Rear Area Chapter 1, a Harry Potter + NCIS Crossover fanfic

REAR-AREA (NCIS-Harry Potter crossover)

Part-three of a four=part NCIS-Crossover, "What You Do For Family".

Chapter 1: It Started with an Owl.

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"Kathryn" and "Usagi" refer to "Kathryn Pryde", last seen in "Cousin Jethro", and Tsukino Usagi, last seen in "A princess in America".

And, now, for a history lesson. Julius Schreicher (12 February 1885 – 16 October 1946) - was an early-member (joining 1921) of the NAZI Party in Germany and founder and editor of "Der Sturmer". He was tried in Nuremburg for "Crimes against Humanity", founf guilty, and executed by hanging.

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The whole CIS-Team, including Duckie, Abbie, and Palmer, watche as two owls circle the Bullpen then fly out through Lieutenant Vances's office.

REAR-AREA - in military terms, an area away from the fron't line, used for R-and-R (Ress-and Relaxation).

It all started with an owl.

It was 0810 when probationary Field-Agent Eleanor Bishop, followed closely by Senior Field-Agent Anthony DiNozzo and Junior Field Agent Timothy McGee, walked into the NCIS Bullpen in the Naval Yard in Washington, DC. It was Ellie who first noticed the owl. And, her eyes almost grew as large as the owl's!

"That an OWL?!" Ellie croaked out. "What's an OWL doing here? How did it get in here? What's it doing on Gibbs' desk?"

"Is that a Snowy Owl?" McGee remarked. "How'd it get here?"

"It is a snowy, Mc-Perkins!" Tony said low, so not to desturb the bird. "Looks like the boss got mail from Harry!" He walked over to Gibbs' desk. "Haven't seen you for a few years, Hedwig! Is Harry OK?"

The owl gently nuzzled her head into Tony's palm and nipped at his thumb.

"Does Tony... KNOW that owl?" Eleanor asked Tim.

"Hey.. Tony?" McGee asked in a low voice "How do you know that owl? And, who's Harry?"

"It's a carrier-owl, "Mc-Embory", Tony replied in a soothing voice. "Hey, Anybody got any sardines or vienna sausages?"

"'Carrier Owl'?" Ellie blink at Tony. "Who's 'Harry'? And, who uses 'Carrier owls'?"

"Yeah, Tony!" Tim piped up, "Who is 'Harry'?"

"Boss' distant-cousin." Tony answered. "Last seen about ten years back. He's a good kid. He went through hell a few years back. Hope he's alright."

"As for your question, Eleanor! Certain.. people..", Tony explained to Bishop, "use owls in the same way others use pidgeons!"

"And does Gibbs know some of these people, DiNozzo?" Director Leon Vance called down to Gibbs' Senior Field-Agent.

"Well, yes, he does. Sir!" DiNozzo looked up and snapped nervously to attention. "Besides, ah, Professor Snape, Sir?"

"Snape! Ah! Magic! Wizards!" Eleanor winced, feeling like a slap to the back of her head was in order.

"Besides Severus Snape, yes." Director Vance replied. "I've often wondered how Jethro Gibbs met that man! He said he was a 'friend of the family'.
I realize how Dr. Mallard met him! But Gibbs? Amyway! Tell him to get his butt up here from wherever he's gone. And, make it double-time."

"I will! Sir!" Tomy snapped out. "whenever he gets here, Sir!"

"I'm here, DiNozzo!" Gibbs spoke as he walked into the office. "This morning, I saw Hedwig at my desk! So? After I took the letter out of
her pouch and read it, I went to the PX to get some jerky to feed her so she'd be able to get back to Harry! Tim? Take some of this jerky down
to Ducky! He probably received a letter from Luna. I'll be with you in a minute, Leon! I need to grab a pen and paper to answer Harry's letter."

"'Luna', boss?" McGee asked.

"One of Ducky's cousins!" Gibbs said as he jogged up the stairs.

Eleanor slowly let out the breath she didn't realize she'd neen holding:

"Mutants, and Senshi, and Witches! Oh, my...!"

"Welcome to the boss' world., 'Dorothy'", Tony said with a bit of a sad smile.

As soon as Gibbs entered the Director's Office, he shut the door:

"You needed to talk to me, Leon?"

Director Vance pointed to the letter. "Are you going to answer that letter?"

"Yes." Gibbs affirmed. "But, how I answer it depends on a question I have to ask you!"

"Me?" Vance asked, imtrigued. "Ask away, Jethro!"

"Can I borrow MCRT-Headquarters, Washington?"

"Borrow?" Vance asked. "For?"

"A conference." Gibbs replied.

"'Conference'? Like Versailles? " Leon chuckled. "Pardon me, Gibbs! It's just hard to see you as a Peacekeeper! Especially, after Kathryn and Usagi!"

"You're right, Leon!" Gibbs chuckled drily. "When it comes to family in trouble? I do tend to bring busted heads to the peace talks!
Unfotunately, these talks are going to be more like Tehran."

"I figured." Vance sighed. "About a half-hour after I saw that owl downstairs at my window, here, another owl appeared at that same window."

Leon then pulled a letter from his suit-pocket. "From 'The hand of Malcolm Greyling MacAllister. Liaison, U.M.S.A."

"My mail being monitored by the United Magickal States of America, Leon?" Gibbs asked.

"No, Gibbs!" Vance smiled, "Not directly. Although," the smile disappeared, "they did note that that owl's.."

"Her name's 'Hedwig'". Gibbs interrupted.

"That HEDWIG's flight brought her across the North Altantic and on to American soil. This after a few people that were on watch-lists in Britian
that were listed as 'dead' appeared, in Britian, very much alive! The U.M.S.A. started sounding alarms. They're afraid of Britian's war re-igniting
and spreading here! Quite a few refugees from the last two wars still call the State's 'home'."

"I know, Leon!" Gibbs sighed. "Harry explained that to me in his letter. Why he wants the Conference. Wants to iron things out between the parties so
that the old war - or, a part of it - doesn't help ignite a new war! He said the first ones to come back from the dead, somehow, were 'The Death-
eaters', followers of a dark-wizard. Named Thomas Marvalo Riddle! A 'Lord Valdemorte'. But? He said they don't seem that bent on revenge!"

"That's good to know." Leon said. "But? It doesn't seem to be these 'Deatheaters', or their Dark-Master, that has the U.M.S.A. on edge! It's an
Albus..."

"Dumbledore!" Gibbs said wearily. "Yeah! The idiot me and Severus knew! Last time Shannon ever saw Harry was the last time I saw
the bastard. About 2 years before she and Kelly were killed. After meeting him the first time? I wanted to kill that manipulative bastard! And?
So did Shannon! Considered himself the 'Greatest wizard since Merlin'!"

"Yeah, you said. What kept you from killing him, Gibbs?" Vance asked. intrigued.

"Harry." Gibbs answered. "Back then, he thought killing Dumbledore wasn't a good idea!"

"How did you and Shannon meet Harry, anyway?" Vance asked.

"He's family!" Gibbs answered. "Harry's father, James Potter, was dad's third-cousin, once-removed, on his mom's side! And, Harry's mother,
Lilly Evans, was Shannon's third-cousin!"

"You're a wizard, Gibbs?" Vance asked.

"Nah." Gibbs smiled. "Never showed much ability, so I was never trained! Mom and dad were from squib-families. So is Ducky!"

"'Sqib'?" Leon asked.

"Members of Magical-families born without magical-abilities." Gibbs explained. "Handicapped."

"Ah! And your parents knew this how?" Vance pried. "By the way, I want to see Dr. Mallard in here A.S.A.P."

"Ask, and Ye shall receive, Director!" Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard announced from ther doorway, still in his scubs. "Once Timothy told me that
you wanted to see Gibbs, I figured you'd want to see me! Yes. So? I left Ms. Schiutto in charge of Hecate and Mr. Palmer. The poor boy is now
getting a crash-course in the care and feeding of owls, courtesy of . Anyway, I came right up! And? Thank you for the jerky, Jethro!
Hecate was enjoying her pick-me-up when I left."

"Your welcome, Duck!" Gibbs smiled. "Anytime!"

"Dr. Mallard!" Director Vance said. "Gibbs just told me you come from s msgical-family! Is that how you know Profeesor Snape? Before he married
Saeko? Is he kin?"

"No, Sir," Ducky chuckled, "I am afraid the Princes are Severus' problem - and, unfortunately, Ami's - but? They are not mine! No! I knew Severus
BEFORE he entered Hogwart's, and found him, again, after he graduated and went into Law-Enforcemnt, much like his father. Besides? Hecate is not one
of Severus' owls. No. The owls Severus employs tend to be a bit more robust! No. Hacate belongs to my Second-Cousin, once-removed.. Luna Lovegood
Scamander! 'Scamander' is her married-name. Her father is - or, is that WAS? No one's heard from Xenofilius in a couple of years! Although, I dare say,that is not very strange. Anyway! My mother and Xenophilius' father were first-cousins! Their fathers were brothers. One was magical, and the other was muggle! Anyway! Up until then, the Lovegoods were said to be CLASSIC pure-bloods - xenophobic to an incredible degree! But! The story goes, instead of, somehow, disposing of the child, the parents raised and protected him until way past adulthood. And? After my grandfather moved away, he and his brother continued to keep in touch! As did Xeno and I! Even after the death of his wife nade him a bit of a recluse."

"His wife died?" Leon asked. "Howso?"

"She was trying to perform an arcane spell of some kind, from what Xeno later told me! He wrote me about it about a year after it happened. Said
it was the first letter he had written since her death. Anyway, he said she may have read the spell wrong, and it backfired on the poor woman!"

"The Mallards and Lovegoods sound like my family, Duck!" Gibbs smiled an easy snile. "We kept in touch with our relations in England! Mom's
cousins wrote letters and visited a couple of times. But, it was Dad's cousins, the Malfoys, who were even-nore-frequent visitors to Stillwater!"

"They actually remembered their non-magical kin?" Leon asked. "from what McAllister explained to me in his letter, that's rare among the old-world
pure-nlooded magical families. And the Malfoys were near the top of that list!"

"Don't believe everything you read, Leon!" Gibbs smiled slily. "Especially when in comes, ultimately, from the British wizarding-world! That was the
opinion of Abraxas Malfoy, Lucius' father, anyway. The Malfoys are one of the oldest Wizarding-Families in Europe, and one of the proudest, but! They
are family, first, and magical, second! They look after ALL their family-members, magical and non-magical! Have for centuries, I've heard. According
to dad, they helped my Great-great-great-great-great-great-grandma move to America to be with her husband, a Philadelphia merchant, and offered to
keep the family safe in Britian during our Civil War! The families even helped watch after each other through both World Wars! Dad was looked after
by the Malfoys whenever he was in Britian. And? Old Abraxas was spirited to America during the early day's of the Blitz! Abraxas' son, Lucious
Malfoy, was the best cousin to get in trouble with!" Gibbs chuckled at the memories.

"Abraxas' opinion sounds amazingly like Xeno's!" Ducky quipped. "The American humorist Will Rogers said all he knew was what he read in the papers!
Well? Xenophilius told me, many times, to never put your trust in anything printed in a paper! Particularly, in a newspaper called 'The Daily
Prophet'! Yes. He used to compare it to 'Der Sturmer' under Julius Schreicher."

"Well? That's the Malfoys, Gibbs! What about the Potters?" Vance asked.

"Charlus Potter was a good man!" Gibbs answered. "They came to Stillwater a couple of times, he and his family. Last time Charlus was is town was when
mom passed away. He was sick at the time, too, dying. James Potter later came to Stillwater with some friends and Lily Evans, Shannon told me! She told
me she wanted to kill him, and his friend, Sirius Black, after that first meeting! I told her it wouldn't have been a great loss! THAT cousin was too
much of a rounder and playboy for my tastes! I think for dad's, too. Had a few too many of those in Stilwater. Kids who thought their parents having
money and power gave them the right to bully others! Shannon said the only friend of Lily's from her school that she trusted with her cousin was
Severus Snape!"

"The Potion's Master?" Vance raised an eyebrow. "I wondered how you met the man!"

"I saw him a few times. First time I saw him, was before Shannon and I started dating. Shannon and I rarely saw or spoke to each other, back then!
I was a bit of a loner without my cousins. But, I remembered walking by her house once and seeing her with another girl and this long thin boy. They
both spoke with English accents. Then? when Shannon and I got married, we were formally introduced! That's when I learned that James and Lily were
engaged. And, when I learned of Shannon's feeling toward James! Last time Shannon and I saw Severus was when he got married to Saeko! After Shannon
and Kelly were killed, Severus and I managed to keep in touch. Especially, after Herry started to attend Hogwarts! I asked him to keep an eye on Harry,
and on Dumbledor!"

Vance chuckled, That sounded alot like the Gibbs Jethro's father, Jackson, had talked about, the Gibbs he had come to respect! The Marines had just
removed the rough edges off that rock. A few.

So had Shannon!

Vance then turned back to his Medical Examiner:

"Okay, Dr, Mallard! What did your cousin have to say?"

"Well, Director Vance?" Ducky answered, "After the expected-pleasantries and up-date on the family, she asked if there was a way to bring a Conference together! My cousin is a Naturalist, not a Diplomat, by her own admittion. However? She was a soldier in the last Wizarding Wat! And? She has observed that the same feelings of suspicion and ill-will are spilling over almost eight years later!"

"Just like 1939." Vance grumbled.

"And, unfortunately." Ducky continued with a sigh, "MUCH like the Tribunals after World War 2. Since the two parties held responsible for the Second Wizarding War were bever brought to trial, Luna says that resentment has grown on both sides that the full story has never been divulged! That sounds
quite conspiratorial, I know, and quite like Xenophilius' thinking, but..?"

"That doesn't mean it's not the truth, Ducky!" Gibbs said. "Herry's written me, since Dumblebor's death. Many feel that Albus escaped answering for his crimes, by dying the way he did. In fact, many still see Dumbledor as a hero in magical Britian!"

"Much like many see Hitler as a hero, now, in Europe! I get the picture. Alright!" Vance ssid, finally. "You two have convinced me! Write Harry and
Luna back. The Conference will be held here! They can let us know when everyone can meet. I'll get ahold of McAllister. I want to see THREE signitures
on these answers - yours, and mine!"

"Yes. Sir!" Gibbs and Dr. Mallard saluted Agent Vance.

In short order, the three men came out of Vance' office and down into the Bullpen.

"How'd the meeting go, boss?" DiNozzo called to Gibbs.

"Just fine, DiNozzo!" Gibbs answered. "Got Harry's answer ready to send! Knowing Harry like I think I do, we should be hearing from him soon enough!
Has Hedwig had her re-feuling?"

"Yes, she has, boss!" Dinozzo smiled as he re-fitted the carrier-pouch on Hedwig. "Re-fueled, and ready to fly!"

"How about Hecate, Abigaile? Jimmy?" Dr. Mallard asked. "Ready to send back to Luna?"

"Sure thing, Doctor Mallard!" Jimmy replied in a nervous giggle. "You know, it's kind of strange. I expected Hecate to be a bit more defensive with me,
but all she did was nick my thumb s bit with her beak!"

"Don't worry, Jimmy!" Dr. Mallard chuckled. "All Hecate was doing was tasting you, to register you as an 'alternate address' for me, if you will. Yes.
Xenophilius explained to me, once, that was how wizards and witches trained their messengers! To make sure their missives got to the appropriate people.
And, you're right, Mr. Palmer! Owls can be quite dangerous, if they need to be! The telons WILL draw blood. Well, Jethro? Hecate is loaded!"

"So is Hedwig!" Gibbs answered back. "Got a window open in your office, Leon?"

"Sure do, Gibbs!" Director Vance smiled. "Everything's ready."

"Ok." Gibbs smiled. "Duck? Let's let the ladies go!"

From perches on arms wrapped in bullet-proof uniforms, two Owls were launched into the air! Then, as the M.C.R.T., Naval Yard, Washington, watched in awe. the birds flew out the window of Director Leon Vance' office.

"Hoot!"

"Hoo! HOO!"