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As always, all rights belong to JK Rowling and Rick Riordan. Also, this story disregards whatever happened to Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle.

Chapter Twelve: Infiltration Part One

Headmistress' Office, Hogwarts

"Profe - I mean Jason, what brings you here so early in the morning?" Still yawning, McGonagall entertained Jason Grace. She heard about this guy, on how he was as a praetor, a leader, and as a demigod. He has been making sure that peace is within both the Greeks and Romans. From what she has heard, he juggles this with having a girlfriend, crazy friends, and well, training.

"Sorry Professor. It's just that - " He ran his hand through his blonde hair. Which made McGonagall think about hers. It's probably a mess right now but he didn't care, so why should she then?

"Please Jason Grace. I am pretty sure you did not wake me up to hesitate. And you have been up all night worrying about this, aren't you?"

"Right. Yeah. Sorry mam. I mean Headmistress." He stood up straighter and cleared his throat. "I still feel uncomfortable about this whole Hogsmeade trip. And it will take all my self-control since Piper will be with us. I wish I was just a student. This is so frustrating."

"You are stupid Mr. Grace."

Hufflepuff Common Room, Hogwarts

"We're with Jason Grace!" A lot of squealing woke up Nico DiAngelo. Gods, their noise reached his dorm. Nico mentally reminded himself to put a silencing charm the next time he sleeps.

"Wake up sunshine!" Ah great, here comes the morning person.

"Shut up Solace."

"Get up Nico. Hogsmeade today." Will said with a big grin. Nico sat on his bed.

"So what?"

"It means date time you dork."

"You're the dork."

"Come on now, we don't want to be late."

"Stop being so cheerful it's early in the morning!"

"Exactly."

Great Hall, Hogwarts

"What's going on?" Annabeth asked as they sat down the Gryffindor table.

"Well you guys finally showed up. LEO! THEY"RE ALIVE!" Leo gave a thumbs-up to Thalia and continued on chatting with his new Ravenclaw friends.

"You guys think we died?" Percy asked increduously.

"With the luck you have Percy, yes." Nico arrived, still irritated.

"WHere were you last night?" Neville asked the million dollar question.

"Room of Requirement" Harry simply answered and went back to eating his breakfast.

"All four of you? What were you doing there?"

"Uhm, hey Neville what's going on there?" Hermione changed the topic, seeing as Harry is getting uncomfortable about the question.

"Don't evade the question, Granger. They're looking at who's teacher is gonna accompany what year. For the visit. Unluckily for you, wer're all in the same year, so you guys aren't off the hook."

"And unluckily for you Malfoy, we don't want to talk about what happened last night." The entrance of the owls diffused the brewing fight between the two. Weasley's owl, Errol dropped a letter on to Harry's lap.

Hey mate,

How's Hogwarts? Has Hermione forced you into studying for the final exams already? Don't tell her this, she'll kill me. Everything's all good here, Romania has these wide pastures for the dragons which means wide skies for Quidditch. Ginny really enjoys it. She says hi by the way. Mum wanted to check on you guys, she still thinks you need to go here so you'll be safe. Anyways, Charlie's showing us this baby dragon so I gotta cut this letter short.

Ron

Weasley Wizarding Wheezes

"You're gonna help me right?" George was talking to himself in the mirror, focusing his eyes on the part where his ear had been. A few days ago he was sure the mirror showed two so he tried looking at it everyday but to no avail. It gave him an epiphany though, Fred was watching him from somewhere, he had to make him proud. Or maybe he's still actually alive and was playing a trick on all of them.

"First Hogsmeade weekend. Time for the WWW's rebirth!"

"Hey George, the delivery arrived. And those two are up to no-good again." Angelina called from below. He gave the mirror one final look and saw his reflection - no, this has two ears ... Fred? - gave him a thumbs up.

George believes he really one lucky guy.

Hogwarts' Grounds

"No." Percy and Nico had both put their foot down.

"Come on guys, everyone left already." True to Thalia's word, the only ones who hadn't rode on the threstal carriage are the demigods plus Harry, Hermione, Luna and Draco.

"There is no way I am ever getting in those horses again. Gah! STop!" Percy moved even farther from the carriages.

"You guys can go, you don't hear them. I'll just shadow travel and meet you there."

"Hey, no shadow-travelling. doctor's orders." Will grabbed Nico's arm.

"Can't we just walk or something?" Percy looked pleadingly at Hermione.

"The Shrieking Shack got destroyed in the war. All other passages to Hogwarts have been closed off." Hermione replied, Jason sighed quite loudly.

"Fine. Nobody should know about this okay?" Everybody nodded. "I have this crazy idea. Wingardium Leviosa. If you guys have something to stand on, then I think I can."

"Won't Zeus blast me out of the sky?" Percy inquired.

"I doubt that Kelp Brain. The problem here would be our landing. People will see and it'll blow our cover."

"Disillusionment charms?" Annabeth suggested.

"That wouldn't work for a long time." Hermione countered. "HARRY!"

"What?"

"Well we could enlarge your invisibility cloak to cover all of us and nobody would see us."

"So an invisible flying carpet? Sweeet!" Leo punched the air. "Let's go! Let's do it!"

Up in the Air

"Leooooo. Stop moving too much!" Jason groaned for the tenth time. They had enlarged Harry's invisibility cloak and had it closed like a dumpling, with them as filling. So it was true that demigods are more powerful in casting magic but controlling a giant invisible dumpling up in the air with uh - human filling jumping around, named LEO - quite a challenge even to one Jason Grace.

"Leo calm down." Piper's charmspeak worked well, making Leo sit down. However, it worked too well as Jason can also feel his body relaxing, not good if you're up in the air.

"Falling. WAAAY TOOOOO FAAAST. JASOOONN!" Percy's shout woke Jason up and eased their landing. He managed to land them near Hogsmeade, and luckily without people noticing them.

Hog's Head, Hogsmeade

"Where's Potter?"

"I don't know Abe." After the war, Neville and Aberforth Dumbledore had become quite cozy with each other since they've been helping Hogwarts' resistance.

"He did return to school right?" Neville nodded.

"I ... Yeah he did. But he got left behind with the transfers."

"Transfers?"

"Transfer students. A whole lot of them. Kinda weird actually."

"With the long time Albus had been Headmaster, and that's quite long you know, no history of transfer students. And the time before that also. First time for Hogwarts."

"Really?" Their conversation ended as the bell announced the arrival of a new customer.

"Professor Grace. Piper." Neville greeted.

"Hey Nev. Don't tell we're here." Piper lined charmspeak on her voice then asked Aberforth, "Someplace private?"

"Nope. You two transfers?" Both ignored his question and left the pub.

Honeydukes

"All of these please." Leo dumped three bags of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, two packs of Pumpkin Pasties, seven Sugar Quills, twenty-five Chocolate Frogs, an Ice Mice, five Liquorice Wands, and a whole crate of Pepper Imps.

"Sorry no." The clerk immediately vanished all his items.

"Hey! What the hell!" Leo opened his mouth to say more but no sound came out of his mouth. He looked at her like she was some crazed woman.

"Next please." A sixth year Hufflepuff girl brought her bag of sweets to the counter.

"You're new here?"

"I'm helping out Mr. Flume. Here you go."

"Thank you umm."

"Oh it's Calypso. Have a good day!"

"HEY! THIS IS AN INJUSTICE!" Leo ranted all about how should he get his sweets and about the unfairness of beautiful counter ladies in sweet shops.

"Please do leave. You are interrupting our business." Calypso warned.

"Listen to the lady Valdez. Let's go." Thalia pulled his arm.

"Let's go Leo." Piper came to pull him as well. Leo continued his ranting so Piper repeated his sentence more forcefully.

"LEO! OW!" His skin was heating now, burning up. Thalia and Piper both pulled their hands.

"Don't burn up here Leo. There are people. A lot of people." Thalia whispered furiously.

"What's wrong here?" Whispers of Professor Grace plus some hushed squeals announced the arrival of Jason Grace to Honeydukes.

"YOU KNOW VERY WELL THAT SWEETS MAKE STUDENTS LIKE US HAPPY, IT RELIEVES US FROM STRESS AND DO YOU HOW STRESSFUL IT IS TO STUDY AT HOGWARTS? I'M AT RAVENCLAW AND I NEED MY SWEETS OKAY-"

"Mr. Valdez please." Jason moved closer, cautiously, as Leo was smoking now, literally. Catching Calypso's look, he made it look like he was the one making mist around Leo, just so others wouldn't notice.

"You don't get fired up like this for sweets Leo. What's happening to you?" Jason started talking as soon as Leo stopped his rant. Said guy was only looking at Calypso, quite intently.

"What's happening Professor Grace? Mr Valdez?" Someone had gone out and called the headmistress.

"Well, you're causing trouble. I'm sorry about this Mr. Valdez. Stupefy. Open the passage please and levitate Mr. Valdez. Follow me, all of you."

Knockturn Alley

"This isn't a place for someone who looks a lot like Potter."

"We kinda got lost."

"We? Looks like someone is going behind his girlfriend's back. Where did you left her, Flourish and Blott's? You really shouldn't be here Jackson."

"And someone who is earning Harry's trust shouldn't be here either." The air beside Percy shimmered and revelaed Annabeth Chase, who was removing her cap.

"Some kind of invisibility cloak huh" Draco then muttered under his breath. "Though an invisibility cloak isn't like that"

"Let's get out of here. This is one creepy place." Percy looked around. The alley is quite deserted but he can feel eyes on them, from that window above, from the small pub, from the store, everyone's sneaking glances at them.

"That way." Draco pointed and walked the opposite direction.

"You're coming with us, Malfoy." Percy grabbed his arm and smiled sheepishly at him. "Don't wanna get lost again."

"Besides, there are other ways to cope with sadness."

'Guess the firewhiskey won't be needed today' Draco thought as he let himself be pulled by these two.