Chapter 1

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Dropping out of warp space I immediately knew something wasn't right. The first clue was probably the way warp space briefly filled my personal vision, while the second clue would be appearing inside the Gryffindor common room in front of an eleven year old girl with a lightning bolt scar on her forehead. "You're a very lucky witch Harriet. If your familiar ritual had acted differently, either I'd kill you before returning to my swarm, or Hogwarts castle would be destroyed by one or both of my moon sized transports trying to appear inside this small room," I comment after skimming the minds of the children in the tower.

Just then, a stern looking woman in classic witch robes enters from the corridor in the main castle. "Who are you and where are your robes?" The woman easily identified as professor McGonagall asks when she spots me. Ignoring the fact she drew her wand at me, I tell her my name and how I arrived while revealing my carapace armor and extending my skeletal wings before inquiring as to becoming a student both so I can stick fairly close to Harriet and so I can learn a new skill set. "You'll have to talk to the Headmaster and obtain or create a wand since you are not only a late arrival, but also older than the typical student." McGonagall replies as she puts away her wand before leaving Gryffindor Tower and signaling for me and Harriet to follow her.

Following the Gryffindor head through the castle, I order a stealth Overlord to bring a Drone to the cabin at the edge of the forest while suggesting to Ellie that she send down a Techling or her own Drone. After riding a magic stone escalator up to the top of an interior tower, we enter a private office where a familiar Merlin impersonator appears to be waiting for us. Skipping proper introductions, McGonagall tells Dumbledore about how she met me and my request to become a student. "The Ministry won't be happy if they find out about this." Dumbledore says with an amused grin. "Consider yourself a first year Gryffindor Chris. Third floor corridor on the right hand side is off limits this year, no wandering the halls at night, students are not supposed to enter the Forbidden forest so try not to let them see you checking up on your Swarm."

"If Fawkes would give me a feather I can take care of a wand right now. Once that's done I can pop over to Diagon Alley and discreetly sell a few supplies before purchasing the required books." I comment only to have Dumbledore mention the anti-apparition wards. "Your wards are not a problem for me as my methods are not based in magic." I reply as I snap part of my wing off before Blinking over to Fawkes who conveniently plucked a tail feather and offered it to me. Taking the feather, I insert it into the hollow of my wing fragment before coating the 13 inch length of bone in a layer of my own blood.

"That still leaves Harriet to be escorted to Gryffindor Tower." Professor McGonagall comments as my new wand seals itself in a flash of blood red light. In reply I only roll my eyes and grab Harriet's arm before Blinking directly to the Gryffindor common room. Assuring the young witch I will return before sunrise, I Blink on my own over to Diagon Alley and enter Olivander's wand shop. As I casually glance at the shelves full of wands, I regenerate my damaged wing.

"If you're looking to get a back-up wand, I don't sell anything that can handle your level of power." An old man I recognize from the books and movies as Olivander comments as he enters from the back of the store.

"I was actually hoping to sell a few ingredients though they may be a bit Dark for you." I reply as I casually create a bag of holding out of pure psionic power before offering my custom wand handle first for him to inspect. Taking my wand, he briefly inspects it before returning it to me and offering 12 galleons for every 13 inch length of the material I used for the shell. "Here are ten shells to start with." I reply as I snap all the tips on both of my skeletal wings. Handing him the wing tips, I hold open my bag as he drops in 120 galleons.

As I head out of the wand shop, I mentally review the supplies I need based on the memories of Harriet, the teachers I'd met and the students that the teacher's memories identified as first years. While I technically didn't need books, I decided to go to Flourish and Botts next for the class books while regenerating my wing tips. After the books, I went to the potions shop for my cauldron, scales and other potions class supplies before going to Eyelope's Owl Emporium for a pet owl. After looking at the various types of owls, I decided on a rare scarlet feathered snowy owl. Once I confirmed the owl was female, I named it Scarlet and carried her cage on the longest tip of my right wing.

A quick visit to Knockturn Alley allows me to earn a few hundred galleons 'donating' blood before I enter Gringott's Bank to open a personal vault. While well written, I find the greeting poem to be a tad amusing as it would be difficult for the goblins to get anything of decent size into the lower tunnels without extensive magic use. Everything goes smoothly at first glance as I am lead to one of the high security vaults, but I notice my goblin guide sweating even as the temperature drops to the chill typical of deep caves. When I ask what is wrong, the goblin mentions something about secrecy wards collapsing as I pass. With a promise not to give away Gringott's secrets, I create my own psionic wards on the vault the goblin says is mine before depositing 1000 galleons, 400 sickles and 60 knuts and sealing the vault to ALL entry.

With my shopping done, I Blink back to Gryffindor Tower and select a bed to sleep in out of those in the first years boy's dorm. Releasing Scarlet to go to the owlery, I go to sleep for the remainder of the night after asking Ellie to start setting up a base 5 km into the forest.

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Custom units:

Techling: Zerg unit derived from the Zergling strain for use by Tech Brood. Sheds components to tech based units and structures such as an SCV or Missile Turret (with a Zerg twist of course)

Stealth Overlord: Advanced Overlord strain for covert ops. Uses Void energies to blend into shadows even where there are no obvious shadows much like the Dark Templar.