User blog comment:Maimer1882/Powers of the 7/@comment-4354821-20111023215029/@comment-4515675-20111104154938

It's not just Annabeth who doesn't have some kind of super power or the Athena's kids. If she had some special ability it would have shown itself by now. Even if we didn't have Annabeth's PoV in the PJO series I don't think that such kind of powers could be hidden and I personally don't think that she would have kept them from Percy.

I don't think it's unfair, if anything it's ideal. Characters such as Annabeth and Clarisse that don't have magical powers but use their own strengths to win are far better than characters like Piper, Leo and Frank. They were given these incredible strong powers that they immediately learned how to control which looks very unrealistic and exaggerated to me.

I didn't add Jason, Percy and Hazel to the list because in Percy's case we had 5 books in which we saw him grow these powers and Jason had been trained for 12 years. As for Hazel, well her power is more like a curse, it never seemed exaggerated, more like tragic.