All rights belong to Rick Riordan and J.K. Rowling

Harry Pov

Dumbledore and I had just got done convincing Slughorn to come back and teach at Hogwarts. I knew Dumbledore brought me along because Slughorn was attracted to the famous, and I was quite famous in the wizard world. Slughorn had struck me as kind of odd, but how many in the wizarding world weren't?

"Come Harry, one more stop before the Burrow." Dumbledore said, holding out his elbow for me to grab onto. I hated apparition, it always made me feel sick. I reluctantly grabbed onto his elbow. I felt the usual stomach turning magic. I was overjoyed when my feet hit the ground. We had arrived at an abandoned street. All the shops were closed up. It was pouring rain and I was thankful for my jacket.

I noticed a group of teenagers hanging out under the porch of one of the abandoned buildings. They had noticed us too, as they stared at us alertly. I looked at Dumbledore and he nodded and we approached them.

"Is there a Mr. Jackson and Grace amongst you?" Dumbledore asked the strangers. Two of the biggest kids over there looked at each other and stood.

The one with the long black hair spoke, "I'm Mr. Jackson, and would you happen to be Dumbledore and Harry Potter?"

I sighed, of course they would know me on sight. "Yes we are." Dumbledore smiled, "it appears we are in the right place then." The two guys who were Jackson and Grace were both taller than me. Their friends didn't appear to be too much smaller than them either.

"Well very good, now come along, we can introduce ourselves better around a warm meal." Dumbledore once again said with a smile. He stuck his elbow out for me and then for the others. Jackson grabbed a girls hand, she was pretty with blond curly hair. The Grace guy grabbed a girls hand who had choppy brown hair. The other four didn't appear to be in any relationships.

I grabbed onto Dumbledore's elbow. The kids saw me do it and looked hesitant. I jerked my head for them to grab on. Jackson and Grace looked warily at each other. I suppose they didn't see a threat so they grabbed on, along with their friends.

Again I got that nauseous feeling in my stomach. When we appeared at the Burrow I was feeling like I was going to throw up. The others didn't appear so lucky. Jackson had fallen to the ground, while the guy who was weirdly dressed as Elvis was throwing up. The rest were trying to catch their balance.

"Ugh, never again," Jackson groaned from the ground, shutting his eyes. I couldn't blame him, I hated it too.

Dumbledore just smiled at them again, "Wait here for Harry and I to return if you would." With that he asked me to follow him to the Weasley's broom closet. I will admit it was kind of weird, the closet wasn't exactly roomy.

"Now Harry, I'm sure you're wondering who these eight people may be." I nodded at him. "Well all I can tell you is they are good people. They will help you and your friends succeed this year. Now I can't tell you who to put in your trust circle, but these kids are all worthy of it."

"Who are they Professor? They don't look like they come from around here." I asked him.

Dumbledore just gave me one of those knowing smiles, "That my dear boy is a question that even I can't answer. Now I do suggest we get you inside to Mrs. Weasley." With that Dumbledore led me out of the broom closet. I saw the eight new kids standing around in a circle talking to each other.

They looked up when we emerged from the shed. Dumbledore gestured towards the front door and the strangers followed us up there. Apparently the ministry had implemented new recognition test to allow you in somewhere as Mrs. Weasley wouldn't let us in until we had answered a few questions.

"Harry! It's so good to see you again, you've grown!" Mrs. Weasley said hugging me. I noticed that Tonks was sitting at the table, she gave me a weak smile, I waved back.

"Molly here are the new kids I told you about." Dumbledore said gesturing to the strangers.

"Ah, yes I was wondering when you would be getting them all here. Well don't be shy introduce yourselves."

Jackson stepped forward and offered Mrs. Weasley his hand, " I'm Percy Jackson." I noticed he had green eyes like mine, except his were the color of the ocean. Mrs. Weasley didn't shake his hand but hugged him instead. The blond guy was Jason Grace, the girl on Percy's arm was Annabeth Chase, Jason's girl was Piper. Another girl wearing a black tang top introduced herself as Jason's brother, the only similarity was their eyes, other than that they looked like strangers. The guy in the Elvis getup was Leo, the Chinese kid was Frank, and the African American girl was Hazel. I noticed after they all introduced themselves that they deferred to Percy as their leader. They were always looking at him to step up and take charge. I knew how that felt. Percy wasn't even the tallest or biggest looking, but he had a calm air around him. Like you couldn't help but trust him.

"Well dears you all must be hungry, sit and I'll whip you up something right quick." Mrs. Weasley said with a smile. With a flick of her wand pans and things began flying around the kitchen.

"I'm sorry Molly but I must be off, perhaps another time." Dumbledore said.

Tonks jumped up too, " I have to go as well. It was nice to see you Harry, and nice to meet all of you." She followed Dumbledore out the door and they apparated in the same spot.

Now I was alone with eight people who knew each other and I was the outsider.

"So," I began, " what year of school are you all in?" I asked to break the ice.

Annabeth answered, "Our sixth year." Her grey eyes were kind of scary, she looked like she was planning a way to take me out.

"Really, I'm in my sixth year too. Along with my mates Ron and Hermione."

"Don't worry dear, you'll get to see them tomorrow morning, they're in bed at the moment. Which is where you'll all be after the food." Mrs. Weasley said.

"So Harry, is it true, what they say about you and Voldemort? That you've fought him almost five times and survived every time?" Percy asked me, Annabeth looked at him like he kicked a puppy and slapped him on the arm.

I sighed, it always ended up on this topic, "Sadly yes. It's nothing special really, it's all mostly lucky. Just instinct."

Percy nodded, "I know all about that," he said with a smile. Maybe we weren't so different. The rest of his friends laughed at him.

"You call what you have luck? Your luck is nonexistent." Thalia laughed at him.

Percy glared, " I was talking about instinct, I always rely on that."

"Yeah, cause you don't have anything upstairs. Seaweed Brain." Annabeth told him. Percy just rolled his eyes at her, and wrapped his arm around her shoulder, bringing her close to him. I sighed inwardly, I wished I had someone I could be like that with.

"Here you are dears." Mrs. Weasley said setting all the food down. There was a mountain of pancakes and eggs. "Help yourselves."

Percy, Jason, and I ended up eating fourth helping of the food. It was delicious like her food always was.

"Mrs. Weasley, you're one of the best cooks I've ever met." Percy said with a smile at her. "Although, forgive me, no one can beat my mother's cooking."

"Thank you dear. I don't get compliments like that too often." She said with a slight blush.

"Percy, you charmer you," Leo said wiggling his eyebrows. Piper slapped him in the back of the head.

"If you don't mind my asking, how do you all know one another?" I asked them, they all acted like family together.

"Jason, Thalia, Frank, and Hazel here are my cousins. While we just picked these other three up out of the gutters." Percy said with a grin.

"What he meant to say was Piper, Leo and I are just friends." Annabeth said with a scowl at her boyfriend.

"Now children I think it's a good time to go get some sleep." Mrs. Weasley said cleaning up our plates. "Harry you don't mind sharing a room with the boys do you?"

"That'll be fine." I told Mrs. Weasley.

"Girls you'll all have your own room." She told the others. They all just smiled at her.

Percy, Jason, Frank, and Leo followed me up to the room we would be staying in. I noticed my trunk and Hedwig's cage were already here. Somehow there were five mattresses on the floor.

"So guys you wanna tell ghost stories?"Leo asked with an evil grin.

"Leo, man, we're exhausted, we're going to bed." Percy told him.

Leo slumped down in defeat, "Party pooper."

We all crawled into our beds for the night; goodnight was called by all to the others in the room.

I woke up to the sounds of my friends Ron and Hermione walking outside my door. I grabbed my glasses and pushed them on. The other four weren't awake yet. I quietly pulled my shirt on and walked out the door. When my door closed Ron and Hermione turned around and broke into huge smiles. Ron had grown a lot during summer, Hermione hadn't changed to much.

Hermione ran up and gave me a hug, "Harry! It's so good to see you!"

"It's good to see you too, Hermione." She had pulled away with an excited look on her face.

"We didn't even know you were here mate." Ron told me shaking my hand.

"Yeah, I got here late last night." We started walking towards the kitchen were Mrs. Weasley and Fleur were preparing breakfast.

I nudged Ron in the ribs and whispered, "Why is Fleur here?"

He looked at me weird for a second, "Oh that's right you don't know."

"Don't know what?" I asked as we reached the bottom of the stairs.

"My brother Bill and Fleur are getting married." Ron said with excitement. I hadn't even known Bill and Fleur were talking, but I was happy for them.

Once we had taken our seats around the table Ginny came down the stairs. She smiled and waved at me. I thought back to my first time coming to the Burrow, Ginny couldn't even be in the same room as me. Now it was like she was indifferent to my being here. It kind of made me angry.

"Good morning dears, breakfast will be ready in a few." Mrs. Weasley told us. Fleur looked up from chopping something to look at who was at the table. When Fleur saw me her face lit up.

" 'Arry, it's so good to see you again." She said while kissing both of my cheeks. I was probably blushing, but Ron looked jealous. He was staring agape between me and Fleur. He looked at me and I shrugged. Ginny looked at us and shook her head. I got the feeling that not everyone liked Fleur.

"Harry, have the others gotten up yet?" Mrs. Weasley asked, placing the frying pan off the burner.

"I don't think so." I told her. She left to go upstairs and wake them up.

"Harry, who else is here?" Hermione asked me.

I didn't know what to tell her, a pack of wild kids are staying here? "Um, their some new kids who are going to be attending Hogwarts with us this year."

Mrs. Weasley came down a minute later, "They'll be down in a second." She started placing the food on the table for us to begin eating. There was eggs, pancakes, toast, and porridge. I was digging in when the group of girls came down. They all looked amazing, Ron could hardly keep his eyes off them. Then the guys in my room came down, and they caused quite a commotion. Frank had a shirt on, but Jason, Percy, and Leo was shirtless. Percy and Jason were ripped, they definitely didn't look like they spent their time swinging wands. Leo on the other hand was scrawny, I was sure I had more muscle than he did. But Leo was making the most of it, he apparently had done this on purpose because he was flexing the whole way down. Percy and Jason on the other hand looked flustered, I guess they forgot to put their shirts on.

All the girls were staring at them. I caught Ginny staring at Percy's six pack, and something inside of me growled with jealousy. They quickly put their shirts on, minus Leo. Annabeth and Piper had slight smirks on their faces, it was almost like they enjoyed everyone's reactions.

Percy scratched the back of his head, "Umm I'm sorry, we won't do this again." He was blushing, like this was really embarrassing him.

"Oh, don't you worry dear, no harm done." Mrs. Weasley told him, which caused him and Jason to blush even more.

"Leo, you know you can put your shirt back on right?" Piper asked him.

"Piper, you can't hide beauty like this." He said flexing his nonexistent muscles.

"Don't mind him, he's a bit slow," Piper said teasingly. Leo stuck his tongue out at her, he still hadn't put his shirt on. Percy came and sat down next to Annabeth, who greeted him with a kiss. Jason sat down next to Piper, who kissed him too. Annabeth said something to him, and then slapped him playfully on the arm.

"So, is it safe to say, I like our new guests," Ginny smiled, looking over at Percy and Jason, causing them to blush. The thing inside me growled again, I didn't really like this.

"Thank you, next time I'll tell them two side shows to keep their shirts on." Leo said flashing her a smile. Piper face palmed. Ginny gave him a funny look, almost like saying seriously dude?

"I think it's safe to say, for us that we like you guys too." Annabeth told Ginny with a smile. Hermione was looking at all the guests with curiosity. I wondered what was going on in her head.

"Percy, what happened to you? The last time I saw you, you looked like Leo without his shirt on." Thalia asked Percy.

"Well Thalia, it's been awhile. You've missed a lot of stuff." Percy said reaching into his pocket.

Thalia just smirked at him, "You've missed a lot of what I've done too."

Leo looked over, "Ok guys let's get one thing straight, Percy never looked this good without his shirt on." Percy stared at him and then just smiled. Jason even cracked one along with Thalia. The rest just shook their heads at him.

"I think we should all introduce ourselves, seeing as Harry is the only one that knows us." Annabeth said to everyone.

Percy stood up, "I'm Percy Jackson, this is my lovely girlfriend Annabeth. This is Jason Grace and his girlfriend Piper. This is Thalia, Jason's sister. This crazy guy is Leo," when Percy said his name Leo started flexing again. "These two are Frank and Hazel."

"Well nice to meet you all, I'm Ron Weasley."

"I'm Hermione Granger."

"I'm Ginny Weasley."

"I'm Fleur."

Everyone was finally introduced. We all began to tear into our food again.

Percy looked up, "So what's everyone doing once breakfast is over?"

I really didn't know the answer to that. I planned on hanging out with Ron and Hermione, but I guess we can't exclude these guys.

"We were going to go catch up with Harry." Hermione answered.

Percy smiled, like that was the thing he was waiting to hear, "Mrs. Weasley, would you mind if we go walking around?"

Mrs. Weasley looked up from her food, "No not at all, go ahead."

All eight of them got up at once, rinsed their plates off and ran outside.

"My, they seem to be in a hurry." Mrs. Weasley said. Hermione was staring after them with a calculating look. One way or another she was going to find out their secrets.