Disclaimer: I don't own any part of the riordan or rowling series.

Man i'm getting lazy. Welp...Please ignore the fact I probably spelled CoMC critters' names wrong.

I'm also really sorry for not posting. I accidentally deleted a whole section and had to redo the whole hing...rip Nico.

And yes I'm having New World interact with the other schools...I mean, if you have your headmaster going somewhere and most of the older kids, I figured that the rest of the school is coming. So, y'know, since it's mentioned in the books that the characters saw various groups of non-Hogwarts students around the castle, some students would take classes with the students of Hogwarts. If that makes any sense.

Frank's P.O.V.

Frank couldn't wait for lunch.

He'd fallen asleep in History of Magic, and had impressed the class by turning into an eagle again in Transfiguration.

It was all going great until Care of Magical Creatures. Which had so far been, for him, a nightmare. Blast-Ended Skrewts. He was sure Leo was going to love those when he saw them. But Frank? Definitely not. They were annoying, loud, and a hazard to his stick. Thalia had been cussing in Greek for the last half hour.

And he'd ended up smacking right into a Durmstrang boy.

"Sorry!" he yelped, trying to keep a hold on his Blast-Ended Skrewt.

The boy glared. "Talk for yourself. You should be sorry."

Frank just sighed. "We're handling Blast-Ended Skrewts. I'm apologizing on behalf of the thing." He barely managed to keep his skwert from dragging him off again.

The boy wasn't doing so great. "Wh-Argh!" He went flying, and the Skwert's lead entangled with Frank's. The two skwerts were soon fighting each other. Frank quickly let go of the lead, instead going to help the boy, who'd landed in a large mud puddle. "You okay?"

"I-yeah, sure, maybe." The boy awkwardly got up, drenched in mud. He performed a spell that got the mud off his clothes. "Stupid skwert. You get them back in America? You seem pretty fine with handling them."

Frank thought for a moment. "Eh, not really. But I guess I'm just used to crazy animals at this point-one of my friendshas a giant dog that's way too attracted to people. If you're not careful, she'll knock you over. She's the only ffriendly one of her kind too."

"Wow! That's actually pretty cool." The Durmstrang boy had seemed to forget he was supposed to be acting snobbish and rude.

Frank chuckled. "Yeah. He rides on her sometimes, she's that big."

"Alright, that's enough for today!" The teacher, a half-giant of a man, yelled out above the hubbub. Students, relieved, quickly put the skwerts away and started leaving to the Great Hall.

Frank glanced at the boy. "Oh yeah, by the way, I'm Frank. Frank Zhang."

The boy nodded. "Tomas Greensmith. My father was English, my mother was Spanish." he said, as the duo started walking back up to the school.

"Nice to meet you." Frank let himself smile a bit.

"Nice to meet you as well. So, what's New World Academy like?"

Frank bit back a groan. "It''s pretty nice. It's a bit of a mix between a camp and a military academy. We do a lot of combat practice and getting wounds isn't really that uncommon."

"Sounds dangerous. You guys practice the Dark Arts?"

"Dark Arts?"

"Yeah. Y'know, dark magic?"

"Well, kind of. I mean, I don't do it but I know some who does/ It sort of depends. At New World, we take normal classes and stuff but we also take courses in specific things, whatever we're good at really."

Tomas grinned. "Awesome. What's your "thing" then?"

"If you haven't noticed, transfiguration." Frank turned into an eagle and back again.

"Cool."

"In a way, yeah." Frank said, as they rounded the corner to the Great Hall and entered. Frank waved to his new friend as he went to sit with the rest of his "school".

Settling in next to Hazel and across from a Gryffindor boy, Frank noticed that a few members wee absent. "Hey,where's Nico and Leo? Leo didn't burn up the plants did he?"

"Oh didn't you hear? Nico was attacked by the bouncing bulbs we were studying in class. Neville stayed back to try and help get those things under control." The Gryffindor boy, who had a strong Irish accent. "They're probably going to be there a while though, those things just won't stop for some reason. We spent a got amount of class time trying to get them off." He added, biting into a treacle tart.

Frank glances at Hazel. "Do you think..?"

"Definitely our stepmother's work. Odd she never put it on me though..." Hazel shrugged. "Hopefully it wears off."

Frank groaned loudly. Percy, sitting at the Hufflepuff table with Annabeth, stared at him, as did many other students in the area. "You okay, Frank? And..uh, where's Nico? He's alright, right?" Percy called over.

"I am, Nico...probably not." Frank replied.

Hazel giggled "Nico will be fine, maybe a little bruised up but cant be worse then last summer, y'know?" She carefully avoided any mention of Leo, his dragon, and the quest of the 7.

Just then, a round faced boy jogged up to their table and sat next to the first Gryffindor boy. "Blimey, Seamus, those bouncing bulbs really have it out for Nico, guess he was right when he said he and plants didn't get along."

"Well, he's been turned into a corn plant and a dandelion before...maybe that's part of it?" Hazel said without thinking.

The two boys glanced up. "Transfigured into two different plants? By who?" Seamus questioned.

"Oh, um, our stepmother turned him into a dandelion during an argument and a really distant relative turned him into a corn plant for being rude." Frank tried to cover. The Gryffindor students seemed to buy it.

"Blimey, that's rough." Neville winced. "Herboloy's one of the few things I'm actually good at, not being able to go near plants without being attacked would be tough."

Seamus nodded in agreement.

Reyna slid into a seat nearby, burnt some food to the gods, and started eating. She looked exhausted and her braid was coming undone. "Remind me not to ever take Ancient Runes again."

"What happened?" Hazel asked curiously.

"Homework happened. And I can't exactly translate it to Latin either..."

"Tough luck, mate." Seamus grimaced. Reyna just nodded, as she took out a thick textbook and started to read it while she ate.