User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-9703010-20140717001552/@comment-3146930-20140719231643

Don't talk about my car like that! She is a beautiful creature that is currently out of date on its inspection...I should probably get to that.

As far as Festus goes, he isn't a magical dragon, he is just a mechanical dragon made using a magic metal (yes, I know how odd that sounds). Even if his outside is made from Celestial Bronze, going by a few of the books his insides are all wires, circuits, and a control disk. Even if you say that a machine wouldn't care if it was turned off or not, it would if that was in its programming or it could have been Leo projecting his thoughts onto Festus; sort of like how people will interpret what they think their pet is thinking, even if it is not actually what the pet was intending.