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Percy's Pov:

As me and Annabeth were walking around camp half blood, I couldn't help but notice that it was a beautiful day out. For the summer, me and Annabeth came back form our college at New Rome to see our friends.

As we were walking a satyre came up and told us we are expected at the big house. When we got there we saw the seven, Nico, Reyna, Will and Rachel already there.

"Hello Percy, Annabeth." Chiron told us once we had sat down.

Then he proceeded to tell us that we would be going to a school called Hogwash for the year where we would learn Magic and whatnot. I found it pretty cool personally and couldn't wait.

"Isn't it cool." I said once we had left the big house. "Hogwash eh? Funny name, do you it's British?"

"It's actually Hogwarts" Nico said, smart-ass. "And yes it is in Britain were you even listening? Or were you dreaming of blue food. Again?"

I remained silent as to not notify Nico that I had indeed been dreaming of blue food. But, really can you blame me? Blue is just...better. "Of course you would know it's British."

"Percy I'm Italian, not British."

"Same thing."

"It's not."

"I personally think it's really exciting!" Rachel said from next to Nico, interrupting our conversation. "I mean we get to learn magic! I love reading fantasy books. Maybe it will be like that!"

"Ooh imagine if it is!" Annabeth said excitedly "It would be so cool. I've always wanted to be in a book and it would be exactly like that."

Then they went of to nerd out to books and stuff leaving me and Nico alone.

I was gonna carry on about the fact that Britain and Italy where basically the same thing then I remembered that Capture the Flag was coming up so I started talking to him about that instead as we had already agreed to team up.

After Around five minutes of me talking I realised Nico wasn't looking at me. I followed his eyesight and saw he was looking at Will Solace.

"So Apollo boys eh?" I asked.

"Percy!" Nico said turning to me so fast I'm sure it gave him whiplash.

"What I'm not judging." I told him putting my hands up in defence. "So... who have you come out to? Just curious."

"You, Annabeth and Jason" Nico replied now looking anywhere but at me and Will.

"When did you come out to Jason? You don't have to answer." I said.

"You know that me and Jason got Diocletian's scepter. Well when we were there we met Cupid and long story short... Cupid outed me."

"I am so sorry I didn't mean to make you remember that."

"Let's go to the campfire I'm hungry." Nico said eager to change the subject and walked off sitting in the middle of Hazel and Reyna.

I smiled as I stared at all my friends. Yeah maybe this new adventure won't be entirely bad as I have all my friends here with me.

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Harry’s POV:

I ran to great my best friend of 3 years. Ron Weasley and behind him I saw his family. This included of his mom (Molly), dad (Arthur), older brothers (Percy, Fred and George) and his younger sister (Ginny).

I gave them all the biggest grin as I created them; they were like the family I never had. My Aunt and Uncle never truly liked me. Well that wasn't true, they hate me and expect me to be their slave.

”Well then should we get into the train early so we can get a good carriage?” Ron asked.

”Yeah, maybe Hermione's on the train already, you know she likes to get on early.” I answered as we waved goodbye to the rest of the Weasleys.

”See you at Christmas mum!” Ron called

”Well… I don’t think you’ll want to go home for Christmas this year.” She said mysteriously and then left before we could quiz her.

”What do you think that is about?” I asked Ron as i turned to him.

”I’m not sure, but I doubt it’s good.” He replied helping me into the train.

After we walked around for around five minutes we found the compartment that Hermione was in and we sat down with her.

At around 10:95 two boys came in.

”Hey can we sit here with you?” One of the boys asked. He had jet black hair, sea green eyes and pail skin.

”Yeah, of course.” Hermione responded immediately, moving closer to the window so the boys could have more room to sit.

The boy with black hair sat next to me while the other boy sat next to Ron. He had baby blond hair, sky blue eyes and pail skin.

”Thanks” the blond boy said “I’m Jason and this is Percy.”

After around two minutes of us talking about our families (more like Ron and Hermione talking the rest of us just listening) two more people passed and asked to come in. One of them was a girl with dark skin, grey eyes and blond hair and the other one was a girl with bright red hair, grass green eyes and tanned skin.

”Thanks you for letting us sit here.” The red head said “I’m Rachel and this is Annabeth.” She said while sitting next to Jason as Annabeth had already sat next to Percy.

After around an hour of us talking Fred and George Weasley came in and said “Guys did you hear a bunch of new people came here; two of the are transferring from that French school Beauxbatons and the others are just starting all throughout the years!”

”Yeah we’re some of the ones that are just starting.” Annabeth said.

”Sick” George said “Welcome to Hogwarts and try not to die.” He said before walking off.

”Those are my brothers.” Ron said “and their just joking about the dying thing.”

”Even if they weren’t it would be a bit of an adventure” Percy said which cause Annabeth to laugh.

”We’ve done enough adventures seaweed brain. Let’s just try to live normally.” Annabeth said.

Before we knew it we were already at Hogwarts.

”Well” I said “let’s go.” I turned to the newcomers “see you in the great hall.”

Me, Ron and Hermione walked towards the carriages with me wondering how come they are joining so late.

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Harry’s POV:

After everybody had sat down and the first years had been sorted McGonagall got another scroll out and said to the hall “Hello we have a couple of new students joining us this year. Two of them are transferring from Beauxbatons and the rest are just starting. They will come up once they are called and state their age so we know what year they are in”

(I am doing it in a random order not alphabetical because honestly I am to lazy to figure that out and I have dyslexia also I will be changing some ages so more people are in this for longer)

”Jackson, Percy.” McGonagall said as the black haired boy who sat with on train went up. “I am 16 years old.” He said before sitting down and the hat being placed on him. He was their for a good while before the hat shouted “GRYFFINDOR” and he came and sat next to me as the hall clapped.

”Chase,Annabeth.” McGonagall said as the girl we sat with in the train came up “I am 16” she said before sitting down. The hat was there for atleast five minutes before shouting “SLYTHERIN” and she sat down at the Slytherin table with not nearly as big as an applause.

”Grace, Jason.” McGonagall said as the other boy we sat with on the train came up “I am 16” he’s said before sitting down and almost instantly becoming a Gryffindor and sitting next to Percy.

”McLean, Piper.” McGonagall said as a girl with brown skin, multicolour eyes and brown hair came up “I am 15” she said before sitting down and after a while the sorting hat roared “SLYTHERIN” and she went and sat down next to Annabeth.

”Valdez, Leo.” McGonagall said as a Hispanic boy with pointed ears, tanned skin, brown eyes and short brown hair said “I am 15” before sitting down and almost instantly the hat said “RAVENCLAW” as he went to the table and sat down next to a girl with blonde hair who I had seen Ginny talk to.

”Levesque, Hazel.” McGonagall said as a short black girl, hazel eyes and an Afro came up and said “I am 13” before sitting down and after a couple of seconds the hat said “HUFFLEPUFF” and she went and sat down at the hufflepuff table.

”Zhang, Frank.” McGonagall said as a big Canadian guy with pale skin, black eyes and black hair came up “I am 16” he said before sitting down and being put into Gryffindor and sitting across from Jason.

”Ramírez-Arellano, Reyna.” McGonagall said as a girl with brown skin, brown eyes and brown hair came up. “I am 16” she said before sitting down. She was sitting for atleast 5 minutes before the hat shouted “SLYTHERIN” and she went to sit across from the girl Annabeth.

”Di Angelo, Nico.” McGonagall said as a white boy with black eyes and black hair came up. “I am 14” he said before sitting down and being put in Slytherin after a couple of minutes.

”14 eh?” Ron said to me “That means he’s in our year.”

”Solace, Will.” McGonagall said as a tanned boy with sun blond hair and bright blue eyes came up. “I am 14” he said before sitting down. He was there for around 30 seconds before the hat roared “HUFFLEPUFF” and he went and sat next to Hazel.

”Dare, Rachel.” McGonagall said as a white girl with green eyes and blazing red hair came up. “I am 15” she said before sitting down and being put in Slytherin.

”Trilling, Isabella.” McGonagall said as a girl with pale skin, sea green eyes and red hair came up said “I am 14.” before being placed in Ravenclaw and went to sit next to Leo.

Before the final person was called McGonagall had to look at it twice before saying “Malfoy, Mellisa.” As the final girl came up. She had white skin, the classic blonde Malfoy hair but she died the front of it red (think of Narcissas hair but instead of black, red) and green eyes. “I am 14” she said with a heavy French accent.

”We all know where this one is going.” Ron muttered to me.

Mellisa was sat on the chair for around 10 minutes before the hat roared “GRYFFINDOR”

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Hermione’s POV:

After the meal me, Harry and Ron went to the common room to get the good chairs so we could discuss things. I really needed to let it out of my system. Who were these people who didn’t transfer from Bouxbatons? Oh my god!

”Yo what do you think about that Mellisa girl?” Ron said as we reached the staircase.

”Honestly I don’t know.” I replied “But the real question is that we know that Lucius Malfoy loves being a Slytherin and that his whole bloodline is in the same house, so how will he react to his daughter being in Gryffindor?”

”I really don’t know.” Harry said “But my question is who are the group of other people who randomly joined. They didn’t transfer so why are they here. Do you think they have any magical training at all, or is it their first time?”

”Pig Snout.” I said as we got to the fat lady portrait. We went and sat in the good chairs by the fire and carried on talking.

Around five minutes later the rest came in and  we all went to bed. When I walked into the dormitory I saw a letter on my bed. It read:

Dear Miss Granger,

As you know the new student Mellisa is in your year and house. You and her also have all the same lessons together. I expect you to treat her with respect and show her around tell her where everything is and say what you have already covered although I doubt it would be necessary as Bouxbatons covers the same material.

Do not disappoint me.

Yours sincerely,

Your head of house Professor McGonagall.

I took a deep breath. Yes of course Mellisa and I would be sharing a dorm. How could I forget something like that? Maybe she won’t be like her family… Well she is a Gryffindor so that already one difference. Maybe she won’t be a jerk. I put the letter in one of my draws when Mellisa herself came in.

”Hi.” I said initiating conversation as I could tell she looked a bit uncomfortable. “My name is Hermione. Your Mellisa… right?”

”Yeah.” She responded “I’m Mellisa. This dorm is nice.”

”Yeah.” I said taking in her appearance and my gaze landed on her hair “May I ask. Why is the front of your hair red?”

”Oh!” She said smiling and touched her hair “Well you know who my father is… well he was always going on about the Weasleys and there red hair so one night I snuck out and dyed my hair to annoy him. Draco found it hilarious. At first it was just to annoy Lucius but I loved it so much I kept it.”

”Lucius?” I asked noticing the use of her fathers first name.

”Well.. there’s no point in calling him father anymore as I can bet you by the time he figures out that I’m a Gryffindor I’ll no longer be part of the Malfoy family.”

”What will Draco think of it?”

”Oh he’ll be really upset about it but if he tries to defy Lucius it’s just gonna be harder for him in the end. And well… nobody wants that really.”

Before I could ask any more questions like; How would it be harder for Draco? Or why would a dad do that to his daughter? Everyone else came in and I figured she wouldn’t like it if I asked questions in front of Everyone else.”

*The next day*

When I finished getting ready me and Mellisa went to the common room together (If I was going to show her to all her classes I might as well try and be friend with her we saw an owl swoop in a drop a letter in Mellisa’s hands. When she had finished reading it she had a sad expression on her face but nodded like she expected it to happen.

”What is it?” I asked her, now a bit worried.

”You know what.” She said I’ll just read it out. So she did and it said:

Dear Mellisa,

It is me your father Lucius or should I say your old one. I have received news that you are in that horrid house Gryffindor instead of Slytherin which I expected you to be in. I will not have you ruin our family legacy if only Slytherins so you will no longer be apart of this family.

I have sent you what little items you own and you will have to find a new place to live for the summer holidays.

Bye,

Lucius Malfoy (your ex father).

”What the fuck.” Ron said “That’s so messed up.”

Mellisa shrugged “That’s Lucius for you. Everything needs to be ‘picture perfect’ or else he won’t be a part of your life. I’ll go break the news to Draco though.”

”Mind if we come with.” Harry asked “You might have just got disowned by your last family but now you have a new one with us.”

”That would be lovely” Mellisa smiled at us “Thank you.”

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Mellisas POV:

As me, Hermione, Harry and Ron were all walking down to the great hall my mind was spinning. How would Draco react to the news? Would he agree with Lucius or not? Would he still see me as a sister? I was just so nervous.

Luckily nobody said anything to me on the way down which I was glad of, To be honest I wouldn't know what to say if they did.

The walk downstairs must have been only five minutes but with everything going on it felt like an hour. Finally when we got outside the great hall I saw him.

Draco was leaning against the wall talking to one of the new kids, Mico, I think his name was. When Draco said me his face lit up and he ran towards me and enveloped me in a hug, which I quickly returned. For a moment I forgot all my struggles and just let myself be in the moment.

We locked eyes and I could keep it in. I told him all about Lucius letter and then looked down I could bear it if he was on Lucius side. But then Draco said "If it makes you feel any better, I still see you as my sister."

Honestly I can't remember how many times me and Draco hugged but I know ot was a cute sibling moment.

Suddenly Hermione said "Hey um... Draco... can we call you Draco?" She asked holding out her hand.

Draco looked at her, then Ron and finally Harry and said "Yeah sure and um... I'm sorry for how I've um treated you guys before. It was really wrong of me."

"We forgive you Draco. But honestly you should call us by our first names and shake my godam hand before it loses all of its blood." Hermione said with a jokey tone to it. Draco immediately took her hand.

I looked behind Draco to see that Mico was just standing there awkwardly. "Hey!" I said to him. "Come over here. My names Mellisa." I said holding my hand out. "Nico." The boy said and shook my hand. It was icy cold. We all introduced ourselves to each other and Draco, Harry, Hermione and Ron agreed not to fight this year (what's that about? I'll ask Hermione later.)

And we made our way to our separate house tables for breakfast.

When I finally sat down I was cornered by two boys with bright orange hair like Ron's.

"Your a Malfoy aren't you?" The one on the right asked.

"Um yeah..." I responded.

"And a Gryffindor!" The one of the left said.

"Oh no, I'm actually a Ravenclaw but I took someone else's tie. Yes I'm a Gryffindor." I said because it was quite obvious what colour tie I was wearing.

"This is Fred and George." Ron said pointing at each of them. "They're my older twin brothers."

"So..." the one called Fred said "How did old lushes locks take the news?"

"Well I'm disowned now." I said taking a bite of a waffle. 

"WHAT??" George said.

"You can't drop that information and then eat a waffle!" Fred said.

"OK guys." Ron said "calm down. We have divination now so we'll be going."

"I don't have divinity or whatever that is but I do have Astronomy so I'll go to that now. Bye" I said and me and Hermione went to go to class

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Harry's POV:

Me and Ron walked into Defence Against the Dark Arts as early as possible, Moody was an auror so we assumed that his lessons were going to be fun.

When we walk in we see that there are already two pairs sitting down. One of them is Mellisa and Hermione who are talking about Greek Mythology (from what I've heard the Odyssey fell out of Hermiones bag and they figured out the both love it).

The other pair was two of the new people-Nico Di Angelo and Will Solace. I've never had a proper conversation with either of them so I didn't know what they were like.

Nico I was a little uneasy about though. To begin with he is a Slytherin and Malfoys friend. Although I have agreed to be civil with Malfoy for Mellisas sake doesn't mean I trust him. Also Nico doesn't look friendly either. He has this dark auror around him which just makes me feel uncomfortable and a tad queasy.

Will Solace on the other hand sounded like the complete opposite. My friend Ernie McMillan said he was a really sweet person. When he smiled it was radient and it made you immediately want to smile back. He was basically he definition of sunshine.

So I guess you could imagine my surprise when I see them talking and laughing as if they are best friends. To be honest though they might be as they both started together at the same time randomly.

Anyways Mellisa and Hermione were on the left side of the room (front row) and Nico and Will were on the right side of the room (front row), so that means that me and Ron could easily grab the front middle, which we weren't upset about.

After Around 10 minutes the entire class was waiting for Moody to come in. When he finally did it wasn't like any other teacher they have had. His eyes seemed to be looking at everybody and also nobody. His presence made the whole class silent and everyone's eyes were on him.

When he got to the board he immediately starter to write a title ('Unforgivable Curses') and wrote three spells down.

"Unforgivable Curses" Moody said in a deep gruff voice "now, shockingly, they are unforgivable. But does anyone know what will happen if you use them?"

Both Mellisa and Hermiones hands shot up in the air at the same time. "Yes Miss... brunet what's your bank?"

"Hermione Granger sir." Hermione said "and the answer to your question is that if somebody performs any of these three spells they will be sent to Azkaban, the wizarding jail."

"Correct Miss Granger, five points to Gryffindor." Mad-Eye said "Now, I already have the names of the Curses so can anyone tell me what they do exactly?"

To my surprise most of the class raised their hand. Mad-Eye scanned the room until his eyes fell on Ron who had his hand half raised. "Aha, Weasley isn't it?"

"Um yes sir." Ron said nervously.

"Ah your father helped me get out of a spot of trouble with the Ministry a while again. Great man. Anyway which spell do you know and what does it do?"

"I know the imperious curse can make you control what someone does."

"Yes your father would know that one." Moody then went to his desk, which was about a foot away from our table, and got out a spider. When he placed it on his desk Ron and a few others pushed their chairs away in fright. Moody then pointed his wand at the spider and said "Imperio." At first it seamed like nothing happened then it began to crawl of the desk and onto the floor. And it also did bizarre things like tap dance here and there. Some people were chearing on the spider while most were getting themselves as far away as possible. Soon it went back to the front and Moody put it in the jar.

"Alright class can anyone tell me what one of the other two do?" He said while getting out another spider. A lot less people raised their hand this time. "Ah yes Mr Longbottom."

"The um cruciatus curse." Neville said "it um tortures people."

"Yes now um. Come here M'boy." Moody said beckoning Neville over. We all held our breath as Neville went up to the front and stared at the spider as if dareing it to do something. The Moody pointed his wand at the spider and said "Crucio." The sight was horrible. The spider started to twitch and squirm and if it could scream I'm sure it would have. I couldn't take it anymore so I teared my eyes away and saw some people were looking around like I was, some people had their eyes glued to their desks and the rest were staring at the spider. I looked at Nico and Will and saw that Nico had his eyes fixed on the spider-a glum expression on his face. Next to him Will was staring at the table holding onto Nico's arm so hard I'm sure it left a mark.

"Stop it!" Hermione almost shouted. "Can't you see it's bothering him? Stop it?" I looked atbher and then I followed her gaze to where Neville was and saw his eyes were closed and his face scrunched up as if remembering something unpleasant. Moody looked up, saw Neville and immediately stopped and put the spider away. He sent Neville back to his seat and reached for the last spider. When his hand entered the last spider tried to move away as if it knew what was coming. Moody placed the last spider on the desk and said "Avadakadavra." A flash of green light hit the spider and it stilled.

"Now then class." Moody broke the tension in the air as he said those words. "Please pack up your stuff, put it in your bags and put the bags on I am about to vanish the chairs and desks."

Once the class did as instructed and the desks and chairs disappeared, everyone went to stand on the side of the room. Mad-Eye then told us he would be putting the imperious curse on us to see how we would react in that situation.

"Honestly barbaric." Mellisa said, her French accent surprising me a bit as I had never really heard one before. "This is illegal. He cannot be allowed to perform the curse on us."

"The problem is I don't think the cares." Hermione said.

We were quite until it was our turns. It was onky our group the Nico and Will left. First Ron got up and he started to do a funny tap dance. Then Hermione where she did a chicken dance. After her it was Mellisa who did really well. She managed to stay still for around ten seconds before she tried to jump on the table, changed her mind halfway through and then broke her knee cap.

"That was very good Miss..." Moody said.

"Mellisa." Mellisa said "My name is just Mellisa."

"Well good job Miss Mellisa um... Di Angelo, Solace could you please take Mellisa to Madame Pomfrey, she'll need some fixing up to do."

Nico and Will cane rushing forwards to help. Mellisa had her right arm around Wills shoulder and her left around Nicos and they helped her walk all the way to Madam Pomfrey's.

All of a sudden it was my go. I stepped forwards and then I heard Moodys voice say "Imperio." Then my entire world changed around me. I felt myself land on a soft bed. Honestly if this is what the imperious curse was like, I could live with it. Then I heard Moodys voice say loud and clear "jump." I was about to but thennI thought what's the point? So I didn't I just stayed lying down. Then I was ripped from this beautiful reality by Moodys clapping and he said "That was perfect Potter. Alright that us all we have time for today class dismissed."

As me, Ron and Hermione walked out of the classroom, although Mellisa seamed nice, I missed it being just us three.

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Nicos POV:

As me and Will walked Mellisa down to the hospital wing I couldn't help but be aware of my surroundings. Hogwarts was just so beautiful and fascinating. The thing I mostly focused on was the painting cause they were moving.

I also saw that Hogwarts was so big that by the time the three of us got to the Hospital Wing we could hear people leaving their lessons.

When we walked into the Hospital Wing Madame Pomfrey saw us and told me and Will which bed to put Mellisa on. When we were just about to leave the Hospital Wing, however, Mellisa said "Wait I have a question!"

"Yeah Mellisa, what is it?" Will said cause apparently he decided not to pretend we didn't hear a word she said.

"I know this may sound weird but how come I just felt weeker when you guys, Will especially, let go of me cause I'm sure I just felt a bit stronger..."

I froze when she said those words. Will probably was using his son-of-Apollo-healing-power-thing and bless his soul, he didn't even realise. Luckily, however, Will can answer under pressure so his quick thinking saved the day.

"It's probably cause I'm jacked, y'know." Will said, as a joke, then the motherfucker flexed his dam muscles. To be honest he us jacked but that is NOT the point.

Luckily Mellisa shook me from my mini-daze by saying "Oh OK I guess." But I could tell she wasn't convinced, she also seamed to tell that we wouldn't give her any other answer.

As we walked outside Will was talking about the Astronomy lesson and hiw ironic it is that when the school brings in Greek stars for the first time, we join. All of a sudden we heard our names get called and I barely had time to register anything when I get rugby tackled by Reyna. As we get up, I look and see that Piper and Annabeyh are talking to Will.

Then all five of us sit down to where Jason and Percy are sitting with Hermions Granger, Ron Weasley and Harry Potter.

When they saw us coming Harry, Ron and Hermione looked abit uneasy bur Percy jumped up and hugged Annabeth as Jason gave me and Will a joint hug. I decided that I was going to focus on saying hi and hugging Jason back that how Wills arm was currently brushing against my own.

As we all sat down Percy and Annnabeth were talking about how their summer in New Rome was and honestly the funniest thing I have ever seen us Annabeth hitting Percy after he almost let another demigod thing slip.

Unfortunately now it was the end of break and time to go back to lessons. I looked at my timetable and saw we had Potions with the Hufflepuffs. I looked up at Will only to see he was already looking at me.

"Should we go then?" He asked me sticking out his arm in mocked politeness.

"Oh definitely." I said taking the arm.

The rest of the month went like this really. Potions with the Hufflepuffs, Defence Against the Dark Arts with Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors, Transfiguration with the Ravenclaws and Gryffindors, Herbology by ourselves, ect, ect.

Then around the end of October there was a note in the dormitory that told us to be at the Great Hall by 8pm. I looked at Draco to see if thus was something they did every year. Luckily he was smiling as we went back to the dorms.

When we got to the dorms I turned around and said "You know what that's about, don't you?"

"Yes I do." He said grinning.

"And does it happen every year?" I ask him.

"Nope."

"So will you tell me what is happening?"

"Nope."

"What why!?"

"Cause I'm sure it'll be more fun to figure out with everybody else."

I groaned and called him some names although I knew he was correct. It would be better to find out with everybody else.

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Harry's POV:

At 8pm me, Ron, Hermione and Mellisa made our way to the great hall where we were told to sit with our year instead of our houses. As we walked towards where the fourth years were sitting Mellisa quickly sat next to Malfoy and Hermione followed her. Before long the three of them were talking about books whatnot.

I sat next to Hermione and Ron sat down next to me. My mind was spinning as I was sitting down. What could this all be about? Why did we have to meet? Since my head was so full I decided to look around the room and my eyes landed on the Malfoy twins.

From afar, you could never tell they were related; Mellisa has sea green eyes while Draco has marble grey, Mellisa has two toned hair while Draco only has blond, Mellisa speaks whatever's on her mid when its on her mind while Draco thinks before he says anything.

However when they sit next to each other all of that changes. They look so much alike its almost scary. Their smiles look the same with only one dimple showing and when their thinking they get the same quizzical look. They also have the same beautiful genes. I'm not saying I'm attracted to either of them but they are both stunning to look at. Mellisa with her hair wavy resting delicately on her shoulders and Draco's wavy hair going just below his ears. Both of them looked neat in a way that says 'I know I look neat because I spent time making myself look like this this morning' instead of a 'my fathers supper rich' way.

Then Mellisa's Ravenclaw friend, Isabella, came. If I'm honest I forgot about her but she seamed to know Draco and Mellisa well. She ran up gave Draco a hug, gave one to Mellisa and then spread Mellisa's legs so he could sit in between them on the bench as Mellisa was sitting on the table. Looking at then you could tell they were good friends.

As I carried on looking around my eyes fell on Will and Nico who were sitting on the other side of Draco. They were talking about something they both seamed really interested in though because their hand kept on touching and then Will would look away and Nico would have a hard blush on his face. As I was looking at them I smiled, It must be hard to join a school later so I was glad that Nico and Will had good friends like each other.

Then a big bell sounded and Dumbledore entered the great hall with two men. One of them introduced himself as Ludo Bagman and the other introduced himself as and BArty Crouch. Barty Crouch announced that there would be two more schools coming to Hogwarts for something called the triwizard tournament.

At this there was loads of muttering and Dumbledore had to ring the bell again,

"Now." Crouch said "Last time there were deaths so this time there will be a rule that you cannot participate if you are under 17." At this there were even more angry outbursts.

"EVERYBODY SHUT UP." Dumbledore asked calmly. "These rules are for your safety. Now all of you go to bed apart from the ones who aren't the new transfers from Beauxbatons."

As me, Ron, Hermione and Mellisa walked towards the stairs the girls waved one final goodbye wave to Draco, who was waiting outside the great hall for Nico with Pansy and Blaise, and when he caught their eye, waved back.

When Ron noticed this he said "So you guys are now friends with Malfoy."

"He's my brother Ronald." Mellisa said "I've always been friends with him."

"Yeah I know you have. I was talking about 'Mione."

"Well Ron." Hermione said "the first thing he did when I sat down was apologize for everything he's done wrong in the past so that's a good thing and secondly, he's actually a really nice person once you get to know him. So yes I would say me and Draco are becoming friend."

"But he bullied us!"

"Yes and he's apologized and I know that doesn't erase what he did but it's a start."

"He hasn't apologized to me and Harry!"

"Have you even attempted to talk to him yet?" Ron looked away from Hermione, silent. "Exactly my point proven."

The rest of the walk to the common room was silent and awkward. When we had to seperate for the girls and boys dorms Hermione and Mellisa didn't even say a word to us before they wen't out of site.

As me and Ron got into bed Ron said "What should we do about... y'know Malfoy?"

"Maybe try and talk to him. Idk I'm tired so lets talk about it tomorrow in the morning." I said as my head hit the pillow and I fell into a nice dreamless sleep.

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Percy's POV:

Once everybody had left the great hall, I must admit it felt nice to just be us demigods (and Rachel). For a moment I could imagine we were at Camp-Half-Blood again. Having s'mores by the fire as we exchanged stories of our quests and adventures. But that currently wasn't true. We were at Hogwarts, surrounded by witches and wizards, there was no campfire for us to be around. For some reason that made be feel a bit upset so I quickly pushed that thought DOWN.

Dumbledore then informed us that he didn't know what but a strange force had made all of our names appear under the goblet of fire under another school and two of our names would be chosen.

"Wait Professor," Nico said "You said we have to be 17 to enter and none of us are."

"Like I said Mr Di Angelo, I don't know how but it was a strange force, you really have no choice in this matter. Now I've decided that you can stay here for a while and talk by yourselfs. Goodbye." With that we all watched in shock as Dumbledore left the great hall, and with every step he took I lost my respect for that man. For a minute we all just looked at each other in silence.

"What the actual fu- ow! what was that for?" I said looking at Annabeth who had just stepped on my toe.

"I bet it was- no, I know it was the gods that are making us do this." Hazel said and then glared up at the ceiling "What? Huh? Didn't we do enough for you last summer are are you just that shit?"

"Haze maybe DON'T swear at the gods. They can and will do worst." Nico said, "And anyway who do you think it going to do it?"

"Oh I hope it's not me." Rachel said "I'm not even a demigod or a witch, I'm a mortal muggle."

"Hey!" Annabeth said, grabbing her face. "I saw you in transfiguration today. No normal mortal muggle would be able to do that. You're an amazing and brilliant person Rachel Elizabeth Dare."

Rachel hugged Annabeth and said "Thank you Annie."

"Let's be real the gods are either gonna make it with someone who has the least trauma to give them more, or the person with the most trauma cause they think thy will be able to handle it." Reyna said.

"Please make it the person with the least trauma, no offence guys but I want to relax." Nico said in a joking manner. Although Will hit his arm and Nico turned to him, his mouth hanging open. Will then apologized and put his arm on Nico's shoulder and turned to look at us. Nico, however, looked at Wills hand on his shoulder, blushed and then turned to face us.

Me and Jason looked at us each other and smiled. Me and him had noticed how Will and Nico acted around each other before and, in all honesty, though that if they- sorry when they get together, they would be adorable.

"Ok Reyna although that sounds like a good idea what if they chose someone in the middle of the trauma scale?" Piper said.

"Or they could do a spin the wheel." Leo said, and then when we all looked at him he said "What? It's a good idea. But I ALSO say we have no clue on what the gods will do so we should not keep ourselves up at night about it. So can we please go to bed, I'm knackered?"

We all stared at Leo like 'come on man? Really?' until Nico said "For once I agree with Valdez, can we go to bed?" So then we departed. Frank said he was going to walk Hazel over to her common room and then he would come to ours so me and Jason took off together.

At first we walked in silence until we turned to each other and I said "Did you SEE Will and Nico?"

"I DID!" Jason said "Like they were so cute."

"EXACTLY! When Will put his hand on Nico's shoulder and blushed." I said and yes, I am a 16 year old boy who is kinda fangirling over two cute people who obviously like each other but aren't yet admitting it. Can you blame me? I'm just a man.

When me and Jason got to our dorm he wen't to his bed and after a couple of seconds I heard him already snoring, like I guess that's what being raised in a military does to you? It took me a while to get to sleep but luckily when I did, It was a dreamless one.

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Mellisa's POV:

During the weeks leading up to October 30th (When Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will come to Hogwarts) it has been the talk of the school. Me and Isabella were also talking and we are both not only excited about the Triwizard Tournament, but also excited to see who will come from Beauxbatons as just because we moved schools doesn't mean we don't care about them.

When October 30th finally arrives the day goes by in a blur and when dinner comes everybody is on the edge of their seats. Then, suddenly, there is a loud bang! and Durmstrang entered the great hall.

Well they don't just enter, they enter and they start to do a dance thingy maggig. If I'm being completely honest with you they look like what me and some of my old friends at Beauxbatons looked like when our Divination teacher was late and we started to manifest that she had fell down the stairs and would be in ever again (unfortunately we were always wrong but one could only hope...).

Anyways the Durmstrang was like that. Anyways when they were finished I was excited and me and Isabella made eyes from our tables. We were both highly excited for this as we would see some of our friends for Beauxbatons.

I have to admit that my jaw DROPPED when I saw them. I recognised nearly all of them and where friends with them so I knew they looked good but it never occurred to me that they would have that big of a glow-up going into their seventh year.

When they were doing their beautiful dance it gave me nostalgia as I remembered being in dance lessons while I was there.

When they had finished their dance they went to sit at the Ravenclaw table next to Isabella, and yes I would say that I was a bit jealous that they were all together without me, that's weird. I've never really felt that jealous.

A couple of minutes later I felt that jealousy spike up again when I looked at the table and saw one of the boys from Durmstrang (Brain I think his name is) touch Issy's arm for too long than was necessary.

I silently cursed myself. I shouldn't be getting jealous over these silly little things. No that's childish.

The rest of dinner was fine and when it was over I quickly wen't over to the Ravenclaw table to say goodbye to the Beauxbatons people (Ignoring bloody-Brain, obviously) and then me and Isabella walked to Ravenclaw tower together because we were talking about the day. When we got there we only just seemed to realize that I had basically walked her to her door. Great, now it's awkward.

We were face to face and from this angle I could see every freckle on her face and how the front of her hair hung across her face for when she accidentally burnt the ends in potions.

Then I- well the next thing I did was stupid, uncalled for and down-right idiotic. I kissed her. I held her face with my hands. It felt so good that I didn't realise that she wasn't kissing back. I quickly pulled away and muttered an apology before running away.

I ran all the way outside and sat by the greenhouses. It was silly of me. It's way past curfew and I could get caught.

My breathing was starting to get bad. Oh no. I cannot be having a panic attack right now.

Soon I felt calming hands wrap around me and I recognise them as Will Solace.

"It's ok." He says "In, out."

In, out.

In, out.

I hang onto those words like a lifeline.

In, out.

In, out.

Soon I feel like the walls are a bit further away. Good. I hate having panic attacks and Claustrophobia.

In, out.

In, out.

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Draco's POV:

I don't really know what happened but there has 100% been a shift in the air between Mellisa and Isabella. They've been avoiding each other like the plague and I don't know why.

I thought that they would spend all their time together with the Beauxbatons people but only Isabella has and Mellisas been spending even more time with the Gryffindors.

At first I thought it could just be coincidence but I knew otherwise when I was talking to Isabella and Mellisa saw and just... turned the other way. It was strange and out of the ordinary for Mellisa. Normally she greets me and Isabella like I'm just their friend and Isabella is her sister.

I once tried to talk to Mellisa about it but she shut me off and quickly changed the subject to how interesting their last Divination lesson was. That's when I knew it wasn't just a small thing, no. Something BIG has happened.

It's not only them that are acting weird Nico still hasn't told me anything about the talk Dumbledore had with Nico and the other new kids. I've tried to ask Nico many, many times but all he says is "I'm sure you'll find out soon enough" and just keeps me in the dark otherwise. 

Don't get me wrong, I have full faith that I will find out later but the tension is KILLING me. 

~Some months later when it is time for the names to be pulled out of the goblet of fire~

Today was probably one of the most nerve-rackingg days of the year. This afternoon we are finding out who is going to be in the Triwizard tournament and honestly I am a bit excited but I know people are gonna get SIRIUSLY injured. [A/N did you get that Marauders reference.. No? OK bye imma go] 

Last period was potions which finished early and so me Nico, Pansy and Blaise went to the great hall and sat down.

Pansy and Blaise were flirting with each other (which was normal) but Nico was shaking and was quite obviously nervous.

"What?" I asked Nico joking trying to break the tension "Did you find out how to put your name in the goblet and not tell any of us?"

"Something like that." He only muttered in response.

Ok. That was weird. What does he mean 'something like that'? You either put you name in or you didn't.

But before I could ask anything else the Goblet of Fire choosing had begun.

If I'm honest with you. I drowned out the entirety of Dumbledores speak. It was probably something about  how much of an honour it would be to be chosen or something like that. I don't really care. The only thing I am interested in is who's gonna be it, but even then I'm not that interested.

Fluer was the random girl from Beauxbatons, the qudditch dude Krum was from Durmstrang and Diggory was from Hogwarts. 

I thought that would be the end. It was suppose to be the end but then the goblet glowed again and thus tike two pieces of paper had flown out. I noticed Nicos eyes had lached onto them with an intensity I had never seen before.

The first name to be pulled out was one of the new girls called Rachel. I didn't know her apart from the fact that she was a Slytherin in an older year but Nico whispered "Oh gods no." So I guess they were friends.

And then the other name shocked me.

It was Nicos.

When his name got called out I turned to look at him but all he did was mutter "I'll explain later." Before he left.

My mind was so confused on how Nico was it it that I barely noticed the other piece of paper fly out of the goblet.

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Rachel's POV:

What the fuck. Was my first thought when my name was called. Like it had been a fear in the back of my mind but I had stupidly ruled it out.

I had thought that the gods would pick two people with powers, to make it more entertaining for them to watch because I KNOW they are currently watching it on Hephaestus TV.

Anyways, as I was walking downstairs towards the room where the competitors would meet, I started to wonder who else would be coming with me.

I ruled Annabeth on my list pretty quickly. Yes, Annabeth is brilliant and I am NOT saying otherwise, but two people without powers? No. The gods would never do that.

I was on the fence about Piper. She is brilliant, don't get me wrong but she doesn't have powers like Percy and Jason do. Also I don't know if Aphrodite would be happy with it as she already complains about the fact that Piper is the head counselor but the only child of Aphrodite that doesn't spend half an hour doing their make-up every morning.

Will... oh Will. The gods will definitely wan't to see a good fight break down and (although Will is great with a bow) his strong suit is and has always been healing people, so I don't think they'll.choose him.because other people.would 100% put up a better show than him.

Percy. Well, I want to say that Percy's already been through enough shit but if I'm honest I don't think the gods care how much they've put somebody through as long as they put on a good show.

I want to desperately to rule out Nico because he's been through alot, but come on guys. But I think that its mainly the 12 Olympians choosing whos going into the Triwizard Tournament and none of them know or like Nico. I mean, Zeus killed his mum. I don't think he cares about him that much, but it's just a guess.

For Jason, Leo, Frank and Hazel, I came up with a similar conclusion that the gods don't care about anyone and their kids are no different so they could be chosen (although that statement could be used with anybody). 

When I reached the room, I have to say that I gasped out loud. This place is beautiful. The room has loads of round, circular tables, that are adorned with dozens upon dozens of golden trophies. On the ceiling, there is a beautiful chandelier that matches the gold of the objects below.

Around two minutes after I walked in Nico walked in. It took all of my willpower not to march straight up to Olympus and shout at the gods for what they have done. Unfortunately there is no point. I hate that the gods can't just give him a break for once. Like I could wright a three page essay on Nico's trauma and I would have skimmed each one of them.

We met in the middle of the room and the first thing he said to me is "Will's gonna be devastated, seeing his two best friends go in the tournament."

Oh.

Fucking.

Shit.

I hadn't even thought of how this would affect Will.

You see, one thing that always surprises people about Nico Di Angelo is how caring he is. He might seem dark and mysterious, but if you become his friend, he will be your most caring and loyal friend. Like he will literally do anything for you, he will also think of how everything else will affect everyone else before he thinks of how it would affect him. Now those are good traits but they can sometimes be a problem for the person. Like most people who don't know Nico assume he's selfish, but he's like the most selfless person I know, I mean he almost died (multiple times) just because it would ensure other peoples safety. If I had to put my life in one persons hands, it would be Nico because I know he would make sure I made it out alive.

OF COURSE he would think of how this affected Will first.

"Hey, I'm 99% sure we're going to make it out of this thing alive." I said trying to be useful but I hate saying 100% about stuff that isn't 100% so I don't. That's one thing me and Nico bonded over.

"Yeah." He said staring at me and giving me a half smile (which is a lot from Nico. He'll only give those who deserve it, a smile).

Then we turned to face the entrance of the room as another person came down. At first I thought that it was Ludo Bagman and the other people who ran this thing, but that didn't sound right, Ludo wore fancy and pristine shoes which made a clip-clop sound as he walked. These sounded like school shoes. and there was only one pair.

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Nico’s POV;

Oh my dear gods.

I’m kind of screening with worry inside.

Like did I not already face enough with Tartarus?

No?

I bet the gods are up on Olympus right now, laughing their buts off and looking down at me like ‘Oh Nico Di Angelo? Yeah we kinda just chuck him into any REMOTELY dangerous situation to see how he will react. It’s no big dead really.’ 

Merda di merda.

I can just imagine myself walking up to the gods and strangling them, it might sound like a terrible thing to do but OH MY DAYS I am contemplating the idea.

Me and Rachel both turned to face the door when we heard the footsteps coming nearer and when we looked we saw… we saw Harry Potter.

”Potter?” I said before I could stop myself. This was not right.

There were only supposed to be five people, not six. 

It was supposed to be one person from Hogwarts, which was that Hufflepuff Cedric Diggory.

Then there was supposed to be a student from  Beauxbatons, who is called Fluer something.

One person from Durmstrang next who was that quidditch dude Viktor Krum.

And two people from camp which is me and Rachel.

So why is Potter here out of all people here?

Not that I have anything against the dude, but he’s just not supposed to be here. He’s supposed to be a normal student enjoying the school and watching the Triwizard Tournament.

I’ve heard from Draco that he’s this ‘chosen one’ and is said to defeat one of the most powerful and evil wizard alive (some bald dude called ‘LorD VoLdeMoRT’). And not to be rude but he’s someone the Italians I would grow up with would call: ‘un ragazzino piccolo, magro e bianco’. But it’s not like I can insult him on that area, I’m not much better. I only know those grandmas who spend their entire time knitting and talking about Mussolini and the war would call him that because they called me that.

”What are you doing here Potter?” I asked him once he had made our way to us.

He didn’t answer instead he looked at our ties (?) and then looked away sheepishly.

”Oh come off it.” I heard Rachel say “Just because we’re Slytherins and you’re a Gryffindor doesn’t mean we have to hate each other. You’ve seen that Mellisa and Draco kept their relationship good. You don’t have to be scared of us or to talk to us purely because we wear green and silver instead of red and gold.”

I smiled at Rachel after she had said that. This was by far one of my favourite things about her and (in my opinion) why we are such good friends. She doesn’t care what anyone thinks about her and will do whatever she wants to do and thinks is appropriate in the moment. She also will ALWAYS stick up for what she thinks is right and you gotta admire that, don't you?

“Erm yes sorry. I don’t know why I’m here actually.” Harry replied and it occurred to me in that moment that moment that Harry might not be hating or being prejudice against Slytherins. He might just be in a massive state of shock as he really didn’t know what was going on and had no idea his name could have been chosen.

It makes Nico want to console him but he swiftly pushes that thought away (he is NOT touching anyone that he is not really close to).

For a while the three of them just look at each other as it is.

They are three kids who were forced into this.

They are three kids who were forced into this.

They are three kids who were forced into this.

They are three kids who were forced into this.

In that moment a level of understanding passes between them. They all agree that they want one of us to make it through to the end.

And we will make sure that none of us die by doing our best to help each other out.

It then dawns on Nico that none of them should be doing this.

Rachel should be peaceful at her school in whatever grade she is in (I don’t know, the American school system is messed up and weird).

Harry should be in year 10 in a British school, just getting into all of his GCSE classes and doing his second year of Math and Science GSCE.

I should be doing the same thing as Harry but in Italy, in Venice. Then it occurred to me. No I shouldn’t. Technically I should be 84 and dying. i would have probably been forced to marry this woman and have kids with her. Would I love the my kids? I wondered. Would I care for them even though I didn’t love the woman that they came out of? Even though I didn’t like women at all.

But that didn’t happen, I remind myself.

I am a demigod in a school for magic about to do a deadly competition. I am not normal and will never ever be normal.

I reminded myself that I was made for the gods -like many others- for only one thing. To be their war pawns

They seems to forget that we are not their pawns, we are human.

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Harry’s POV:

After a bit of me, Rachel and Nico staring at each other, I hear the sounds of people footsteps and we turn to look at what is making the noise.

Dumbledore came running into the Trophy room, full speed and I have to admit it was a terrifying sight to behold.

”HARRY DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE?” Dumbledore asked me calmly. As he a loomed over me.

”No-no sir” I stuttered out. Honestly Dumbledores a great man but he can be scary when he wants to be.

”Did you ask an older student to do it?”

”No sir.”

”Are you one-hundred percent sure about that”

”one-hundred percentage sir”

”Well he obviously lying” came the French time of Madame Maxime as she came in right behind Dumbledore.

”I swear I’m not!” I said, this time with a little bit more force in my voice, “Also I find it unfair that your only questioning me when two other people who are underage are here as well.”

”Oi! Leave us out of this.” I heard Rachel’s voice say and yeah, I will admit it was wrong for me to throw her and Nico under the bus like that, especially after our agreement to be in this together but a you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes, you know? But still I glanced at her way with a glance which I hoped looked somewhat apologetic or guilty in.

The teachers just carried on to barrate me and kept on asking questions. Honestly how thick can teachers out of all people be?

Like I said, I didn't know how my name got in there and I don't know why it is in there either. Honestly at this rate I was just about to beg them to put me on veritaserum to see that I was telling the truth and that I'm not some little weird somehow genius, mastermind who managed to outsmart the great Albus Dumbledore of all people and of all people they could accuse me of outsmarting people as well? Dumbledore? That's probably the most stupid thing that I have ever heard in my life and I share a room with Ronald Weasley of all people.

Anyways, the interrogation went on for another half hour before they finally let me go. If I'm honest I was tired and nervous about going back to my dorm because what if one of them wouldn't believe my story and trust me. It would be painful to deal with because I care about all of them.

So that's why when I finally made it back to my dorm, my hand was shaking before I opened the door to the Gryffindor towers boys dorm.

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Harry's POV:

As I opened the door my heart was pounding in my chest so loud I'm surprised nobody else realised it.

I walked over to Ron's bed and was about to knock on the bedpost, but before I did that I heard Seamus say "Don't do that, he said don't disturb him and that he wants to be left alone."

Oh fuck. This is it. This is the end of mine and Ron's friendship. 3 and a bit years of always being there for each other and it's all ruined because my name somehow ended up in the goblet of fire.

That night was brutal, I kept on waking up every couple of minutes, sweating with the worry of loosing Ron and it didn't help that all of my dreams were different ways he would end our friendship.

I don't really know how to put it but, I just can't lose Ron. Anyone else, just not Ron.

Me and Ron, I feel like we have a really special bond, he was the first wizard I met that was my age and we quickly became friends because of this. When we were sorted into the same Hogwarts house it was almost like it was confirming out friendship. It was like the universe was saying "Yeah, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, their different. They're best friends and its gonna stay that way forever."

And now... I think our friendship might be over. Forever. And that idea, well that idea terrifies me.

It scares me more than Dementors.

It scares me more than Death Eaters.

It scares me more than Voldemort.

And, well I should say that I am surprised about the power that loosing Ron and Ron in general holds over me, but it doesn't.

Ron is, and has always been like a brother to me. No, that's not right. Ron is my brother. I don't think anyone can change that.

And I think that is why my heart stopped when Ron said right before me, Seamus, Dean and Neville left for breakfast:

"Harry, um can we please talk for a bit in private."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

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Ron's POV:

As Harry and me were left alone in the room together, I saw that he had fear in his eyes. Real genuine fear.

”Harry…” I said, fiddling with my hands “I’m going to ask you something and I need you to be 100% honest with me.”

Harry nodded instantly and said “Yes, of course. Ask away.”

”Do you know how your name was put into that cup?” I asked him, staring into his green eyes.

”No.” Harry said instantly and, looking into his eyes I could tell he was telling the truth. He had absolutely zero clue on how his name was put into the cup.

”Ok.” I said. “Do you have an idea of who put your name in the cup.”

Harry smiled, which I thought was weird. Why would anyone smile when they had to deal with the Triwizard Tournament of all things but maybe it was just his way of coping, so I didn’t mention it.

“Ron,” I heard Harry say in a voice that was less confident than the one I heard just 30 seconds before.

”Yeah Harry, You ok?”

”Thanks for not… y’know, being pissed at me.”

And in that moment it dawned on me that Harry was worried that when I figured out about him being a part of the Triwizard Tournament, I would stop being his friend out of anger that it was him and not me.

”Harry.” I said, moving over to him and putting an arm around his shoulder “I could never hate you for something that you cannot control.”

We smiled at each other and in that moment, I knew we would be alright.

Then our moment was interrupted by my stomach growling.

”So…” I said, “Breakfast?”

”Breakfast.” Harry confirmed.

When we were downstairs, I saw Mellisa walking to the great hall from the greenhouses. At first I didn’t think much of it, after all last herbology lesson we were given homework that would require us to be in the greenhouses for. But then I remembered what I was supposed to talk to her about.

I turned to Harry and said “Be back in a minute.” And went to Mellisa in a careful jog.

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Mellisa’s POV:

When Ron came running up to me, I thought I was hallucinating.

Since when did Ron Weasley come to me when I wasn’t talking to Hermione.

It’s not like we hate each other or anything, but we aren’t the bestest of friends either. We usually only talk to each other if one of us is talking to Harry, or Hermione.

”Hello Mellisa.” Ron said as he came up to stand in front of me.

”Hello Ron, Is there anything I can do for you?” I said, trying to keep my voice from sounding rude, but in all fairness he doesn’t normally talk to me.

”So,” he starts, “You know about your… living situation?”

I instantly tense up. “Yeah, why?” I respond, trying to keep my voice neutral.”

“Well, on the night you got the letter from the elder Malfoy, I sent a letter home to my mum explaining the situation. I asked her if there was any possibility that you could live with us, during the summer holidays at least. And yesterday, I got a letter back saying yes you could. And rest assured, the only reason the letter took so long is because mum attached photos of the room she had prepared for you with Ginny. You’re alright with that aren’t you? I can send a letter back if oth-“

But before he can finish that sentence I wrap my arms around him and give him the biggest hug I have probably given anyone in my entire life.

”No, you and your family doesn’t have to do anything else,” I said pulling away from the hug to look him in his eyes. “You guys have already been too kind already.”

So we walked towards Harry, where he was waiting for us outside the great hall.

”Mellisa?” Ron said not taking his eyes off of the food.

“Yeah?” I replied.

”How come you were doing your homework without Hermione?”

”Oh well Hermione did it yesterday afternoon while I was talking to Draco.”

Ron didnt say anything just nodded, sat down across from Hermione and started to eat. Harry grinned and sat down next to his best friend, and I sat down next to Hermione who immediately put bacon and eggs on toast on my plate. I grinned at her when she had done so.

”What?” She said when she saw my face. “You have that for breakfast every single day.”

I said nothing and just grinned. For the first time since I got here, I felt life my life wouldn’t crumble around me at any moment.

Then Isabella came in and as she walked past me she slid a note into my hand.

Meet me in the astronomy tower at 10pm sharp. Don’t miss it without a valid excuse or we won’t be talking for a very long time.

Oh my fucking god. Suddenly, I felt as if my world was crashing down all around me.

For the rest of the day, the Astronomy meeting was all I could think about. And at 9.45 I got changed into all black and out a black bonnet over my hair so teachers should have a harder time seeing me as I was out after curfew.

At 9:55 I got there and stood outside the astronomy tower door. There was no doubt Isabella was already there. She was always at least 10 minutes early for everything.

Here goes nothing I thought to myself as I swung open the astronomy tower door.

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Mellisas' POV:

When I opened the Astronomy tower door, my breath hitched when I laid eyes on the beautiful girl in front of me.

Isabella was sitting on the very edge of the tower, her legs dangling over the edge and the moon illuminated her ginger hair so that it seamed almost like the girl in front of me wasn't a witch, but a greek goddess.

At the sound of my footsteps, Isabella turned and patted the spot next to her. I closed the door behind me and sat down gingerly, it was a wonder I got sorted into Gryffindor, with how nervous and scared I am acting.

It must have been an odd sight if someone say us. There was me, with my died hair, shorter skirt than I was allowed to have with shorts under cause if my parents saw they would be rolling in their grave, my long sleeve shirt and Gryffindor tie hanging undone around my neck. Then there was Isabella, with her ginger hair resting on her shoulders, short sleeves, perfect length skirt that if it was just a bit higher would be breaking the rules and Ravenclaw tie tied perfectly around her neck. They were polar opposites and it was quite obvious.

"We need to talk." She said and I nodded, still to nervous to say anything, worried my mouth would betray me and I would say something stupid again.

"Why did you... why would you kiss me?" She asked turning to look me in the eyes for the first time in a long time, too long and I couldn't lie to her.

"I like you. I have for... I don't know. I don't know why exactly I kissed you but all I knew was that I don't regret it at all."

Isabella's eyes widened at the confession and I could notice how much they looked the same colour as an emerald. Still it was a while before she said anything else, still clearly shocked at how forward I was with my confession.

"Is this... is this a prank? Cause I swear if it is I will stick you r wand up yo-"

"No! It isn't a prank I promise."

Her eyes scan my face and I would be lying if I said my face wasn't heating at the intensity she was looking at me.

"Your not lying..." She eventually said, still scanning my face.

"I would never lie to you." I said a bit to fast, but I would like to see how you would react when a gorgeous Irish woman in front of you as she's inspecting your face.

"Can I..." I started and she looked at me, a questioning look in her eyes, "Can I kiss you?"

Her eyes widened and the corner of her lips lifted as she said "On one condition."

"Anything." I said, which again might have been stupid, but remember guys beautiful Irish girls have that affect on people.

"You're my girlfriend. And not some 'maybe' I'm a definite, your committed and don't break my heart."

"Of course, yes I'm yours and your mine. Of course please kiss me."

And then her lips were on mine. It felt the same as last time, sweet, sugar and addictive. When we pulled away we were both grinning at each other.

"As much as I would like to stay here with you," Issy said, "I do have to go back to my dorms."

"Yeah, me too." I said, "Just one thing, will this be public or private."

"Semi-public how about that?" I looked at her confused, what was 'semi-public'? At my confused face she said, "We are open about being a couple but we don't make a big deal about it, and keep the PDA to our friends mainly. You ok with that?"

I grinned at her, that was perfect and I told her just that before she left the Astronomy tower to go to her dorms.

As I walked back to the Gryffindor tower I ran into one of the new girls, Rachel Elizabeth Dare. She looked at me knowingly and said, "Did you and that Ravenclaw girl Isabella finally get together?" I didn't answer and she just walked downstairs towards the dungeons. How the fuck does she know that?

When I got in my dorm and in my pajamas, Hermione glanced at me and then did a double take.

"You look happier today... what happened."

I grinned and as I got into bed I said "I've got myself a girlfriend." before closing my curtains and getting my book and started to read.

Yeah, my life is pretty great I guess.

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Rachel’s POV:

In the weeks leading up to the first task, I had Annabeth, Piper and Reyna helping me late at night to study in what it might be.

Honestly, I am so grateful for their help. If I’m being honest, I don’t think I would have been able to do nearly as much of this by myself.

Me and Nico have also been spending some time together, looking aver books and watt not. 

I know this might sound rude, but I am really glad that Nico’s in here with me, obviously I would prefer it if neither of us where in here, but that’s just wishful thinking.

Nico is a great person to be around, just in general. When your his friend, he always makes sure your ok and happy. When your working with him, he has this way of explaining stuff to you so that you don't feel like a complete and total idiot and yet you still manage to remember everything he just told you. I could say so much more on why Nico is an amazing person, but then we'd be here all day.

Anyways, me and Nico were in the back of the library with Annabeth and Reyna, all of us pouring over books, trying to remember as much as possible just incase it shows up in the task though, we do have absolutely zero clue on what will happen, in our defence. And Harry Potter of all people came up to us and asked me and Nico if we could talk to him.

Me and Nico got up and we moved to another part of the library where nobody was.

"Dragons." Harry said to us.

"Unicorns." I responded, and when Nico looked at me with confused eyes, I said, "What? I thought we were naming mythical beasts."

"No," Harry said, "Dragons is the first task. We each have an assigned dragon."

There was a silence now, me and Nico hadn't even skimmed dragons, and I don't think we were planning to either.

"Thank you Potter," Nico said, "If we find anything out, we'll let you know." They he turned and raised his eyebrows at me, as if waiting for a response.

"Oh yeah, we'll go straight to you, thanks."

Harry then left us and we returned to Reyna and Annabeth. Annabeth immediately put one of her hands on my shoulder and asked me "Did he threaten you, hurt you or anything? You know how Gryffindors are like to us." 

Us, meaning Slytherins. One of the first things you realise as a Slytherin is that people immediately hate and don't trust you simply because of your house, stupid, believe me I know.

When I found out about it, I immediately felt bad for Nico, like he was outcasted for being a son of hades and had only recently been accepted by the majority of the camp, some campters where assholes and still didn't trust him though. And when I figured that out, I knew it would put Nico back in the exact same position as before.

Anyways I grabbed Annabeth's shoulder with my hand in a reassuring way, and said "Were fine, just we need to look at dragons now cause thats the next task."

So Reyna went to put away the books they previously had out while Annabeth found books about dragons.

Me and Nico looked at each other, and something heavy hung between us, if dragons (one of the most deadly creatures) was only task 1 of 3, what are the chances that one of them wont make it to the end.

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AUTHORS NOTE TINGY

So hi guys, I really hate this fic, especially since it is my first one ever written, and I don’t know if I’m gonna have the guts to finish it, I won’t declare it finished or anything like that just yet, I think I dislike it so much is it was more of a spur-of the moment thing, when I got the idea I just posted, not thinking about it. 

Now I am writing other docs on my computer, all of them read and re-read, which I honestly prefer and I find easier doing, like with my other fic “I absolutely hate killing dragons (but I would kill a hundred for you)” because I put more time and effort into it, now although I am writing other fics, I will probably update, and I am really trying to update at least once a month.

I think the biggest problem with this is that I am slowly leaving the lightning era of the Harry Potter fandom as I am now DEEP into the Marauders era (which is what 99% of my knew fics I’m writing are about).

Im really sorry for this, and I’m afraid if I lose all inspo I will just orphan or completely delete this work.

Im really sorry guys, and thanks for listening to my rant!

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Nico’s POV:

~Time skip to the first task cause I’m lazy~

I am really nervous for the first task. That’s not really a surprise though, I expect to be nervous right before I’m gonna face a dragon, so forgive me if I’m not going to be jumping with joy.

One thing that brings me comfort though is the knowledge that other people are in this situation, I know that I should pity them, but he really can’t bring himself too. I’m just glad that I’m not the only one on the verge of a panic attack.

Im sitting on the edge of a bed and watching everyone around me.

Krum is punching the air like there’s a punching bag in front of him and he looks like an utter moron while he does it, if you were to ask me.

Delacour is sitting down on a chair breathing in and out, can’t really blame her for that though, I’m basically doing the exact same thing just on a bed.

Digggory is standing in the corner, mumbling to himself as though he’s giving himself some motivational pep-talk or something, and after hearing what people say about him, I would not be supposed if he was giving himself a pep-talk.

And Potter is pacing up and down, his feet making the floor make a creek sound every now and again when it hits the wrong wooden tile on the floor.

Suddenly, however the floorboards stop creeping and I look up to see Harry Potter looking at me to ask “Hey, not to seem rude or anything-“

”Why on Earth would anything you say seem rude Potter?” I ask then he furrows his brows at me, as though he never expected me to question him like that.

Well if that’s the case he’s just going to be in for a ride.

”I was just wondering” Potter said, his voice now more strong, as though he was trying to ‘assert dominance’ of this conversation or something else stupid like that, “where’s your ginger friend?”

”You mean Rachel?” I ask him because seriously, who asks about someone by the colour of their hair?

”Yes! That one?”

I sit for a bit, then I remember seeking her talking to Percy while I walked passed them to get here.

"She's with a friend" I say, because I've already heard people gossiping about her love life (well they've been gossiping about everyone who came from camps love life, but that doesnt matter right now) which I know makes her uncomfortable because she's aroace.

Harry nods and seems to understand this excuse, he then goes back to pacing and walks out of the tent... weird it doesn't matter anyways nobody apart from the contestants are here yet.

I look back around at Krum and Delacour, trying to see how they are reacting, they are the abroad students after all, maybe they've got different strategies. I know it's stupid, but it's all I've got right now though.

Just then a camera clicks and I look up to see a blond woman with so much make-up she looks like a clown and also like she would be in love with a murderer if im honest.

I turn to see what she was taking a picture of and see it's Harry and his friend Hermione or something. Dear lord, she really needs to get into everyone's lives.

At the same time Crouch, Dumbledore and the other dude who's always with them comes in and I sigh.

Dear lord, this tent is getting very overcrowded.

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Harry's POV:

After Barty Crouch, Dumbledore and Ludo Bagman left the tent, they slowly started to call tributes in one by one based on their age.

I hate this way, I'm the youngest there by some months, so naturally I have to hear all of the others get hurt, fight, hear the dragons roar knowing I have got the worst one, the stupid Hungarian Hortail.

Like which idiots idea was it to be like ‘Oh yeah Harry Potter, yeah that Orphan mmmh yeah let’s give him the most dangerous dragon we have that’s a great an idea.’ 

Honestly I just want one year where I’m fully safe, like no Voldemort or anything like that.

I dont hope for it too much, that would be wishing for the impossible, but it can't hurt to hope.

I can hear the commentary just about from inside the tent, but I think it's my own thoughts hammering inside my mind that it truly stopping me from being able to hear it properly.

Its been around half an hour, when I hear a bunch of cheering and that tells me Cedric has gotten the egg or whatever it is wee need.

The cannon goes and I barely look up as Fluer goes on and does her task.

Around 2 hours in I couldn't tell you who exactly was doing their tasks, all I knew whas that my time was coming up and I was nervous to say the least.

I looked around the room once more and saw Rachel and Nico whispering in hushed tones and Rachel looked like she was on the brink of a panic attack.

Then her name got called, she quickly hugged Nico and left the tent.

Around half an hour passed when Rachel managed to defeat her dragon, by the sounds of it she had kicked it in the face and ran for the egg, and Nico's name got called.

He gave me one brisk nod before exciting the tent. Great, now I'm alone with nothing but my thoughts.

I thought about what Moody had told me a few days ago, 'You're great at flying, or so I've heard, use that,' He didnt know what Moody meant, but he was going to use it.

"Harry Potter, it's your turn to face your dragon, please enter the arena"

And my heart began louder than ever as I made my way out of the tent.