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#but apollo told jason about leo back in his dorm room
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Reassuring reminder that Jason got to find out that Leo was alive before he died
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khionesdaughter13 · 5 years
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Riordanverse at Hogwarts
1993
Nico is at the platform 9 3/4 with Bianca again, but this year is his own first-year
And he couldn't be more excited
Will Solace is there with his older brother Lester (* Obviously Apollo is Will's dad, but since I added Lester at his mortal age, this is my way of connecting them)
Carter's whole family is there, even his 9 years old sister, who almost managed to sneak onto the Hogwarts Express
But she was caught by Annabeth, who considered letting her stay, but eventually brought her back onto the platform
Carter and his parents were extremely relieved and thanked Annabeth for finding her a thousand times
Zia is at the platform with her adoptive dad Iskandar
She was a muggleborn, but was adopted by onto Iskandar's pureblood family three years ago
She and her parents had lived in a small village in England
A crazy death eater, who didn't believe that Voldemort was truly gone, went on a killing spree in her village, killing everyone there
But Zia's mother hid her when they saw the death eater kill the first muggles
Zia was the only survivor and found by the Ministry of Magic who were covering up the incident for the muggle world
They thought she was just a lucky muggle, but when they approached her, but Zia unwillingly unlashed a burst of magic, in her fear
They took her to the ministry instead unsure of what to do with her
That's where she met Iskandar
He was working at the ministry and when he saw the young frightened girl just sitting around, while no one really knew what to do with her, he approached her
Zia thought he was just another wizard asking the same interrogation questions as the other five before
But Iskandar started to ask unrelated questions like "What is your favourite colour?" or "What is your favourite magical creature?"
When he realized that Zia couldn't answer the magical related questions due to being a muggleborn he decided to take her to different departments
Zia learned a lot about the magical world and for one afternoon she was almost able to forget the horrible incident
And Zia had wrapped Iskandar around her little finger in no time
He knew his wife loved children and they had thought about having children of their own
He offered the Ministry to take her in and as Zia herself didn't know where else to go and had grown fond of Iskandar, she agreed
Zia fit right in with her adoptive family
She was eager to learn and Iskandar liked to teach
She wanted to learn how to fight, so she could stop the remaining death eaters
And Iskandar began to teach her the essentials of the wizarding world
Now it was time for her to go to Hogwarts
The Dementor's presence caused quite some talk between students
When the train stopped especially the younger student's were scared
Bianca was able to calm down Will, as well as Lester, who said he wasn't scared, but was shaking more than Will
Nico wasn't as scared as he probably should have been, but instead spouted every fact that he knew about Dementors
Finally arriving at Hogwarts the sorting ceremony started
Nico was sorted into Slytherin
He was sad to be seperated from Bianca, but he sat next to a second-year, who held up some friendly chatter with him
Next up was Carter who was sorted into Ravenclaw and walked past all the other first- and second-years to sit down next to Annabeth
Next came Zia who was also sorted into Slytherin
She sat next to Nico
And both excitingly exchanged all sort of facts that they learned
Last up came Will who was sorted into Hufflepuff and happily sat next to Lester
Lupin being the new Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher was taken very well
In a short span Defence Against The Dark Arts became Percy's, Jason's, Reyna's and Zia's favourite subject
And even if it wasn't their favourite subject, everyone loved Professor Lupin
Especially Reyna seemed to stay behind after his class
But she seemed different this school year anyway
During the summer holidays Reyna had an accident
Her father forbid Jason or Frank from seeing her and for the entire train ride she only exchanged a few words with them
She also spent a significant time in Dumbledore's office on the first evening and returned to the common room after curfew
Jason was determined to not let Reyna push him away
But he didn't force her to tell him what was going on with her either
He kept walking to their shared classes together, sat next to her, gave her his notes when she missed classes once per month and visited her in the infirmary
Reyna soon realized that she could trust Jason and told him
During their summer holidays Reyna was attacked by Fenrir Grayback and even though Hylla found her she was too late
She managed to chase Grayback away, but Reyna had already been bitten
She talked to Dumbledore on how to handle the situation on her first day back
Snape brewed her wolfsbane every month, but she still felt bad enough to sometimes miss classes and end up in the infirmary
She told Jason she talked to Lupin so much was because he, as a Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher, knew so much about werewolves
It was not her right to tell Jason about Lupin's secret
After Reyna told Jason he went to ask Lupin how he could help Reyna
Lupin was a little weary, but remembering his own school time and how his friends became Animagi for him, he suggested that Jason could read up on it a little
Jason didn't hesitate at all and pulled an all nighter reading every book in the library about Animagi that he could find
With Lupin's help he became an animagus in no time
His animagus form was an eagle
Grover and Juniper both took Care of Magical Creatures together
They saw each other regularly in class and helped Madam Sprout in the greenhouse after hours
Now they spent even more time together taking care of Magical Creatures in their free time as well
They can't even tell when their relationship went from friends to couple
Percy finds out, when Grover and Juniper come into the Great Hall holding hands
And he almost drops
How feels so oblivious for not noticing his best friends feelings
But he is happy for Grover
When it was rumored that Sirius Black broke into Hogwarts the students were forced to sleep in the Great Hall
Blitzen, Hearthstone and Magnus all slept next to each other and Blitzen and Hearthstone kept talking with Magnus to keep him distracted
Annabeth, Percy, Rachel, Grover and Juniper weren't far away
Annabeth wanted to keep an eye on Magnus and her friends just joined her
Frank used this night to reunite with Jason and Reyna who he had unintentionally distanced himself from
Calypso also stayed with him and both Frank and Calypso met Leo who had decided to stick with Jason
Piper joined Leo a little later when the Slytherins arrived and met the others
She already knew Jason and Reyna from their shared classes, but this was the first time she actually talked to them
Sam used to opportunity to spent the night talking to Alex
And Alex was happy to finally see Sam and Mallory again outside of class
Bianca sat next to Nico and when Lester and Will saw them they also sat close to them
Nico asked Bianca to sing that song their mom always sang to them
And when she did she caught the attention of quite a few students
Some started to gather around her listening to her singing
And when she stopped she was embarrassed by the attention
But this time Nico asked her to tell one of their mother's stories
And Sam, who had heard some of Bianca's stories herself assured her to go on
So when she started Alex sat down next to her
He had never demonstrated his metamorphmagus abilities in public before, but he felt like this was a good time
Along with Bianca's story he morphed into all sorts of different character's, visualizing it and captivating every student listening to them
Even the older students couldn't resist
The night that started as an absolute nightmare ended better than most expected
And when it ended friendships had been formed that had seemed unlikely before
Disclaimer: I was unsure what time period to put our characters in and after trying to write different headcanons I decided to go with putting Percy in the exact time period, that Harry Potter went to school, because it's the time period we know the best. While I know that characters would therefore actually would interfere with the Harry Potter dorms that were established (e.g. Percy would end up in the same dorm as Harry and his friends), I decided to not write my headcanons as a crossover of that art. Harry and his friends are still present at Hogwarts and all of their adventures are taking place at the same time, but I decided to exclude Percy and co. from these adventures. If there are school wide events (like the Triwizard Tournament) I will obviously mention them and include them in my headcanons, but there will be no direct interaction between HP characters and Riordanverse characters, to keep it a little more simple.
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bidickgrayson · 6 years
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trials of apollo remains my fave. MAJOR spoilers under the cut for the burning maze
every time i read listen to the trials of apollo, i always feel compelled to make a post like this, just talking about all the things i love and appreciate about the series
as always, the narrator of this series on audible is so next level good, i’m constantly amazed at how great his performance is
i’ve been thinking about how much i love apollo the character, how he’s, imo, a genuinely really strong character who is capable of both making me tear up and also making me laugh out loud. the balance rr found in writing his character in this series is *chef’s kiss* perfection
i really appreciate when he does come across as the thousands-years-old former god he is, with all the experience that comes with. obviously, a big part of his schtick is that he’s silly and dramatic and over-the-top and narcisstic, but the moments when he’s serious or shows genuine concern for his friends are some of my faves. like when he had that great scene with piper talking about how she can find herself. oh, and of course, him talking with jason. and any serious talk that he and meg have. idk, apollo is in a strange position of, obviously, being technically now a teenager, but also have a very experienced and caring adult figure to the actual kids in his life. i LOVE any scene that features serious and sincere apollo
apollo’s character development is just so good and so consistent and i’d actually die for him. i’ve come to love him more with each book
i always love the scenes where apollo is forced to reconsider what positions the gods are in. like when meg wants apollo to answer why her mother was never around, and never helped, and apollo considers the various reasons, like, she was just too busy, or just forgot, etc., and realizes that they’re seriously dissatisfying answers. and later, when meg is like, being a hero means making personal sacrifices, and apollo thinks about how he had never thought of heroes that way
piper is so good in this book!!! i never really connected with her in the heroes of olympus, but i feel like riordan learned a lot in how to write her. i loved how much focus there was on HER, away from her relationship with jason!! so much of her trying to figure out who she was, and the thing where she was trying to reconnect with her cherokee heritage was really satisfying 
i was kind of wondering how much fandom was freaking out about jason and piper breaking up, but GOD i was so glad they did, for so many reasons, not least that i think it was an interesting and sympathetic conflict, and that i’m glad her and jason remained really good friends, even if they weren’t sure how to be around each other at the moment. one of my problems with heroes of olympus was the couples, and it always bothered me that piper and jason’s relationship started as a lie and continued to be manipulated by the gods. the fact that that was actually addressed in the book multiple times?? realistic couple problems?? so good. and man, i LOVE piper
and to address the elephant in the room.....................jason’s death was absolutely BRUTAL, and would have been absolutely shocking to me if i hadn’t seen a spoiler on twitter.
seriously. the details of jason’s death was brutal, and i don’t think there’s anything in the riordan series i’ve read that really compares. people have died, of course, but never so explicitly, never with so much attention to the details, so much focus on the grief of everyone around it, and CERTAINLY never to a MAIN CHARACTER holy shit. like. jason was a main, pov character, and i kind of can’t BELIEVE that he’s actually dead, because i never expected this series to actually go there
(just keep remember the line about the emperor dude stabbing jason again in the back while jason was face down, ruining apollo’s hopes that he would be okay)
and like.....i’m not the kind of person who actively wishes for character death or angst but. also. in a way, from a story telling perspective, i’m glad jason died, for a couple of reasons. like, one, it raised the stakes DRAMATICALLY, made everything matter SO MUCH MORE than if it had just been side characters like the dryads who were dying off screen. like, wow. i was honestly stunned, listening to the scenes after jason’s death, where meg and piper are desperately trying to find a way around it, refusing to accept it, them going to piper’s old place and piper’s dad finding them crying on the beach. GOD. another reason why i liked it was how good the scenes were following jason’s death.
like. the image that made me start crying again was when piper’s dad found them, and piper’s face is explicitly WRECKED, and jason’s DEAD, and what he says is, a surfing accident?? like, that wrecked ME, because jason and piper had just gone on a terribly dangerous mission to try and save the world (again!!), basically, only for jason to be brutally murdered by an ancient roman emperor, and all most people will think is that there was a terrible surfing accident. like. we’ve been told this whole time, that demigods’ lives sucked and weren’t very happy and were generally quite tragic, but tbh, it’s never felt this real, this heartbreaking to me.
loved apollo in the scenes following jason’s death. how obviously heartbroken and devastated he was, but how...logical he was in the face of piper’s denial, the heartbroken voice of reason. “jason’s dead. we can’t bring him back. even if i was a god, i couldn’t bring him back. jason’s dead. jason’s dead. you and jason both worked to fix death. you know that he wouldn’t want you breaking it to bring him back”. it was narratively satisfying, in an obviously heartbreaking way, all the many ways they wanted jason to be all right, for him to have escaped death, and all the ways it was crushingly confirmed that he was not. it felt kind of like the readers were being told explicitly that it wasn’t possible for jason to come back--they found his broken, obviously dead body. the emperor ran him through not once, but twice, and his body was riddled with arrows. they couldn’t trick some way out of death, bc there weren’t any feasible options, and hades would never allow it
piper angrily blaming apollo and the gods for jason’s fate, and demanding apollo leave? so satisfying. piper saying that he wasn’t supposed to die like this, after everything he had done, everything they had done? apollo reminding her that he had died saving his friends, and that that seemed like a good way to die? god
i keep thinking about the heartbreak of all the people who loved jason. like, fucking leo, who never got to see jason again. god. and of course, all of others in the seven, and nico, and reyna, and thalia :((((
a detail that made me cry (again): when apollo mentioned jason having died in his school uniform, and wondering about his school dorm room, and what they would think became of him. just details that drove home that jason was just a kid, who was living his life, and died because of the gd gods
i’ve gotten really sidetracked, and i have more to talk about, as always, but i think this is enough for now
i will say: i will feel very silly if somehow jason DOES come back in the end, but i think that would go against a big part of the book and would be pretty disappointing. and i gotta figure/hope that riordan learned his lesson from how...bad, imo, leo’s “death” and build up was
i also wonder what fandom’s reaction to this is like, because wow, that’s a pretty significant event. like, i expect/know people will be heartbroken, but i wonder how many people are actually angry at this choice, for example. i was never really emotionally invested in jason, no matter how i tried and no matter how i logically really liked him. it would be a lot harder for me to be so....positive, about his death, if i were more emotionally invested in him in the first place
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