HATRED AND PERSUASIONS

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Juliette wished she could say that breakfast was uneventful, but then she'd be lying. Despite the fact that the Gryffindor table was never uneventful, it was more so that day. At least, for her, that is. Ever since she'd admitted that, yes, she is a demigod and yes, she is Hecate's daughter (in a way), she'd been doing her best to avoid the son of Hades. She knew that the gods were frustratingly stubborn. Their children shouldn't be any different. She knew she wasn't. Luckily, he seemed to have gotten her drift when she started avoiding him. It's been a week since her confession and they'd never seen eye-to-eye since then.

Thank Olympus for that. Juliette thought to herself sarcastically as she dug into her breakfast while keeping an ear out to the others' conversations, just in case something interesting pops up. But it's always the same: the Quidditch trials in the next week and the match in the next month, homework, classes, etc. She started to tune it all out when something caught her ear. An attack.

Her head snapped up to Lily Potter who was currently holding a newspaper. "Where?" She asked suddenly, catching the redhead in surprise but she answered anyway.

"A few miles south of here." She answered, glancing back at the newspaper. ""Just before dawn. You can read it if you like." She handed it to Juliette.

"Thanks Lils." Juliette said with a grin.

The girl just smiled and nodded.

Juliette tried to scan the paper as quickly as possible which was quite a challenge with her dyslexia and all. In the end, she barely had anything except for the fact that it was a horde of werewolves who attacked. She looked up confused.

"I didn't know last night was a full moon." She said, frowning.

"It's not." Rose said across her. "And even if it was, I don't think a werewolf could have kept it form until dawn. They didn't get the facts right."

Juliette felt Albus slip in next to her. "The Daily Prophet wrote up loads of rubbish alright." He said in agreement just as a familiar eagle owl swooped in and landed in front of his plate and dropped a letter. It nibbled a bit on his steak before flying away.

"That's why I convinced dad to send me the real facts."

Rose frowned at her cousin as he smoothed out the letter addressed to him. "Are you sure you thought of that up all by yourself? I have trouble believing it." She admitted.

Lily giggled as Juliette laughed.

"Good one, Rose."

Albus just glared at the three of them before starting to read the whole letter.

Albus,

As impossible as it may sound, the Daily Prophet is telling the facts. They were werewolves. Your uncle Ron and I were sent to incapacitate them ourselves. But these werewolves...they're different. They're unlike the ones we were taught about. They were less wolfish, more humanoid but werewolves all the same.

It took quite a while for us to hurt them. They didn't seem to be that much affected by our spell. But we figured it out, eventually. Only silver could hurt them. When they were hit though, their bodies' reactions were just like the reactions you told me the manticores had: they're bodies dissolved into yellow dust.

By the way, how's Juliette? Send her my best wishes. It must have taken quite a lot of courage to charge that manticore. A courage worthy of Gryffindor. I'd ask you to pass that onto the boy who helped Juliette too - Nico di Angelo, was it? But by the sounds of it you don't get along well...

Your mother's saying you shouldn't get into fights. I agree. Pass that onto your siblings and cousins, won't you? We don't wasn't any of you expelled.

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