User blog comment:Percy Jackson12/The Seven/@comment-3146930-20111015023107/@comment-4515675-20111015161259

That's a little farfetched. I don't think Hera cared enough for Annabeth to help her in any way, on the contrary really. I agree with Darkcloud about Annabeth being an obvious choice. A little too obvious which might mean that she's not he 7th hero. I mean there's just one hero left, if it was Annabeth why didn't Hera just tell her so when Jason, Leo and Piper came to Camp Half-Blood. It seems to me that RR is just pointing at her to make us think she's the 7th so he can later surprise us.

Hmm I dunno about the current characters, I mean Nico won't be for sure since we already have Hazel as a daughter of Pluto/Hades and even if they don't have the same power it will be too weird to have two kids from the same god parent in the group.

I dunno about Reyna, the fangirl inside of me wishes it was her so we could have her PoV and see more of her but I don't think so. I'm very sure that Reyna has an important part to play since RR gave us quite a lot of hints and left us with unanswered questions but she seems more like Annabeth as in important for the quest but not one of the 7 heroes.

Maybe a new character? To tell you the truth I have no idea. I realize some people are 100% sure that it's Annabeth yet I argue back that RR might just throw her in the front so we won't be thinking about anyone else while he's plotting. Annabeth herself does not have some super power like the rest from the group. Don't get me wrong, I hate the fact that all six of them are so strong, makes it hard to believe, but there is a pattern here and Annabeth doesn't fit into it. You can argue back that Annabeth is very smart, or the smartest of all the Athena children, but it's not the same thing. I agree again with Darkcloud about her leading the army at the DoD. I imagine it's gonna be Annabeth for the Greek side and Reyna for the Roman one.