Finally I've got a moment on my computer to update! I don't want to leave you without an update for too long, but if I don't manage to do this again then I hope this can last you until my exams are over for good!

Due to certain responses and the fact that I will admit I am lousy at writing romance stuff, I'm going to try and keep the pairing in this fic to the minimum. Sorry if I disappointed any of you.

To The Son Of Hades123: I have read it, and I agree that it's a great story. The thing is that I'm not fond of what lightningscar twisted the canon into. I know I am twisting the canon a lot too but we all change our stories to be what we want. I do imagine Nico to dislike the camps and all in the same way and be as powerful as well though, and I hope maybe one day I could write something as amazing as that.

To Guest: So it took me a long time to update with my exams... but thanks so much!

To Kerowyn6 and Joey Bermuda triangle: I get the point.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter nor Percy Jackson & The Olympians

—Nico di Angelo—

Hogwarts is nice.

It has yet to impress me enough to the earn the title 'amazing', 'awesome', 'fun' or even 'weird'. But it really is nice.

Everyone here is so nice. And understand that I, as a child of Hades, is not really used to people being nice to me.

But almost everyone here is nice to me. Okay, I haven't run into any Slytherins yet, but everyone else seems to be. There were these two random sixth-year Gryffindors that warned me where all the trick steps were on my way out the Great Hall, some Hufflepuffs showed me the way to the Gryffindor tower after I got lost again, and there was this Ravenclaw girl named Cho that helped me up when I fell into a trick step on a random staircase.

I am so not used to this.

Nobody is ever this nice to me. Even Hazel is pretty awkward with me because of Bianca, and even more so now that she's got a boyfriend.

The thing is, I can see why Draco, Luna, Nyroc and Alabaster all would rather stay here than be at either of the camps, or in the underworld, or on the run. It's a lot nicer here, even if you've got to wear a disguise all day. It's rather like just being in a house automatically makes you accepted there, and other houses liking you too are a bonus.

So, yes, I really like Hogwarts.

So I don't know why I was so anxious to get up to the dorm and be alone for awhile. It was sort of against the rules, since my job was to protect Harry Potter and therefore be around him at all times.

It wasn't like I could really call Percy either, that would jeopardize the whole mission. He might ask where I am, or ask to speak to Reyna. I couldn't risk him finding out, no matter how much I wanted to see them.

I'm not worried about Hazel, honestly. She's in good hands. Frank, Leo, and Jason would take care of her.

I guess maybe I was homesick? Somehow, being in solitude was more familiar, so I really did need to be alone. If I were to be honest with myself, which I always try to do, I would say that it feels much more comfortable with others at Hogwarts and only slightly awkward when I'm not completely sure how to respond.

Only, my alias, the very shy innocent Nico di Angelo, did know how to respond.

It feels weird pretending to be someone else. Really. On one hand, it's obviously just me acting. On the other hand, it's not me and you get the feel of it after awhile.

Once I reached my dorm, the first thing that caught my eye was the blue scarf that Reyna had handed me seconds before the gods took me away, lying carelessly across my bed. It made me wonder how the war was going.

Knowing them, it would take the seven almost a month to get to Greece. One of the things that annoyed me was how the gods could obviously send people places very easily but they didn't bother to do that with the demigods.

Actually, it was fine by me. Hogwarts was just so much easier and all, nobody would judge me on my parentage or anything. Being around Jason was too nerve-wracking now. Admittedly, it hadn't been that bad when we had started out our mission in Dalmatia, Jason had been a pretty different partner than what I'm used to, but now I'm too worried I'll say something wrong and provoke him into spilling my secret.

Even though I'm pretty close to believing that when he says I can trust him, he means it.

But I'm not quite ready to go that far yet.

After being there for awhile, I decided I really needed to DO something. Then a thought struck me.

Draco had explained to me about where it was but no way was I going to be able to find it alone. Luckily, I only needed one word.

"Seventh floor." I told Lavender, who happily obliged.