Thalia's pov-

We were browsing the animal shop. Annabeth was telling Percy that he couldn't name a fish Magnus because it was sparkly, Nico had gone off to the gods know where and I was walking through the birds' section. I passed by many stands of owls and passed the occasional toad. As I was about to give up the search when I saw a rattling cage covered in a cloth. My curiosity got the best of me and I took the cloth off and laid my eyes on the most beautiful eagle I had ever seen. It was thrashing around, trying to find a way out of the cage. It was a dark gold but looked more silver in the harsh cold light above the cage. Its eyes were a startling electric blue like mine but it had flecks of gold. When it saw me it froze and slowly lowered its head in a bow. "My lady," a soft yet powerful voice rang in my mind, "My name is Alexander, warrior of the Eagles. This is not my original form, but when I was captured, I was forced to turn into this. If you free me, daughter of Zeus, you will be my new master." My eyes widened as I realized that it was the eagle who was talking. "Ok, I'll free you, but I'm going to wizarding school. Would you be ok staying there?" I asked. "Of course, my lady," he replied. "Well, if I'm going to be your 'master'," she said,"first of all, you need to stop calling me 'my lady'. My name is Thalia. Second of all, Alexander's too long, I'm gonna call you Xander." (Pronounced Zander) Xander nodded in agreement.

I bought him from the smiley witch and met the others outside. Annabeth had a beautiful blind snowy owl with eyes that looked like they were filled with the night sky. She had decided to name her Zoë, after the former huntress. Percy hadn't bought a pet, instead, he got Grover to send Mrs. O'Leary over with his empathy link. I didn't think Nico bought a pet until I saw a twitch on his shoulder. "Nico, there's something on your shoulder," I warned him. He blinked in confusion before smiling. "Oh," he said as he lifted the tiniest black kitten I had ever seen. It couldn't have been much bigger than my hand. It had silky, jet black fur with luminescent black eyes that seemed to glow with fire and gleamed as those of either a genius or a madman do. It had a tiny white star on its head, "This is Bianca." We smiled at the name. "Her eyes reminded me of her's," Nico explained, voice slightly wistful.

"Hey, let's check out that shop over there," Percy pointing to a shop. It was bright and had a big animated man sticking out of it. With my dyslexia, I could barely make out the name: Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. We walked inside and saw shelves and racks of prank materials and tricks and potions and candy. We were greeted by two twins with heads of flaming red hair and faces abundant with freckles. They were nearly identical except for the fact that one was missing an ear. Probably a result of the war Mione told us about. The one with the missing ear said, "Hello, my name is Fred," and the other continued, " and I'm George." "Welcome to Weasley's Wizard Wheezes," they said together. It was their expressions that gave them away. They had the same expressions the Hermes kids (especially Travis and Conner) had after they had just pulled a prank and looking at Annabeth, I saw that she had reached the same conclusion. "My name is Annabeth Chase, and this is Xander," I said and gave Annie a look. "My name is Thalia," she said grinning. "I'm Percy Jackson," Nico said, catching on. "And I'm Nico Di Angelo," Percy said, trying to hold back laughter. "Nice to meet you, Annabeth, Thalia, Percy and Nico," the twin who had introduced himself as George said, so he was Fred.

We started browsing through the shop. I wrinkled my nose as I passed by the love potion section. I started loading my bag with dung bombs, portable swamps, self-writing quills, trick wands, decoy detonators, extendable ears, fainting fancies, fever fudges, nosebleed nougats, puking pastilles, and ton-tongue toffees. I was still searching for more when Annabeth called me. "Hey Thalia, come look over here!" I walked over to where she was standing and saw what she was pointing at.  The font was too wrigley for me to read. "That's Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder," George said, appearing behind them. "Also, did you call Annabeth Thalia?" He asked. We looked at each other and grinned. "Yeah, my name is actually Annabeth Chase and her name is Thalia," Annabeth said. "And my real name is Nico, Di Angelo" Nico said popping up from behind George with Fred and Percy. "My name's-," Percy said before he was cut of by Fred. "Ooh, let me guess! Peter Johnson!" he said grinning. We all burst out laughing. "You would love our friends Travis and Conner," Percy said once he had gotten of the floor and wiped his eyes that had teared up from laughing too much. The four of us took some of the darkness powder, except Nico who basically hoarded it. "Hey, you're the exchange students  from America, right?" Fred asked. "Yeah, and you're Ron Weasley's brothers, right?" Annabeth asked because she's smart that way. "Yes," they both said. We payed for the pranks and thanked them.

We had to head back to the Leaky Cauldron for lunch, to drop off the things we had bought, and feed our pets, so we walked back to the pub chatting, with a massive hellhound bounding at our heels.

Guess who's alive! I bet you guessed wrong because it's not me. I died and made a skeleton write for me. I have to wake up at 5:00, go through the day with no caffeine whatsoever, listen to my teachers drone on and on about stuff I've known since 3rd grade, but they manage to distort whatever I know into absolute nonsense. But you guys probably have your own lives to deal with. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Question of the chapter (can't really say day, can I?):
Where did Hermione's parents go after they were obliviated?

-Ayden Castellan