Talks about incest, and Harry might be possessed, but who cares, everyone gets possessed a few times, right?
Percy and the other demigods were true to their promise to Molly. They went to Grimmauld Place and was greeted with the twins informing them about how Harry’s just filled with self loathing because the adults think he’s been possessed by you-know-who.
Percy went upstairs to talk to Harry, and was met with Hermione, Ron and Ginny talking to Harry in his and Ron’s room.
Percy heard Ginny’s voice “-you’ve been hiding ever since we got back —”
“I didn’t want anyone to talk to me,” said Harry, who was sounding more annoyed by the second.
“Well, that was a bit stupid of you,” said Ginny angrily, “seeing as you don’t know anyone but me who’s been possessed by You-Know- Who, and I can tell you how it feels.”
Harry turned on the spot to face her. “I forgot,” he said.
“Lucky you,” said Ginny coolly.
“I’m sorry,” Harry said, and he meant it. “So . . . so do you think I’m being possessed, then?”
“Well, can you remember everything you’ve been doing?” Ginny asked. “Are there big blank periods where you don’t know what you’ve been up to?”
Harry looked like he was thinking hard.
“No,” he said.
“Then You-Know-Who hasn’t ever possessed you,” said Ginny simply. “When he did it to me, I couldn’t remember what I’d been doing for hours at a time. I’d find myself somewhere and not know how I got there.”
Harry looked like he was trying to convince himself that she was wrong. “That dream I had about your dad and the snake, though —”
“Harry, you’ve had these dreams before,” Hermione said. “You had flashes of what Voldemort was up to last year.”
“This was different,” said Harry, shaking his head. “I was inside that snake. It was like I was the snake… What if Voldemort some- how transported me to London - ?”
Percy interrupted, making everyone jump in surprise. “Dreams can be visions but I don’t think you’ve been possessed by Voldemort, you probably weren’t actually in London.” He sat down next to Harry.
“Since when were you here?” Ron asked, confused.
“Just got here,” replied Percy.
“Okay…” Hermione said. “Anyway, Harry, you can’t have been taken to London because no one can apparate or disapparate into or out of Hogwarts. You would know that if you ever read Hogwarts: A history!” Everyone else rolled their eyes at that.
“You know, me, Jason and Leo all got possessed once.” Percy offhandedly said. “But it was by eidolons, not a dark wizard who seems to have nothing better to do than ruin lives.”
Everyone stared at him in shock.
“Percy, what?” Harry asked, confused and concerned.
“Yeah, Leo attacked the Roman camp and Jason and I tried to kill each other. It was fine, though, Piper exorcised the eidolons away with Hazel’s help.”
No one was quite sure what that entailed but they were all too scared to ask to ask questions. Except Ginny, that is.
“Exorcised?”
“Yep, I don’t really remember much but Piper said she used charmspeak to make the eidolons swear on the Styx that they won’t step on the ship ever again.”
“Ship?”
“Did we not tell you about that?”
They all shook their heads.
Percy thought for a second. “I’m surprised Leo didn’t tell. He made a warship to help us stop Gaia. It was kinda the main reason we’re all not dead.”
*insert confused staring here*
Percy just awkwardly sat there. “Sooo, yeah, that’s about it.”
“That’s crazy!” said Ron after processing all the stuff Percy just said.
The demigod laughed. “Pretty much.”
Hermione frowned. “What are eidolons?” she asked.
“Ghosts that possess people because they’re evil.”
Hermione blinked. “What?”
…
So now Harry is feel all better and doesn’t hate himself anymore. Yay! So, the demigods were being shown around the house when Percy saw Sirius trying to get a big tapestry off the wall.
“What are you doing?” he asked.
“Trying to get this blasted family tree off,” Sirius replied, shooting more spells at the wall but nothing worked.
“Why?”
“My family was a bunch of bitches who thought that anyone without pure blood wasn’t worthy of life,” he said simply.
“Dam, how’d you live with that?”
“I didn’t, ran away, see?” He pointed to the burnt picture of him on the tree.
Percy looked closer at the tree. “This tree looks more like a wreath to me. Why are half these guys married to their cousins?”
Sirius sighed. “When you only want to marry pure bloods, your options are pretty limited. Almost all pure blood families are related to each other and they’re really rare. They marry their family members to keep the blood pure because incest is apparently better than mingling with muggles.”
“I’d say it’s gross but the gods do the same thing alongside hanging with normal people.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, everyone’s related to everyone but gods don’t have DNA so there are no genetic defects unless you count having small average life spans.”
“Life sucks, doesn’t it?”
“Yeah, but dying isn’t much better.”
They both stood there for a couple seconds staring at the family tree.
Percy broke the silence. “Anyway, it’s lunchtime. I’m starving, let’s go.”