User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Mark of Athena Official Discussion/@comment-4737110-20121015073040/@comment-5541474-20121016131513

@ Himeyuka: I'm not really a Piper fan....at all, but she wasn't useless. ''Did she stop Percy and Jason from fighting? Actually she couldn't, she had to convince BlackJack to hit Percy in the head otherwise he would have killed Jason.'' So she couldn't stop them but she did save Percy's life. ''Did she stop the Eidolons? Not really, she took them out of their bodies but she wasn't smart enough to tell them to leave them be and thus they came back a few chapters later in order to kill Leo, Hazel and Frank.'' But she did prvent them from getting into the heros' bodies. Her conversations with Hercules and Mr.B? Anyone with just a tad of common sense (which both Percy and Jason don't have) could have handled it. The Hercules thing wasn't her fault, it was Jason's.