To Guest, who asked that I add Will into the story: Yes, I have plans for him later ;) Solangelo is one of my OTPs, so I'll definitely add them!

By the way, this takes place after BoO and during OoTP (Order of the Phoenix). It is currently November.

Harry POV

Ugh. If I hear Ron complain about being hungry one more time, I'm going to rip my ears out.

Despite it being Saturday, Dumbledore was going to be giving us an instructional lecture during lunch. There were many things odd about that. For a start, the different years and houses were commonly separated during lessons. Also, Dumbledore almost never gave instructional lectures, besides the start-of-term one.

As we sat down at the Gryffindor table, Hermoine whispered, "What do you think he'll talk about today?"

I shrugged in response, while Ron just groaned.

Fifteen minutes later, once everyone was seated, Dumbledore stood up, cleared his throat, and began.

"Children, I have gathered you all here to tell you of an upcoming event. As you all have been informed, Voldemort has risen again, and this puts you all at risk."

At this point, he was interrupted by a girly hem hem, and the pink toad herself stepped up to where Dumbledore was speaking, and gestured for him to move aside. With a half confused, half annoyed look, he obeyed.

"It appears that Dumbledore has been mistaken. The evil wizard is dead, and has not risen. The events Mr. Potter and his friends claim to have witnessed in the past have all been nothing more than their imaginations at work. The ministry of magic can assure to you that you are in no danger from anyone."

With that, she sat down.

"Now, as I was saying," Dumbledore continued, "The dark lord may or may not be alive again. Nevertheless, I have decided that you should be kept safe. We will be having a few guests from America coming to help protect you. Now, this is going to sound absurd, but I guarantee that all I'm saying is true. Have any of you heard of the entities called the Greek Gods?" Few people raised their hands, and unsurprisingly, Hermoine was one of those people.

Gesturing towards Hermoine, Dumbledore said, "Care to explain to the rest of the students?"

Hermoine stood up, and said, "The Greek Gods were the ancient Greek's way of explaining how natural stuff occured, like the sea and the sky and such. The gods were called Olympians, and lived on a mountain called Mount Olympus." She sat back down.

"Ten points to Gryffindor for that explanation. Yes, everything Ms. Granger said is correct. Now," he said, then paused, as if trying to decide the best way to say something. "Well... I'll tell it to you straightforward. The Greek Gods exist, and they sometimes have children with muggles, whom they call mortals. Those children are called demigods. The Americans coming here are all demigods."

With that, he paused to let everyone comprehend his words.

After two seconds of dead silence, chatter broke out.

"Seriously?"

"This must be a prank."

"Haha, very funny."

"WHAT?"

"I must be dreaming."

I, on the other hand, was to stunned to talk. I mean, it couldn't be true, could it?

I looked at the rest of my friends, and saw faces that wore expressions of pure shock and disbelief, like I assumed I had. Well, almost everyone looked like that. Oddly enough, Neville just looked confused, and surprised. I wonder why?

My thoughts were interrupted by another hem hem. All chatter suddenly stopped as Umbridge began speaking.

"Dumbledore, you shouldn't tell lies to the students! Their little brains are easily susceptible to crazy, untrue information that corrupts them!"

"Dolores, I assure you that I am telling nothing but truth here." Dumbledore turned back to the crazy Great Hall. "The demigods will be arriving later today, and will be joining us for our supper. They will be staying in a special room outside of the Hall, and will have their own table. Do not try to get into their room, for it will only open to a demigod's touch. I warn you not to anger them, for they will have permission to deal with you however they choose to. Now, eat, for I am sure you are all starving."

No one ate much. Even Ron only ate about one serving, much less then normal. In fact, the only Gryffindor eating normally was Neville. He was definitely acting weird today.

After all the plates had been cleaned of food, Hermoine and Ron went off to someplace for some special prefect duty. I decided to walk back with Neville, Seamus and Dean. We left the Great Hall, but instead of turning towards the Gryffindor common room, Neville started walking towards the demigods' room.

"Neville, what are you doing?" I called to him.

He turned towards me, saying, "Seeing if they're here yet." With that, he turned back around, and disappeared around the corner. With a shrug, I motioned to Dean and Seamus to follow me. I knew that, since the door could only be unlocked with a demigod's touch, Neville couldn't get in. He'd probably come as soon as he realized that, so I just let him be.

He came into the common room 10 minutes after us, said, "They're not here yet," and sat down, deep in thought.

Sorry about the kinda short chapter. I originally wrote this as two parts, but it would be really long if I made it just one chapter, so I'm separating it into two. Part two should be up by tomorrow morning, but no promises.

QOTD: Blackjack or Tempest?

My answer: Blackjack

(BTW, Blackjack was one of my favorite characters from PJO, he's just so hilarious and an awesome companion!)