Chapter 13

Percy woke up early the next day and got Gordan to show him where the bath was. After a nice hot shower, much to the irritation of Gordan who kept complaining Percy took too long, Percy unpacked his trunk and got dressed. He grabbed a small napsack for himself and put his writing items inside it along with a book for light reading. He then grabbed Hoothoot cage and made his way to the Great Hall.

The Great Hall was empty this time of day, there was no one here yet, other than a few people in the Ravenclaw table and a hand full of girls in Slytherin.

Percy sat down at his house's table and opened Hoothoot cage. The elf owl hopped outside and Percy grabbed a plate for him filling it with bacon and vegetables.

"Here boy, the breakfast of champions," Percy pushed the plate to the owl.

"Hoot? Hoot!"

"Yes, everything, including the vegetable."

"Hoot!"

"Don't start with me man, it's too early in the morning for that! Anyway after you're done I need you to deliver a letter for me? Can you do that?"

"Hoot!"

"Well I know, but it's quite far away, I'm not really sure where they are, so you might need to fly far."

"Hoot!"

"Right, thanks," Percy used to feel strange talking to his owl, but from what Hecate told him it seemed Hoothoot was at least somewhat sentient as he was able to understand whatever Percy told him.

"Hoot!" Hoot Hoot hooted as he ate his bacon, avoiding the vegetables.

"You better not leave those behind Hoothoot, Hecate will have my head and yours if you don't eat healthy."

"Hoot!"

"Yeah I'm serious, why do you think I won't be serious about this? Eat your veggies Hoothoot."

"Hoot! Hoot!"

"Because I am a human and I can make my own choices."

"Hoot?"

"Fine, I'll eat mine as well. But I swear if Hecate complains that you grew fat I'll tell her it's because you refused to do work."

"Hoot!" Hoothoot hooted returning to his food. Percy grumbled, 'stupid bird.'

Percy took out a piece of parchment and began writing a letter to Chanel and the other cheerleaders. He hadn't spoken to them in some time, he figured he should at least check up on them. The letter wasn't fancy, it was just a hello:

Hey there Chanel, Amanda, Catherine, Ula, Ebele!

Did you guys miss me? Sorry I haven't been able to talk much, I just recently got an owl to send mail through, his name is Hoothoot, be careful, he's an asshole. Or maybe he's just like that with me, I don't know. He likes my aunt very much, but hates me! What the Shade right? Who hates me? I'm like pudding! Everyone likes pudding! Well except for people who are lactose intolerant, but that's neither here nor there.

Anyway I don't really have a reason to write, just wanted to know how you five were doing is all. I just joined Hogwarts, part of the reason why I am so freaking busy lately, and things are fun. I joined Hufflepuff, the house of the loyal! I'm officially a Puff! Although that does make me sound like a pastry, so I'm thinking we should probably change it to something cooler.

How are you all? Are you guys still with the Bulgarians? Or did your agency set you all up with another team? Tell me! Tell me! But seriously though I'm curious, what do cheerleaders do when not cheer leading? Shop? Write poems? Anyways write back soon, I miss you all!

With lots of love!

Percy Jackson!

Hufflepuff!

User of exclamation marks!

P.S. Did you know that Hogwarts is going to host the triwizard tournament soon?! I'm super excited! I wonder if I should join? Neah, probably wouldn't be fair to everyone else if I did huh?

Percy reread the letter and chuckled, he waited until Hoothoot was done with his meal before tying the letter tightly to the owl's leg sending him flying off through the giant windows off the Great Hall.

Percy then shrunk Hoothoot's cage and pocketed it. He turned to his right shoulder and found Kelly waking up, yawning and rubbing her eyes.

"Morning sleepy head," Percy chuckled as the veela glared at him for speaking too loudly, "sleep well?" Kelly grumbled as she flipped him off. "Ouch, tell me do all veela act this grumpy in the morning or is it just you?"

After Kelly pinched his cheeks with her tiny, but sharp fingers, "okay okay stop! Shesh, not my fault you sleep like a bear."

Kelly huffed ad looked around realising that she was in the Great Hall. She gasped in her tiny little voice as she looked around amazed by what she saw. She turned to Percy and pointed with a questioning look.

"Oh yeah, this is Hogwarts, the school we are going to stay in for the next ten months. It's pretty cool Kelly, you'll love it!" Kelly smiled and leaned on Percy's shoulder looking around the beautiful castle.

Percy returns to his meal. Slowly people started to drip in, he noticed that a lot of the younger student were up and about, mostly Hufflepuff though since they were the closest to the Great Hall.

"Mr. Jackson," came a sweet caring voice. Percy turned and saw a plump woman walk towards him. She had a smile on her face that seemed to light up the room and a warmth about her. Percy knew who she was, and if he didn't he would have at least figured it out by now.

"Madam Sprout," Percy stood up as his head of house approached.

"Mr Jackson," the teacher nodded, "and it's Professor Sprout dear."

"Oh, right, sorry. In US we call our teachers miss, mrs or madam," Percy chuckled running his hand through his hair.

"Oh that's all right, perfectly understable." she then stopped and turned to Percy's shoulder, "ah...Mr. Jackson, there is a tiny veela sitting on your shoulder."

Percy chuckled, "yeah, this is Kelly. My aunt made her for me from a souvenir she got at the quidditch finals. She figured I could use some company, plus every time I do something stupid or silly Kelly is always there to pinch and scratch me until I stop."

Kelly stood up and waved at the teacher with a big smile. Sprout blinked for a few seconds, "Flitwick is going to love you." she then shook her head clearing her mind and pulling her eyes away from Kelly, "Mr. Jackson, can you please come with me for a second? We have lots to discuss, I would have done this last night, but I believe you were busy spending time with our housemates."

Percy nodded, "yeah, I was." Sprout lead Percy down the Great Hall into a door that was behind the teacher's desk. The room inside was a trophy room with cases upon cases of trophies, starting from the inception of the school all the way back to awards given out last year.

"Well Mr. Jackson, I have called you today to look upon your class schedule," Sprout smiled, "I must say when I saw your OWL scores I was sure you would be wearing a blue and bronze tie instead of my own house colours. I'm quite impressed needless to say, if only I had taken up Flitwick up on his bet."

Percy chuckled, "thank you professor. Honestly I'm not really that smart, I just like magic a lot. I'm actually just a really hard worker, and I only really pay attention in subjects that I like."

The head of Hufflepuff nodded, "perfectly understandable Mr. Jackson. Now, onto your subjects. You have scored very well on all of them, no failing grades in any of them, and O's in all of the core subjects. Very impressive. You mentioned in your letter that you would be applying for Potions, Charms, Transfiguration, Runes, Arithmancy and DADA NEWT level classes yes?"

Percy nodded, "yup."

"But you have qualified for more than just that. Are you sure you wish to take only these classes?"

"Yes ma'am. I told you didn't I? I can only be serious in classes I like, trying to learn something else is kind of boring. No offence, but herbology really isn't my thing. Me and plants...well we have a history."

The cheery woman chuckled, "oh it's fine dear. I can't expect everyone to have a green thumb. I was just asking to make sure these are the classes you wished for, you can change them later if you wish, but I would suggest you do not try that any time soon. The OWLs were one thing, NEWTs are on a completely different scale."

Percy grinned, "I know that supposed to be a warning, but I can't help getting excited."

The woman laughed, "now I really am wondering why you aren't a Ravenclaw! Here, this is your schedule," she handed Percy a piece of paper with a timetable on it, "the first period starts at 8:30 and lasts for an hour and a half with lunch between 1 and 2 in the afternoon. You will have three periods before lunch and three after. But as you are a sixth year you will find that you have only three classes per day, meaning you will have three periods fre. You can do whatever you wish with this free time, though I suggest you use it to complete assignments and other such projects."

Percy nodded as he looked over the time table for his Tuesday. The first class he had was Charms, lovely. Then followed by Runes and finally Arithmancy with a free period in between each class.

"Thanks you professor Sprout, I'll try not to cause you too much trouble."

The teach raised an eyebrow, "try?"

Percy shrugged, "I can't guarantee anything you know. Plus I don't want to make you a promise just to break it later."

Sprout chuckled, "A Hufflepuff with the mind of a Ravenclaw and the tongue of a Slytherin. What's next? The heart of a lion?"

Percy blushed, "yeah, I'm….unique."

"Well Mr. Jackson I suppose it would be best that you went back to your meal. Be sure to reach your first class early, don't want to make a bad impression yes?"

Percy nodded as he walked back into the Great Hall finding it nearly full. He noticed that Gordan and the other sixth year boys were having breakfast and walked over to them.

"Hey guys!" Percy sat down as they other wished him morning, "ready to start the day?!"

Michael groaned, "why are you so excited? It's just class."

"Well I told you didn't I? This is the first time I'm going to a magical school! For you it might be just regular old classes, but it's my first day! So act happy for me Michael! Or I swear I will slip you a pepperup potion so strong you won't be able to sleep for days."

Michael grumbled, "yeah yeah. Anyway where-" Michael stopped as his droopy eyes shot open. "Percy...there is a tiny veela sitting on your shoulder."

Percy chuckled, "yeah. Say hello to Kelly guys, she's a gift from my aunt," the little veela grinned waving at them all enthusiastically.

Juan was amazed, "beautiful. She's ever prettier than how they described! A real veela can only be so much more amazing to behold!"

Percy leaned to Gordan, "did Juan just try to flirt with a veela figuren?"

"Yes, he's a dog. He'll flirt with anything that's got breast or vaguely resembles a human woman," Gordan shrugged.

"Amazing, she's been charged to seem alive yes?" Miguel looked the tiny veela over much to Kelly's disgust as she shivered under his gaze, "what types of charms did your aunt use?"

"I don't know, plus she didn't really make them, she just had it made for me. She's a squid, can't use magic, but she knows a lot of friends that does. So you would have to ask them," Percy shrugged. Miguel looked disappointed but continued to examine the mini veela, and of course Kelly got nervous and jumped into Percy's shirt coat to hide.

After breakfast Professor Sprout gave the others their schedule, after a quick stop at the Hufflepuff common room to grab their books, Percy followed them to the charms class.

The demigod did his best to memorise the route, but it was just too damn confusing! He figured it would take him a few tries to learn the layout of the castle, but it didn't help that the corridors didn't make any sense!

When they turned right they were in the left side of the castle. When they climbed a set of stairs Percy found himself back on the same floor just a few corridors down. Harry had warned him about this place and it's crazy logic of 'normal', but Percy always thought the boy was exaggerating it.

They finally did reach the charms class on time though as they quickly took their seats in the middle of the class. Percy looked around and found various gadgets and instruments spread throughout the class. They looked shiny and very fun, which probably meant that if Percy touched them or did anything to them he would be cursed or something.

Soon the class began to fill in and just as the time became 8:30. The class had a little of everyone, each house was represented here, though not everyone from the sixth year was here. Percy saw George and Fred walk in with Angelina and Alicia. Percy grinned, "hey guys!"

They looked over and smiled, "heya Percy!" They then quickly walked towards them taking the seat behind Percy and his housemates.

"So excited for your first class Percy?" Angelina asked.

"Yup," Percy nodded, "although charms isn't my favorite subject. But I'm still very excited! It's going to awesome!"

"There's that word again, awesome," Gordan chuckled, "you know we don't use that enough in Britain."

"Well that's because you guys are afraid to show your emotions," Percy shrugged, "it's not that big a deal."

"Watch it buddy you are surrounded by Brits, we will prank your ass," Alicia glared.

"Right, sorry, I totally apologize," Percy and Kelly giggled as the rest of them rolled their eyes.

"You know people are going to be confused when they see her right?" Angelina said pointing at Kelly, "pretty soon they might calling you the veela guy or something equally silly."

Percy shrugged, "I don't care. I've been called worse. Plus Kelly and I are a team! Isn't that right mini V?" Percy and Kelly fist bumped with grins on their faces.

"Guys, Flitwick is here," Juan said as soon everyone quieted down and turned to the front of the call.

A small old man with white hair walked up to the front and stood on a stool in front of the board. Percy blinked, 'damn...he's short.' The man smiled joyfully, "welcome class to your NEXT class for charms! Congratulation to all of you on obtaining your OWLs! I'm so proud of you all! A special note must be given to miss Angelina Johnson, who scored an O+ in her exam!"

The class applauded as the Gryffindor chaser put her head down in embarrassment.

"Now, before we begin, for the sake of our new student, I will introduce myself, I am professor Filius Flitwick, the head of Ravenclaw. If you need any help please do not hesitate to ask me."

Percy nodded, "thanks you sir."

"Good, now let's begin, first you all need to understand what exactly NEWT level charms means..."

For the rest of the one and a half hours Flitwick lectured them about what they were going to do, why it was important that they didn't try and fool around and why if they did fool around he would charm them to dance like a dog. Percy wasn't really sure how he would be able to do that last thing, but needless to say the threat got through to the demigod.

At the end of the period Percy and the other Hufflepuff boys walked out of the charms class. "I hate this!" Percy groaned, "he didn't even teach us anything new! He just went on and on about safety and what it means to be a NEWT student! Tell me are all his classes like this or is it because today is the start of a new term?"

Miguel chuckled, "I understand your frustration Percy, I do. But you see this is needed, Flitwick is correct, many people will try to perform charms they are not ready to learn about. So he needed to spend this time lecturing us."

"Whatever man, I'm just saying that I'm disappointed to say the least," Percy grumbled, "I came here to learn magic, not be told how stupid people can behave."

"Well he did give us work to do," Michael grumbled as he looked at the sheet of paper Flitwick handed out, "seriously? Three feet of parchment on the most dangerous accidents that can be caused by the cutting charm? Now I know he's mad."

"See! Home work and a lecture! Where the hell is all the magic?!"

"Sigh, you're right on that front," Gordan groaned, "but hey at least next period will be fun! Professor Hagrid always shows as these cool animals during care of magical creatures!"

"Yes, and if we wish to be there on time it's best we leave now," Juan stated.

"Right, well then this is goodbye," Percy sighed.

"What do you mean?" Michael asked.

"I don't have care, never was one for the whole caring bit. I have this period free and the next for runes. After which I get one period free after lunch and then Arithmancy."

Gordan and the others winced, "damn, sorry for you man. We actually have it pretty easy today. We have divination after this, which is basically us sleeping away our in class, so basically after this class we get the day off. Sucks to be you mate."

Percy groaned, "yeah, I suppose. Guess I'll see you guys at lunch then huh?"

"What are you going to do?" Juan asked as they neared the Great Hall where they would depart.

"I'm thinking I'll finish up Flitwick's homework right now in the Hall," Percy pointed at the dining room where quite a few students with free periods sat talking with their friends.

"Alright, good luck." And with that they left.

Percy sighed as he sat down in the middle of the Hufflepuff table. He wasn't completely alone though, a seventh year girl sat down the table and a few fifth years sat up near the back.

Percy placed Kelly on the table as the veela started to walk around looking bored. Percy chuckled at the mini veela's look and conjured a small red rubber ball for her. He tossed the ball to Kelly who grabbed it with ease and cheered loudly as thanks. She then began to play with the ball, bouncing it up and down the table.

Percy took out the homeward Flitwick gave him along with some parchment. Percy then took out a black glass case inside of which was his quick read glasses. He put them own and felt the familiar strain on his eyes and magic, it did pass by quickly, but he could still feel it in the back of his head.

Percy then took out a white quill wit special runes carved into the spine of the feather and the nib. Percy and carved the runes himself, it worked the same way his glasses worked, making Percy's hand work faster than normal. While it wasn't as fast as the quick read glasses, it did increase Percy's writing speed. It also had runes to help with handwriting because one doesn't really focus on that too much when trying complete a homework assignment.

Percy sighed and dipped his quill in ink. He then pressed his nib to paper and began to write in a larger than normal font.

By the time the bell rang again Percy had completed ¾ of the assignment. It was annoying being unable to finish it all at once, but it was quickly squashed by excitement, the next class he had was runes!

Percy asked the seventh year girl how to get to the runes class, and after being lost for five minutes Percy managed to find the place just as the third period bell rang signaling the beginning of class.

Percy walked in and saw that most of the class was already seated in the semi-circle auditorium like class.

"You are cutting it close there Mr. Jackson," said the person standing in front of the class. Percy looked at her and blinked, 'dman...Fred wasn't joking about her…'brain'.'

Professor Babbling, the runes teacher, was a stunningly beautiful woman. She had dirty blonde hair that came down her head like a river till her hips. Her eyes were brown, though very warm with the hint of smile lines across her face. And her breasts were two beautiful large globs that seemed to stretch out her blouse to its natural limits. Her buttons must have some unbreakable charms placed on them!

"I-ah, I, I kind of got lost," Percy said as he tore his eyes away from her breasts to meet her eyes. 'Holy Hades! They are bigger than Amanda's!'

"Oh that's right, this is your first year here in Hogwarts isn't it? Well that's understable then, please take your seat."

Percy nodded as h stared, "right..." Kelly growled before she pinched Percy's cheeks hard, "owe! Stop it Kelly!" Percy yelled at the veela.

"Kelly?" Babbling asked confused.

"Oh, she's my partner," Percy pointed at Kelly before growling, "who apparently likes pinching people now." Kelly stuck her tongue out before turning her head away looking very cross.

"I see...so you charmed her to seem alive? Interesting, if you have the time Mr. Jackson I would like to see her more closely. But for now, please take your seat," she pointed at the classroom and it's many seats.

Percy looked around, most of the people here were in Slytherin or Ravenclaw. He did however see one Gryffindor who was currently waving him over, Angelina.

Percy took the seat next to her, "hey."

"Hello Percy, Kelly," Angelina waved. The veela smiled as she waved back enthusiastically, happy that someone remembered she existed.

"Right, welcome all of you to NEWT level Runes. I'm pleased to note that most of you managed to continue this class for your NEW years, I'm also glad to note that you all have done exceptionally well in your Runes OWL exams. Now, I am expected to give you all a grand speech about safety and what it means to be taking Runes in your NEW years. But I'm not going to do that. You all choose this disciple, and are good at, something which takes patience and a proper state of mind. You are essentially adults now, it would do no good for me to lecture you, if you didn't get it by now you probably never will."

'Giant breasts and doesn't like to lecture people, I think I might be in love,' Percy sighed as he listened to Babbling continue, while doing his best to look at her eyes and not her breasts.

"Now, this semester we will continue to learn about runes, slowly moving onto the more complicated branch of ancient runes. We will also be diving deeper into rune structures and the different ways they are formed. But for now, the goal of this class is to carve runes….using only an imber knife."

"What?! That's impossible!" yelled out a Ravenclaw.

"Ma'am it's difficult enough using a sketch to carve the runes on, using only an imber pen is next to impossible!" a Slytherin argued.

"Can you believe what she's asking?" Angelina whispered, "barking mad that woman is."

More and more student began to argue and shout until Babbling shut them all up with a bang from her wand. "Enough! I understand that it is a difficult thing to do. And I do not expect you to do it immediately. You have three months time to perfect this art, one out off three classes will be dedicated to this art. And you will perfect this art, am I understood?"

The class mumbled yes as Babbling started distributing stones and timber pens to everyone there. She drew a simple basic rune on the board and asked everyone to start carving.

Angelina grumbled as she got to work, "crazy witch. Can't believe she thinks we can do this in three months!" she looked for and saw Percy's tools untouched, "what's wrong Percy? Why didn't you touch your stuff?"

"Because I already know how to do this," Percy grinned as Angelina's jaw dropped.

"What? How?" the chaser hissed.

"Practise, plus my aunt's a fucking crazy perfectionist," Percy chuckled as he took the imber knife and quickly carved the rune in one single sitting. He showed the rune to Angelina who was so surprised she dropped her pen in surprise.

"Is everything alright Mr. Jackson? Ms. Johnson?" professor Babbling asked.

"Professor! Percy's done it!" Angelina shrieked as she pointed at Percy's carved rune stone.

"What?," Babbling quickly walked to Percy's side and looked at the carved rune. Her eyes went comically wide as she grabbed the stone and began closely checking ti for any faults. Her hands started to shake as she slowly put the rune down, "i-it's perfect! How did you do this Mr. Jackson?!"

Percy shrugged, "my runes teacher was kind of a slave driver. She insisted I learnt this free hand before anything else. And well...I just kind of did it."

"Incredible! This is nearly a perfect fire rune! You have the making of a rune master Mr. Jackson! 20 points to Hufflepuff!"

"Did a Puff just score points for being brilliant at something?" Ravenclaw girl hissed as she and a few others glared in envy.

"Awsome! My first points!" Percy raised his hand which Angelina high fived in joy. Kelly even yelped in joy jumping on Percy's shoulder in joy doing a little routine.

"Tell me Mr. Jackson what was your Owl score in Runes?" Babbling asked.

"Well let's see. If I recall correctly I scored O+ in the theory and practical portions of the exam."

"What?!" the professor and the others yelled out in amazement. The students jaws drop as the professor looked stunned.

"You have got to be lying!" the Ravenclaw girl from before yelled out, "there is no way a Puff can be that good in an exam!"

Percy didn't really know how to react to that. He turned to Angelina, "is there something wrong with her?"

The Gryffindor laughed, "yes, she's been the class topper for the last few years, and you just stole her spot."

"Wait….I remember now," Babbling said as she scratched her chin, "McGonagall mentioned a student with an amazing OWL score, something that nearly blew most student's out of the water in most subjects. And what' more he wasn't even a Hogwarts student! Amazing...well Mr. Jackson I suppose you will have to do something else during this rune class, I can't have you lazing about while the rest do their work. Hm...come with me."

Babbling took him to the her desk and gave him an assignment to write an essay on how runes were used in household objects. Percy then sat down and did the work given, and thanks to his special quill he managed to finish it before the class ended.

Percy submitted the parchment at the end of class, much to Babbling's wonder. She looked the paper over and gapped, "how did you do this?! I just gave you the assignment!"

Percy shrugged, "no biggie, I used several runes on my quill to make it similar to those quick read glasses people use. It's not perfect, or as powerful, but it is good at writing homework."

"What? Can you show me this quill?" Babbling practically begged with stars in her eyes.

"Ah, sure," Percy took out the pure white quill and passed it to his professor.

Babbling treated the quill with the type of gentleness one showed a newborn. She examined the runes, making a small note every second or so. She finally gave the quill back and sighed. "50 points to Hufflepuff for creating a unique piece of art that is both practical and an achievement that is worthy of an O. Honestly Mr. Jackson, if you market these things just right you can make a fortune!"

Percy grinned, "thanks professor."

"You are welcome. Sigh, honestly Mr. Jackson I do not know what to do with you. Using runes to effect an object was supposed to be a class project at the end of the year. You have not only completed it, but in doing so essentially covered the entire sixth year portions."

Percy blinked, "seriously?"

"Seriously," she nodded. "Just who was your teacher Mr. Jackson?"

"My...my aunt," Percy told carefully, "she's a squib, but she knows a lot about magic. She basically guided me through it all. Plus she can carve runes quicker and better than me."

"Now that is amazing," Babbling gasped, "a quib with the ability to carve runes like a master...I would very much like to meet your aunt Mr. Jackson."

Percy chuckled, "yeah, sorry but I don't think that's possible. She doesn't really do parent teacher meetings professor. She hates that kind of stuff. The only way she would ever how up is if I told her she was in fact meeting my girlfriend or something. She wouldn't pass up a chance to embarrass me like that."

The young professor smiled as she hide her blush behind a hand faking a cough. "Yes well if you aunt ever does decide to visit you please call me. I would very much like to talk to her."

Percy nodded and quickly walked out of the classroom finding Angelina waiting for him outside.

"Hey, thanks for waiting," Percy told her as they walked to the Great Hall for lunch, "I honestly have no idea to get to the Great Hall from here."

"No problem," Angelina waved his thanks away, "but Percy I have to ask. How did you get so good at carving runes with only an imber pen?"

Percy shrugged, "my aunt is a slave driver. She's an amazing teacher, but also ruthless. She made me carve runes over and over until my fingers started to feel numb. But at the end of it all I suppose that hard work payed off."

"I see...how long did you take to master the skill?"

Percy shrugged, "I don't know...three days?"

"What?! Three days?! But Babbling said it would take us three months!"

Percy shrugged, "and that's why I'm in the house of the hard working and you are not."

"Damn...the Puff's really lucked out with you," Angelina whistled impressed.

"You know what we need to change that name, like seriously. When you call us Puff's I am reminded of a giant puffy pastry dish with whipped cream."

When the reached the Great all they split up, Percy going to his house table and Angelina going to hers. As Percy walked up to his friends near the end of the table he noticed a lot of people whispering to each other pointing at one of the giant hourglasses on the Great Hall's wall.

There were four hourglasses hanging above the teacher's table. One had red crystals, one had blue, one had green and the other yellow. Each represented a house with the house's name and present points listed above the hourglass. Gryffindor had 10, Ravenclaw had 25, Slytherin ahd 5 and Hufflepuff had 80 points leaning the other three by a wide margin.

'Damn, didn't realise the gap was that huge,' Percy blinked, 'let's see I scored 70, meaning someone else had scored 10. Nice.'

Percy walked up to his friends who he noticed was pointed at the Hufflepuff hourglass and whispering.

"Hey guys, what are we talking about?" Percy asked sitting down next to Gordan and pulling himself a plate full of food.

"It's the house points Percy! Someone managed to score us 70 points on the first day!" Juan yelled in excitement.

"Miguel got us five points with Professor Hagrid, and another fourth year got us another 5 with professor McGonagall, but someone else got 70 points!" Gordan yelled out.

"This has got to be some kind of record!" Michael yelled, for the first time awake, "no one in history ever managed to score so many points on just the first day! At this rate we'll win the house cup for sure!" A ripple of smiles went through the Hufflepuff table as the other houses began to notice the change in Hufflepuff's attitude.

"Huh, nice," Percy grinned as he offered Kelly a piece of lettuce, the toy shook her head no but was happy for the offer. "It really isn't that big a deal. I managed to impress professor Babbling with my runes and how I used them. But I'm glad everyone's happy, maybe now people will stop calling us Puffs. Seriously guys, we need to do something about this name! I don't want to be known as a pastry!"

"Wait...you did this?" Miguel asked, his voice cutting through the random chatter in the hall as slowly every Hufflepuff turned to Percy.

"Yeah, why?" Percy asked sniffing his pumpkin juice noticing a hint of bark in it. He turned to Fred and George and glared, "seriously you guys? You tried to give me hiccups?"

The twins groaned in defeat as the slammed the head down. Angelina and Alicia chuckled as they comforted their boyfriends.

"Percy….you got us 70 points on the first day of school?" Gordan asked agains, very slowly as Percy realised that everyone was looking at him.

"Ah...yeah," Percy looked around, "did I do something bad?"

"Bad?" Juan blinked, "he gave us the biggest lead in the house cup on the first day on class and he's asking us if that's bad?"

"Percy! You're a God!" Gordan yelled as he talked Percy in a hug.

Percy chuckled, "actually a demigod, but sure."

"This is so awesome!" Cedric called out further down the table, "I knew you were good news the moment I saw you!"

"Good job Percy!"

"You the man!"

"What do you mean he scored 70 points in one day?! That's impossible!" a squeaky voice that was clearly not a well wisher yelled out.

"Percy, how did you do it?" Miguel asked.

"I told you, Babbling had assigned us a job, but I already knew how to do it, so she gave me 20 points. And then I showed her my pet rune projects and she basically told me I had already covered the sixth year studies so she gave me 50 points."

"What pet rune projects?" Michael asked.

"Nothing big," Percy shrugged, "just a quill that helps me write fast so that I can finish my homework quicker."

"What?!" Gordan yelled, "show me!"

Percy shrugged as he took out the quill and passed it around. The all held it carefully, examining it closely. They returned it back to Percy and begged him to make one for them as well. Percy said he'd consider it, but only if they payed him.

After lunch Percy had another free period. While the rest of his year mates went to their respect classes, divination and such, Percy found himself once again alone in the Great Hall. He quickly finished the rest of Flitwick's homework assignment and realised he still had a lot of time to kill. So with nothing else to do Percy got up and began to explore Hogwarts.

Percy walked around aimlessly as he looked at all the painting and statues around. Most of them were off people in various poses, very few were landscapes. All the paintings moved and talked, mostly to each other. Percy personally found them to be a little bit creepy, he was used to seeing photos remain still. Not talk back.

Percy explored each floor as best as he could, making a mental map of the place in his mind. By the time he reached the third floor he stopped and realised he had basically lost track of whatever he had learnt so far.

He needed a map, but drawing one by hand would probably not be useful as Hogwarts seemed to be constantly screwing with his head and perception of reality. He needed some way to copy and paste the layout of the school into his map, and for that he would need to use magic.

Percy sighed, he leaned up against a window on the third floor corridor and looked out at sky. It was in the afternoon and Percy couldn't help but feel somewhat sleepy. It was so warm, and his belly was so full. But yet, he knew if he took a nap now he would miss the next period.

So he stayed and watched the sky pass him by. He felt the breeze on his face and sighed, he wanted to go flying again. While in his animagus form he learnt the joy of flight and now he missed it. If he was really going to appreciate the sky, he needed to fly in it.

But he knew he could never do such a thing, too many people could spot him easily. 'Stupid Hecate, had to go and make me fall in love with flying,' Percy sighed. It was nearly time for his last class of the day.

This time Percy managed to find the arithmancy class a lot quicker than his runes one. The class was vastly different from the runes one as it looked more like a muggle classroom than anything else with poster of formulas put up all over the walls.

In front of the class was professor Septima Vector, a middle aged witch that had a strict aura around her. Her brown hair was tied up neatly in a bun and her square glasses hide her green eyes. She looked graceful to say the least, looking elegant, even if she was wearing a giant purple and blue robe around herself.

During this class Percy managed to gain 10 more points for Hufflepuff by answering all the questions Vector asked. And when she started teaching Percy managed to get a few ideas for new spells. The advanced mathematics she was teaching would be useful for him in creating more complex spells, something he has had trouble with for some time now.

Class was over at around 5 in the evening. Usually student would then go on to attend the last class of the day, but Percy had that free. In fact he had nothing to do till 8 in the evening when he had to attend dinner in the Great Hall. So he had three hours to kill.

As Percy walked around the castle keeping his eyes busy by looking around at the many painting and fixtures of the castle, he couldn't help feeling bored. Today had been not that bad, but not that great ether. He had way too much free time on his hands, and he needed something to do!

'Maybe I should do what Babbling said, patent the quick quills I made and sell them to people,' Percy wondered. He then wondered how he would even register a patent in the magical world. 'Maybe I could ask Hecate? She would know. Hm...I might as well write a letter to her as well.'

So Percy went back to the Hufflepuff common room and put away all his stuff. He then spent an hour finishing up his Arithmancy homework before he wrote the letter to Hecate telling her about his day and how to patent his quick quill idea.

He managed to find the school owlery, after he stopped and asked directions from a few paintings that is, and used a school barn owl to send Hecate said letter. Hopefully this thing would be able to find the goddess of magic.

By the time Percy was done with that the last class of the day had ended. Students were coming out of their respective classes and soon the hallway was filled with students once more. Percy went with the crowd as he found himself back in the common room with all his friends.

"So how was your day Percy?" Gordan asked as the sith years boys sat down around a table near the corner of the common room that had been reserved for the sixth years.

"Okay, not that bad, though I think I might need to come up with a hobby or something, I'm bored already," Percy groaned, as Kelly patted him gently on the cheek.

"Well sucks to be you man," Juan growled as he took out his notes and parchment, "me? I have a different problem, too much damn homework!"

"You said it Juan," Heather said as she sat down next to Percy smiling at the boy, "heya Percy. Rough day huh?"

"Yup," Percy grumbled, "and yours?"

"Not bad, Flitwick was a pain, but Hagrid was alright. I think Tollway has finally lost it though, kept going on and on about Neptune descending upon us."

Percy blinked as he sat up straight, "what? What do you mean Neptune is descending?"

"It's just something our divination teacher said," Heather grumbled, "Kristen, Margaret? Do you remember what she said exactly?"

Two other sixth year Hufflepuff girls sat down at the table. Kristen had brownish red hair that came down to her lower back tied in a pony tail. She had black eyes and a very pale complexion with a skinny from. She shock her head, "sorry, no clue."

"I think she's just losing her mind," Margaret shrugged. She was a slightly chubby girl with short blonde hair and a flat face. However she did have a very curvy body, "she mentioned that the planet Neptune shines his light upon this castle, and from his blessing come a new age."

"Wait, she said him? Him? Not it?" Percy asked.

"Yes, why?" Margaret nodded as everyone turned to Percy.

"Well….if she said it that means she meant the planet. But if she meant him….then-"

"-You think she meant the actual God Neptune?" Gordan snorted, "yeah right."

"Wait Neptune is a God?" Michael asked surprised.

"Yeah Michael, how did you ever pass Astronomy?" Heather groaned as the other girls chuckled.

"Neptune is the God of the seas and father of horses and the legendary pegasus. He is feared by the Romans, they believed that if he wanted he could have destroyed their entire empire in seconds so they did everything to please him," Miguel explained.

"But that wasn't his name," Percy spoke up.

"What do you mean? Of course Neptune is his name," Juan snorted.

"No, it isn't. At least not at first. He had a name before Neptune, the greeks called him Poseidon, the second most powerful God in creation, ruler of the seas," Percy closed his eyes, 'and my dad. Which means this divination teacher is talking about me.'

"What does this have to do with anything?" Michael asked.

"Nothing," Percy grumbled, "just curious…."

"Riiiight," Heather drew out as she looked away from Percy, "anyway did anyone get a start on the charms homework yet? We better start now or else we won't be able to finish it in time."

"Oh relax Heather we have a week," Kristien waved her friend's worry off.

"That's not the point Kristy, I want to do good this year, so I'm taking a page out of Ravenclaw's book and finishing my homework sometime before the day of submission."

"Grr, fine," Juan cribbed taking out parchment and ink, "I hate it when you are right."

Heather grin, "then you must be full of hate all the time huh?"

They all chuckled while they slowly took out parchment to do their homework in. Gordan noticed Percy leaning back yawning, "what's the matter Percy? Take out your parchment mate, just because you got us that 70 point head start doesn't mean we are going to let you off the hook you know? You are a proud Puff mate, don't make us look bad!"

Percy rolled his eyes, "I don't have to do shit Gordan. If you keep calling yourself a Puff you'll do the work for me. Seriously guys we need to do something about that name! I feel like a puff pastry every time someone calls me that!"

"Well you can try Percy, but good luck. We have been call that since forever. It's just the way things have been. We are Puffs, Gryffindor's are lions, Ravenclaws are Claws and Slytherin's are Snakes. It's just what they call us."

"Well I don't like it," Percy huffed crossing his arm, an action Kelly mirrored.

"Well if you want you can think of suggestions later, for now take out you parchment, if we have to suffer through this then so do you," Margaret growled.

"Oh that's okay, I already finished it," Percy shrugged as h took out his completed assignment and unrolled it on the table.

The Hufflepuff stopped and stared. Grodan snatched the parchment moment before Heather could and began looking through it.

"Holy Merlin! You did it! You got everything in here! Shit Percy, how did you do this?!"

"I used my quick quill, patent pending," Percy grinned as they passed his homework from person to person.

"Alright you have got to make us some of thoes!" Miguel cried out, "come on Percy, be a pall! I'll even pay you!"

Percy grinned, "I'll think about it." Gordan and the other's groaned but accepted what he said without further complaint.

"Hey Percy mind if I copy off of you?" Heather asked while in the process of already doing just that.

"Yeah, sure, help yourself," Percy shrugged.

"Hey no fair! I wanted first dibs on Percy's homework! Give it back Heather!"

"I'll get it to you when I'm done Gordan!"

"Oh please, by the time you're done we would be older than Dumbledore!"

"Oh yeah? Well too bad!"

"I swear to the Gods if you two tear apart my homework I will make you do it for me!" Percy yelled as he chuckled at his friends. He leaned back and observed the chaos, smiling at it all. 'You know what….maybe Hogwarts isn't that boring after all.'