Chapter 10

                                    

                                          
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Percy's Pov
                          
     As I  looked around for a drachma, a voice behind me said "Oh, there's no need for that." After jumping the appropriate 5 feet in the air and hitting my head on the ceiling, I realized that it was Athena's voice. However, this only made me more shocked. Not scared, I never really get scared anymore, but shocked.
                          
      Some small part of my brain must have realized that I needed to bow, because I found myself on my knees. "Lady Athena." I muttered. 
                          
      She must have been either in a good mood or in a hurry, because she said, "Rise, young one." Probably the latter, considering I was in the room.
                          
      "I need-" I began, only to be rudely interrupted.
                          
      "I know what you need." Said Athena. "You need to use the wish of knowledge that I granted you in order to know everything about the wizarding world." This can be done, of course, but I need you to stand still."
                          
      "Fine." I said with a teenager-like sigh for emphasis. I stood still, trying to decide whether I should close my eyes, when suddenly my brain felt like it was going to explode. I grunted in pain, shut my eyes, and began a process that I had been using to interpret hard information ever sense I realized that literally everyone I know and love is dead, something I call the filing method. The name is pretty self-explanatory, but I basically imagine a filing cabinet in my brain, and them I slowly sort all of the information into it, examining it one at a time and 'bookmarking' some things for later. Athena watched my eyes in awe as the things I was picturing appeared in them. Once I was finished, I felt refreshed and ready for anything. There were only two things that I knew would be problematic. The first thing was that house sorting. Not only was 17, six years older than everyone else, but I didn't fit into any of the houses. I wasn't smart or cunning enough to save my friends. If I was loyal I would have been able to save them, and I wasn't brave enough to face my own dreams, my own mind. I was just a stupid little kid who caused the deaths of all of his friends and family. A child who was trapped inside their own mind, running into their biggest fears around every corner. I take back what I said earlier, there is defiantly something that scares me. My own mind.
                          
      There was one other thing that would be a problem, and that would be the fact that I was going to be so amazing at every spell now that I knew all about the wizarding world. Every spell except one. If there was one thing that I was one hundred percent positive I would not be able to do, it was a Patronus Charm. In order to produce a Patronus, you must think of an extremely happy memory, but I simply don't have any. All of my good memories are now sad/bittersweet, so I simply couldn't produce one. I knew that this would raise questions in the future, but I guess I'll just deal with it when the time comes. 
                          
      During my entire 'inner conflict', Athena's gaze had been fixed on my eyes as they depicted what I was thinking. I really needed to work on that, but I didn't know what to do about it. If I close my eyes, I have a flashback, and I can't control it, so for now I would just have to deal with it until I got a pair of sunglasses. 
                          
      "Use it well," said Athena, and with that, I was alone again.