User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-4902593-20130914145422/@comment-3146930-20130915170936

@ Kronos300:

A few times in The Lost Hero (especially when he gets his memory back), Jason feels pressured because he is a son of Jupiter and as a result people try and make him the leader. This can clearly be seen at the end when he doesn't know what to do and seems to not even know how to be a good leader. He also mentions a few times in The Mark of Athena how people always looked up to him and how he felt people were always pushing him into becoming the leader. He then talks about how now that he is in a team of equals, he isn't as good as he thinks he is (which is kind of true, as he spent most of the book knocked out).

I agree however that Jason never mentions leading the seven, with the only time when he seems like he is trying to be the leader is when both him and Percy go for the head chair (which Annabeth takes).