Why Hullo there Mushrooms. As you can see, the tactic I tried in the last chapter is somewhat working. This is good because I'm actually doing something instead of sitting down, opening my laptop and ending up on Pinterest for a couple of hours. Before I start, someone better use the media up top as a wallpaper or a background because it is awesome. I also need to tell you guys something. When I write my chapters, it kind of off the top of my head because I don't have a storyline or anything. I know that is a terrible way to write a story, but I'm really not bothered to do anything at the moment.

Oh, and can someone please do a cover? I have zero idea how to work photoshop and I can't download it so that's out of the question for me. Please message or comment if you're interested!!

Percy's P.O.V

Pretty soon, I had a sobbing Hermione in front of me.  She was sitting in front of the common room fireplace, and it was awkward. I did not sign up for this, I thought as I tried to comfort her. Basically, I had heard crying so I went to investigate. It turned out to be Hermione, who was now almost hysterical. As far as I could tell, everyone had already gone to bed, so I guessed her sobbing wasn't a problem. But why was she crying? I crouched down and poked her.

'What happened?' I tried not to be too awkward, but it wasn't easy. 

After all, her best friends were total jerks but Hermione seemed alright. She hadn't accused us of anything weird and definitely hadn't tried to kill us. It turns out that I shouldn't have asked. She immediately started ranting in between sobs about how Ron and Harry were acting like such jerks (agreed) and that they were such morons and they used to be way better than this. I just sat there awkwardly. After a long rant, she broke down sobbing. I noticed a box of tissues on a table and I poked them at her every few minutes.

 After a couple of minutes, Hermione soundlessly got up and walked up the stairs to the girl's dormitory, leaving me and a truckload of used tissues on the ground. Ew.

---------- da next morning----------

At breakfast, us demigods took our usual seats at the end of the Gryffindor table. Will and Nico were across from Annabeth and me, and they were bickering again, this time about if something called Thestrals were Hades's, Poseidon's or Zeus's territory. Suddenly, I noticed Hermione stand up from her usual seat and cross the hall to us. She plopped down next to me with a bowl of cereal and started reading a book. I didn't complain or try to shoo her away. Annabeth looked up from her toast curiously, then shrugged and continued eating. That was probably a good thing. If Annabeth even got a whiff of Hermione being within 5 feet of me, she would freak and most likely judo-flip her. She's protective like that.

Our first class of the day was Transfiguration. As we headed to the classroom, Hermione silently got up and followed behind us. It seemed a tiny bit stalkerish but I didn't mind. Hermione seemed lonely for the moment, so I was willing to incorporate her into our mini group, even if it meant she followed behind silently. After all, those jerks Harry and Ron were not going to be winning any best friend awards soon. When we got to the classroom, Professor McGonnagle instructed us to take out our wands, and I did a double take.

Annabeth noticed and asked me what was wrong. 

'I just realized that this is the first time I've used my wand!' I exclaimed. How in Hades had we managed to stay in a fancy magical castle and learn magic without using our wands this whole time?! Nico had been eavesdropping (a habit of his) and looked over with wide eyes.

'I'd forgotten those exist!' Nico said. Annabeth scoffed at us.

'I practice spells every night! We're literally in a wizarding school and you guys actually forgot about your wands? I'm surprised you haven't given us away yet!' She hissed that last part at me and poked me in the arm. I rolled my eyes and looked for my wand. 

I dug around in my garbage dump of a bag for a while, and soon emerged with my wand.

'I thought it would be broken by now!' I exclaimed.

'They're tougher than they look', Hermione said from beside me, making me jump. She had been sitting there silently for the whole lesson.

Professor McGonagall gave us our instructions, which were to try and transfigure a hedgehog into a pincushion. Hermione got it on her first try, which earnt Gryffindor 10 points. Hermione didn't smile, however. She'd been sullen for the whole day. I attempted it and was surprised when I got it after poking my hedgehog a few times with the end of my wand. 

'Not bad, Mr Jackson. Ten points to Gryffindor.' I turned around to see the Professor smiling at me.

'That's unusual, Professor McGonagall's normally really strict', Hermione commented.

----------------Oh look a time skip----------------

That evening after dinner, us demigods were hanging around in our dormitory. Annabeth was ranting about the architecture of the castle again when there was a bang at the door. Nico stood up.

'I'll get it but I swear if it's that idiot Potter again-'

He was cut off when he opened the door and that very same idiot Potter came barging in. Nico closed the door behind him, sighed and tripped him on the way in. Harry was sent sprawling onto the ground. 

'What do you want now?' I said in an exasperated voice. Harry jumped up, his face as red as a tomato.

'I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU, DEATH EATER! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL!'

'Bad idea' I muttered under my breath.

Eheheheheheh. I thought you guys deserved a little cliffhanger there. But don't worry I won't get as bad as Uncle Rick. So anyways guys thanks for the support and for giving me motivation to actually do something. Oh yeah, also it's the 4th of July for those Americans out there. I live in Australia so yeah. But it's still amazing that people from all over the world actually read this stuff, I mean my writing is absolutely terrible. Keep commenting and I'll keep writing chapters! You don't actually have to comment, but it speeds up the process of me writing because you guys are asking for it. Oh yeah and I think one of my previous chapters got deleted so if any of you guys know what's up with that pls message me or leave a comment.

Foodmushroom out!