Camp and brought him to Diagon Ally. "As you know, out there is a dangerous place, it's harder for us Slytherins because it's harder to get house points. As is such it's also easier to loose house points so I want you all on your best behavior! I will also not take kindly to any Slytherin who does not defend a fellow snake. We are your family from now on and we must defend and help each other. I will also, for every class tomorrow, give a verbal pop quiz in potions, so be prepared" he summed up his speech and went to his private office.
The Weasley twins whistled. "It's the same speech every year" Harry rolled his eyes. "Yep" The Slytherins, minus the first years, agreed. The first years groaned and Snape looked disapprovingly at them, but secretly planned to change the speech up a bit for the next year. "Seriously though, why does everyone villianatise Slytherins? Each house has their own strengths and weaknesses" Harry complained and the teachers, minus, of course, Umbridge and Snape, shifted guiltily.
After this, they were whisked away to either their private dorms, or the dormitories. Draco's parents and Chiron teamed up and got Draco and Harry their own private dorm, so they could practice both their advanced magic and have enough privacy to talk about Camp and the such without having to worry about people listening in.
"Thank you Chiron" all the demigods said. Each had gotten their own dorm because of Chiron.
"So what do you think of Hogwarts so far Sea spawn?" "I think it's quite nice Owl head" both smirked and laughed. They used to taunt each other went they fought in the arena with those names, but after a while it became kind of an inside joke with them. "You know, something tells me this place won't be a fun as camp, there's no lava rock wall" Harry complained, putting his stuff away.
Sirius started hyperventilating. "Don't worry, I haven't gotten singed from the lava sense I was seven" Harry assured him "Still got the scar too" Annabeth added. That didn't seem to help "Sirius there's a lot more dangerous stuff for demigods than a lava rock wall, trust me if I were given the choice between getting attacked by monsters and training on the hardest difficulty on the rock wall, I'd choice the rock wall" "We all would, Har" Percy said grimly.
There was a pause, as if everyone sensed the demigods' mood and refrained from speaking out of respect. Snape himself thought of how many demigods were lost at the school before Harry convinced him to put up a protective barrier around the school and Hogsmead in his second year. The non-demigods looked at them. "Is...there really a lot of..." "Deaths? Yeah, especially if you piss off a god, or your scent gets picked up by monsters. The Big Three, Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades', kids are in the most danger, sense their scent is really strong to monsters, so they tend to die the most" Sophia answered grimly "Camp has a barrier that makes it so any non-demigod that tries to enter gets stopped" Draco muttered. Everyone paused, reflecting on this information until Snape started reading again. Hermione and Pansy looked at each other, they never knew all the stuff Draco and Harry had to go through, and were worried about them.
"Mmm" Draco flinched at the sound of the forbidden woods. Harry tensed, but relaxed, he kept his bow hidden and paused before putting his dagger under his pillow. He could never be too careful.
"An't that the truth" Harry sighed and leaned against Draco. Non-Greeks looked saddened that Harry had to be so prepared for anything to attack him at any moment.
"See you in the morning…Dray" Harry hesitated, then went into his bed. "Night Har" Draco went to bed reluctantly as well. Neither got a lot of sleep.
The next morning, both woke up slowly and got dressed, trying hard not to look at the other as they did so. They went to their private bathroom, and Harry brushed through his hair and Draco brushed his teeth. "Another great day" Harry muttered and they switched task. After this, they went to the common room, but not before Harry took his dagger and hid it in his robes. They were the first to wake up besides Rose and her father. "Hello" Rose said cheerfully and both boys muttered a hello. Soon, everyone was down in the common room, and left for breakfast.
"Such a mundane start" Rose stretched, bored. "Yeah, you say that until we actually wake up before you" Harry smirked and Rose glared playfully.
"Schedules" Snape said and handed out everyone's schedules. Harry and Draco were both pleased to see they had all the same classes. "This'll make for an interesting year" Draco smirked and Harry silently agreed.
After breakfast, they went on to class. Harry, who knew most of what third or fourth years were learning, didn't pay attention, though admittedly, he knew he probably should. It was more he couldn't. He hated having to sit still and found himself constantly shifting in his seat. Finally, after a long day, it was time for potions. "We have it with Gryffindors" Draco said bitterly "Mmm" Harry said.
"Best. Potions. Ever" Harry said and Pansy laughed "Agreed" she smirked at Ron, who turned really red.
At potions Ron barely made it to the room. "Good for you to join us, Mr. Weasley" Snape muttered and Ron blushed, then sat next to Hermione. Draco and Harry were at the back of the room, politely waiting for class to start. Snape gave his speech, and he automatically went into the verbal quiz, which the Slytherins all prepared for.
"Thank you Professor Snape, Hermione, and Rose" Harry muttered. Professor Snape had supplied him and Draco with Ancient Greek versions of all their text books and with things that they don't understand or can't read, like homework, Rose or Hermione would help them.
Ron, of course, couldn't answer most of his questions. Harry answered almost every one of his right.
"Very good" Sirius praised and Harry blushed, smiling. "Ron I thought you said you answered all of them right without even trying?" Ginny said innocently and Ron's face turned red again. Many laughed at him and Harry even gave out a dark chuckle.
"Now, today we'll be learning the simplest of potions I could possibly teach, here are the instructions." Snape placed the instructions for the potion on each table. Draco and Harry went right to work, though they had a lot of difficulty reading English, Snape had luckily put the Latin name next to it. Once they got their ingredients they started, only to be interrupted when Neville, a Gryffindor first year, got the mixture wrong and it melted his cauldron and got everywhere. "I'll be taking mister Longbottom to the Hospital Wing, keep working on your potions" Snape instructed and ushered Neville out of the class room. Harry and Draco looked at each other before continuing on with their potion.
"Fun" The Stoles grinned and Draco smirked "For the record, I actually taught these two how to make potions, they are pretty good" The Stoles grinned and Connor said "Yep! Of course…he won't teach us the more...destructive ones…or the truth one" he complained.
After class had ended, Draco dragged Harry to the library, much to the smaller boy's amusement.
"It's always amusing how the children of Athena always drag you to either a library, museum, or the golden gate bridge, all of which you almost get killed at" Percy smirked and Annabeth blushed "Oh shut up!" she glared. Nico rolled his eyes. clearly amused and Draco and Harry smirked at the other "Do I want to know?" Sirius asked and Harry shook his head "Probably not"
"How did I know" he grinned and Draco smirked. "It's more for homework" he stated
"Sure" Harry rolled his eyes and Sirius smirked as Draco scuffed the back of Harry's head, an amused look on his face "Oi!" Harry said, rubbing the back of his head "That hurt!"
and they got too work. "Oh hello Draco, Harry" Hermione came up while the said Slytherins were arguing over a word. "Hermione?" Ron called, coming up behind her. Hermione tapped Harry's shoulder and he jumped "Oh, hi Hermione" Harry sweat dropped
"Oh?" Remus looked over at him "I don't advertise my Dyslexia and ADHD" Harry stated "Too much attention for my taste" the demigods looked sympathetically at him, while those who didn't know him well shifted a bit. Umbridge growled under her breath, these were supposed to harm Harry, not help him! Electra may or may not have shot a bit of Electrtricity to hit Umbridge.
"What are you guys doing here?" "Homework" the Gryffindors stated together "Same here wanna help each other?" Harry asked.
"House unity is important" Blaise joked and Pansy and a few other Slytherins chuckled but stopped when Harry raised his hand for silence. Many were shocked that they listened to him.
Ron and Hermione reluctantly sat down and took out their work. "Harry I'm telling you, it's leviouasa" Draco complained a couple minutes later. "No way! It has to be Leviosar" he stated "Guys its Leviosa that's not even how you spell it" Hermione said, looking at them oddly.
"Always arguing over words. You know there are only two arguments I've heard from them, arguing over words, and arguing over who is on-" Pansy was cut off by a glare from Harry. Others raised an eyebrow over what she was going to say.
"Right…" the two muttered and they continued homework. Soon they were done and Hermione waited until Ron left before saying. "Do you two have Dyslexia?" both of them nodded and Hermione smiled "I'll help if you want" "That's be great" Draco responded. Soon after that, they all gathered their things and went to their separate common rooms.
"Ah such a wonderful beginning of a friendship" Percy joked and the three mentioned rolled their eyes.
"Now we wait" Harry grabbed his bow and Draco his sword. They snuck out to the woods. "I don't know why Professor Snape gave us this job" Draco complained "Someone has to fight back the monsters, and we've been given special permission to be in the woods." Harry answered the blonde. Mentioned boy just trudged behind Harry and grumbled. Harry smirked and grabbed his hand "Scared?" he taunted, but really, he was asking. Draco squeezed his hand and muttered "'course not" both were blushing, though the other couldn't see it. Suddenly, a deep growl was heard and Harry took his hand away and readied his bow and a green magic arrow. Draco readied his sword. They were going to have a busy night
"Seriously, back then I knew why they had to have patrols, but I'm glad we finally convinced Snape to put up that anti-monster shield" Harry paused, and then smirked "It must be faulty, though" "Oh? Whatever for?" Draco smirked as well, catching on "It let Umbridge into school grounds" their group laughed along with Remus, Sophia, Percy, Thalia, Annabeth, and Sirius while Lucius, Narcssia, and Snape all gave soft chuckles. Umbridge looked absolutely mad "Deten-" Harry raised his right hand and Umbridge shut up quickly.
The rest of the week went by smoothly, and it was already Saturday. "Time to go train" Harry groaned and Draco smirked "First, we got to get to the woods" the blonde stated as they took their weapons. Sense they couldn't aspirate. Or anything like it, in the school or its grounds, so they had to go out of school grounds. Harry led the way, sneaking this way and that until they were finally in the woods. "Ready?" Harry asked and Draco nodded. The short raven haired boy took out some water and in an instant, it went around them.
Everyone but Sophia and Nico were confused.
"Har Dray!" Sophia called, her weapons out "You're part of my training team today" she stated and they nodded. They took out their weapons and got ready for a serious beat down.
By now, everyone but Sophia and Nico were worried, they knew what was to come.
Harry climbed up one of the buildings, an easy task after doing it for so many years, and got ready. Draco was acting as his live bait, and hopefully he'd only get a few scratches out of it. This was something he knew Chiron would never approve of, but this was The Army's game, the simplest of exercises. Many have died, but only the strong could survive.
Everyone gaped and the ones that were part of The Army rolled their eyes. "So….when you said you were part of an army…" "It's The Army" Harry corrected Sirius. "Right… anyway…" "No I wasn't kidding, I'm their head archer, Draco here, like me, is the head of his division, though we mostly train others, Sophia and Electra make up two thirds of the commanders and are masters of their divisions." Harry stretched "Masters and heads are two different ranks, by the way." Many nodded in only slight understanding.
They got back to Hogwarts a little before breakfast. They were battered and a bit bruised, but nothing they couldn't hide with basic glamour. "Hey Har!" Pansy came up "Hi Draco" she purred "Hi Pansy" they said together "Snape is calling for a meeting; I'm supposed to round everyone up" "Right" they said and followed her to the common room.
"Oh the weekly meetings" Draco muttered and wrapped an arm around Harry. All the Slytherins groaned in agreement as Snape glared at them.
"Welcome to the weakly Slytherin meeting" Snape said
The Slytherins groaned again, they all hated the meetings.
Most of the older year Slytherins groaned, it was clear they were hungry. Harry was wise enough to keep his mouth shut, though Draco let out a small groan, thankfully, it wasn't heard.
"Why must they be before breakfast?" Rose complained and Snape raised an eyebrow at her.
"For the first years, we'll be having weekly meeting before breakfast at least once a week, you are expected to come to these meetings" he looked around the room and everyone sat up a little straighter. They all knew by now Snape wouldn't hurt them, but he did have an aura of death about him.
Snape smirked and leaned back in his chair saying "Thank my father, it's actually quite fun to scare people" "I have to agree" Nico smirked and looked up at his half-brother. Everyone who wasn't used to them gulped, while those who were just rolled their eyes. "Honestly you're as scary as a puppy, Nico, or a teddy bear" Percy said and Nico blushed and glared.
"Di Immortals" Harry cursed under his breath. This was going to seriously cut into his morning training.
The demigods snickered. "What?" Mrs. Weasley asked, confused. "Di Immortals means Damn Immortals in Ancient Greek" Annabeth laughed "Demigods use it all the time" Percy said and Harry smirked "Di Immortals Percy, there goes one of about, I don't know, hundreds of curses I know in different languages" Harry rolled his eyes "Hades have mercy on your soul brother, the gods know you pissed them off enough" Sophia rolled her eyes as well and laughed. Non-Greeks just looked at them confused. Snape chuckled and continued reading.
Snape raised an eyebrow at him, but didn't comment. "Now, this meeting was relatively short, sense it was an introductory meeting, but not all of them will be this short" he paused and looked around "Off you go to breakfast then" everyone ran off quickly to get to the dining hall.
"Sounds about right" Harry muttered "So that's why you guys are late to breakfast sometimes" Hermione stated "Yep" the Slytherins answered miserably
After breakfast, Harry changed into his camp cloths, sense it was Saturday they didn't have to wear a uniform, and went out to practice his bow work in the woods. He was stopped, however, on the way out by Hermione. "Di Immortals" he cursed and quickly hid his bow. "Hey Har, what're you up too?" she asked "Nothing, just going outside for some outdoor practice" Harry quickly spotted Draco "With Draco" "Can I join?" she asked "Ask Draco" he said running off.
"You know, this explains so much" Hermione admitted "Like Draco's extreme smarts, unnatural smarts really, Harry love of water, his lack of drowning, the way centaurs seem to like him, the way Pegausi seem to like him, the way he's always nervous around Hagrid's animals…." "We get it" Harry rolled his eyes, but amusement gleamed in his eyes.
"Hey Perc" Draco grinned "Hey Dra ready for training?" "You bet" "Hey Draco!" Hermione ran up and Harry cursed in Japanese.
"Japanese too? How many languages do you know?" Sirius asked "How many languages have or do/will exist" Harry asked back, smirking while people, Greek and Non-Greek alike, looked at him, awestruck.
"Yes Hermione?" Draco raised an eyebrow "Can I join you magic training with Harry?" Draco looked at him and the smaller raven haired boy smirked. "Not right now, maybe later ok?" "Oh…ok sure" she reluctantly left.
"Before you say anything, after we trained with our weapons we did grab her for magic training" Draco said, holding up his hand and the mothers in the room kept their mouths shut.
Later, after practicing with Hermione,
"See?" Draco pointed out and Harry rolled his eyes "No one objected" he teased and Draco pouted. Nico watched them, then quickly glanced at Percy and sighed.
they were in the library. They hid when they heard Rose. "Ok, so all we need is the Philosopher's stone? Ok got I" she immediately went quiet and Draco and Harry came out of hiding. "Hey Rose" they said and she jumped "Hey guys!" she said and smiled. "Hey...who were you talking too?" Harry asked "No one" Rose said quickly
Harry and Draco winced and mouthed 'sorry' to Rose. 'It's ok' she mouthed back
"Oh really?" Harry raised an eyebrow. "Yep" she sweat dropped "You're precipitating on your neck, which means you're lying." Harry stated, he loved his water powers, well, most of the time. "Fine I was talking to my Dad" she slumped in defeat "Professor Snape isn't anywhere around here" Harry stated "I mean...oh if I tell you do you two were not to tell anyone without my permission?" she asked "I swear on the River Styx that unless you say otherwise, I won't tell" they said together and thunder boomed.
"You two swore on the River Styx?" Annabeth asked shocked and they nodded. Hermione looked confused to Percy explained "You have an unbreakable oath right?" she nodded "It's basically that for us" "Don't worry guys, you can talk about it now" Rose said as thunder boomed and they nodded their thanks
"My Real name is Lariana Riddle, demigod daughter of Tom Riddle and…well Hera, goddess of Marriage and Family" she shrugged "I know it sounds crazy but-" "Harry Potter, son of Poseidon, god of the sea" "Draco Malfoy, son of Athena, goddess of wisdom and battle" they stuck out their hands and she laughed and shook them.
Everyone froze and Lariana rolled her eyes "Yes, my real name is Lariana Riddle, yes I pose as Snape's daughter in public and yes, Tom Riddle is the Dark Lord and Yes, my mother is the Queen of the gods" Thunder boomed and shook the castle. "Impressive" Narcssia smiled "Thank you, and Sophia is right, you would totally be my half-sister if you were a demigod" she giggled.
"If you need our help, call us" Harry said and Draco nodded. "Great" she grinned and hugged them. "See you later!" she called and left the library. Professor Quail, the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, came up to them. "So you're friends of the master's daughter are you?" he asked, intrigued. Harry narrowed his eyes; he had an automatic distrust of people like him, who seemed very sneaky and interested in such odd, little details such as this.
"Oh do you?" Hermione joked and Harry smirked up at Umbridge "Why yes I do" he raised his right hand as she tried to say something. Draco raised a brow at this, but said nothing.
"Yes, Master will be very pleased…" he left the Library. Harry and Draco looked at each other, knowing they'll have to keep an eye on him in the future
"That's the end of the chapter" Snape said. "I'll Read next, is there an ancient Greek version?" Annabeth asked, and Harry slicked his hand and brought the book to her, its language changing "I charmed it to change to the language the reader is best at reading" he explained