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Annabeth’s dad is a professor at West Point who had a brief relationship with the goddess Athena. His only memento from his time with Athena is a class ring, which he sends to Annabeth one year. He never really wanted a child, so he was upset when Annabeth showed up on his doorstep. After remarrying, he went along with his wife’s dislike and distrust of Annabeth, which has severely damaged his relationship with his daughter. Annabeth believes that her father doesn’t care about her at all. At the end of the novel, however, Annabeth takes Percy’s advice to heart: she writes an apology to her dad and she agrees to try living at home for the school year.
Annabeth’s Dad Quotes in The Lightning Thief
The The Lightning Thief quotes below are all either spoken by Annabeth’s Dad or refer to Annabeth’s Dad. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 13 Quotes
“I appeared on my father’s doorstep, in a golden cradle [...] You’d think my dad would remember that as a miracle, right? Like, maybe he’d take some digital photos or something. But he always talked about my arrival as if it were the most inconvenient thing that had ever happened to him. When I was five he got married and totally forgot about Athena. He got a ‘regular’ mortal wife, and had two ‘regular’ mortal kids, and tried to pretend I didn’t exist.”
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Annabeth’s Dad Character Timeline in The Lightning Thief
The timeline below shows where the character Annabeth’s Dad appears in The Lightning Thief. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 7
Percy asks who Annabeth’s dad is. She tenses and says that her dad is a professor at West Point. Percy...
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Chapter 11
...the outside world. She explains that it doesn’t work for her to live with her dad, but Camp Half-Blood is just about training. She wants to be in the real world,...
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Chapter 13
...mentions Mom, Annabeth reminds him that he can’t barter with Hades. If Hades had her dad, she’d leave him to rot.
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Percy is shocked, but Annabeth shares that her dad wasn’t thrilled when she showed up in a golden cradle. He married a mortal woman...
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Chapter 16
...the summer on that year’s bead. Percy then asks if the college ring is her dad’s. Annabeth takes a shaky breath and says that he sent it to her two years...
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Chapter 22
...that she’s going home for the year. She took Percy’s advice and wrote to her dad, apologized, and asked for another chance. He accepted. She points to four figures high on...
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