Author Note: A crossover I had started awhile back. It is a Next Generation and Harry Potter one set during the events of the episode Transfigurations and during their redone 7th year. Harry and Hermione. As usual I own neither property, I have no idea how this got here and I disavow any knowledge of this. Your mileage may vary and see a doctor if you develop a rash.

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It was approaching Halloween of their redone seventh year and the castle was going to hold a fancy dress ball for the feast. Harry sighed in resignation as at least it was better than some of the previous years events. Hermione had said she would make arrangements for his costume and hers. Ron laughed and joked with Harry that he was going to wind up dressed as her favorite book character.

The day of the Halloween feast arrived and Hermione handed him a large package, "Here Harry I'm sure you can figure out how to put it on." She said with a grin as she went up to her dorm. Ginny shook her head with a shrug when Harry and Ron looked at it.

Harry and Ron went up to their dorm to prepare. Harry opened the package then laughed pulling out a goldish green long sleeved satin velour shirt with 3 gold braid strips, solid, broken, and solid on each cuff. A gold chevron with a stylistic star in the middle of it with a black collar that had a pointed V shape in the center of the neck. Long black trousers with flared cuffs and calf high zip up boots completed his ensemble.

"What kind of weird pajamas are those?"

"They come from a muggle television show Hermione's dad loves."

"I thought he liked something about a guy flying around in a blue phone booth?" Ron asked in confusion.

"Yeah he likes Doctor Who too. But he likes a lot of science fiction." Harry said changing his clothes.

"Well okay." Ron said sitting on his bed.

"So what are you going as, a hungry teenager?"

"Ha ha. No. I don't have a costume." Ron glumly sighed.

Harry considered for a moment then took a glass on his nightstand transfigured it into a pair of black rimmed spectacles and handed them to Ron. Transfiguring Ron's clothes a bit and putting a lightning bolt scar on his forehead Harry grinned. "There now you can go as me and I'll go as the heroic captain."

Ron put the glasses on and laughed. "Great. Good thing we're not using poly-juice I'd hate to have Lavender wonder why you were hitting on her."
"I'd be more afraid of Hermione wondering why I was hitting on Lavender." Harry confessed with a grin.

"Good point." Ron earnestly said.

...

The two of them were waiting for their girlfriends to come down. Ginny came down wearing a princess dress with a small tiara. Neville dressed as Dracula took her arm and went off. Lavender came down wrapped in bandages tightly as a mummy.

"OH Ron. Going as Harry. This is going to be fun." Lavender said taking his arm.

"You're a bit scandalously dressed." Ron said happily.

"Well maybe later I'll let you unwrap me."

"Well wingardium my leviosa." Ron chuckled happily as they exchanged a few kisses. Harry sighed as Hermione came down the stairs. She was wearing a blue tunic with a black collar that came down to a miniskirt. Tight high cut shorts in a matching shade of sky blue with long black tights going into boots like Harry's.

"Blimey Hermione. I can see your knickers!" Ron exclaimed.

"No Ron. Contrary to popular belief these are not my knickers, my knickers are under these shorts." She stated in her educational tone.

"Right okay." He took Lavender's hand and the four of them began to move off.

Entering the Great Hall Harry looked around and saw that it was mostly the muggle-borns or those who were friends with muggle-borns who were really getting into it. Luna was wearing a short green dress with large fairy wings charmed onto her back that sparkled and glittered. Susan Bones was a Greek or Roman goddess and Hannah Abbot was an angel.

"Well captain. I do believe that the life forms on this planet are quite eclectic." Hermione intoned waving the little salt shaker looking device around.

"Yes indeed commander. We should probably be careful. I wonder which ones would like to help me get my shirt off?" He joked.
"Ahh you paid attention to my stripes." Hermione happily said. "And I think its your crew's first duty to take care of their captain."

Putting his arm around her waist he leaned in to whisper, "Of course I'll pay attention to your..stripes."

She chortled and play slapped him on the chest. A moment later the two of them felt a strange tingle shiver through them. Everything glowed silvery white and the Great Hall vanished.

...

Ensign Wesley Crusher was in the engineering lab on deck 15 that he had been permitted to set up his experiment within. He activated a test beam only to see the energy levels fluctuate. Resetting the power flow he saw the beam focus jump from the lab on deck 36 that was his target to an unknown location. Before he could shut the system down two beings suddenly appeared on the emitter platform.

The male and female that appeared looked around. Both of them drawing some long sticks and pointing them at him caused Wesley to become confused. They were wearing old style Starfleet uniforms he noticed.

"Where are we and who are you?" The male demanded.

"I'm Ensign Wesley Crusher, you're on board the Enterprise."

The female looked shocked and then made a strange noise that sounded suspiciously like "SQUEEE! Harry! We are on the Enterprise. Somehow we wound up in the TV SHOW!"

"Mione calm down. This is probably an illusion or delusion from a poison Malfoy slipped into our pumpkin juice."
"You have a real great way of taking the fun out of things." She said with a frown.

"Uh you guys look. I'm sorry I didn't mean to beam you here."

"Yeah sure. As soon as we figure out where here is I'll let you know if I forgive you." Harry grumped.

"I told you Harry. We're on the Enterprise. NCC-1701-D Galaxy Class." The female gushed Wesley observed.

"Yeah okay." Harry grunted.
"So what are you doing?" The girl named Mione asked putting her stick back into her belt and turning to Wesley with a smile asked.

"I was working on a hyper-phasic induction subspace transporter system that operates on a deeper frequency strata that we can reach with a interspatial subspace differential pulse." The boy in the red jumpsuit said. Harry noticed he was not much older than himself. The strange word soup he spouted though made Harry's head swim.

"What was all that?"

"That was techno-babble Harry." Hermione gushed. "Amazing. And you actually understood what all of that meant?" She had turned back to Wesley.

There was a tweedle noise that caused Wesley to tap a large gold badge on his chest, "Crusher here."
"Wesley, we're ready for you to transport the test target there. Is something wrong?"
"Uh yeah Geordi. I have two people here. They're wearing old style Starfleet uniforms. Maybe you and Commander Data should come here please."

"You beamed two people here? I thought that thing went through subspace not time?"

"I'm not sure. I need to go back over the system records."

"Right, Data and I'll be right there. Don't let them go anywhere."

"Sure thing. Crusher out." He said tapping the badge again.

"So just who are you guys?"

"I'm Hermione Potter and this is my husband Harry Potter." she said pointing to Harry who had lowered but not put away his wand.

"Oh okay."

"So That's Commander La Forge and Data coming here?"

"Yeah you sure seem to know a lot about the people on this ship." Wesley asked suspiciously.
"Oh you have no idea how much I know." She said grinning.

"Mione can I talk to you for a moment?" Harry asked taking her arm and dragging her off to the side of the room. "Just what are you doing?"

"Sorry. I'm geeking out. You're right I need to calm down. But Harry didn't you feel that shift? Reach out and feel the magic. It feels different. I really think we are not back home."

"Okay. So somehow we got brought into this TV Show. Now, What? How do we get back home?"

"Well they usually have any problems resolved by the end credits so we just play along and they'll get it figured out." She said with a smile. "They follow a pretty standard formula."
"I know that. I just don't like this series." He hissed, "The one with the space station and the shapeshifter that just came out is much better. At least he doesn't bore the enemy to death."

Hermione sighed, "Okay. Fine, just let's keep the fact we have magic to ourselves. They usually don't like energy beings."

"Well yeah, every time they encounter them they're trying to take over the ship or something bad."

"Exactly, so let's keep that a secret." Hermione agreed.

Harry nodded his head but turned when the swoosh of the doors let two figures in. A shorter dark skinned male with a gold and silver band over his eyes and a tall slender male being with pale goldish white skin and yellow eyes. Both wore the gold color of command Harry at least recognized. He had to admit this was not his favorite show as he found it too boring. The one with the hologram and the cat was funnier. The on

"So Wes what happened?"

"I don't know. There was a power surge and the beam targeting scanner went off on a tangent. Next thing I know it had locked onto these two and brought them here."
"Well okay." The engineer La Forge nodded then turned to Harry and Hermione. "Sorry about this. I'm Commander La Forge. You can call me Geordi. This is Data."
Hermione made that squee noise again. "Oh my god yes. Hello. Wow. So you do look goldish colored." She almost reached out to touch Data but stopped.
La Forge looked to Data who was studying the two magicals intently. "I am sorry but I do not understand your excitement at meeting us."

"No problem Data. Could we see the Captain and explain everything at once. Rather than dragging it out." Hermione smiled. "Plus I bet Dr Crusher would like to scan us."

La Forge nodded, "Yeah that might be better." He tapped the badge on his chest "La Forge to bridge."

"Bridge Riker here." came out of thin air.

"Commander, Wesley's experiment went a bit wonky and we have two new guests. They were wanting to explain everything to the captain."

"Do they seem hostile."

"Far from it, the young lady seems quite excited to be here." La Forge said seeing Hermione's grin.

"Alright. Bring them to the Observation Lounge. Riker out."

La Forge nodded, "Okay Wes put the device into safe mode and then let's take our guests up to meet the captain."

"I already safed the system and de-powered the emitter coils."

"Very efficient Wesley. You are doing quite well with your research protocols." Data Complimented the teen.

...

Entering the bridge Harry looked around. He saw Picard, Worf, Riker and Troi standing up and heading for the door at the back of the bridge. They looked at him and Hermione with varied expressions. Picard studied them, Riker looked at them in amused curiosity, Worf with a scowl, and Troi with polite friendliness. He felt his occlumancy shields get pinged briefly when she looked at him.

A tall dark red haired woman wearing blue came in from the turbo lift behind them. Joining their procession. "Hello. You must be our new guests."

"Yes ma'am. I'm Harry Potter."

"I'm Beverly Crusher, I'm the doctor here." She said with a bright smile.

Harry nodded as they entered the observation lounge. Looking out the windows at the stars that were moving by he took a shuddering breath. This was not happening. It had to be an illusion or some kind of dream. Hermione took his hand and led him to a seat, she put their backs to the window and looked at the wall with the ship sculptures sticking out of the wall opposite them.

"Welcome aboard the Enterprise. I'm Captain Jean-luc Picard."
"I'm Hermione Potter and this is my husband Harry."

"So Wesley what happened?" the captain asked after a brief nod of acknowledgment.

"I was running a test of the new transporter system I had designed and it accidentally brought them aboard from somewhere." he explained calmly, though underneath he was sweating nervously.
"Where exactly did you come from?" Riker asked politely looking at the two teens.

"Uh. Well its kinda complicated but we came from Hogwart's great hall. We were having a fancy dress party when your beam struck us." Hermione replied. Harry was content to let her answer since she seemed to know what was going on, or at least had a better handle on it.

"Hogwart's? What is that." Worf growled, "It sounds highly fictional."

Hermione couldn't help giggling at that. Harry rolled his eyes in resignation.

Troi smiled "Something amuses you about that?"
"Yes. Sorry. You see where we come from you are all fictional, you're characters on a television show." Hermione said when she stopped giggling and composed herself.

Riker grinned , "I don't feel very fictional."

"Oh I guess this is sort of like the world as myth theory." Hermione said by way of explanation..

"World as myth?" Picard asked for clarification.

Data spoke "The World as myth was postulated by a science fiction author on Earth by the name of Heinlein. It supposes that all fictional universes are equally real and, moreover, are accessible to one another via interdimensional travel. That there is a universe in which Dracula, Dixon Hill or even the works of Shakespeare actually occurred."

"Yeah my dad is a real big science fiction geek. An entire shelf section in the library is taken up by all sorts of works. He has things from the really classical stuff like Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Verne to some of the newer stuff. Then there's the video collection of movies and TV shows. So I grew up watching them with him and as I love books. I've read all of them in his collection although dad likes Clarke a bit more than Heinlein he's my favorite author." Hermione explained in one breath.
Everyone looked at her before Worf huffed, "How do you do that without breathing?"
"Trust me. We've been trying to figure that out since we met her." Harry flatly stated.

"Well then since you are not in Starfleet what exactly do you do?" Picard asked.

"We're students at Hogwarts school." Harry said quickly.

"Students? And you're already married." Troi seemed to be surprised.

"Uh its a bit complicated." Harry said with a scowl. "How soon do you think you can reverse this and get us back home?"
"Wesley, Mr La Forge?" The captain looked at them.

"Uh I'm not entirely certain how I got them here sir, much less how to get them back." Wesley reluctantly admitted.

"Why don't you try reversing the polarity." Hermione chuckled.

The crew turned to look at her causing Hermione to slump in her seat a bit, "Uh sorry running joke."

"Oh. So that was not an actual suggestion?" Data politely inquired.

"No on Doctor Who he's always reversing the polarity of things to solve problems."

"Doctor Who?" Beverly asked.

"Exactly." Hermione nodded.

"Judging by your vocal inflection and facial expression that was a joke?" Data inquired.

"Yes. A very lame one. Her dad would be so proud." Harry sighed.

"Well I am a geek like my father before me." Hermione beamed in pride.

Harry sighed, "Oh good grief. Why can't I ever have a normal Halloween?" He slumped his head on the table.

"That is something that is not within our reference databases." Data replied.

"So as it seems you are not from our dimension. Can you give us any further information about your home so we may determine where you belong?" Picard returned the focus on their guests.

"Well Hogwarts is in Scotland and the year is 1997 and uh. Well I guess that's about it that would really mean anything to you." Hermione explained.

"Thank you. Now Deanna could you escort our guests to quarters on deck 7? I need to talk to everyone else about our upcoming exploration of the Zeta Gellis Cluster."

"Of course captain." the demure black haired woman said rising.

...

Once Deanna and the teens had stepped out, Picard frowned.

"Beverly what do you think of our guests?"
Taking her tricorder out of her lap she looked at the results. "Scans indicate that aside from his eyesight the two of them are in perfect health. Better than perfect, although there is a strange energy field permeating them. I'll have to get them to sickbay to do any in depth scans to know more."

"Could they be some kind of energy being, cousins of the Q. Lord knows there are plenty of energy beings in the galaxy." Riker asked tersely.

"I'm not sure. The energy readings are not the same. I'm not sure how to explain it but they seem to be humans, physically fit humans. They just have a strange energy field about them." The doctor explained.

"Threat assessment Mr Worf?"

"Unknown sir. If they are like the Q then there is nothing we can do about it. Otherwise they appear to be normal human teenagers. If so we should be able to handle them without issue." He said in a tone of voice that sounded like he wanted to test that theory.

"This Hogwarts place. Does it show up in any database?" Picard looked at Data.

Data's eyes rapidly flickered back and forth before he said, "No sir. Although much information from Earth's history was lost between the Eugenics wars and World War three."

"Very well. Until they pose a direct threat to the vessel or our mission we will treat them as guests. Mr LaForge I want you and Data to assist Mr Crusher in determining what happened to bring them here. More importantly I want to know how to send them back."

The three nodded in agreement, "We'll do all we can." Engineer LaForge declared as they headed out.

...

Arriving in their quarters on Deck Seven Deanna was about to explain things when Hermione went to the replicator and asked for a cup of tea.

"I see you are familiar with the operations of the ship systems."

"Yes very." Hermione said distractedly. "I've seen most of the episodes. Father videotapes them so I can watch them over break."

"So are we going to be prisoners here or can we go to the places like Ten Forward or the Holodeck?" Harry asked.

"You are our guests. So you can visit any public part of the ship." Deanna said. She was slightly put out by their apparent knowledge and briefly wondered what else they knew.

"Okay good." Harry said.

"Zeta Gellis. Why does that sound familiar to me." Hermione was talking to herself as she paced drinking her tea. "I know its not a real star so it must be one of the ones they made up for the show."
"Does she do that often?" Deanna asked referring to Hermione's constant monologue under her breath.

"When she has a problem to work out yes." Harry said.

"Oh. That is a good way to do it I suppose." Deanna asked.

Harry looked at Deanna then asked, "You're the mind reader aren't you?"

"She's only a half-Betazed Harry. She is an empath, and the ship's counselor." hermioen said without looking off handedly.
"Right okay." Harry nodded.

"You seem to know quite a bit about myself. Perhaps you could tell me more about yourselves?" Deanna probed. She could sense Harry was on edge and that Hermione was calmer than she had been but was still excited.

"There isn't really much to tell. We're students at Hogwarts and would like to get back there." Harry said with a shrug.

"Maybe you could tell me what's been going on so I can figure out which season this is." Hermione asked, "When did Q appear this year?"

Deanna chuckled, "When did Q appear? You act like he appears regularly."
"Well they brought him back each year because he was the best character on the show." harry said.

Hermione elbowed harry as she came to stand beside him. "Forgive my husband he's not a big fan of your series. He likes The Original and Deep Space Nine better."
"Well that and I prefer Star Wars overall. Much cleaner plot line. Plus I like the Jedi, they're almost like space wizards." He said with a wink at Hermione.

Hermione smiled back at him sarcastically, "Still though Q did usually make at least one appearance in each season as he was a rather popular character."

"Well yes he did show up this year. He was briefly kicked out of the continuum and we had to deal with the situation as he had requested sanctuary here."
Hermione's mouth dropped open as she realized something. "This is third season. You had a moon that was falling out of orbit and he showed up."

"Yes that was what happened." Deanna said with a frown. Obviously she did know quite a lot more than she was telling.

"Oh I just figured it out. Zeta Gellis was the star cluster where you found John Doe. I hated that episode, no wonder I didn't remember it at first. It was an incredibly weak and annoying one." Hermione declared throwing her hands up.

"You know what's going to happen?" Deanna had been overwhelmed almost by the wave of excitement and triumph when Hermione figured out the solution.

"Yes. You guys wander around for about month in the star cluster and find this crashed ship with an alien that is having these energy surges and hes evolving into an energy being but the people back on his home-world are trying to prevent that because they are scared about it." Hermione quickly explained.

Harry snorted, "Was that one of the ones with the overpowered aliens that the ship was helpless against?"

Hermione nodded, "Sadly yes. It was not a very strong episode."

Deanna frowned slightly, "So there will be a threat to the ship?"

"Yeah about a month into the exploration of the star cluster so there are some major time jumps during the episode between commercial breaks." Hermione explained.

"Well thank you for the information. As I said you're our guests so feel free to avail yourself of the public areas of the the ship." Deanna said.

"Thank you Counselor." Hermione said.

...

Deanna had gone to the captain and explained everything she had learned from Hermione.

Captain Picard sat frowning for several long moments before he said, "And you are certain she believes this to be real?"

"Yes sir. She had a great sense of accomplishment when she realized which 'episode' were were in."

Picard grunted in amusement as he said, "And there is no indication these are some of Q's friends or another set of trickster beings wanting to play a game with us?"

Deanna shook her head, "No sir. If anything the boy seems to be quite put out that they are here."

Sighing Picard leaned back in his chair with a thoughtful expression, "We shall proceed with the mission. Although her knowledge of events is troubling I will not alter our plans on vague suspicions."

"I understand sir. Do you want me to observe them to learn more?" She asked.

Picard shook his head, "No. Not directly. Data and Geordi will be interacting with them so I will pass along orders for them to report anything to you as well."

Deanna nodded before leaving to resume her other duties. She had a session with barclay to deal with along with bridge duty.

…...

"Okay it seems like your beam jumped over several quantum realities Wes. It could have picked them up from any of them." LaForge said reading the data files.

"Perhaps if we scanned them we would determine their quantum signature and then compare it to the ones the beam jumped over." Data suggested.

"Yeah. Although I wonder with that energy field in them what it'll show." Wesley pondered.

"That is a problem to consider. Although the energy might help us determine which quantum universe they came from." Data pointed out.

"They don't seem to like to share too much information about themselves. Wonder how they'll react to a request to be scanned."
"As the female seems to find my structure quite interesting perhaps I should ask them." Data said.

"Good idea Data. Wes and I will keep working on this."

Data turned and left with a curt nod.

"Geordi what do you think happened?" Wesley asked worriedly, "Did I do something wrong?"
"Nah. I don't think you did anything wrong. We're just working with quantum level energies and strange things happen when you're working around those energy levels." Geordi comforted Wesley.

Wesley shook his head, "I still feel weird pulling those people out of their home. Where ever that was."

"We'll get them back. And if not they seem like the sort that will adapt well enough." Geordi said with a chuckle.

…...

Hermione had changed outfits into a current gold and black jumpsuit. She was unable to convince the replicator to give her the appropriate uniform pips or communicator but otherwise was accurate.

Harry remained in his original series uniform, refusing to put on the pajamas as he called them.

"Well maybe if you put them on we can work on taking them off of you." Hermione teased, "Besides I think this flatters my figure pretty well, so I'd like to see you in one."
Harry smirked and approached her, putting his arms around her waist he was leaning in to kiss her when the door tweedled.

"Who is it." Hermione asked as she put her fingers over Harry's lips causing him to grumble in an annoyed mutter.

"Lt Data is located outside." The computer replied.

"Well that's different from the show." Hermione observed. "Come in." She said louder though.

The doors slid open allowing the golden skinned android to enter. He saw harry holding Hermione and stopped, "My apologies. I did not mean to interrupt."

"No. Its fine. You're just worse than Ron when it comes to cock-blocking." Harry grumbled throwing himself in a nearby chair.

Data tilted his head then said, "Ah. You were going to attempt to engage in sexual relations before I interrupted you. My apologies. However we have been going over the transporter logs and determined that there are several possible quantum realities that you could have come from. We need to perform a quantum scan of yourselves to determine which one is your home."
Harry jumped up, "Alright. Lets go do this."

Hermione just laughed as they followed Data to sickbay.

...

On the bridge Worf was standing at tactical running normal scans of nearby space, Commander Riker was sitting in the center seat while two ensigns sat at Conn and Ops in front of him. Captain Picard was in his Ready Room just a few steps away from the bridge.

Riker stretched in the command chair as he relaxed. He gazed around the bridge for the hundredth time for anything abnormal. Weasley's experiment had already thrown a curve into what had supposed to be a quiet uneventful stellar survey.

Deanna leaned over from her seat beside the command chair to say softly, "Relax Will. Everyone is doing their jobs and things are going well."

Riker leaned closer to her with a smirk, "I know. But I'm doing my job by not relaxing." He chuckled. He knew she would feel his amused happiness at being this close to her and the view down her blue dress neckline was a pleasant distraction form the starfield displayed on the main viewscreen.

She rolled her eyes, with a bemused smile though, before saying, "You are incorrigible Commander."
"That is the price one must pay for the loneliness of command." He mock sighed.

Deanna chuckled as she knew Will Riker was far from lonely.

Worf from his position above and behind the command center shook his head at the way the Commander and counselor were flirting. He focused on his scanner displays thinking that if this were a Klingon ship the two of them would have already been going to one of their quarters, assuming they did not just mate here in front of everyone. Klingons preferring the more direct approach when it came to mating instead of the long drawn out dance humans seemed to enjoy.

He saw a display change slightly which drew his thoughts back into the moment. Focusing the sensors on that distant corner of space he scowled at the readings. He cross-referenced them with the ship identification database to no avail as the vessel the scanners where detecting had no correlation in their database.

"Commander. Long range sensors are detecting an unknown vessel shadowing our course. Configuration does not match anything in our database." Worf called out in his deep voice.

Riker and Deanna immediately composed themselves into professional officers, "Any threat to us?" Riker called out.

"Not at this time. Vessel appears to be a small shuttle sized craft. Current energy readings do not indicate weapons systems." Worf reported. "They are at the extreme edge of our sensors though."
Riker nodded as he thought for a moment, "Alright. Keep an eye on them and report if anything changes. They may just be locals out for a Sunday drive."

Work grunted, "Aye Commander."
Riker leaned back with a frown, "This is why my job is not to relax." He muttered.

Deanna nodded as she had felt the spike of Riker's concern for the ship and people aboard it when Worf had called out. The crew maintained their vigil as the ship flew smoothly onward.

...

"Why are we doing this in sickbay and not the Quantum engineering lab?" Hermione asked.

"You are very familiar with the workings of this vessel." Data countered with a comment that did not answer her question.

"Yeah I know. My dad is a big geek for science fiction and has discovered Usenet." She said, "You didn't answer my question."

"The quantum engineering lab sensors while more powerful could have caused some genetic damage or other physical injury to you. Dr Crusher felt that the medical sensors in sickbay would be far more delicate. Especially for a fertile female." The android replied. "Now please tell me what a Usenet is?"

Hermione raised her eyebrow, "Really Data? You've quantum scanned a lot of life forms without causing genetic damage why now? Be truthful its very bad to be caught lying.

Turning to Dr Crusher who had just entered the lab Data asked, "Is it time for a colorful metaphor doctor?"

Beverly chuckled, "You're rather smart."
"I have the highest scores in our school for all of my classes." Hermione proudly said, "Now if you do not mind I do not appreciate being lied to and neither does my husband."
"Very well. The captain wants me to scan you to ensure you are completely human. I detected a strange energy field and he is concerned by that."
"I told you they don't like energy beings." Harry said leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.

"Well can you really blame them Harry. From Trelane, to Q to the Organians they have not had the best of experiences." Hermione pointed out. Turning back to the doctor she smiled, "Since you were honest with me I will be honest with you. My husband and I are normal humans we just possess the ability to channel magic."

"Magic?" Data asked.

"Hey wasn't there one of the cartoons where they encountered a space wizard?" Harry asked.

Hermione thought for a moment but data had already accessed the database. "On Stardate 1254.4 Captain Kirk's Enterprise encountered a subspace distortion that caused them to enter an alternate universe. One where the rules of physics and reality were highly malleable."
"Right like I thought." Harry nodded.

"So you're familiar with the concept of magic." Hermione stated.

"Magic has been found to be merely an ability to manipulate the laws of physics to serve the needs of the being using it." Data stated.

"Right. Like I said, space wizards." harry said.

Hermione interrupted Data, "My husband is not fond of long explanations. He tends to favor Occam's razor to solve most problems."

Beverly smiled politely as Data closed his mouth and seemed to accept that explanation, "Still I'd like to examine you in more detail just for our records."
"Plus we may ascertain your quantum signature to speed to process of returning you to your home-world." Data stated.

"I'm all for that." Harry said pushing off of the wall and leaping onto the bio-bed. "Scan away my dear doctor."

…...

Beverly sat across from the captain in his ready room next to Commander Riker. The two men listened as she discussed her findings.

"So they are exactly what they claim to be. Humans with the ability to channel an energy field they call magic."

"They can still do that aboard the ship?" Riker asked.

Beverly nodded, "They turned a tricorder into a kitten then turned it back.

"A kitten? An actual living kitten?" Riker frowned.

"Yes and no. Mrs. Potter described it as essentially a simulation of a life form. It was meat and would bleed but it was not alive in the sense of vital essences. Whatever that means."

"What did it register as on the scanners?" Picard asked.

"As a living cat. In many ways the process looked like what the replicator does according to Data."

Picard nodded, "So if we have to we should be able to defend against them?"

"Probably. They may not have been showing their true power because that barely made a blip on her energy levels."

"What about the boy?" Riker wanted to know.

Beverly shrugged, "He did not perform any magic tricks so I have no idea. He seems to want to go home and is focused on that."

"Well hopefully we can expedite that for them." Picard said.

"So is there any word on our mystery ship?" Beverly asked.

Riker shook his head, "No they are at the limits of our sensors. A scout class or about the same size. Readings are not strong enough to give a report on what sort of life forms are onboard. Engine readings do not match anything in our databases."

Beverly frowned, "So we could be facing a first contact?"

"Its entirely possible."

"I'll make sure the bio-protocols are online." Beverly said standing, "And Will, try not to get involved in a relationship until I at least determine where they keep their genitals." She winked at him before leaving as Will chuckled.

"I'm not that bad." Riker protested.

Picard smirked at his first officer, "You do have an interesting interpretation of first contact Commander."

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jadesabrexiv: True indeed. Harry may not have wound up with the Dursleys but he is still having that saving people thing and a sense of rightness that may be even stronger due to Sirius and Remus teaching him. Thanks for the compliment as I am trying to make things make sense, at least in the story. Reality on the other hand...On the story note though I do have this as a work in progress on the hard drive. Along with several others.

Dennisud: It is good he made friends early indeed. As for wizard culture and other things each of the adults in his life take turns teaching him various things they are all good at or involved in. Including Dumbledore and McGonnagal. With the addition of Hermione she will join the group along with Neville and Luna. As for Andromeda we shall see her soon.

OfficerDonNZ: Thank you. Yes I try to change the culture of the magical world just a bit for each story. This one they are more insular and traditional, out of touch with the muggle world more. Due to fear-mongering, misunderstandings and long memories. Longer lifespans lead to old events being remembered a lot better than us mayflies by comparison who are already forgetting events that happened in the eighties. Another reason muggle-borns have such a hard time as they come in with all sorts of strange ideas and concepts. Which Sirius jumped on to rebel against his parents then discovered he liked. As for Ginny in the early books and movies she was painfully shy and unable to show any personality other than a quiet shadow. The one in the story is going to be the same, especially with such an outgoing and forceful mother. Eventually she'll get a personality. I'm just not sure what though.

Katmom: Thanks. Glad you liked it.

TimeKeeper: Glad you enjoy. Yeah definitely trying to keep it very slow and age appropriate though. Although they are going to remain close and it'll be a Harmony only this time around. (Luna will probably wind up with Neville I think as of right now.)