That night at dinner, the students were shocked to see two new faces, in some weird almost medieval knight garb at the staff table. Whispers abound, until someone spotted the scar on Harry's head, something he had never bothered trying to hide before.

Its Harry Potter!, one young 2nd year Ravenclaw cried.

Whispers rose another factor of volume at that point, no one knew about the meeting with the ship, as it occurred during classes, and the students had not been involved, just the adults who were seeking refuge in the castle to avoid the reign of Voldemort. Given that there were more adults, and children that were not yet of school age than actual students, that had not been an easy feat, but Dumbledore simply called them together and told them that they would be introduced at dinner and not to stay anything, and those assembled trusted Dumbledore, so no word was leaked.

At the end of the feat a clearing of a throat, followed by Dumbledore's deep voice quieted the rabble. 'We have a new student and a guest, please everyone knows about the night that Voldemort killed Harry Potter's Parents, and was in turn disembodied himself. As foretold, Harry Potter, has returned to save us! Also with him is his guardian, Librarian Captain Argus, of the Dark Angels.'

No pressure there, Harry thought, as he rose, the students finally seen the full measure of Harry Potter, and were not left wanting. Being almost seven foot tall, and moving with the ease and grace of a blooded warrior, even if his body itself was invisible under the scout armor. It was plain to see that this was not a man to mess with. A few of the females, esp one Ginny Weasley, dreamed of snagging the gBoy-who-livedh as a boy friend, or even a husband. Little did she know she would have the chance, not much of one, but a chance nevertheless.

Hermione Granger frowned, she might not have been the most popular girl in Hogwarts, but figured this man was a problem, one most likely to be dumped in her lap. As there is no way anyone with a brain would place him in the Hufflepuff head boy's care, he might be a genius when it comes to theory, and even a mildly powerful wizard, but he was even worse than she is at social skills, and she had honestly tried hard the last few years.

After a few more simple announcements, including one not to crowd or harass Harry with questions and such, Dinner was dismissed. Minerva walked to the Gryffindor table and asked for Ginny and Hermione to follow her. Ginny complained she had Perfect round just after dinner, and Hermione said not to worry that the Head Boy would take her place, and tapped her badge to summon him.

Ten minutes later they were in the Library, Sitting in a corner, speaking softly to each other, Harry and Argus, sat waiting. Ginny's heart went aflutter, and Hermione just knew it was coming. Dumbledore entered just after they did and walked over to Harry and Argus, waving Ginny and Hermione to follow.

'Harry Potter, this is Hermione Granger, our Head Girl this year and our top student, also with her is Ginny Weasley, one of the top students of her own year', Dumbledore introduced.

Harry rose, formal introductions were common when Space Marines meet with other chapters, or even other Imperial forces, and the protocol was the same. 'Greetings, I understand you are to be my tutors when I need help with instruction?' While Hermione was nonpulsed, Ginny was estatic, this was her chance to spend time with the Boy-who-lived and maybe snag him!

I have taken the liberty of ordering all the first year text books to be delivered in the morning, for tonight, I felt it would be wise for you to just get a tour of the castle, and meet some students your own age. Dumbledore's plan was to see that he interacted with people his own age, and hopefully he would want to stay and maybe take a wife... Little did he know that Argus had been watching and listening into Dumbledore's mind, and let out a silent laugh at that thought, a Space Marine take a wife?

A tour would be pleasant, and the company seem adequate. Harry stated, Hermione looked at Minerva and a shake of her head, seemed to confirm that she could not get out of this duty, so she sighed, 'I would love to show you around, would you like to see the rest of the Library first?'

Hermione of course, was in her element, the Library, and talked non stop for 20 minutes, until she realized, that Harry had not spoken a word. 'Harry, are you even listening?'

'Yes, I am, however I do have some questions if you don't mind?', Harry seemed puzzled at something.

'Sure, ask away I will try to answer anything you want to know about.'

'I am pretty sure that this library is not the only stop on this tour, is there other parts of the school we will see?', Harry asked, Hermione blushed hard, turning almost the same shade as Ginny's hair. Ginny meanwhile, was still almost frozen in shock, this was the legendary Harry Potter.

'Of course, forgive me, I tend to spend a lot of my time in here, and love this library, as if you could not tell, shall we start with Gryindor Tower? Its one of the student dorms'. Still flushed beat red, Hermione looks up at Harry, hoping she had not just blown he assignment. Harry smirked happily.

After a stroll thru the castle, having seen the Gryffindor tower, a few classrooms, Hermione sent Ginny to her dorm, and offered to show Harry her common room, in the Head Girl's suite in Gryindor Tower.

He gladly accepted, while he was not tired, he did have a good bit to assimilate, and try to understand.

Harry was impressed by the collection of books present in Hermione's Common room, 'Thats nothing Harry, those are just the books I use to help tutor whomever needs help, I kept all my textbooks, from the previous 6 years, and often bring students here to help tutor, my own personal library is mostly at my parents home, but I do have a small collection here at school in my room.'

'Might I see your collection, Hermione, I too have been known to get lost in a good book', Harry asked.

'Are you trying to get me alone in my room Harry? It will not work, no matter how famous you are, I have no interest in such frivolous things as that!' Hermione's hair seem to have a life of its own, now with a bit of eldrich wind moving it slightly.

'I dont know what you mean... oh wait, your referring to sex and reproduction, no, I have no such interests either, a Space Marine serves the Emperor, and forms no such attachments, nor ever has any such relationships, and never has children either.' Harry states, as if it was a non issue.

'You know that most of the girls in this castle have their hat set to make you their boyfriend, right?', Hermione asked.

'They might have their hat rearranged soon, if they stand in the way of my duty. You said that this was a collection of all your previous 6 years of schooling?'. Harry realized that he might have a problem, with other girls, but this one seemed to be honest in her desire not to fool around with such frivolous things, and wanted to get her back on track. 'I would like to borrow them if I could for a day or two, and take them back to my ship for processing?'

'Processing? Whats that?', asked a slightly worried for her books, and all too curious Hermione.

'Just scanning them into the computer so that they can be referenced quickly thru my neural link. Also the computer can then download the information to me while I sleethen just store them on the Rock, thats what Master Captain Argus, is doing right now, sorting thru some of the Chapter's Library to see if anything old can be made useful again.' Harry stated.

'I suppose I can loan you the books, but I have a request to make. This ship of yours, could I see it?'

'Well, that is not normally allowed because your not a member of any of the Imperial forces, nor are you a Imperial refuge. But let me ask, and see what the Captain and the Ship's Master think'.

Harry spent a few minutes talking to a few people on his comm, and it seemed to be going well, except for one time when Harry seemed to get a bit frustrated, and then it all seemed to work out and he turned back to Hermione, who was puzzled, she know what a cell phone was, and was partly used to hearing only one side of a phone conversation, but this was strange, Harry used no handset and spoke in a language that while sounding familiar, was totally unknown to her.

'Yes, we can go to the ship, and you can see the public parts of the ship, but not the engine room or the bridge, the Ship's Master said that those parts of the ship are totally off limits to you.'

Harry seemed to pause, 'We can go now, if your not doing anything, we will be back before sunrise local time if you want or we can return earlier.' Harry walked over to the bookcase, and then asked, 'Which book should I start with?'

'Top shelf left side, is first year material, 2nd year is 2nd shelf, and so on, please help yourself, I can even carry them all for you in my book bag. I finally figured out the charms to make it much larger inside than on the outside, and still weigh little.'

Hermione stepped into her bedroom for a moment and returned with a leather backpack, of a simple make, no external pockets, and a simple buckle.

'Here start handing me those books, I cannot wait to see your ship, I wonder if I should ask
McGonagall...' Hermione said trailing off. 'I do not know if your allowed out of the castle or just what your restrictions are.'

'I can come and go as I please, I plan to spend most nights on board the ship as I require medical attention once in a while to keep my implants functioning correctly'.

'Implants? Were you hurt? Did you catch something that caused you harm?'

'No, I am a Space Marine Scout, we go thru a period of about 3 years adjusting to the Geneseed that was implanted in me, as well as various implants to connect to the power armor I will wear when I become a full Marine. I have only been implanted about a year, the medical side is mostly done, its now a matter of allowing the Geneseed to do its work and finish modifying my body to the full potential of a Marine. After that is done, we can become full Marines, and get our full Power Armor, but most Scouts spend 10 to 20 years in the Scout company, to learn all the battle tactics and get enough field experience to be effective in our duty to the Emperor.'

'Ten to Twenty years? But That would mean you only have another 20 years of useful life to serve, and then you would be too old to be fighting. It seems a waste.'

'Oh no, we live to be about 200 years old and fight until the day we die, most however give the ultimate gift to the Emperor, that is of course, to die fighting for his cause.'

A few hours later, finds the two in the Library on the Cruiser in orbit. Hermione was very VERY upset to find out the books were mostly in Terra, and to her it looked more like a cross between Chinese characters, and Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Harry's download of the English language now seemed complete, and he was able to unlink himself from the computer and talk to her directly. He had a half dozen Tech Servitors scanning all the books, and the translations were well underway for those already scanned. Harry figured that they should be able to return the books to Hermione in the morning, before classes start, and the download to him should start shortly, his Neural implant, would feed him the information faster than a person, even Hermione could read it. Harry figured that it would not take him more than a week to process all the information in those books, and said so, Hermione had other thoughts.

'You have to be crazy if you think you can learn 6 years of material in just a week, not even I can read that fast, heck, just reading it does not mean you understand the material, even if you had perfect recall, it will take a lot more than that to be able to understand the theory, and even more time, to be able to practice the magic, do you even have a wand yet?' Hermione asked.

'Wand? Oh, the stick thing you use to do magic with, no I do not, but I am sure we can find the needed materials here to craft one, Might I borrow yours to see what it is made of? I promise no harm will come to it'

'Wands take weeks to craft, and are made with the finest of materials, the core of the wand comes from magical creatures, and are not easy to find and most are controlled so that only wand makers can harvest them.' Hermione paused, but then handed her wand over to Harry who ran a hand held scanner over it, and referenced a screen nearby.

Handing the wand back to her he starts, 'Hmm...in your measurements, 10 and three quarters inches of Vinewood, and some large reptile heart tissue, I can make up one in a couple of hours, excuse me a second.' Harry then turns to a Tech Servitor, and issues some commands in Terran, which sounds familiar to Hermione but still gibberish.

'Harry you cannot just make a wand, it takes years and years of training to make a wand, and besides each wizard has to have a wand choose them. It will take a trip to Ollivander's to get you a proper wand. I do not know when Dumbledore plans on getting you one, but I assume it will be soon, as you cannot learn much until you can do proper spells with a proper wand.'

At this point, Hermione stopped, as Harry had taken a small bit of plasticsteel rod, and started waving it thru the motions of the first year charms, murmuring the spells themselves under his breath, and each one he tried, with his 'wand' seemed to work. When he tried Wingardium Leviosa a servo wrench on the workbench rose gently as if on a string.

Similar power was shown as he completed the first year charms, without a hitch and started on the first year Transfiguration spells, he stopped almost at the end of the list, and looked up.

'That's all I have so far, I have no idea what you mean about needing a wand just for me, its just energy manipulation, nothing that special, I have been doing it my whole life, I just never knew what it was called, or that it was so varied in use. Mostly I use it for shielding myself or others, or for calling objects to me, before my implants, I know I used to heal a lot faster than normal. But other than that, I had no idea.'

Dumbfounded, Hermione looked at him, and for a moment could not speak, she motioned to the 'wand' that Harry used, and tried a levitation charm, to no effect. 'Its not possible, this is not a wand at all, and wandless magic is a skill that takes decades to learn'.

'Sorry Hermione, its not impossible, I have been doing it for as many years as I recall, and never knew what a wand was, nor that it was needed. Here, let me show ya.'

Harry then focused on Hermione a second and a perfect blue tinted shield formed in front of Harry and Hermione, Hermione just stood shocked to her core, this was unlike any shield she had ever seen, she was able to even walk up to it and knock on it, it was solid, like a plexiglass layer, but micro thin, and she had a feeling that a bullet would not break it.

'That shield has stopped many a rounds from Orks and Dark Eldar, and even has been able to hold off a Genestealer from attacking a Brother Dark Angel, when he was wounded too much to stand. I have no idea what it would do against a spell as thatfs a different type of energy, but it stops energy weapons just fine. I might be able to tweak it to handle spells I suppose, but I would have to work at it a bit.'

The next morning Harry and Hermione were at breakfast, when Minerva approached Harry with a schedule of classes she wanted him to attend.

'Harry, this is a mixture of First year classes, so you can learn, and one class a day with those students your age, so you can make friends among them.'

Hermione looked at her, and said, 'I think Harry just blew your schedule out of the water Ma'am, he completed all the first year course work last night on board his ship and said he should be ready to finish the 2nd year just after lunch.'

Minerva looked shocked. How, while she knew that Hermione would make a great teacher, there is no way 10 months of teaching could be completed in less than 10 hours. Something fishy was going on. 'Harry How about I see what you can do, after breakfast, I assume you used Hermione's wand last night to practice, I had planned to take you to Mr Ollivander this morning to get your wand, how about after we do that we can test to see what you can handle?'

'Sounds good to me, Ma'am, Might I ask how we will get there? If you can tell me where its at, we can take a Thunderhawk assuming its further than we can easily walk?'

'Mr. Ollivander is here in the castle, as its not safe in Diagon Alley any longer, with the Dark Lord in Control of the Ministry. Most of the shopkeepers moved either to the castle or Hogsmead, as we still control both and even with frequent attacks, they have not be able to over power the protections extended from the castle to the village.'

After Breakfast, Ginny walked up and asked when Harry's first tutoring session was to be held, she is good at charms and offered to help start on Harry's first year charms list, that evening if desired. Harry while still a disciplined Marine, still did have a bit of a prankster side that came out when not in combat. Looked over at Hermione and smiled. 'I would be honored to work with you this evening, say just after dinner?'

Hermione was not thrilled with this, but the smile on Harry's face, said he had it under control. When she had found out from Minerva that Ginny had only been included at the headmaster's insistence. She was pretty sure that someone was playing matchmaker, and giggled just a little to think what a shock she was in for. Last night many discussions had happened and one of them was what happened to a Space Marines biological need to reproduce, and the likely hood that Ginny or any other girl might 'snag a boyfriend' with Harry promised to be something to watch.

Another such discussion last night was about killing the Dark Lord, Harry could not understand why he could not just take the two squads of Marines and the Captain with him, surely they could overrun any fortress seen so far on this planet, and even if Harry had to be the one who killed the Dark Lord, The Tactical Squads could pin him down enough for Harry to get a shot with his sniper rifle.

Hermione, not knowing the full story of the Horuxes, simply said that yes, you could do that, but it would not take out all of those in power, and those in power would just pick another to lead them, and the same effective government would continue. That Harry had to bring down the Purebloods, and break their power before it would be all over.

'Kill the Dark Lord, Bomb the government stronghold, that should do it, any stragglers could be taken out by a single squad as they appear.' Was Harry's answer. But he thought, he could see the castle itself,when the Captain and crew could only see a ruin, that might be a problem.

After breakfast, Harry and Hermione (who was let out of classes for the day, as long as she kept up with her homework and class assignments), was escorted to a section of the castle that had not been used for classrooms for several hundred years, but was pressed into service to house the refuges that had poured in after the ministry fell. There seemed to be a simple Ravenclaw theme to this particular area, as if it might be an extra dorm for the Ravenclaws. Maybe at one point each year, had their own tower? Hermione seemed to think that was the case, but no one really knew.

Mr. Ollivander was introducted in a large classroom, near the top of the tower itself, his stock of wands scattered around in boxes and small shelves that had been found in various parts of the abandoned wings of the castle. He seemed to be in the process of trying to unpack even more, and organize them in a manner that only he could understand.

'Good Morning Mr. Ollivander, we have a new student for you to outfit with a wand, if you have time this morning,' Minerva spoke to get the elder man's attention.

'Certainly, Mr. Potter I presume, I had heard you were in the castle, but after all this time I was unsure if I should believe it. Miss Granger, Vine and dragon Heart string, 10 and 3/4ths inches if I recall, is it doing well, no problems I hope?'

'None sir, I polish it regularly, and take very good care of it. But we are not here for me, we are here to get Mister Potter a wand.' Said Hermione suddenly very formal in front of the ancient man.

'Quite right, quite right, now Mr. Potter, which is your wand hand?', Asked Mr. Ollivander.

'I am unsure what you mean, sir, I can shoot and write with both hands equally, its a skill a Dark Angel needs to survive.' Replied Harry.

'Difficult, difficult, oh I do love a challenge,' Mr. Ollivander, snaps his fingers and a tape measure starts taking all sorts of measurements of Harry, who knows how accurate they are, given that his Scout armor could be any thickness at all, and no one had seen him without it.

He then rumbles around in his stacks and boxes and brings forth a wand box and says. 'Give a wave and see what happens.' When Harry Waves it, and nothing happens, he tries again, with a dozen different wands, and starts to wonder if there is something going on here.

'Sir, I mean no disrespect, but I doubt you have a wand that will work for Harry,' Hermione says, to Minerva's shock, she is just about to reprimand her when Hermione continues, 'He preformed the entire set of first year spells last night, with just a ... what did you call it Harry, a plastisteel rod?'

'Yes, it was handy and the right size and shape, so I used it. I doubt if I really need a wand, as I learned to control my magic, although I did not know thatfs what it was called, long ago.' Replied Harry.

'Well, given that information, we can start with that, what is a plastisteel rod, please young Mr Potter?' Mr Ollivander asks, and Harry hands it over saying, 'This sir, a combination of cobalt steel and a polymer matrix that makes it 100 times stronger. Commonly used to reinforce all sorts of things on a space craft, that is why it was just laying around handy.'

Mr Ollivander looks at the ½ inch thick rod like it was from outer space, and he is right, it is technology beyond anything humans of this planet would even dream of for a couple more hundred years. He attempts to wave it to get a response and nothing, he tries a simple charm, and nothing. Now Mr Ollivander is a well skilled, powerful Wizard himself, and even has a touch of wandless magic himself. But can get no reaction from the rod.

'Hmm.. I wonder, as no normal wand seems to work for you... I wonder..' and then starts rummaging around in the piles of boxes, taking a long time to find the one he seeks.

'I wonder if you can get anything at all from this wand, considering its brother wand gave you that scar on your forehead...' Says Mr Ollivander, and passing Harry the wand, which throws a cascade of brilliant golden sparks across the room as Harry waves it.

'Guess you found your wand, Mr Potter, I expect great things from you, the brother to that wand has done terrible things yes, I expect you to balance that out and do great things.' Mr Ollivander says.

'Thank you for your time, Elder Ollivander.' Harry says as he salutes.

Later that evening, Harry and Ginny sitting at a table in the great Hall alone, well after dinner, going over 4th year Charms that Harry has yet to download from the ship. As he can easily do all the charms from 3rd year and before, Ginny has challenged him to read the book himself and see if he can learn them that way.

Ginny also takes the chance to get closer to Harry and wonder what he looks like without that armor on, a bit of the crush she has had on the boy-who-lived returns and she decides to be bold and kisses him.

'Excuse me Miss Weasley, but what was that?' Asks Harry confused.

'I kissed you, I want to be your girlfriend, would you like to be my boyfriend?' Ginny replies.

'Kiss? Err...hmm... oh, you mean that was one of your mating rituals, I am sorry, but a Space Marine never takes a mate, and never partakes in any mating rituals. You will have to look to others to find a mate.' Harry replies and returns to reading the book and waving his wand in more and more complex ways.

Ginny sits there stunned... No Mate, no mating rituals... Suddenly her heart broke, there would be no Mrs. Ginny Potter, no parties after Harry defeated the Dark Lord, no fame, no fancy dresses. She runs from the Great Hall, and cries the rest of the night.

A week later, Ginny and Hermione are going over the last of the 7th year Ancient runes text, of course even if its only a few weeks into term, Hermione has already read the whole book and can still help him. Harry two days ago, took the Owls and passed every one of them with an O, which of course caused Hermione to pout and not talk to him for a whole day. He is scheduled to take his NEWTS tomorrow at his own insistence, and plans to be ready, of course, that is not near enough time to study according to Hermione so she is planning to make him spend every waking moment in a book.

Ginny has come to terms with Harry's decree of celibacy, and has just sat back and tried to figure out her life again. A letter to her mother was no help, she just suggested a love potion and even included a recipe for the same. Ginny was tempted to try it. But after Rondla Vane's attempt, which got Hermione instead, leading to some very embarrassing conversations, Harry informed them that his implants and armor would filter out such things before it had time to really work on him. Magic is just a form of energy after all. He was also able to counter the one in Hermione easily enough with just a trip to the Ship's medical lab.

Surprisingly, Snape had not left the castle. Keeping his role as double agent (however everyone in the castle except Dumbledore is unsure just whose side he is really on.)

Of course the fact that Harry Potter has returned was reported to the Dark Lord, and the Dark Lord is unsure of how to handle it, esp now that Harry's return has gathered support, and people are starting to rebel against the government. Voldemort has to do something and soon.

The next day the Daily Prophet (under Voldemort's control), had a Banner headline.

The Dark Lord Challenges Harry Potter to a Duel!