The Fifth Member of SG-1
Magic Problems – part 1
"New place, old story"
Daniel Jackson's house
Harry leant back, and let out a relieved sigh. "Aaaaaah… that's better."
Daniel had to ask, "So, how was living with Doctor Frasier and Cassie?"
Harry thought for a second before replying, "If you tell them, so help me I'll turn your hair pink for a week…"
Daniel smiled faintly, only faintly since the idea of magic like that was still foreign to him and he had yet to get used to the whole thing, as well as because he really really hated the color.
"It was hell, Daniel." Harry sobbed dramatically. "They wanted me to show off my cooking skills… but I mean, they didn't let me cook any meat… not even on the barbecue… that's not right… It's mans right to cook meat over fire…"
Daniel held back snorts, but a few made it past. This kicked off Harry from his fake-crying into chuckles.
"Seriously though, It was nice, but it was like living with a Hawk – hear all see all, and an over-emotional female who liked to attract guys just so she can embarrass them…"
"Cassie…?" Daniel asked wide-eyed.
Harry had to, Daniel had asked for it. He dead-panned, "I swear she knew whenever I sneezed."
Harry was amused by the expressions rolling across Daniels' face at the implications.
A minute later, Daniel said, "It's going to be difficult, living here now isn't it?"
Harry shrugged, and said, "They don't even understand my sense of humour. At least Colonel O'Neill trained you up to sarcasm. I swear, the littlest joke about 'That Time of the month' and I'm in the dog house. And get this… they don't even have a dog!"
Daniel laughed at the mental image. Harry pouted at him. "That wasn't meant to be funny."
"Well it was." Daniel replied.
"But I wasn't referring to the female monthly visitor." Harry told him. "I just said that it was like living with 2 werewolves!"
Daniel raised his eyebrow at him, and Harry just grinned.
Daniel shook his head, and asked, "So how are you settling in at the University?"
Harry lost his grin, but didn't look sad, he just summarized, "Toilets, Head, Upper Classman…"
Daniel raised both eyebrows at that.
"What can I say, they pissed me off." Harry simply told him.
Daniel gave him an incredulous look, and waved his hand at Harry's body, pointing out his physical condition.
"So I used a little magic… big deal." Harry shrugged off.
"I thought you needed your wand for the big stuff?" Daniel asked. "You're not taking that to the campus are you?"
Harry shook his head. "I had a fair bit of practise making myself stronger for short periods of time. A second or two to push their heads into the toilet instead of letting them push mine was simple."
Daniel looked blank for a moment, before he recentred himself and asked, "How are classes?"
Harry shrugged. "It's a bit… well, difficult being nearly 18 but dumber than most high-school kids, but it's getting easier. Actually wanting to learn the stuff helps." Harry shrugged again, and asked, "Anything new at the SGC?"
Daniel gave him a look and answered, "You know I can't talk about that."
Harry smiled slightly, grabbed his wand from inside his jacket, and waved it around with a whispered incantation, before he sat down and said, "If this place was bugged, they'd be neutralised now."
"That's not what…" Daniel muttered, but stopped.
"I have signed non-disclosure agreements Daniel. And don't forget, I came here through the Stargate."
Daniel shrugged, and looked sad for a moment. "3 Weeks ago, while using the Stargate, we visited a world called K'Tau… but somehow we carried heavy elements that got deposited into it's sun. It started to… die I think. We tried to get the inhabitants to evac, but they wouldn't leave, and even went so far to sabotage our attempt at fixing the problem."
"What happened to them?" Harry asked in concern.
"Well, yesterday the Asgard fixed the problem…"
Harry frowned and asked what the Asgard was. What proceeded was a small lecture (well, Small for Daniel) that fascinated Harry. When Daniel told him what Jack had said to this, Freyr, about 'Asgard Magic', Harry just had to grin.
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Colorado Springs University Campus
Harry walked into the lecture hall just in time. He looked around the almost-empty room and spotted the physics teacher.
"Ah, Mr Potter." The man greeted him. Harry smiled and nodded, and stepped up to the platform.
"Sir." He greeted respectfully.
"Just call me David. Now I understand that you're in need of learning physics, bottom up?"
Harry nodded, and shifted in place.
"Okay, now let's start with the simple things. Electricity 101."
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Janet's house
Janet frowned as Cassie spent a few minutes longer than she should have on the front porch with the latest guy she had gotten a ride home from. All of a sudden the lights flickered as the front porch's light brightened and blew.
From 2 weeks of Harry living with her, showing her the sorts of things magic could do, she recognised the outburst as what Harry had described as 'Accidental magic'.
She rushed out to see what had happened, only to see Cassie passed out on the floor, the guy shocked and worried knelt next to her shaking her lightly trying to get her to wake up.
What the guy didn't notice that Janet did, was that Cassies' purse, which she had clearly been holding, was hovering an inch off the floor.
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