Send in the Demigods
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This entire chapter will be in third person.
It took a few minutes for Dumbledore's laughter to die down. When it did, he glanced around the room to survey the shocked teens. "I thought that this might happen. I just didn't expect it to be so soon!"
"WHAT!" The outburst came from Nico. "You expected this to happen? You could've just told the people we could have trusted, and everything would've worked out swell!"
"Swell?" Percy muttered to Annabeth.
Dumbledore grinned his old man grin, his eyes sparkling. "Aah, but that would be too easy, wouldn't it? I needed to see what your reactions would be to the people in this school. Apparently, they were more violent than I would have hoped, but that is to be expected. You all should be wary, considering what you are, demigods." Hermione's eyes seemed to bug out of her head when she heard this. "But… demigods don't exist! They and Greek gods are just stories that people made up a long time ago to explain science!"
"Aah, but that is where you are wrong. Demigods exist just as wizards do. They are kept a secret from Mortals as wizards are kept secret from Muggles. In fact, I am a child of Hecate, goddess of magic, and a full blooded wizard myself." (Sorry if Dumble's dad isn't a full wizard. We aren't sure- we don't have Wi-Fi here in the book shop.)
It was time for Ron and Harry's jaws to drop to the floor. Annoyed by the display, Nico walked over and bashed their heads together. "Oh come on, it's not that unbelievable, is it? I'm over eighty years old, and Dumbledore is way more powerful than he should be, isn't he?"
"Well, what are you doing at this school? And who are your parents?" Hermione questioned, finally back to her senses. She ignored the flabbergasted expressions on Harry and Ron's faces when they heard that Nico was over eighty.
Percy stepped forward and introduced each of them. "I'm Percy, son of Poseidon; he's Nico, son of Hades,"
"And all things bada$$!" Nico interjected.
"He's Grover, a satyr, she's Thalia, daughter of Zeus, and she's Annabeth, daughter of Athena, and my girlfriend."
"Well, that explains a lot," Harry muttered to Ron and Hermione. He had learned a small amount about the Greek gods in school.
"Demigods are more powerful than wizards in some senses, but can barely use wizard magic. Unless, of course, you're a child of the goddess of magic." Harry nodded in understanding at Dumbledore's words. He had seen the horrible magical capability of Percy during class. He could barely cast a spell.
"Oh, and just so you know…" Dumbledore said, raising her wand and pointing it at Percy, "Crucio!" the wizards (excluding Dumbledore) gasped as Percy was hit by the spell. Expecting Percy to be on the ground, gasping in pain, they braced themselves for screaming. However, none came. They looked up to see a slightly confused Percy, standing as he had been moments before. He hadn't been affected by the cruciatus curse.
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After Dumbledore had explained the situation to the wizards, they looked upon the Demigods with newfound respect. They all exchanged gruff apologies. The moment of silence that followed was broken by Nico, who exclaimed, "I still want to see the school! It's boring, sitting around all day like Annabeth!"
"Now," Dumbledore said, "let's get you all to the hospital wing."
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After leaving behind a very angry Madame Pomfrey, the group of teens made their way to the Room of Requirement, which had been revealed to the wizards by Dumbledore. "Well, I'll see you guys," Nico said to the Demigods, following the wizards to their Gryffindor dorm. "I'll keep an eye on everyone for you!"
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"Okay Nico, don't piss off the fat lady at the front of the classroom. Everyone hates her, but her punishments are enough so that a person would never be disobedient in her class again," Harry said, rubbing his hand.
"She's a Muggle hater, and she seems to think that anyone with bad manners or bad magic capability is automatically a non-pureblood. We've been allowed by Dumbledore to all come to classes together to keep an eye on you." Nico scowled at this, and was about to make a smart retort when Umbridge began to speak in that all-too-sweet voice of hers. "Well class, it seems that a few extra students will be joining us today. Mister Jackson seems to be gone, but there seems to be another in his place. May I ask what his name and blood status is?"
Hermione subtly flipped her the bird. Nico stood up and became the picture of innocence. "Nico di Angelo, Miss. And I assure you, I am anything but a pureblood." That said, he plopped himself back down into his desk, propping his feet up and placing the textbook that had been on his desk onto his face. Seeing this, Umbridge's pudgy face began to resemble Zeus' face when he gets angry. Not a pretty sight. She began to turn red, and then exploded. "MISTER DI ANGELO, I WILL NOT TOLERATE STUDENTS MISBEHAVING IN MY CLASSROOM!"
"Or Muggles, or anything less than a pureblood, it seems," Nico murmured. Umbridge started to shout unintelligibly. In the end, Nico ended up getting detentions for an entire month- not that he would even be in school a day. "Well, that was fun."
"It was brilliant, Nico, but you shouldn't have done it! You've just made an enemy! A fat, ugly enemy, but still!"
"Eh, at least the Muggle borns respect me."
They were suddenly interrupted by a shadow falling across Nico's the floor before them. Nico glanced up, and saw that a tall, pale boy flanked by two buff teens had decided to confront the four.
"Well, well. Looks like another filthy mudblood has come to Hogwarts."
The punch that came from Hermione's direction was perfectly aimed; it curved beautifully in seemingly slow-motion before it hit the rat right in the jaw. "I've been practicing," Hermione said proudly as Malfoy curled up in the fetal position on the ground, whimpering and holding his aching jaw.
"Hey-!" Crabbe and Goyle stepped forward, only to be knocked back with one of Nico's famous death glares. (AN no pun intended)
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The next class was Potions with Snape. Snape seemed to approve of Nico's mannerisms and his deathly pallor, but was immediately displeased by the fact that Nico was in Gryffindor and that he only seemed to be interested in the dead frog that were laid out on the table before him. Snape swore that he once saw one of the frogs start to move, but managed to convince himself that it was only a trick of the eye.
"Okay, class. Today, we will be making anti-vermin potion used for rats, insects, and," Here, Snape gave a sly grin, "-toads."
As Snape said this, the door burst open to reveal a furious Malfoy with a large bruise on his jaw. He opened his mouth to say something, but a terrifying glare from Nico shut him up. He shuffled over to his desk with a defeated expression on his face, but gave a quick glare to Hermione before he sat down. Snape ignored the fact that one of his favorite students had been late, and continued on with the lesson.
The lesson passed with surprisingly few incidents, even from Neville in the back of the room.
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As the Golden Trio (plus one) walked to their next class, Hermione seemed to be deep in thought. At the same time, Annabeth paced the Room of Requirement restlessly. Then, simultaneously, their heads snapped up, and their eyes lightened in anticipation of revealing their new idea to the others.
"I know what we should do."
Ooh, what are they going to do? Heh heh, we love torturing you guys with cliffies. Anyway, sorry for taking so long with this chapter. I recently discovered Blue Exorcist, and I'm going to theatre camp. So, I wrote most of this chapter, with Duck 2 helping me along the way. Hope you enjoyed!
-Duck 1
Hey! Sorry for the long chapter. School just got out and we have had no time to write. So, my new computer didn't fall through so I'm caving and buying an Ipad. This will help us get up one chapter a week we hope. So read and review!
-Duck 2
Random story of the day:
I was at a swim meet and was on just checking stuff when my coach, who is like the big brother I never had, looked over my shoulder and was like, "Your blog?" I froze. Stereotypically, blogs are associated with nerdism. (Which is a culture I have come to embrace. You only live once, so why not have fun?) So I sighed and was like, "Kinda." He nodded and walked away. Carpe diem (the nerd way of YOLO)!
-Duck 2