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Chapter 4 – The White House
They all filed into the room slowly, the West Wingers looking on in awe wondering how many people would actually be appearing through the door. Finally they were all inside the Oval Office. They had merged into the four different groups. NCIS by the door, SG-1 next to them on the left, the Golden Trio next to NCIS on their right, with the West Wingers in front of them.
"Good morning to all of you," said The President. He was replied by a murmuring of good morning sirs. "Ok, so I'll go from left to right, starting with SG-1, I will also say in turn who each group is and what they represent." Everyone turned to look at SG-1, with Daniel squirming slightly under the surveillance. "May I present to you, Colonel Jack O'Neill, Colonel Samantha O'Neill, Daniel Jackson and Teal'c. These four brave people represent SG-1, they are the primary team that go through the Stargate. The Stargate, is a big round device," at this point he showed everyone a picture "that travels to other worlds that have another Stargate on them." He let everyone take this in a little before moving onto the next group.
"Next to SG-1 is the group from NCIS, this group is the people who make up the Major Case Response Team (MCRT) in NCIS. We have Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo, Special Agent Timothy McGee and Probationary Special Agent Ziva David. Next to Ziva are Doctor Donald "Ducky" Mallard and Abby Scuito who is their forensic scientist." Each of them nodded as their name was called.
"Next the Golden Trio, here we have Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley. These three make up our representatives from the Wizarding World. They can indeed do magic, Harry?" Harry nodded, and then with a wave of his wand he produced chairs for everyone in the rom. Everyone who hadn't known of this ability before were totally shocked, but slowly they took their seats.
"Finally we come to my staff, you all met Charlie Young, next to him is C.J. Cregg, Sam Seaborn, Donna Lyman, Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler and Leo McGarry." The President let everything sink in for everyone for awhile before he started talking again.
"Ok the reason that I asked for all of you to come here, is because my deputy chief of staff here Josh Lyman thinks that you are actually all working on the same case. Hermione, can you explain the Avada Kedavra curse for everyone?" the President asked Hermione as he knew she'd have the most comprehensive answer.
"Of course Mr President. The Avada Kedavra curse, is also known as the killing curse. It leaves no trace, and the victim normally just behaves as though he is dead, with no other symptoms. When the curse is used you have to put an enormous amount of feeling behind it otherwise, it will not work. You have to really want to kill this person. The curse gives off a green glow when cast and there is only one person who is ever known to have fell victim to the curse and yet survive," she said looking at Harry.
"Thank you Hermione," the President watched as they all digested this piece of information. He knew that they all needed time to think about all the revelations that had happened but that would have to wait until the Golden Trio had been brought up to speed on the investigation at least the basics.
"Special Agent Gibbs, could you please summarise your current case for Harry, Hermione and Ron?" the President asked.
"Yes Sir. We are currently investigating the death of a Marine we found at the scene a wooden stick, a bit like Mr Potter has shown us, and the man himself was just dead. It has been baffling Ducky as to how he actually died. The reason that SG-1 is assigned with us is because the Marine is one of the Marines assigned to the base where they work from. Thus it became both of our issues as this Marine should not have been in DC at the time of his murder and in unexplained circumstances," Gibbs summarised succinctly.
"Thank you Agent Gibbs. Ok everyone, I know you are a little shell shocked right now, so I'll make the rest of this brief. NCIS will be where you will all work from. Harry, Ron and Hermione will be given an empty conference room which will adjoin the SG-1 conference room which will adjoin another conference room from which I want the NCIS agents to work from. The reason for this is of course that this matter cannot be let out to other teams in NCIS and the bullpen the Agents normally work from I've heard, isn't exactly private. One of the teams will need to help Harry, Ron and Hermione to get to NCIS as they have not been there bef-", "Sorry Mr President to cut in there, but we can find our own way," said Ron. The President gave him a small glare. "As I was saying, Harry, Ron and Hermione will find their own way to NCIS, I hope you all enjoy working with each other and Senior Staff meeting in half an hour," he finished. Everyone stood up and walked out knowing this was a direct dismissal from the President.
When they had made their way out of the building, Harry turned to Jethro.
"Sir, I can perform a branch of magic called Legilimency. This means I can read minds if I want to, I know this may make you all uneasy, but I can only do it when you make eye contact with me, and it is harder to do without casting out loud. My point is this: we have a way of travelling that is faster than by car. However, we need to know the location we are going to, if I could read your thoughts, you should just picture the outside of the NCIS building, then I could get the information quicker," Harry said nervously. Jethro looked at the nervous young man, he would not normally trust someone so quickly, but Harry had been very honest about what he was going to do. Jethro guessed that Harry could actually have got the information a lot quicker without telling him what he was going to do and Jethro respected Harry for asking instead of taking.
"Ok, I'm ready," said Jethro concentrating on somewhere outside the NCIS building which would be empty at this time of day. Harry looked deep into Jethro's eyes, wandlessly and wordlessly casting legilimens, he found the location of NCIS, he let Jethro go. Jethro shook his head, he hadn't even felt Harry, all he had seen was the location he was imagining.
"Thank you Sir," said Harry.
"No problem Mr Potter, and please call me Gibbs," replied Jethro.
"Thanks, Gibbs, and call me Harry," he replied "ok we will meet you outside your building."
"Ok," replied Gibbs motioning all but the three wizards/witches to the cars.
All the senior staffers minus Leo and Donna stood in C.J.'s office, most of them were still too confused about all the information that had been put on them in the last hour. Josh was looking relaxed in one corner, while he was waiting for the rest of them to catch up. Suddenly C.J. reached out and whacked his shoulder.
"Oww what was that for?" he asked.
"For not telling us," was the response.
"Well, it wasn't my decision not to tell you, only Leo, Donna, The President and myself knew and that was because I'm meant to know these things. We as a group agreed that you guys should know when a situation might arise that would affect your work. If something were to happen then we would need to make sure it was covered up properly with the press and that if it were something major then we have the correct statements to give. Before you ask why Donna, you all know why Donna!" Josh replied. C.J.'s menacing look didn't disappear. Josh knew she'd forgive him soon though.
"Do you think one day we can visit?" Sam asked.
"Visit which place?" asked Josh "there is the Wizarding world and there is Stargate command."
"Both," replied Sam.
"Well to be honest that was the first question I had when I was told about the Stargate. I was told yes as long as everyone who knows has signed a non-disclosure agreement and is trustworthy. That was why you all had to sign those agreements. Of course we wouldn't be allowed through the Stargate either as it might not be safe. The Wizarding world, I think we will definitely be allowed to visit as I have learnt that parents who are non-magical of magical children are allowed to visit the magical areas. Oh and it might be quite hard to find a time when we can visit either place, you know running the country and all," replied Josh. Sam looked ecstatic at this, and C.J.'s face also brightened. Toby continued to be deep in thought.
"Toby you alright there?" asked C.J.
"Yes, just thinking. Josh, I think you should talk to Harry, did you notice his behavior at all?" replied Toby.
"Well not particularly, I saw him flinch a little, why should I be talking to him?" asked Josh.
"I think he has PTSD, he seemed to be in a world of his own for the most part, then the flinching when he was touched and even when he wasn't touched. I think you are the best person to talk to him as his friends although obviously worried for him probably don't know how to deal with it," said Toby in answer to Josh's question.
"Well I guess I can try to talk to him, see if he'll open up to me," said Josh thoughtfully trying to remember Harry's exact behavior.
"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god," Abby started chanting in the car on the way back.
Gibbs put a calming hand on her shoulder "calm down Abs, you can study with them all you want but only when the case is over, so focus."
"Ok Gibbsman, I can focus, focus, focus, focus," Abby started her chanting anew. Gibbs just ignored it as she started whispering to herself. He turned to look at his other teammates. He had let Tim drive this time as he realized that none of the others would be fit to and he needed a talk with his team without the distraction of driving. He looked at Tony first, he still seemed tired if a little more perky than before, he suddenly had an idea, but he would wait to talk to Tony after the car drive. He then looked at Ducky, he was deep in thought about the whole issue, and wondering what would happen next. It was quite hard to accept that there was a way to just kill a human being like that, without at trace of what happened or why. He knew that would not sit too well with his old friend. Ziva was sat staring out of the window, he knew she would be the least shocked as she had an open mind and she normally just got on with the job no matter what kind of information was given. She would contemplate for awhile before not letting it bother her. Tim, well he knew Tim would probably be as excited as Abby was for all the information and he would be fascinated with the science of magic as he would probably call it. He himself was quite skeptical; however he realised that he could not say much about it as he had in fact seen proof that things like this could happen from the fact that chairs were created by Harry for all of them seemingly out of nowhere. There had to be a reason for this and he had no reason to try and disprove it...yet. He had also noticed Harry's behavior in the meeting and was slightly wary of the boy, and slightly worried about him too.
Finally they arrived outside NCIS and they piled out of the car. They had arrived before SG-1, so they decided to wait outside for everyone. Gibbs pulled Tony away a little from the rest of the group. "Tony, I think you should talk to Harry or Hermione or Ron about these dreams and visions, I think that they might have more of an idea what is wrong and why you keep seeing these things," said Jethro.
"Ok Boss, I'll do that," replied Tony relieved that he could at least try and find more information on his problems.
The SG-1 team were silent in their car, Jack was driving them back to NCIS.
"Their powers seem very much as if they were some type of enhanced human O'Neill," said Teal'c suddenly.
"I have to agree Jack, maybe we could study their genes and see if they have the ones necessary to work the Ancient equipment, maybe they have even more different ones that could explain the magic powers," said Sam in excitement. Jack sighed, he had also come to this conclusion.
"Yep, perhaps, but first we are investigating this murder, you do realise that we could be targets so we've gotta be on our guard," said Jack.
"Indeed O'Neill," remarked Teal'c.
"Oh I can't wait until this investigation is over," said Daniel before they all lapsed into silence again.
Harry took Hermione and Ron in side-along apparition. They arrived in a thankfully quiet area, which harry realized that Gibbs had made sure that it was a quiet place for them to suddenly appear. They decided to wait in the place where they had landed as this was quiet enough for them to talk quietly and not be disturbed.
"So what do you think about this, Hermione, Ron?" asked Harry being the first one to break the silence.
"I think that as amazing as all this sounds, everything is credible. The Stargate program sounds completely whacky, but then I suppose explaining Magic to Muggles is also completely whacky. I think we got off quite lightly with the surprises on this one," both Harry and Hermione looked in surprise at Ron's analysis of the situation.
"I wonder whether I'd be allowed to study the Stargate," said Hermione blushing a little.
"Hah, of course you would Hermione, but first of all we've gotta catch this killer," replied Harry laughingly.
"Ok so what have we got, the person was killed with Avada Kedavra, in DC, and there are no known threats around at the moment. They have the wand, but I doubt we would be able to identify whose wand it was without taking a trip to Ollivanders, and they might not let us do that as they probably don't want evidence being removed from the building," started Hermione.
"Well what about if we managed to persuade Ollivander to come here?" Ron asked.
"That is a possibility, Ron. However, he is starting to age and taking any means of transport Muggle or Magical at his age is quite tiring," replied Hermione.
"Hmmm, well we can but try. I also have another thing; Melinda gave me this device which allows us to track dark spells and where they happen. This could give us a slight edge on the investigation, we'd probably better show this to the others when they get here," said Harry showing them the detector.
"Show us what?" asked Tony walking up behind the trio. Harry, Ron and Hermione turned round to see that everyone had arrived, and Tony had come to get them to make sure they could get into the building properly.
"We'll show everyone in a minute in the conference rooms," Harry replied putting the object away.
"Sure, kid, let's go!" replied DiNozzo with more energy than he felt. They all made their way into the building all being given visitors passes until they could get actual passes as they did not know how long they would have to be working this case.
Finally after everyone settling down into each of their conference rooms, they all gathered in one to pool their resources.
"Ok Abs tell me what you got," said Gibbs immediately taking charge. O'Neill decided that he didn't mind and none of the trio minded either.
"Gibbs, Gibbs, Gibbs, how did you know I had something?" asked Abby excitedly bouncing up and down while putting the evidence she could on the screen next to her.
"I always know, and plus I could tell you were bursting to tell us something all afternoon, but couldn't" replied Jethro smiling.
"Ok, here is the video surveillance from outside of Peppi's Pizza. Now I know it is kind of grainy and you can't see the victim or the perp properly, but once they are in the alleyway, what you can see is this," she said with great effect pausing the video in the exact correct place. On the screen showed an eery green glow coming from the alleyway.
"So it definitely was the Avada Kedavra cast in the alleyway," said Hermione looking at the screen.
"Wait, wait, back that video up Abs," said Tim. Abby backed the video up until Tim said "Stop, right there." Tim got up and moved closer to the screen "is that…?" He glanced up to the room confusedly. At his confusion both Sam and Daniel got up to get a closer view of the screen until all three of them were huddling round it scanning the image.
"Sam, what is it?" asked Jack.
"Well I think, that it could be something that Harry, Ron or Hermione should be able to explain, it kind of looks like he's…he's…" trailed off Sam.
Jethro was starting to get annoyed "He's what?"
"Boss, I think he's flying," Tim nervously replied. Gibbs looked mildly confused, as did the rest of the room except for Harry, Ron and Hermione.
Ron stood up to look at the picture "Yep, he's definitely flying. So yes in our world, we use brooms kind of like sweeping brooms to fly. We also have a competitive sport in our world which is played only on brooms." At this point Harry stood up, took something small out of his pocket and enlarged it silently. Stood in front of them was now a full size broomstick.
"That as Harry is showing you is his broom, he is one of the best seekers in the world. A seeker is part of the competitive sport I was talking about," finished Ron.
Sam looked very excitedly at the broom that was hovering in mid air by the table.
"Nuhuh Sam, you can study that later, now we have a murderer to catch," said Jack knowing his wife very well. Sam looked a little sad about that.
Harry whispered in her ear "I'll show you later, in a magical area – we will have to take a break at some point." Sam perked up.
"Harry will you tell us how magic is cast as well, I noticed that it sounded from the only parts I've heard you say a bit like Latin?" asked Daniel also excitedly. Jack and Teal'c both sighed knowing that their resident geeks were going to be over excited.
"I think Hermione might be better at helping you with that investigation Daniel," Harry replied and with a glance at Jethro's face hastily said "so Abby was there anything else you found?" turning his attention back to the Goth.
"Actually there is, I matched the prints that were on that stick," she started. "Wand," corrected Harry.
"Sorry, anyway, the prints matched this lady," Abby said, and with a flourish she put a face up on the screen "Bellatrix Lestrange. She has a husband Rodolphus Lestrange, and she does not have a current address." Abby stopped talking with the look on Harry, Ron and Hermione's face.
"We know her current address," said Harry venomously. "Azkaban Prison." With that he put his head in his hands.
"Can we see the wand?" asked Hermione. "We can identify if that is her wand as we have all seen it many times in the past."
"Of course," Abby reached out to the evidence pile, and passed the bag holding the wand to Hermione.
Hermione studied it for awhile "Yes that is her wand. However, as Harry said, she is currently in prison."
"Can you confirm that?" asked Ziva speaking for the first time.
"I can get in touch with the appropriate authorities and confirm this yes, I will do so immediately," replied Hermione. With that she took out some parchment and a quill and started writing. Everyone watched her in amazement, their confusion growing as she whistled and an owl appeared at the window. She gave the letter to the owl with a quick pet and a "its urgent Hedwig, fly free." She turned back to the rest of the room "what?" she asked confused.
Ron answered her "I think they might be a little confused at owl post."
"Oh, yeah. We, don't use postmen we use owls, and that owl you just saw was Hedwig who is Harry's owl. She's very loyal and she loves Harry so she will take any of our post. Oh and yeah we use quill's and parchment instead of paper and pens. Confusing yes, but the Wizarding way," she explained to the still shocked room.
"Oh- ok, well anyway so while we wait for confirmation, Bellatrix obviously might not be the killer, someone could have stolen her wand and then used gloves to make it look like Bellatrix. Is there any way to know where her wand should have been, if she is still in prison?" asked Jethro.
"Well yes, her wand should have been in the Ministry of Magic under lock and key, so if she hasn't broken out then it's someone who could have had access or she herself could have broken into the Ministry of Magic. Either way it's slightly worrying," replied Ron who knew the most about the Ministry due to his Dad being high up. Everyone went silent as they were contemplating this news.
"So that thing you had outside, what is it?" asked Tony speaking up from his corner. Harry regarded the tired Tony, thinking he should ask why he is so tired later. Harry took out the object in question "This allows us to see whether there are any dark spells detected in the DC, and if so where they happened."
Tony whistled, "Handy! How did they allow you that?"
"Well, they made us third grade Aurors," replied Hermione.
"What is an Auror Hermione Granger?" asked Teal'c after quiet contemplation.
"An Auror is a dark wizard catcher, kind of like police," replied Hermione addressing Teal'c's question. Suddenly they were interrupted by a loud beep from Harry's hand. He glanced down, and saw something that made his blood run cold.
"Where's the problem Harry," asked Gibbs immediately.
"Its…its…it's the White House."
