WTF Annabeth

Chapter 20

Seamus

Okay, so not only was Selina beautiful, she also has a pet unicorn named after a breed of monkeys. As if the girls at the school didn't already hate her enough. Don't get me wrong, the people that knew her knew she was just awesome, but that was limited to first years in Gryffindor plus George and Fred. And I'm not sure about George and Fred given the ass kicking she put on them. I was sure that the boys liked her more than the girls given that she had taken the rock star off the market. And that she was unworldly beautiful.

It was weird having a unicorn dine with us, even after Dumbledore greeted him and introduced him to the whole school. It was also difficult as I sat beside Annabeth and Percy, which put me directly across from Lemur. Have you ever tried to eat with a big ass horn a few inches over your plate while the magical creature it was attached to munched down on a never ending bowl of salad with apples, oats and sweet feed mixed in? Its not easy and you have to be careful to not lose an eye.

The big news was that after dinner we were all to meet in the room of requirement again for some secret purpose. It couldn't be more combat practice, we were all bruised and battered still from the afternoon session. No one around me noticed this because they were all so in love it made me want to vomit.

Dinner was otherwise nice though.

We all arrived in mass at the room of requirement but had to wait while Selina and Harry walked the unicorn around the yard. Apparently there is a lot of fiber in a diet of gigantic salads with apples, sweet feed and oats. Who knew?

Oh, wait. Anyone with a brain knew. Whatever.

"Any idea what this is about?" Fay asked me as we waited.

"Nope. Any idea what this is about Percy?"

"Yes."

"What?"

"Can't say." he grinned.

"Asshole." Dean replied.

Annabeth just giggled at this.

Selina and the lucky bastard soon arrived with Lemur and we were able to go into the room. It was set up for spell practice, with really big, thick, wooden targets at various ranges. Lots of them, and nothing else but a rectangular table.

Harry went through some spiel about how Hecate had given us all wands and we were to pick out the one we liked after looking them over. Oh, and apparently they could do no evil. Sounded like bullshit to me, but hey! Free wand! When it was my turn one caught my eye that had a greenish hue, well to me at least, and being Irish I rather liked it. I got a warm, tingly feeling as soon as I picked up, even better than when I got fitted at Ollivanders. It just felt right.

As the evening progressed we learned that spells we were competent at were much stronger. Harry and Hermione's stupifys shattered targets. Mine, and the rest of the first years split them in two at least. But spells we didn't know as well, we could only cast them maybe a little bit better. Still, cool wand.

Harry and Hermione were busy trying to catch Selina up, teaching her every simple spell they could think of. She tried a stupify jinx on a wooden target several times and nothing happened, then it just exploded. She giggled like a toddler and jumped up and down with glee.

"Teach me that cleaning spell Rue!" she exclaimed.

George and Fred knew more spells and had better results over all, as one might expect and each took to blowing up what targets were left and laughing.

Finally Harry and a few others had a lumos charm that was practically blinding. I never thought of it as an offensive spell before, but blinding your opponent seemed like it might be useful.

We had just learned aguameti but none of us knew it well. Percy's was like a fire hydrant spraying the room down, while the strongest anyone else got was like faucet, which was still pretty good.

McGonagall stressed that we should honor Hecate by working hard on spell craft and dark arts defense, and we all agreed. She and Harry also told us that we shouldn't tell others about them and reminded us that training was secret.

"Uh Harry, the only reason George and Fred are here is because they overheard someone talking."

"Yeah, I know. What the fuck Annabeth?"

"Harry Potter! You will not use such language!" McGonagall practically shouted while we all laughed.

"Sorry Mam'"

The new wands definitely improved everyone's attitude and excitement was building as we realized the twins were not that far advanced beyond where we were, so we were getting to be pretty kick ass. Or so we thought.

That night we had another party but it was far more subdued and on the girl's side. The guys talked about wands, spells we wanted to work on and quidditch. The girls talked about the guys, and how hella cute Lemur was. It was a good night.