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Harry Pov

I found Hermione's sudden outburst to be rude, especially since we didn't know what the note had said. Percy looked distraught after reading the note, almost like it had something written on it that he didn't want everyone to know.

Annabeth stepped forward to say something but Percy stopped her, "I'll explain everything guys, there's some things you don't know." Percy sounded heartbroken, when he talked. I couldn't help but feel a sudden twinge of sadness for him. The rest of his friends were staring at him like he had just said he could breathe under water.

Percy put on a weak smile, "If you'll allow us to sit, I'll explain everything." Mrs. Weasley put on a forced smile and waved her wand, and eight chairs appeared for all the guests.

"I need to know one thing before I explain everything." He looked around at everyone in the room, Hermione and Mrs. Weasley flinched a little when he looked at them. "How many of you have read the letter?" Mrs. Weasley and Hermione's hands went up. I should've known that Hermione would've read the letter. I was just as curious as everyone else, even the people in Percy's group looked curious.

"Well I guess I should start in the beginning, or as far in the beginning as I need to go. My parents, they went to Hogwarts. They both got sorted into the same house, Slytherin. While they were there, they met a dashing young man named Tom Marvolo Riddle. Of course to them he was called Voldemort." He looked up and shame was written all over his face. The people in his group looked just as shocked as everyone felt, apparently Percy hadn't been truthful with them either.

"Well during their time together at Hogwarts my parents attempted to get in Voldemort's inner circle. Of course Voldemort had been recruiting during his days at Hogwarts for his little group called Death Eaters. Fortunately my parents weren't very good at magic, so Voldemort turned them away. According to them, he wanted only the strongest and smartest wizards for his group." Now I get to learn a little more about Voldemort and his history. This could help me in my coming battle with him.

"My parents, who weren't very bright, took the news very well. They may not have had Voldemorts trust, but he still asked them occasionally to handle small jobs. He even had them do the jobs that if you were caught you would get kicked out. They took these jobs with pride, not understanding that Voldemort hoped to actually get them kicked out." Percy cracked a small smile, apparently his parents stupidity made him laugh.

"They continued this till their seventh year at Hogwarts. Voldemort had acquired quite a group of wizards to join his little gang. My parents however, were still on the outside looking in. So when the school year ended they attempted one last time to join. Voldemort turned them away again. So my parents went home and ended up getting married not to long after." That's good I thought, maybe they're out of all this trouble once and for all.

"Well, that's good right? Voldemort turned them away and they're out from his little circle, so they should be able to turn good right?" Ginny asked, hoping like the rest of us this story had a good ending.

Percy just shook his head, "Well things did look like they were turning around for a while. As I'm sure some of you know, Voldemort disappeared for a few years. So my parents actually started living normal lives. Of course they still held out hope that Voldemort would come knocking at their door. They held onto this hope for years, but finally their hope started turning into hatred."

"Then Voldemort returned, bringing with him his Death Eaters and causing havoc everywhere. My parent's hopes once again returned, only this time they didn't wait for Voldemort to come to them. They went off on their own and started killing people, they even used the dark mark. Of course Voldemort caught wind of this, so he sent some of his Death Eaters to check it out. They found my parents and laughed at them. They reported back to Voldemort and he had to come check it out for himself." I couldn't help but feel that the happy ending I was hoping for would not be coming.

"When Voldemort arrived, my parents were overjoyed. They thought they had brought a great service to Voldemort by individually carrying out his wishes. Well Voldemort wasn't too happy with them. He tortured them using the forbidden curses, they were lucky to walk out of their with their lives. Voldemort warned them to wait for him to visit them. So they waited."

"Why would your parents be so bent on joining Voldemorts little gang? They can't take a hint?" Ron asked incredulously.

"Ron, haven't you ever wanted something so bad that you would do whatever it took to get it? That's what Percy's parents are doing, no matter what everyone else says they still want it." Hermione said in barely a whisper.

Percy nodded, "You're right Hermione, they would go through hell and back just to get in his gang. But anyways, they waited until they got tired of waiting. They decided to have a child," he pointed at himself. "Just when they thought that they could get over Voldemort and his reign of terror, he visited them. I was a month old at the most, when he came. My parents of course were overjoyed to see him, but still hesitant." Something was nagging me in the back of my head. Weren't Percy and I the same age?

"So they graciously accepted him into our home. He noticed me in the corner and he even held me. My parents had tears in their eyes, they couldn't of been more proud. When he set me down, my parents whipped up a meal for him. While they ate Voldemort brought out the reason he was there." Percy looked up into my eyes, and that's when it hit me.

"No, no he asked your parents to kill me as a baby?!" I yelled at him.

Percy shook his head again, "He had heard of a prophecy, the prophecy bothered him a great deal. Apparently there were two boys born on a certain date who could possibly have the power to kill him. He asked my parents to go and kill a boy named Neville Longbottom." I was shaking, there was an ice cold grip over my heart. His parents had played a part in my parents death?

"Finally the chance my parents had been waiting for. They could finally gain Voldemorts trust. However when they had learned that the boy they were going to kill was only a child they faltered. They couldn't help but picture me laying there and trying to kill me. So they turned him down, and Voldemort was very angry. He tortured my parents to within an inch of their lives and told him that he would be back. Of course as you all know he went to Harry's house and was almost reduced to nothing. So my parents finally could get over their sick fascination with him."

There was a thick silence over everyone in the room. Percy's friends looked shocked to hear such a thing. Their looks were shared by everyone else in the room. So Percy's parents had finally stood up to Voldemort, all for their son Percy, just like mine did. Somehow I felt that this wasn't the end of the story.

"So for the next eleven years my parents and I lived a nice happy life. Of course my parents fed me stories of Voldemorts greatness, and they always blamed me for their not being part of the Death Eaters. They would sometimes call me the worst thing that had ever happened to them." A few tears ran down Percy's face. "When I turned eleven and they sent me to school, they felt that those months I was gone were gifts from heaven. When they had heard Voldemort was spotted once again, their sick fascination with him came back with a vengeance."

Percy stood up from his chair and removed him shirt, I could plainly see the scars now. They were everywhere, it almost made me sick to look at.

"They started torturing me that summer, using anything they could get their hands on. Magic, muggle items, it didn't matter. I cried almost every night, but they told me that they were grooming me for the life of a Death Eater."

"Then when the Chamber of Secrets had been opened once again, my parents were overjoyed. They thought the Chamber was the key to Voldemorts return. They had been there when Voldemort had opened it during his years and were convinced it was him. But when he had been defeated again, they lost it. My life became unbearable at home, they pushed me harder and harder every day. Then my Uncle died." Jason bowed his head at those words. "So my cousins Jason and Thalia came to live with me. At first things became better, but when those prisoners broke out of Azkaban they went ballistic. They tortured Jason and I with a new found energy." Jason stood up and took his shirt off, he didn't have as many scars as Percy but it was still sickening.

"Wait Percy didn't you say Thalia came to live with you too? Why didn't she get tortured too?" Ginny asked weakly.

"Well as messed up as my parents were they didn't feel that it was right to hit girls." Percy said shaking his head, obviously miffed by his parents actions.

"Well there was this one time," Jason began. "This was actually the first time they ever tortured me, they used a weed whacker. Instead of the normal wire or something like that they put barbed wire on the thing." I grimaced, being one of the only people from a muggle family I understood perfectly what he was saying.

"So they used that thing on me and it ripped out flesh every time it hit. I was lying on the floor screaming in pain. I guess Thalia heard it so she ran in there and tried to stop my uncle. Unfortunately he was stronger than her so he managed to throw her off. He didn't hit her with the spinning part, but instead hit her in the head with the motor. She was out for like a week with a nasty concussion. That was the only time he ever hit her." Jason finished with tears in his eyes. I had a dreadful feeling in my stomach, I had thought the Dursleys were bad. This was unbearable. Mrs. Weasley had tears in her eyes along with Hermione and Ginny. The rest of Percy's group was in shock.

"This continued on for a few years, until just recently. Jason and I had went to the market to get my parents some food. We had walked the whole way there so we had a long walk back. As we were walking back a fire truck passed us by and I thought nothing of it, till I remembered that my house was the only one within a twelve mile radius. I'm not gonna lie hope spread through my whole body, I know it's terrible. So when we arrived home three hours later our barn was burned to the ground. Thalia was fine but my parents were gone. So the firemen delivered us to an orphanage. Till we met the ministry of magic people and they transported us to where Dumbledore and Harry picked us up." His story was terrible, everyone was wiping tears out of their eyes.

Annabeth got up from her chair and hugged Percy, "I never knew Percy, why didn't you tell us?" She said sobbing into his shoulder.

"You guys never needed to know." Was Percy's simple reply. Annabeth whispered something in his ear that made him smile.

"My dears that's terrible, I'm so sorry for ever thinking you guys were up to something bad." Mrs. Weasley said wiping away her tears with a handkerchief.

"I'm curious, how did you two end up looking like that if life was so miserable for you?" Hermione asked, tears still running down her eyes.

Percy cracked a small smile, "We lived on a farm, so we did all the work for my parents, it was quite a good workout." Apparently Ginny had had enough, she jumped out of her seat and hugged Percy, crying on his shoulder. I felt a great roar in my chest, but it subsided when I remembered what Percy had been through. She broke away from him and hugged Jason too.

"Mrs. Weasley, would you mind if we go to bed now? I'm sorry, I don't like talking about that, I need some time to unwind." Percy asked Mrs. Weasley weakly.

"Oh, dears don't even worry about it, I wouldn't expect you to all be up and happy after that. Go on I'll save you some dinner for when you get up." She said with a smile. They all said thanks as they walked up to their rooms.

I sighed, "I think I've had enough for tonight too."

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