Chapter 6
The air was tense in the quick thought, and so thick you could cut it with a knife. Harry did not dare look up, his eyes stuck to the floor. "How could you not tell me this?" Athena asked. Her voice was stern and unsettling, laced with betrayal. It was very different from her usual unemotional, or rather, rarely emotional self. Harry, still looking down, mumbled "i didn’t know". Athena, raised her voice slightly. Something she had never done before. "What else have you been hiding Harry Potter?!" Harry was nervous. He had never liked being called by his first and last name. His aunt and uncle always did that whenever he was in trouble, or in other words constantly. However as he did not mean to anger the goddess he felt extremely guilty. "I didn’t know…" he repeated. Athena took a breath. This seemed to settle her down as her voice was now much calmer. "Harry i need you to be honest with me." She told him, her voice laced with a certain emotion harry couldn’t quite comprehend. "Things happen to me… everywhere i go…" harry mumbled. To be honest he wasn’t sure she had heard, but she soon made a humming sound, encouraging him to go on. "Whenever something bad is about to happen to me i just, i don’t know how…" Athena kneeled in front of him. His voice and entire body was shaking. He was afraid. Afraid of losing her, afraid of being yelled at, afraid of being hurt… He hated this feeling, but kept going nevertheless. "Like that one time my aunt cut my hair except for in front and it all grew back in one night." Athena raised an eyebrow. "You surely aren’t a demigod… your godly parent would have never stood for such horror from your family." She responded. She got back up and put a hand to her chin, clearly in deep thought. After a bit of silence, she finally said "If you are a wizard, perhaps a witchcraft god would be useful to you." Harry looked in her eyes. They were genuine. "You never told me about those." Harry said, Athena chuckled "Well the subject never came up. I will speak to them. And we will see. How does that sound?" She patted his head. Harry, now beaming that Athena wasn’t going to leave him, nodded his head excitedly. And as he was let out of quick thought, Harry was excited to know more about his true self…
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