User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-6951062-20130321230637/@comment-6068707-20130322024935

I have such a strange feeling I know who Im talking to. But that's just because I've learned alot from a friend of mine on Doctor Who. It seems interesting though. But the whole thing about Percy making a choice, seems logical, since the entire story was based upon him. But I think It'll be Frank or Hazel to die, because they seem to have the most simpliest weaknesses to die. Hazel if Hades realizes she is alive, she dies. Frank if something burns Hazel and consequently, his log, he dies too. And then there's Leo, the human torch!...

". . .To storm or fire the world must fall. . ." I don't know but that line seems to have an effect when it comes to Hazel and Frank, so yeah. Annabeth and Percy might have more to do with the promise, as to the whole, never leave me again! remark Annabeth told percy when they met after the amazing judo flip on her boyfriend. It could also be for Piper, but seeing as Jason is helpless without her confidence boast charmspeak as of the Mark of Athena, I doubt he'll break anything even their currently seemingly fragile relationship (mainly Piper's insecurity faults).

The Fates are beings far beyond the power of the gods, they have the divinity to see and set all of anyones destiny. They kinda are the people the set your destiny. past, present and future. As you should know they represent that. Birth, Life and Death.

I doubt that the fates cannot see all the possible outcomes and see the future to its end based on those 'fixed points' although, Percy is the unpredictable variable in all of this, even before the Prophecy of the Hero, Percy was wild and untamed, namely because of his father, Poseidon. But even without that, I think the fates forsaw every obsticale in Percy's life, even the ones that could've killed him long before they met again up on Olympus. I believe they even forsaw his love life taking a sudden change. I also think that Percy seems to realize that the moment he feared would come up soon.

In the Son of Neptune, Hazel references that he had a look in his eyes like he was waiting for that one day where he faced a monster he couldn't defeat. I think that moment in time will arise soon. And I fear that Annabeth might be a sacrafice to defeat the monster.

Just my thoughts though, who knows Riordan isn't always doing things on the same level as our minds think, but he sure makes interesting stories.