Chapter 9

Percy looked down and grumbled, "I just want to tell you how much I hate you. This is the second time you turned me into an animal Hecate!" but all that came out was a series of neighs and grunts.

Hecate grinned looking up Percy snout, "I can't understand what you are saying Percy, but I'm guessing you are currently insulting me."

Percy neighed as he nodded his long horse head, "Hades yes! I hate you so much right now! I go to sleep and the next thing I know I'm a freaking pegasus?! What the fuck Hecate, give a guy some notice before you turn him into a horse!"

Percy grunted as he pranced around the living room of number 7 in his animagus form. He woke up and suddenly found himself standing over a broken bed with hooves and wings. He tumbled down the stairs, breaking the banister with brute force and was now currently glaring down at the goddess of magic.

"Well I'm guessing you are probably asking why I changed you fully, yes?" Hecate asked with a smirk. Percy neighed and nodded his head. "Well you see I figured it ws time you learnt how to do a full body transformation. So, presto! Horse mode activate!"

Percy grumbled, "hate is too weak a word." Percy sighed, 'okay, okay, focus Percy. Focus. You have done all of this before, you just need to remember to do them all at once. You got this.'

Percy focused and scrunched up eyes in focus. He remembered how it felt to stand up like a man. To stand straight and tall. How he moved, how he fought, how his neck didn't feel like a bloody tree trunk.

Slowly Percy's wings started to seep into his back as he felt himself growing shorter. Percy's hooves turned into hand as digits started to sprout out. Percy's bones started to change lengths allowing Percy to slowly stand up.

The muscles around his body started to reduce as Percy felt himself shrinking and sharking until finally he felt himself reach his normal height. The last of the wings then disappeared into his shoulder blades as Percy felt a few feathers fall off.

Percy sighed, he opened his eyes and smiled, "I did it."

Hecate grinned, "you did," her eyes then trailed down and widened, "well….kind off."

Percy looked down and screamed, "where are my clothes?!" Percy covered his groin and glared at Hecate, "give me back my clothes woman!"

"Calm down," Hecate snapped her fingers causing Percy's night clothes to suddenly appear over him, "although I must say Percy it's no wonder your animagus form is a horse. You are hung like one even in human form. Hmm, must be you godly genes."

"Can we please stop talking about my dick?!" Percy yelled back as he checked himself over and found that everything was back the way they were. Percy sighed, "thank the Gods."

"Well then, I suppose the first step of the training is complete! Let's get breakfast!" Hecate grinned.

"Oh no, don't think I'm letting you off the fuckign hook Hecate! You turned me into a pegasus!" Percy continued to yell as they ate breakfast. Hecate didn't seem bother by Percy, if anything the more he yelled the more she smiled. After he was done yelling he ate his breakfast in peace.

"Now then, let's continue shall we?" Hecate asked as she brought Percy back to the living room. This time she cleared all the furniture to the sides to give him ample space to transform.

"Okay, so same as before? You keep changing me until I turn instantly?"

"Yes...and no," Hecate told him, "you see this time we are going to do things a little differently. Before I transform parts of your body and nothing else. This time however I transformed you and the clothes you are wearing as well. So this time when you transform back I want you to do it while bringing back your clothes as well."

Percy nodded, "I see...so I'm supposed to endlessly bring back all my clothes?"

"Yes, but don't worry, it will be easy. Anything you are wearing will be directly influenced by your magic. Usually the animagus would have to learn how to vanish their clothing, that is destroy it thread by thread, and then bring it back. This is why transfiguration is so important for an animagus transformation, so that they can vanish and reproduce what they are wearing when they transform."

"I see...but what if the item they are transforming is difficult to change? Like what if I'm wearing the watch you gave me? Surely something that powerful will be impossible to vanish?"

"Not really. You see when you transform into an animagus your magic 'remembers' what your human form looked like. It is up to you to bring those clothing out. When I clothed you again after you transformed back what did you think I did?"

"Ah...didn't you just conjured up the clothes?" Percy pointed at the clothes he wore.

"No, I didn't. These clothes were saved inside of you by your magic. All I did was pull it out. The clothes you are wearing are the exact same ones you wore to sleep last night."

Percy looked down and realised she was telling the truth. He first thought Hecate had just simply known what he wore, but there were minor differences. The small ketchup stain Percy had from spilling sauce on himself a few days ago was still there. A conjured set of clothes wouldn't have such detail.

"Okay, I think I'm getting it now," Percy nodded, "basically I should not just imagine what I felt like as a human, but what I wore when transforming, right?"

Hecate nodded, "exactly."

"Alright then, let's begin," Percy nodded gathering all the attention he could muster. Hecate snapped her fingers and suddenly Percy found himself transformed into a pegasus once more. His muscles felt bigger, his skin felt so much stronger now as his hair line stretched down his neck giving him a thick mane.

"Okay, that was cool!" Percy cried out in joy as he spread his wings cracking the notches in his bones. Having wings was an odd sensation for Percy, it was like having an tra set of wings. But the more he moved them around the more natural they felt for him.

"Alright now transform back," Hecate instructed him as she stood a good few feet behind.

Percy nodded and closed his eyes. He focused on remembering what he felt like as a human, slowly he felt himself change, but it was only half way through Percy that remembered to think of his clothes. The result was Percy transformed back into a human, standing on two legs with nothing on but his shirt.

Hecate raised an eyebrow, "are you trying to seduce me Jackson?"

Percy blushed, "gods dammit!" Percy quickly recalled his pants and felt a tung on his magic. He pyjamas spread around his legs and Percy sighed in relief.

"Not bad," Hecate nodded, "again," she snapped her fingers.

The next time Percy transformed he had completely forgotten about his clothes. Then the next time he forgot about his shirt. The next time was better though as he remembered to wear his shirt and pants, but he was stuck with hooves instead of legs. Hecate had to help him out off that one.

Finally an hour later Percy managed to instantly transform out of his animagus form, into his human form, with clothes and all.

"Very good Percy, now, try to switch into your animagus form all by yourself, and then change back."

Percy nodded as closed his eyes. He remembered the feeling being a pegasus granted him. The wings, the muscles, the way his hooves hit the ground clacking their way around. Percy then pushed his magic forward, and slowly transformed.

Percy's wings burst out of his back tearing through his shirt. His pants tore as his legs turned into hooves, the muscles tearing apart the stitches. Percy had successfully transformed into his animagus form, but his human clothes was torn apart.

"Figured this would happen," Hecate snapped her fingers and turned Percy back into his human form while fixing his clothes. "You forgot to vanish your clothes didn't you?"

Percy blushed, "I-I never did it before."

"I know. And that's we are doing this now. Again!"

One hour later Percy was ready. He closed his eyes and transformed himself into a pegasus. As his body grew bigger, his clothes vanished. He spread his wings proudly at the successful transformation. He then slowly reversed the process and turned human, pulling back his clothes from wherever magic had stored them.

Percy grinned, "Yes!"

Hecate clapped, "congratulations Percy, you are no officially an animagus!"

Percy grinned, "this is so cool! I can't wait to show Harry this!"

"Hm, well you might want to wait up on that, I still want you to train more," Hecate told him, "practise wearing different clothes and other items when you transform. Like while wearing the watch or with your wand. I want you to perfect the ability before you go around boasting about it. No student of mine will walk around like a half baked pie!"

"Right, got it. And when should I register this at the ministry?"

"Give me a few days, I'll get you an appointment for it. Maybe after the world cup finals, lazy wizards will probably push all their work until it's over. So until then I don't want you showing off, I trust Harry, but is someone sees you doing this and you aren't registered that's a one way ticket of Azkaban for you!"

Percy nodded and for the rest of the day he practised transforming with different clothes. He even tried with his wand, watch and riptide. Percy was half afraid that Riptide would just magically drop next to him instead of disappearing, but it seemed whatever charms the pen had worked with the animagus transformation as Riptide vanished and reappeared like any other normal piece of cloth.

Percy spent the next few days working on his hoverboard project. He was so close to completing it he could almost taste it. One night when he was working on the board's power output Hecate walked up to him and put down an opened letter.

"What's this?" Percy asked, he looked at the letter and found the seal of the ministry of magic on it.

"It's your OWLs results, they just came in!" Hecate beamed unable to keep a smile off her face.

"And you opened it?" Percy asked pulling the letter out.

"Well yes! I was too excited!"

"How did I do?"

"See for yourself!" the goddess grinned causing Percy to smile in return. She wasn't angry, that probably meant he didn't screw things up.

The letter had the ministry of magic seal on the top with finely written formal document below;

ORDINARY WIZARDING LEVEL RESULTS

PASSING GRADES:

Outstanding [O]

Exceeds Expectations [E]

Acceptable [A]

FAILING GRADES:

Poor [P]

Dreadful [D]

Troll [T]

PERCY JACKSON HAS ACHIEVED THE FOLLOWING IN HIS OWLS EXAM DURING THE YEAR 1994:

ANCIENT RUNES: O+

Theory- O+

Practical- O+

ARITHMANCY: O

Theory- O

Practical- O

ASTRONOMY: A

Theory- A

Practical- A

CARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES: A-

Theory- A

Practical- P

CHARMS: EE

Theory- A

Practical- O

DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS: O

Theory- EE

Practical- O+

HERBOLOGY: A+

Theory- A

Practical- EE

HISTORY OF MAGIC: A+

POTIONS: O++

Theory- O++

Practical- O++

TRANSFIGURATION: O-

Theory- EE

Practical- O

Percy's eyes popped wide, "holy shit!" he laughed as read and reread the paper over and over again, "this is fantastic!"

"Yeah it is!" Hecate cheered, "you did me proud Jackson! Four months and I managed to change someone who was as knowledge as a squib into an O level wizard!"

Percy grinned as he looked over his marks again. "Charms is a surprise, I didn't think I would actually be good at it!"

"I think the bewitching sleep charm you used impressed them, got you and I didn't it?"

Percy nodded, "yeah...O++ for potions, O+ for rune and an O for arithmancy. Not bad. Oh and O- for transfiguration, I wonder what my mark would be if they knew I was an animagus. Let's see... Well looks like I didn't do that well with the practical side in care for magical creature, I knew that fuckign pixie would come back and bite in the ass! Stupid thing! Kept biting me!"

Hecate chuckled, "well I suppose that's my fault. Couldn't get you enough interaction with the creatures, so you don't have to worry. But hey, at least you did well enough in your theory to pass, that's something."

Percy nodded, "right. Astronomy is okay, don't really care about that though. Oh, I got an O in DADA!"

"It was the spell creations wasn't it? Told you they would be impressed. Not every wizard can just make up new spells Percy."

Percy nodded, "yeah. This is amazing! I got an A+ in Herbology, no great loss there, and the same for history. Hm, I was sure I did a little better than that."

Hecate nodded, "it was the blood band, it probably helped you put a lot."

Percy nodded, "yeah. Ha, guess they are going to have to change the, 'no cheating since 1896' policy huh?"

Hecate ruffled his hair, "that's my ward. Alright, guess it's time to enroll you into Hogwarts huh?"

Percy grinned, "Harry's going to be excited when he hear about this!"

"Right, speaking of the little runt, I'm sure he would love to see your results. Go on show him.."

Percy nodded and got up. He looked out the window and saw that it was dark, Percy looked at his watched and found that was near midnight, "do you think he will be awake at this time?"

"I'm sure he will, no go on, I need to call the Fates and tell them the good news," Hecate smiled practically pushing Percy out the front door.

Percy quickly ran to Harry's window and looked up to see the window closed. Percy took out his wand and unlocked the window easily. He then jumped and caught the small dent he created into the Dursley's wall, using it as a foot hold to pull himself up.

Percy climbed into the room, "Harry? You awake?" Percy saw Harry in bed sleeping. The demigod was about to leave, not wanting to wake Harry up, when he saw the boy shake.

'What the Hades?' Percy climbed in and got closer, Harry was thrashing around in his bed, his sheets wet from his sweat. He face looked afraid as he mumbled something under his breath.

'He's having a nightmare,' Percy realised as he quickly went to his friend's side. "Harry? Harry wake up. Wake up Harry! It's only a dream!"

Harry's eyes shot open and he yelled, "ARGH!"

Percy flinched, he immediately shot a silencing spell to Harry's door, hopeful Harry hadn't woken the Dursley's up. Percy then grabbed Harry and shock him awake, "Harry! Harry it's okay! It's only a dream!"

Harry blinked blindly as he squinted, "P-Percy? Is that you?"

"Yeah," Percy grabbed Harry's glasses and put them on. Once Harry could see Percy smiled, "that's better."

"Thanks," Harry sighed as he pulled himself up on the bed holding his scar in pain.

"Nightmare?" Percy asked.

"Yeah...a bad one."

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"I….yes...it was….it was about him," Harry glared and Percy knew instantly who he was talking about.

"Voldemort?" Percy asked and Harry nodded. "Shit...well what did you dream about?"

"I...I was in this house, and I was walking inside. I saw Voldermort there with Peter, expect….expect he didn't look normal. He looked like...like a baby."

"A baby? Like a small shitting in diapers baby?" Percy asked.

Harry smiled slightly, "yeah. And...and then he noticed me. He pointed his wand at me and sent out a green light. It hit me and….and i woke up."

"A green light?" Percy asked, "that sounds like the killing curse."

Harry flinched, "yes, I know."

"Right….so wait, who's Peter?" Percy asked and this time Harry stopped moving altogether.

"I...I ah," Harry stammered, but Percy knew what was going on.

"It's okay, you don't have to say anything now. It's probably fresh on your mind. You can tell me when you feel up to it," Percy told Harry who sighed in relief.

"Thanks...ah Percy, not to sound rude, but what are you doing here?"

Percy blinked, "me? Oh right! I came to show you my OWLs results! They just came in!"

Harry blinked, "really? Show me!"

Percy did and the two friends stayed into the night discussing about the exam. Harry was impressed by Percy's scores, he even went so far as to ask him to tutor him for the oncoming year. Percy didn't ask who Peter was, even though he was very curious, but he respected Harry and he knew everyone had a right to keep secrets, Percy of all people knew that.

Two days later Percy found someone knocking at his door. He opened it and found Harry there dressed up and ready to leave with his trunk by besides him.

"Hey Harry! DId the Weasley's come to reveal you?" Percy asked with a smile.

"Yeah, Mr. Weasley, Ron and the twins came," Harry pointed behind him to a family of red heads standing at Percy's porch. They waved to him and Percy waved back. The twins reminded Percy of the stoll brothers, especially the mischievous gleams in their eyes. The younger boy, Ron, was tall, almost as tall as Percy, and he was at least 3 years younger. And finally the older man had a belly and balding head, but yet the man's smile seemed to be infectious as he smiled at Percy.

"Perfect, well then I suppose after this I'm only going to see you at Hogwarts huh?" Percy asked.

"Not really, I promise to try and look for you at the match."

"Yeah good luck with that, from what I heard you'll be lucky to find your own foot," Percy and Harry chuckled.

"Well anyway I just came to say goodbye, if not at the finals then I hope we can at least meet on the Hogwarts express."

Percy nodded, "right Harry. I'll seen you soon then," he then hugged Harry, and surprisingly Harry hugged him back. Percy wished him well and quickly returned to his work station. He was still working on his hover board, and by the looks of things he might just be able to ready it by the times the finals roll around.

On the day of the finals Hecate woke Percy up at around 5 in the morning by throwing a bucket of water at him. But that didn't really work because of the whole son of Poseidon thing. But eventually Hecate did manage to get Percy up and running as he quickly changed and packed for the trip.

Percy wore a button down blue shirt with a hoodie and a pair of jeans. Apparently even thought it was a wizarding event people were expected to dress up like muggles. They apparated to the spot and the moment they arrived Percy was swept away by the very sight of the place.

Magical was everywhere as witches and wizards roamed the field wearing what they might have thought passed for 'muggle' clothes. But it was honestly terribly, honestly, who wore a pink tutu and expects people not to notice?!

Percy and Hecate quickly found their way through the crowd until they found their designated camp site. Hecate rolled out their tent and with a snap of her fingers set it up. They stepped in and Percy found a small apartment inside.

"I think Artemis had something like this in the future," Percy said as he looked around at all the bed and cushions lying around.

"She did? Can't say I'm surprised. We Gods introduced this kind of magic first, bending space is kind of are thing. When the mortals found out...well let's just say it wasn't pretty. I had to wipe out their memory of that particular branch of magic, but I left a little bit behind, just in case anyone got suspicious. After all an entire study of magic can't just disappear overnight."

Percy nodded, "right. Well do you need my help with anything?"

"What? Oh, no, no I'm fine. I'll just stay here until the match begins," Hecate threw Percy a golden ticket, "think you can find your way into the stadium?"

Percy nodded, "yeah, shouldn't' be too difficult."

"Great. Where are you going by the way?" Hecate asked as she jumped into a mountain of pillows relaxing into its softness.

"I'm taking the board out for a spin," Percy said with a grin pointing at his completed hoverboard strapped to his back, "I figured if I can get people's attention with this they might stop obsessing over brooms so much."

"Right, well sorry to burst your bubble kid but you aren't allowed to display magic here. As far as the ministry is concerned this is a muggle area meaning no forms of magic."

Percy jaw dropped, "what? Are you serious?!"

"Yup, didn't you notice all those guys trying to look like muggles?"

Percy sighed, "trying being the key word. Shit Hecate, I was really looking forward to this! Fuck my life!"

Hecate chuckled as she summoned herself a glass of wine, "why don't you look around? There are people from all over the magical world gathered here, maybe you can find something interesting."

Percy grumbled, "I guess...maybe I can find Harry too...sigh, fine then I'm leaving!" And with that Percy stepped out of his tent and began walking around randomly.

He found people speaking different languages all around him. French, Germany, something that sounded like spanish if they mispronounced every word. There were people dressed in all sorts of funny ways, Percy couldn't help but chuckle as he saw a man dressed like a clown, obviously he wasn't very good at acting like a muggle.

Percy noticed people gathered around talking in groups about the match to come. He even found a lot people taking bets on the match, right now the favour was leaning towards Ireland winning, but lots people believed that the skewer for Bulgaria would win it all, some guy named Krum.

Percy also found a lot of stalls around the place selling magical items that looked quite interesting. There were a pair of binoculars that could record videos, Omnioculars they were called, even a few vanity items like bobble heads a tiny action figures that were charmed to fly around.

Percy walked up to one of the stalls and looked over the merchandise. "Can I help you with something love?" an older witch at the stall asked.

"I'm just looking for a souvenir," Percy told her as he looked around spotting face paint and scarves with the final teams colour on them.

"Well which team are you supporting then?" the witch asked.

"I..I don't really know," Percy shrugged, "I just came here with my aunt who loved the sport."

"I see, America are you? Well you people are all the same, no love for the fine things in life," the witch huffed, "quiche is an art form you see, and one that deserves respect."

Percy chuckled, "you know if you want to sell something you probably shouldn't insult your customers."

The witch blinked like she had just realised that. "Right...sorry. Well if you are interested I would recommend the Irish! Green and white scarf, only a gallon!"

Percy chuckled, "yeah right, I may be American, but I'm not an idiot. I can by 10 scarves for a galleon!"

"Fine, a scarf and one dancing irish desk toy."

Percy chuckled, "you are persistent," he looked over her wares and he spotted a bulgarian mascot desk toy. It was a beautiful blond woman with piercing blue eyes. She smiled seductively at Percy and motioned him to come closer. She began to dance seductively, running her hands down her body, begging Percy to come closer and then suddenly she stopped sighing in an orgasmic tone.

Percy blinked, "did that thing just try to seduce me?"

The witch laughed, "right you are boy. That there is a veela, the mascot for the bulgarians. I expect to make a pretty penny off of them! Seductive minx sell like hot cakes around here!"

Percy raised an eyebrow, "seriously? Who would want this?"

"Well lots of fine young men like yourselves of course. Many ah, let's say, find the desk toy very appealing."

Percy looked between the veela and the leprechaun, he didn't understand why but every time he saw the veela he was reminded of Mrs. Dodds, his math teacher slash Fury of the underworld. Why a veela would remind him of a demon from the underworld Percy didn't know, but he trusted his gut and it told him to stay the fuck away.

Percy shivered, "okay, that doesn't sound creepy at all. Look I'll just take an irish scarf, and face paint and the leprechaun."

"The leprechaun, are you sure? Not the Veela?"

"No, please, that thing creeps me out, it keeps sending me bedroom eyes," Percy shivered yet again. He played the witch her galleon and walked away with his purchase. He was happy with it, but the veela desk toy glared at him flipping him off.

Percy wrapped the irish scarf around his neck and pocketed the desk toy. He decided to put on the face paint when the match begins, so for now he kept it safe in his pocket.

Percy walked around some more looking at everyone around him. He noticed that more and more people started to display their colours proudly. Many even more the team jerseys over their muggle clothes.

Just then Percy saw a head of messy hair in the distance accompanied by a tall redheaded boy. Percy smiled as he quickly ran up to them.

"Harry!" Percy cried as he caught up to Harry.

Harry turned and grinned, "hey Percy! Surprised to see you here!"

Percy nodded, "I know right!" Harry wasn't alone. Ron was on his right and a girl with brown bushy hair was on his left. Percy nodded to Ron, "and you must be Ron right?"

Ron smiled, "hello. You're Percy right? Harry told us all about you."

Percy grinned at Harry, "all of them are lies, expect the cool parts those are true."

Harry chuckled, "liar. Oh, and this is Hermione," Harry pointed at the bushy haired girl.

Percy nodded, "right, I remember you talking about her. Brightest witch of her age and all that."

Hermione blushed a little before clearing her throat, "r-right. Hello Percy, it's nice to finally meet you. Thank you for taking care of Harry over the summer."

Percy waved it off, "not a problem, it was my pleasure. Plus he also helped me staying insane. I swear if I had to read another book I would have killed someone!"

Hermione looked aghast as Ron and Harry chuckled. Percy looked confused and Harry explained, "careful what you say about books around this one Percy, she loves him. One time she said that the only thing worst than getting killed is being expelled."

Percy chuckled, "is that so?" Hermione blushed even harder as she looked away, "you know I have a friend in the states who would love you. You could even call her a child of Athena," Percy chuckled at his inside joke.

"You know I have a brother called Percy," Ron said, "he isn't like you at all."

"You mean he has red hair?"

"No, I mean he isn't as...well you see he's kind of….well-"

"-He's a stickler for rules," Harry completed, "last year he was head boy and God help you if you ask him about it. He wouldn't stop!"

Percy grumbled, "a Percy that is a rule follower? What a crime! I must speak with this fool at once!"

Ron chuckled, "don't worry, he'll be coming for the finals today, I'm sure you'll meet him then."

"Great!" Percy cheered, "so where are you three off to?"

Harry pointed at the bucket he was carrying, "Mr. Weasley asked up to fetch some water."

"Ah, let me just take care of that," Percy said as he focused on his demigod powers pulling water out of the air and poured it into the bucket.

Harry's eyes went wide as he felt the bucket grow heavier and heavier. When it was full Percy stopped and grinned, "there we go, one full bucket!"

"How did you do that?!" Hermione shrieked, "you didn't use or wand or say a spell! Is that wandless magic? I've heard of that but only the most powerful wizards can do it! How did you?!"

Harry chuckled, "Hermione Percy's a sixth year, he just completed his OWLs with what? 5 O's? He's basically a genius."

Hermione snapped to Percy and stared in awe as if he was the next Dumbledore. Percy chuckled and scratched his head, "come on Harry you're embarrassing me in front of your friends. Believe me Hermione it's not that big of a deal. Water magic just comes to me naturally, my aunt told me it's a family gift that was passed on to me by my dad. It's like how parseltongue is passed down a family line."

Harry flinched at the mention of parseltongue but Percy and the other's ignored it. "Percy, would you like to join us?" Harry asked, "I'm sure Mr. Weasley wouldn't mind. Unless of course Hecate wants you back?"

Percy shrugged, "no not really. Hecate is doing her own thing, she promised not to burn anything to the ground until the match so I'm free until then."

"Great, then let's go," Harry said leaning the group back to the Weasley's campsite.

"So Percy what subjects did you write?" Hermione asked.

"Well let's see," Percy scratched his chin, "Potions, DADA, charms, transfiguration, care for magical creatures, runes, arithmancy, astronomy and Herbology."

"Amazing! That's exactly what I'm taking!" Hermione cheered and then began bombarding Percy with questions upon questions. Percy blinked as they just kept coming and coming not even bothering to wait for Percy's reply. When Hermione was done she looked at him with sparkling eyes expecting an swer.

Percy turned to Harry, "is she always like this?"

Harry and Ron laughed, "yup!"

The small group reached the weasley's tent, by then Percy had answered most of Hermione's questions and promised to answer the rest when they reached Hogwarts.

Mr. Weasley stood up, "ah boys you got the water! Lovely! And who's this young man?"

"This is Percy, Mr Weasley, Percy Jackson. Remember I told you about him?" Harry said.

"Ah yes, of course. Sorry about that, mind's not as sharp as it used to be," Mr Weasley shook Percy's hand.

"Sorry if I'm intruding, I just saw Harry and the others and thought to tag along," Percy smiled.

"Oh please, the more the merrier!" Arthur chuckled, "you know I have a son named Percy as well, works at the ministry."

"Oh is that right?"

"Right, now why don't you and the kids go and make yourselves busy, Ron, I'll call you all when supper's ready," Arthus said goodbye and quickly left to the kitchen.

"He seems nice," Percy noted.

"He's the best," Harry said causing Ron to grin back, "anyway I think I saw the twins outside, let's go find out what they are up to."

They walked outside and found Fred and George sitting in front of a campfire whispering to each other.

"Oye! What are you two on about?" Ron asked as they sat with the twins.

"Well you see little brother of ours-," one began.

"-we have taken up the noble and rewarding art of betting-" continued the other

"-and we have just finished placing our bets!"

"So what did you bet on?" Harry asked.

"The irish will win-"

"-But Krum will catch the snitch!"

"Honestly, gambling is barbaric you two, you should stay out of it," Hermione huffed.

"Right you are Ms Granger-"

"-And that's why you are the lady and we are just common men who are graced with your presence."

Percy chuckled, "how do you two do that?"

"They won't say," Ron grumbled, "and no one has been able to figure it out. Mom recons they practise it when they are alone."

"I'm sorry-"

"-but we haven't been introduced! I'm Fred."

"Oye! I thought I was Fred!"

"No, you're George, remember the more handsome one is Fred."

"Right, and the better equipped one was George, got it."

Percy laughed while Harry, Hermoine and Ron looked confused. Harry asked, "what do you mean better equipped?"

Percy chuckled, "you've done it now."

"Well you see young Harry, what we mean is," Fred leaned in to whisper something and Harry turned bright red.

Percy chuckled, "enjoy Harry my boy, you are now a man!"

"Oye that's not fair! Tell us too!" Ron cried out.

George wiggled his eyebrows, "you sure Ronniekins? You can't unknow it later you know."

"Actually you can," Percy said, "obliviate charm."

The twins blinked, they looked at each other and then at Percy. "Sorry if we seem rude-"

"-but who are you?"

Percy smiled, "Percy, Percy Jackson. Pleasure to meet you."

"Ah another Percy-" George grinned evilly.

"-I didn't realise it was our birthday," Fred had a similar smile.

Percy turned to Harry, "are they planning on pranking me?"

Harry nodded, "yes."

Percy turned to the twins and grinned, "bring it bitches."

"Oh we like this Percy!"

"I agree brother of mine! He had the prankster fire in his eyes!"

"Alright then Percy number two, be warned! You have brought this on yourselves!"

Percy nodded, "good, that means I don't have to be guilty about this," Percy then looked up and George and Fred followed his eyes. They looked over their head and saw a ball of water handing over them. Percy let go and dropped in on their heads, drenching them from head to toe.

Ron laughed, "I can't believe it! He got the drop on you two!"

Harry and Percy laughed as well. "You didn't tell them about me did you Harry?"

"No!" Harry said through each laugh.

George and Fred spat out water giving Percy a look of respect. "We thought you were like the other Percy-"

"-But we were wrong-"

"-you get first blood Percy the second-"

"-But be warned, this means war!"

Percy chuckled, "bring it boys. You think you are the first set of twin pranksters I've had to deal with?"

They quickly settled down, Percy sent a drying chamber on Fred and George to make sure they were no hard feelings. Luckily it seems these two were very good sports and didn't mind getting pranks. Though the way they swore revenge did leave Percy a little nervous.

"So Percy did you finally apply for Hogwarts?" Harry asked.

"Yup, got my official invite a few days ago after you left. Hecate already helped me buy everything I would need, so come this September I'll be on the express with you!"

Harry grinned, "that's brilliant!"

"So did you transfer here from an American magical school Percy?" Ron asked.

"Ah no, I am actually home schooled. I was forced to move here though and my aunt decided it was best if I started joing to school to meet other people my age."

"Well it's too bad you can only stay for one year-" Fred began.

"-Yes, to think we have finally found a worthy opponent in pranking and we get him for only a year. So sad," George completed.

"What do you mean? I'm going for two years."

"What? But aren't you seventeen?"

"Yeah, I am. But you see I kind of took my OWLs late so I'm actually a sixth years," Percy explained.

"Wicked!" the twins yelled together.

"That means you'll be in our year!"

"We are going to have so much fun with you!" they then got up and started dancing, singing 'we are going to prank Percy! We are going to prank Percy!'

Hermione shook her head at the two and turned to Percy, "so which house do you think you will get Percy?"

Percy hummed, "well honestly I'm kind of torn between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff myself."

"Hufflepuff? Who would ever want to be a Puff?" Ron snorted.

Percy shrugged, "I don't know, just seems to suit my personality the most I guess. I've been told loyalty is my fatal flaw so I figured where else by the house of the loyal right?"

"How can loyalty be a flaw?" Harry asked, "that's silly."

"Well think of it like this. If I had to choose between saving the world and saving my friends I would choose my friends in a heartbeat. I would let the world burn, and as much as I care about my friends, that is too great of a sacrifice."

The kids remained silent contemplating what Percy had just said. Ron then spoke up, "so what classes are you going to take?"

Percy smiled, glad for the change in topic. The small group talked about several things, they mostly were just curious about Percy and who he was. Eventually Harry noticed the board Percy had strapped to his back and asked him about it.

"Hey Percy, what is that?" Harry pointed at the board.

Percy grinned, "I thought you would never ask." Percy took out the board and showed every the pieces of flat wood and carbon fiber, "remember that time we talked about how stupid brooms were?"

"Harry!" Ron sounded appalled.

"Hey I didn't say it, he did!"

Percy rolled his eyes, "anyway, remember I told you that board would be a better way to fly? And then remember you daring me to prove it?"

Harry's eyes wend wide, "no way..."

"What is is Harry?" Hermione asked, she studied the board for a few seconds before her eyes popped out as well, "oh my god! Is this what I think it is?!"

"What? What is it?" Ron asked.

Percy grinned, he picked up the board and laid it flat on the ground. He then stepped on the board and leaned forward causing the board to rise up into the air and slowly move forward.

"Holy shit!" Fred yelled out.

"Did you make a flying board?!" George cried out as they quickly started to examine the object.

"Yup! It took a long time and was a big pain in the ass, but I did it, I actually did it," Percy kick flipped the board into his hand and turned to Harry, "now will you admit there are better things to fly on the broom?"

Harry huffed, "I'll admit that's pretty cool, but you'll have to do a lot better than that to make me give up on broom."

Percy shrugged, "fine, if you want to keep gripping on that long hard piece wood and grind your crotch up against it who am I to stop you? You go right ahead."

Fred and George exploded into laughter while the younger kids looked confused by what Percy said.

"Hello all, why the laughter?" another red head walked to the fireplace. This guy wore a dragon skin leather jacket along with a single dragon fang earring on his left ear lobe. He ha the whole roguish look going for him, even his smile looked like it was up to no good.

"It's Percy!" Fred said laughing.

"This guy is hilarious!" George said as they continued to laugh.

"Percy being funny? I didn't think that was possible," the olderman said with a friendly smile.

"They don't mean our Percy Bill," Ron explained, "this guy's name is Percy too. He's Percy Jackson, Harry's neighbour."

Percy nodded, "hello."

Bill smiled, "hello Percy. Sorry about my little brothers, I try to keep them in line, but they just won't control themselves."

"Hey we didn't do anything!"

"Yeah promise!" the twins yelled.

Bill rolled his eyes, "and you are here cackling like hyenas because?"

The twins told Bill what Percy said and the older man laughed as well. "That's pretty good," Bill smiled before notiing Percy's board, "did you charm that to act like a broom?"

"Ah no, not really," Percy explained, "I'm horrible at charms. I used runes to substitute for the charms needed and then used potions for anything else. When couldn't avoid it I did use charms, but I locked them into runes to stop them from powering down."

"Hm...can I see that?" Bill asked. Percy handed it over to him and the man examined the board carefully. When he was done he smiled, "this is really good Percy, you should really consider a job as a curse breaker."

Percy thankned the man and quickly they started to talk once again. Soon Mr. Weasley came up and called all of them over. The finals were about to begin soon, and everyone left to go find their seats.