A/N: Two weeks must be too long for people huh ? In that case, sorry for the delay – I am currently experiencing family problems and drama. Here is the next chapter. Hope it makes up for the wait. BTW, I am astonished at how many favorites and followers there are to this story. Thank you.

Note: For the reviewers who have endless questions –cough- you know who you are –cough- your questions will be answered through the story and upcoming chapters. So please… tone it down a little.

Reminder: Romance is not a focus of the story (it will be there but it won't be such a big deal) and my lips are zipped. So for the people who would love to know the pairings ahead of schedule, dream on (in a nice way of course).

Disclaimer: I know a song called meadow-music will never own the Percy Jackson or Harry Potter series. Quite catchy ~ you should memorize it too.

Chapter 4

Harry's POV

We were all waiting and chatting right before the feast waiting for Dumbledore to begin.

There were a lot of rumors going on about the extra table that has appeared in the Great Hall.

Some say there is going to be another Tri-Wizard Tournament and other say that it is going to be for the transfer students from America.

I personally hoped it was the second option as I was still recovering from the Tournament last year.

Professor McGonagall made her way to the front of the hall. She placed a stool there and tapped on the Sorting Hat to wake it up.

I didn't pay any attention to the song; I was more focused on what would happen afterward.

Suddenly, a swarm of 1st year students crowded the entry.

Soon, they were all sorted into either Slytherin, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, or Ravenclaw.

That fifth table was still empty.

Dumbledore raised his hands and the chatter quieted,

""To our newcomers, welcome! To our old hands - welcome back! There is a time for speech making, but this is not it. The rules are the same as previously and if you follow these, no harm will befall you. Mr. Filch, our head custodian, has a quite lengthy list of prohibited items tacked to the wall in front of his office so you can go take a look. A reminder that the Forbidden Forest is again forbidden to all students. Quidditch practices will take place soon and your captains will inform you. This year is also one of change as we…"

"Hem…Hem… Hem…" The pink mushroom-toad lady ( I recognized her from the Ministry) piped, her voice sickenly fake.

"Thank you Headmaster for those kind words of welcome. The Ministry of Magic has always considered the education of young witches and wizards to be of a vital importance. Although each headmaster has brought something new to this... historic school, progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged. Let us preserve what must be preserved, perfect what can be perfected and prune practices that ought to be... prohibited!"

"Thank you Dolores." Dumbledore said with an underlying mocking tone.

"Now before we waste any more of our time or our lives, let me introduce the change in Hogwarts. Arriving here are the transfer students from Delphi's Academy for Magic in America. Help me welcome them."

The hall burst out in chatter wondering what these transfer students would look like.

Suddenly, there was a creak as the doors to the Great Hall slowly opened.

All the chatter ceased to exist as everybody had their eyes on the opening doors and the figures that were to emerge.

They came in an almost war-like formation. Everybody was stunned.

All of these people were tall, fit, athletic and extremely good looking. Almost godly . They also seemed to radiate power, strength, elegance, grace, and an aura that demanded respect. They looked like warriors and they were not to be messed with.

Leading the group were five people.

In the middle was a guy with messy black hair and startling green eyes, almost like the color of the sea.

He was flanked by two people on each side. Right next to him on his right was a guy with pale olive skin, black hair and dark brown/blue eyes that seemed to capture and scrutinize your soul. Right next to him was a girl with coffee color skin, dark curls, and gold eyes that seemed to draw you in. On his other side was a girl with long choppy black hair and electric blue eyes. She seemed to be wearing a silver circlet on her head. Next to her was a boy with short blonde hair, those same electric blue eyes and a scar on his upper lip.

After them, came two very attractive people. The boy had tousled golden blonde hair and sky blue eyes. The girl had wavy long light brown hair with prominent golden blonde highlights and silver blue eyes.

After them came two people who looked alike. The girl had curly golden blonde hair and intense grey eyes. The boy had short, straight golden blonde hair that was styled fashionably and intense grey eyes.

A girl with long dark brown hair and dark hazel eyes followed. She was accompanied by a boy who had slightly messy short-medium brown hair and slightly stormy spring green eyes.

A group of three came in next. One girl had long dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. She had an almost regal air about her; slightly scary too. The other girl had stringy dirty blonde hair and harsh brown eyes. She was very buff too. The boy had a Chinese look with a babyish sort of face paired with a very muscular body, black hair warm brown eyes.

Three boys followed. Two looked eerily alike, the only difference being height and the pronounce-ness of their features. They both had messy sandy brown hair and the same blue eyes (that were a brilliant shade of blue I couldn't place). The taller one was a tad more filled out and he had more pronounced features. The other boy had a Hispanic appearance with black/brown hair and brown eyes. He was also very muscular.

After that came two boys. One had slightly curly sandy blonde hair with brilliant purple eyes. The other had slight buzz cut black hair and dark purple eyes.

Two girls followed them. One had long dark brown and black hair with warm brown eyes. The other had interestingly styled brown hair and kaleidoscope eyes.

Two boys followed them. One had curly black hair and fiery warm brown eyes. The other boy had dark auburn hair and brown eyes ringed with forest green.

Coming up as the rear were a girl and a boy. The girl had fiery long red hair and intense light green eyes. The boy had medium nut brown hair and bright green eyes.

They all sat down at the fifth table and waited for Dumbledore to begin talking again.

"As you realize, these students from Delphi's Academy for Magic are not to be sorted. After an intense discussion with the Sorting Hat," – here, the Hat almost shivered- "we have thought it best that they were to remain neutral. They will be taking classes with all of the houses and do your best to make them feel welcome. Without much ado, Let's begin the feast!" After he clapped, the food magically appeared on the table.

The Delphi students looked a tad impressed.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Malfoy stand up.

He made his way over to the Delphi table and stood behind the curly blonde girl. He put his hands over his eyes and whispered in her ear. She stood up and twirled around, her eyes widening in shock, she screamed "Draco!" so loud I think the entire Hall heard. He gathered her up in a hug and grinned. She pulled back and frowned. He took out his wand and swiped it across himself. His appearance suddenly altered. His hair grew more styled and his hair color darkened just a shade. He grew taller, filled out quite nicely, becoming muscular and fit. His facial features became less pointy and more defined and pronounced. His eyes became a molten swirl of a thousand shades of grey and his stare became more intense.

She grinned and they both sat down. Firm handshakes, greetings and claps on the back came from everybody at the table. Guess he is familiar to them too.

The Slytherins were glaring at the table but Malfoy whipped around and pinned them with such a deadly stare, that even I could admit he looked dangerous, and the entire table quietened. He still was the ruler of that house and they all listened to him. I didn't know he had that much power over the Slytherins and I was reluctantly impressed and respected him… just a little.

Soon there was this goblet-looking thing that had fire coming from it. Everybody at the table was tossing food in consecutively and murmuring names under their breath. Then Luna, Colin, and Neville got out of their seats and joined them. Everybody seemed to know them too.

What was going on?

Malcolm's POV

I watched as Draco made his way over to the table. He snuck behind Annabeth to surprise her and it was nice to see them reunited. They are really close at camp; he was Annabeth's favorite brother, second to me.

It was nice to see him again. We always had a lot of fun back at camp. He is one of the more athletic Athena children. He was only a summer camper due to the fact he had to go to boarding school. His adoptive parents (His biological father died when he was born) didn't even know about Camp Half-Blood, demigods, or gods. They didn't know about his heritage either. They thought he was going to a "pureblood training camp in the Dark Arts.". Good thing too, if they knew about Draco being in three battles – they would have his head and bye bye Draco.

Percy's POV

I watched as Draco came and sat down. It was great to see him here. He is one of the more athletic Athena children, as everybody could see from his altered appearance, but he still had all the brains that the Athena cabin was famous for. He had been at camp for almost as long as Annabeth had. He also played a crucial part in the war. He was brilliant with a spear and a sword and had very good reflexes. During the Battle of Manhattan, when Annabeth was away with me, he lead the second part of the Athena cabin to strengthen our defenses and enhance our weak spots. After the war, unknown to everybody, he went , by orders of Athena, to Camp Jupiter and he distributed his time between those two camps. As a result, he became well versed in Latin as well as showing the Romans the usefulness of Minerva. Due to his efforts, Minerva became highly respected and not degraded. The Roman camp trusts him fully and he helped both with Roman and Greek battle strategies both in the camps as well as in Greece. Because of Annabeth's brother, the hostilities between the Romans and the Greeks all but disappeared. He earned a tattoo for his services to Camp Jupiter, it had a spear with an olive branch twirled around it. He had three stripes so far and a multitude of beads on his Camp Half-Blood necklace. He also was very powerful. He had a special gift that no Athena camper had before, he had the ability of telekinesis; control and manipulate anything with his mind. This was not limited to objects as he has a small control over the elements and electricity as well. His telekinesis ability was very strong as a result of a lot of practice.

Hugs, claps on the back and handshakes went around for Draco. He was well liked in the camp, a natural leader (when the time called for it) and a very loyal friend. He had your back no matter what.

We sat down and before we ate, Leo passed around the brazier we made at breakfast. All of us took our turns tossing food in and whispering the god or goddess. After the war, everybody made a conscious effort to not only give an offering to their godly parent but to the gods who were forgotten and undervalued. It was due to their efforts as well that all of emerged victorious.

While the brazier was getting passed around; Luna, Neville and Colin came by and sat with us. There were a lot of greetings going around then too. They hadn't visited camp as often as they were busy with family issues.

Hermione's POV

I watched as Draco transformed in front of this mystery girl. When he made his way over to their table and hugged her, I felt a pang of something in my stomach. It couldn't be…. Jealousy. Why would I be jealous? When his appearance altered, I didn't think it possible, but he got even more handsome. During first year, when I was still being shunned, he was my study partner in the library. I was petrified, he came in and apologized for the name calling and everything ( he didn't know I could hear him). Since he was incredibly talented, he, Professor Sprout and Professor Snape were the ones who brewed the Mandrake potion that would cure people of being petrified. He also helped Harry and Ron without their knowledge when they went into the Chamber of Secrets. I remembered last year, he danced with me after the Yule Ball. The one person who made my life difficult for three years, singlehandedly, made me forget the whole Ron fiasco. He was a brilliant dancer and I had so much fun that evening. That night I knew that the front he put on for the world, most of it, wasn't him. I went to bed that night feeling at peace. At midnight, he kissed me under the mistletoe; it was the best first kiss I ever had. Since we stayed over Christmas break, we kissed at midnight on New Year's Eve on the astronomy tower. We exchanged correspondance for the first part of the summer, letters were done very carefully so his parents wouldn't find out, but after I arrived at Grimmauld Place, the letters stopped coming and I couldn't send any.

I was partially afraid that this year he would continue acting like the prat he pretends to be. However, even though he was seated at the Delphi table talking to his friends, he paused and looked over to me. His eyes locked with mine and he winked. Besides blushing and ducking my head, I was relieved that nothing had changed since last year and everything was OK.

Bobby's POV

I was talking to Draco; or as Annabeth's nickname for him "Dragon"- only his friends could call him that, anybody else would receive a dagger point to their neck; We were talking about how things were going and the sport called Quidditch, which Draco loves, and he pauses just for a second. He looks over our head and stares intensely with somebody and gives a little wink. I was kind of confused with his attitude so I looked over to where he was staring and I saw a pretty brunette girl with long brown curly hair (those big curls) that seemed to have a lot of shades of brown mixed in to it, big brown eyes, and a light dusting of freckles. She looked around sixteen and seemed to look very intelligent. I saw her blush and duck her head. I smirked and turned towards Draco. He saw the look on my face and lightly punched my shoulder. I didn't say a word but I knew that Draco had a girl. Interesting….

Annabeth's POV

After the brazier went around, everybody dove into their food with gusto. I was impressed at how the amount of food never seemed to decrease. I ate, staying away from the weird looking stuff. The rest of the time, I was either talking with my friends and catching up with Draco or staring at the ceiling. The architecture of this school was AMAZING. While I was admiring the architecture, I must have lost track of time as when Percy gently nudged me, I looked and saw the headmaster rising for a speech.

"As all things, this feast must come to an end. Students, please wait for your respective house prefects who will guide you to your house dorms. Students from the Delphi's Academy for Magic, kindly wait and either Professor Flitwick or Professor McGonagall will guide you to your dorms. Everybody, settle in and feel right at home. Good luck for your first day tomorrow!" He said extending his hands.

Suddenly, he disappeared.

By the looks of it, we were not the only ones confused as the boy with the lightning scar, Harry Potter, looked confused as well as disappointed.

Everybody retreated to their dorms. Three students from Gryffindor brushed by us and I heard a snippet of their conversation. The brunette girl who was one third of the Trio was whispering furiously to the redhead and Harry Potter. " Don't you realize? This means that the ministry is interfering at Hogwarts. Nothing will stay the same and the school will experience a lot of changes. This is not good news." Their voices faded away as they left the Great Hall. I was concentrating on the knawing feeling in my stomach and the gears in my mind were turning. Combining what Chiron told us and if the information Granger said was true, this would not be good…at all.

Sighing heavily with a lot weighing on my mind, I followed everybody else as Professor McGonagall led us to their dorms.

I knew this information was important and could drastically affect our mission. I would tell everybody else in our doors and IM Chiron as soon as possible.

I had a feeling that this was only the first obstacle in the quest to protect Harry Potter and defend Hogwarts.

A/N: Longest chapter so far. Hope you all liked it and I apologize for the amount of time between updates. I am very busy (and limited in computer access and free time) and so the wait time cannot be helped. I will update when I can and so please refrain from the "UPDATE" messages, I will update and so no need to fret.

One more thing. What would the utmost helpful to reviewers and readers is if you could tell me what Harry's schedule is during 5th year. I will need to know for upcoming chapters and so any help at all, I will be immensely grateful – I cannot seem to find the information anywhere. ** Thank You **

Also, as everybody has probably realized. This story will NOT be a canon story - keep that in mind :)

See you next time!