Chapter 10: The New Hogwarts Express

Percy's POV

We had been driving for hours! My butt was starting to go numb in these seats. Grover had some music blaring from the stereo.

"I know we're going to Hogwarts but how are we getting there?" Harry asked.

"Harry, you of all people should know how to get to Hogwarts." Grover laughed.

"The Hogwarts Express?" Hermione asked startled. It was weird, it was like Hermione instantly healed. Maybe something was in that syringe.

"Well, yes, but no. Ron, you told me about this when we were in, well, you know…" Grover trailed off. Ron's eyes widened.

"No way." He said. Grover smiled.

"Way." Grover replied. We were near King's Cross when Grover hit a button on the radio. I looked over to Ron holding Annabeth's hand when suddenly they weren't there anymore. Neither was Harry, Hermione, or Grover. Then we started going up.

"Wow. What is going on?" I asked.

"When we were in our second year, Ron and I got locked out of the platform 9 and ¾. So we took Mr. Weasley's flying car to Hogwarts." Harry explained.

We flew all threw the day. I slept through most of it but Ron stepped on my foot to wake me up.

"Ow!" I hissed. I heard him snicker.

"We're here." He said. I looked and saw a castle looming into my view. It was impressive.

(BEFORE I CONTINUE, THIS IS GOING TO BE A REMIX ON THE ORGINAL STORY LINE)

"This is your school?" Annabeth asked incredulously. Harry, Hermione, and Ron laughed.

"Yep, pretty sweet, right?" Ron said. "This time, let's not land in the Whomping Willow." I did not want to know what a Whomping Willow was.

They landed silently behind a hut near the forest.

"We have to hope that the invisibility won't run out before the morning or we'll be spotted by Death Eaters." Harry said. After Voldemort took Hogwarts, he took the ministry. People got scared and Voldemort got a lot of new Death Eaters.

"Ok, what's the plan?" Asked Grover. Nothing was said, and I couldn't see anyone's faces so I was guessing we had nothing.

"We have been flying for hours and nobody has anything?" Ron said haughtily. I could hear Hermione scoff in the front seat.

"Well, Ronald do you have anything?" She said. He didn't say anything, Harry and I laughed.

"I have an idea!" Annabeth piped up suddenly, causing us to jump, we really need to be seen again.

"Grover, how long are we going to be invisible?" She asked.

"Um… about an hour, I think, maybe fifteen minutes more." He replied.

"Good, so listen up. Ron and I have been studying Death Eater patrol times and formation. Every five minutes two Death Eaters come by and do a search. Then, at eight at night, instead of a patrol, all Death Eaters go inside your cafeteria for lemonade and cookies, I don't know, Voldemort's idea.

"I say, Grover, you go into the forest and get the centaurs' help. Harry, Ron, and Hermione, you guys find your friends inside to help you, Percy and I will lock the crazy brigade inside the cafeteria." Annabeth finished.

"It's called a Great Hall." Hermione corrected. Even though we were all invisible, I could feel Annabeth roll her eyes.

We all split up after we got the plan together. Annabeth and I walked invisibly through the impressive school. I decided this would be the perfect time to talk.

"So, how are things with you and Ron?" I asked casually. I heard her sigh.

"We aren't a thing, seaweed brain!" I heard her suddenly exclaim. I jumped back, almost falling down the moving staircases. (Nice touch by the way)

"But, I saw you guys holding hands, and hugging in Tartarus, you guys are always together!" I said.

"It was because we could relate to each other."

"What do you mean?"

"We both have a hard time expressing our feelings for the people we care about. We're best friends yes, but not in love. I love you seaweed brain!" I felt her arms wrap around me and somehow we got our lips to find each other. I opened my eyes and could see a mostly transparent Annabeth.

"We have to hurry!" I grabbed her hand and we ran to the Great Hall.

I have to admit that it was pretty great. Well, the door was, I didn't get to see inside due to the fact of the Death Eater social going on inside.

"The architecture is beautiful here!" Annabeth said, looking all around. I pulled on her arm.

"Come on let's go!" I whispered. "Is everyone inside?" Annabeth peaked inside ever so quietly. She did a mental head count and then came back inside. She nodded her head.

"Good, let's bring out the stuff." I said. We each brought out medium sized bags full of what would seem to be a bag of glitter to any normal person, or Voldemort. However, it was enchanted, according to Annabeth and Hermione, who had been developing these in Tartarus. All we had to do was spread it over the door, spelling out the word 'TRAP'.

"There! That should lock them, no spell can get them out of that." Annabeth said. I smiled at her and gave her another kiss, while also hoping that the others were also having this good luck.

Grover's POV

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" I yelled as I ran through the Forbidden Forest. I now knew why it was called it the Forbidden Forest. Pretty much everything tried to kill me in here. The centaurs, the spiders, even the unicorn tried to bite me!

As I stumbled through the forest I tripped into another pile of leaves. So now I was covered in more dirt and leaves and blood and spit (from the unicorn!) so I was completely visible! I saw light in the distance and just ran for that.

"Do you hear that?" I heard a man's voice say. Another one's laughed.

"Probably a muggleborn trying to escape Voldemort's pack of wild dogs he calls Slytherins." Said that man.

"Aren't they all at their little tea party?" A woman's voice say. In the distance you could hear a huge window open.

"IT'S NOT A TEA PARTY!" Said, well, yelled Voldemort in the distance.

"Whatever." They all said in unison. I emerged through the bushes and scared the crap out of the three.

"What the?" Said that first man.

"What are you?" Said that second one.

"I'm a satyr and I need to get up to that castle." I said.

"Well, go ahead, but I'm not going up there with that lunatic." Said the first man, who was the younger of the two.

"Fine, thanks for the help, I hope the unicorn spits on your face!" I said, and stomped off toward the castle, wiping the spit off my fur.

Ron's POV

We walked into the Gryffindor common room, and not a soul was to be found.

"Hello?" I called up the stairs leading to the dorms. Nobody called back.

"Where is everyone?" Hermione asked. Harry opened his mouth to answer when a sound made them all jump.

"PSSSSSSSSSSST!"

"What the bloody hell was that?" I said, reaching for Hermione's hand.

"Ron, let go of my hand!" Said Harry, pulling his hand away.

"Oh, sorry." I said, feeling awkward. I heard Hermione giggle a little bit.

"Guys, it's me, Neville!" I heard the voice of Neville Longbottom say. "Where are you guys?"

"We're invisible Neville." Hermione said.

"Oh, well, follow me, everyone is in here." He said. We followed Neville down a dark and damp tunnel. We kept bumping into each other because we were invisible and because we were dark. I decided to talk to Hermione and tell her how I felt.

"Hermione." I said, pulling her away.

"Ron, let go of me. Hermione's right there." Said Harry, pulling out of my grasp.

"What is it Ron?" Hermione said, walking beside me.

"I want you to know, that I don't like Annabeth as much as I like you." I said, somewhat rushed, but clear enough for her to hear me.

"What? I thought you and her were-" She started.

"No, we just had a mutual problem. Which was, we couldn't tell the ones we loved how we felt." I said, cutting her off.

"Oh."

"I love you Hermione." I said, and I really meant it. I pulled her into my arms and planted a kiss on her surprisingly soft lips.

"Sorry Ron, I had to tie my shoe." Hermione said behind me. I released the person I had been kissing.

'Oh my god…" Harry mumbled, while also making a gurgling sound and he kept making those sounds as he distanced himself from me.

"What was that all about?" Hermione asked.

"Nothing." I said, and I pulled her into my arms and kissed HER. Really her. I hate myself for noticing but Harry's lips were softer. We held hands as we walked, and things felt pretty good.

"Ouch Ron, that was my foot!" Said Hermione. That sounded familiar. It was in our third year, we were on the Hogwarts express, and the-

"Oh my gods!" I said. (Annabeth said that a lot so I just caught on to it)

"What?" Harry said.

"Guys we forgot one thing! The bloody dementors!" I yelled. Hermione gasped.

"How could we forget about them?" She said in a hushed, but frantic tone.

"They can see through invisibility cloaks, they will probably be able to see the others." Harry said.

"What's wrong?" Said Neville, obviously not knowing about Percy, Annabeth, and Grover.

"I'm sorry Neville, but we'll have to play catch-up some other time!" I said, as the three of us ran back the way we came. I couldn't help thinking that Grover would be innocently walking right on the open grounds right where the dementors would be flying, and Percy and Annabeth would probably make some racket. Oh gods I hope we're not too late.