Banished Into Magic: A Percy Jackson/Harry Potter Crossover

My Neighbor, the Celebrity

"Excuse me young man, but may I see your hand?" The examiner asked nicely, though the look on her face indicated anything but.

"Uh, what for ma'am?" Percy as panic started to set in.

'What do I do? What do I do?! Damn it, if only I could use the Mist to block her sight of it! Wait...that's it!'

"Just curiosity, now please." The witch's tone left no room for argument as she held out her own hand in waiting.

Percy gulped as he thought fast. Percy felt the Mist move to his will and surround itself around the blood band as Percy willed it to look like a normal wooden bracelet. He turned to the witch and smiled giving her his hand.

The witch frowned at his smile but quickly examined his hand. She pushed the sleeves of his robes down and stared right at the blood band.

Percy didn't lose focus as he willed the Mist to maintain the illusion he was casting over the magical object. The witch peered right at it, but she couldn't see anything but a brown wooden band.

Sighing, she let go and gave Percy a forced smile. "That a very lovely bracelet you have there young man. Where did you get it?"

"Family heirloom ma'am." Percy replied with a cheery smile as he pulled his sleeves up, no telling how long he could keep up the illusion. "Is that all? Can I return to the exam?"

"Yes, yes of course. Sorry for the bother." The woman returned to monitoring the rest of the hall.

Percy then returned to his exam smiling like a cat. Guess someone had to change the 'no cheaters since 1899' part of the speech.

The rest of the exam went without incident as Percy answered every single question perfectly. When he was done he gave the paper in with a smile and went out of the hall for lunch at the Leaky Cauldron via the floo.

When he returned, the hall had changed, all the chairs and tables had been removed leaving a wide-open space.

The five other exam takers were already there along with two new examiners. One was an older man and the other a younger wizard that looked around thirty.

"Right. Now since we are all here we can begin." The older man introduced himself as Robert Thatch and the young man as William Thatch (no relation). He then sent everyone out and called people in one by one to administer the practical part of the exam.

Eventually, it was Percy's turn and he entered the hall with wand already drawn.

"Right, are you Percy Jackson?" William asked looking at a form.

"Yes."

"Excellent, let's begin." Robert smiled.

Percy was asked to charm an egg to dance, big surprise there. He also had to display a variety of other charms he had learned, like the levitation charm, the color-change charm, and even a growth charm.

Percy had a little trouble with more of the complex charms, couldn't get them to stick. And while he did get the egg to dance, it looked very silly seeing an egg do the salsa alone.

When he was down Robert and William whispered amongst each other before turning to Percy. "Well that's all for now, thank you Mr. Jackson."

"Ah, if I may, I prepared a little something to, well show off my stuff. Can I?" Percy asked.

The men nodded. "Yes of course, please. Overachieving is never a bad thing."

Percy nodded as he readied his wand and aimed at a desk pushed back to one corner of the room. He waved the wand and transformed it into a giant pig.