Harry frowned, shrugged and replied, "I was in London. Next thing I know there was this bright flash of light. Next thing I know after that... I wake up here."
"What was the date?" asked Jackson.
"Ummm..." Harry thought. "Let's see... I'd just finished one of my exams that day. It was three days before the train... eighteenth of June, 1996!"
"Errr..." said Jackson. "How long do you think you've been here?"
"No idea," he returned. "As far as I know and can figure out, I estimate it's been about two years; probably closer to two and half."
After the three non-Jaffa all glanced to one another for a moment he asked, "Oh-kaaay... What gives? How long has it really been?"
"A little over three years," replied a clearly sympathetic Carter. "Back on Earth, it's currently the thirty-first of October, 1999; Hallowe'en." "It's Hallowe'en, three years later!?" Harry exclaimed, before he startled to chuckle, laugh and cry almost all at the same time. SG-1 just watched and let him get it out of his system.
"It's always Hallowe'en," he sighed, coming down off his stress relief laugh/cry. "That day just hates me."
"We'll take your word for it," said O'Neill. "That aside, how'd you like to go home?"
"What?" asked Harry. "Back to Earth?"
"Yes..." replied Jack before he realised he didn't know what the young man's name was. "What's your name, anyway?"
"Harry," replied Harry.
"Got a last name?" pressed O'Neill.
"Yup," he grinned.
When he didn't expand, Jackson gave a snort of amusement. O'Neill looked confused. "It's Potter," said Harry, having had his fun. "Harry Potter."
After Harry was divested of his Goa'uld technology, backpack and anything else that could be considered a weapon - or so SG-1 thought - Jackson redialed the Gate for the return to Earth. Harry took careful note of which six buttons, what he now knew represented constellations, the bespectacled man pressed. The final one, the inverted 'V' with a small circle on top, meant he now knew which constellation represented Earth.
What the four SG-1 members did not know was that Harry had long ago, soon after he first began to get attacked by the Jaffa with their Goa'uld master, had put hiding charms on both his wand holster and his mokeskin pouch Hagrid had given him. The mokeskin pouch contained his invisibility cloak and a few other items he didn't want to risk losing. That was attached by way of a belt made of a thick leather tied directly to the skin around his waist; made from the hide of one of the lizard rats that formed his near-sole meat diet during his early days on the planet.
He wanted to argue the loss of his two hand devices, one for his left and one for his right, he'd 'souvenired' off the Goa'uld host as they weren't actually weapons. However, 'Call me Jack' insisted. He was not, of course, worried about them taking his staff weapon; as that was obviously a weapon.
Then taken through the gate - Jack and Teal'c leading, then him, then Sam and Daniel - he came out into a room clearly inside a military installation and onto a metal grid and railed ramp leading down to the floor.
He spotted a team of about half a dozen fully armed and armoured soldiers pointing weapons at him in a 'ready-to-shoot' wide formation; three to four each side and well spaced apart. He heard someone call something over a loud speaker and looked up to see a quite wide glass window, behind which looked like a control room of some form. There were soldiers... no, air force personnel... looking out of it and to him.
The speaker crackled again as Sam, then Daniel, stepped out of the event horizon of the Stargate and it shut off. "Welcome back, SG-1! And welcome to our guest!" the speaker announced. "Everyone stand down."
As the soldiers before him all relaxed and withdrew, he saw it was the overweight balding older man he could see through the glass of the window who had spoken into a microphone on a 'bendy-stick'.
"As you can see, General," called Jack to the window. "We've brought back our guest."
"As per protocol, take him to the Infirmary," ordered the General.
Harry groaned. "Yup; it's Hallowe'en." When Sam looked to him in slight confusion, he explained, "I always end up in the Infirmary on Hallowe'en."
She and the other two non-Jaffa of SG-1 all grinned while Teal'c, yet again, just cocked an eyebrow at him. However and up closer, Harry could now see the well-hidden mirth behind his eyes.
With an open hand gesture indicating the huge sliding metal door on the left-hand side wall that appeared to be the only way out of the room, Sam said, "This way, Mister Potter."
"Yes, Ma'am," he sighed, beginning to walk further down the ramp. "And, it's Harry."
"Luna Bug!" called one Xenophilius Lovegood up the stairs from the sitting room of the Lovegood home. "Are you sure you don't want to come with me to Norway to hunt for Snorkacks?" Up in her room, where she was checking through her half dozen scrapbooks, Luna called back, "Yes, Daddy! It's important I be here for the next couple of months!"
"Alright, then!" he called back. "I'll just go and organise an international portkey for one then?"
"Yes, Daddy!" she called back. "You do that!"
"Expect me back just before Yule!" he called.
"Yes, Daddy!" she immediately called back.
She carefully listened and heard the whoosh of the floo activating and her father cry, "Diagon Alley!"
With a satisfied nod she returned to her work.
Luna was now eighteen years old and had graduated from Hogwarts a little over a year earlier with NEWTs in Potions, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Care of Magical Creatures, Enchanting, Arithmancy and Ancient Runes. She graduated top of her year with Outstandings in every subject.
Back from when she was part of the Ministry Six, when she was a young fifteen year old teenage girl, she had since grown up and filled out. She now moved with an athletic grace, while still maintaining a willowy figure. Her grace was because Lord Black, Sirius, had been training her in combat magics.
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