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"TO PERCY!" the entire house shouted as they all raised their glasses.
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Percy laughed, "thanks you guys!" Kelly rummaged out off Percy's robe coat and poked her head out. Percy smiled, "look who finally decided to come out!" Kelly had been sleeping since before dinner, she had missed Percy getting selected and the dancing, luckily for him. She yawned as she rubbed her eyes looked around curiously.
"So Percy did they tell you anything about the first task?" Cedric asked as the serious students listened curiously.
"Yeah, it's on the 24th of November and apparently it's going to test my courage or something."
"Pfft, courage, I'm sure Potter is glad to hear that, dumb Gryffindor," Michael growled.
"Woah Micheal kind of harsh there don't you think?"
"Not at all Percy! That brat tried to show you up!" Miguel yelled waving his drink around madly, "I mean we finally managed to gain some amount of respect for ourselves and he just has to come and take away the spotlight, again!"
The Hufflepuff all nodded. "Yeah! And did you see the whole innocent confused look he had when Dumbledore called out his name?" Heather snorted, "I swear, he should be an actor."
"How did he even manage to do it anyway?" a seven year witch asked, "I mean he couldn't have found a way past the age line could he?"
"Maybe Dumbledore told him how to get passed it," Juan suggested, "we all know the man loves Gryffindor more than us!"
"Alright enough!" Percy snapped loudly. The entire party stopped as they all looked towards Percy in surprise, they had never seen the boy angry before, he was always smiling, but right now that smile was replaced with a very cold glare.
"Look and listen, Harry did not put his name in the goblet, got it?"
Gordon and the others looked at each other. They looked uncertain and Cedric spoke up, "how do you know Percy?"
"Because Harry and I are friends, good friends, and he wouldn't lie to me. Plus honestly, he's not that daring, he doesn't have the guts to do something like this," Percy smiled defusing the tension a bit.
"Fine," Heather huffed, "if Potter didn't do it then who did?"
Percy shrugged, "we don't know. Dumbledore has no clue, but our best guess? Voldemort," suddenly everyone in the common room flinched in response to the name. Percy was surprised, "okay what was that?"
"Wait...you don't know?" Miguel asked in surprise.
"Know? Know what?"
"He's American Miguel, they probably didn't fear him as much as we did," Kristien explained.
"Okay will someone tell me what's going on."
"Percy, do you know why we call him you-know-who?" Cedric asked.
"Who? Voldemort?" Everyone flinched again and Percy looked concerned, "are you all okay?"
"No, we aren't," Juan grumbled, "you see Percy I don't know how it was in the states, but here, we were told to be afraid of the man, very afraid. Out parents were afraid and the stories they told us...it made us afraid."
"So...everytime I want to make you guys flinch all I have to do is say Voldemort?" que the flinching, Percy grinned, "cool!"
"Not cool Percy! Everyone in England is scared of the guy! And he's dead! Who knows how it would be if he's alive!"
"Dead? Voldemort isn't dead," Percy said with narrowed eyes.
Cedric scoffed, "who told you that? Potter?"
"Well yeah," Percy said, "he told me about the crazy things that happened during his first and second year."
"Well don't believe them, he was making them up," a fourth year scoffed.
"Well then who opened the chamber of secrets?"
The Hufflepuff were silent at that. None of them answered as they gave Percy blank looks.
The demigod sighed, "look I don't know what's the truth or what isn't, but I do know this, Harry doesn't really seem the kind of guy who would just lie about these kinds of things, does he?"
The fourth year boy from before hung his head refusing to answer.
However a red haired girl standing next to him spoke up, "yeah...I've been studying with him for the past four years...he isn't that bad."
Percy blinked, "wait...are you Susan Bones?"
The girl nodded in surprise, "yes, why?"
Percy chuckled, "no reason, inside joke," Percy then changed to 'serious' mode, "look we currently have two options, one, believe that a boy who has never acted out in anyway did something to grab attention to himself, or two, believe that one of the people that served Voldemort," cue the flinches, "wants Harry dead. I don't know about you, but option number two seems more likely to me."
The Hufflepuff students looked at each other and whispered in groups. Finally Cedric spoke up, "alright Percy, what do you think we should do then?"
"Simple, someone is coming after our own. Harry might not be a Hufflepuff but he is a student of Hogwarts. So if someone even thinks about messing with our friends we badgers will show them why we aren't someone to fuck with!"
"Yeah!" they cheered.
"I'll do my best to get Harry out off this alive, if someone is trying to get to him through this tournament then I'm not going to let them! Are you?!"
"No!"
Percy jumped off his couch and raised his glass, "awesome! Badgers rule!"
"Badgers rule!"
"Ah excuse me," a small first year spoke up, "I have a question."
The older children laughed causing the little boy to blush brightly. Percy stepped up, "what's your question little dude?"
"Ah, what does fuck mean?" the innocent boy asked as several off his year mates looked on curiously.
Percy blinked, "when did you…." he remembered a few seconds ago when he used that word during his little speech, "oh shit. I mean fuck! I mean….don't tell Professor Sprout!"
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