User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-5774152-20130221034225

Since everyone is pretty much saying their predictions, here's mine. Sorry this is going to be a long comment but I have to explain my thoughts on some of the subjects people keep talking about.

"POV's"

I think the POV's are going to be Jason, Hazel, Frank, (and if there's four) Annabeth. Why? Because they simply have had only had POV the last three books. Percy, Piper, and Leo have all had two, so I think it would be unfair for any of them to have a POV in the HoH. And the MoA had all greek POV's, so that is why my prediction is that the HoH will have Roman POV's. I really don't think that Nico or Reyna or anybody else will have POV because they are not part of the seven. I'm sorry, but I thought Rick Riordan made it pretty obvious that only the seven will get POV's. I just fali to see why Nico and Reyna should have POV's. It would be cool, yes, but necessary to me...no.

Who is staying behind

I honestly think it will be Percy that stays behind. I don't think it will be Annabeth that stays or Leo. Percy would not let Annabeth stay behind, and it would be kinda dumb if Leo stayed behind, because he's the only one who knows how to control the ship and fix it if anything goes wrong. If he did, when something does go wrong with the ship everyone would be like "''what do we do now." ''Yes Annabeth understands some of it, but well enough to do full repairs. No. I just have this feeling that (sadly) it will be Percy. However Percy would get captured by Gaea's forces like Nico ,so he would not be in Tartarus, but would get saved later on by his friends. Then again the doors of death were open on both sides when Nico was captured. If Percy closed the doors, would capturing him still be a possibility? I don't know, that is my one big 'if'. This line always pops in my mind when I think about this subject.

''"It doesn't matter when you fall, my sweet little pawn-to Phorcys or Chraysor or my dear twins. You will fall, and I will be there to devour you." (p. 381)''

When Gaea was talking to Percy, I think that moment was kind of fore-shadowing what was going to happen in the future. Also I think there is a possibility it will be Frank, because of what Mars said in The Son of Neptune.

''"And someday soon, he's (Percy) going to face a sacrafice he can't make. Without you, Frank-without your sense of duty-he's going to fail. The whole war will go sideways, and Gaea will destroy our world." (p. 364)''

I know that I didn't really need to put that since everybody probably remembers that part but I thought, what the heck. Might as well try and prove my point with the exact words from the book. Anyway, it is also another possiblity in mind. "''Duty. Sacrafice. They mean something." ''I also have this small thought that it could possibly be Coach Hedge that stays behind. I mean, he is a protector right? It just seems like he could sacrafice himslef, and let the seven get away and save the world.

Well I think that's a pretty long comment so i'm going to leave it that for now:)