Chapter 4 Day One

Harry opened his eyes on the first day of term he looked toward the nearest window, he expected to see the American Jack O'Neill asleep in his bed however he wasn't there. Slowly Harry got up rubbing the sleep from his eyes; he looked around the room only to see that everyone else was still sound asleep. Harry walked toward the window to take a look at the rising sun however as he as looked down at the castle grounds he noticed two figures walking back into the main door of the castle.

"Was that Jack?" asked Harry as he tried to remember what the blur he saw looked like. Quickly he got dressed and ready for the day, as he tied his shoes Jack appeared from downstairs. Jack was breathing hard and his face was covered with beads of sweet.

"Where were you?" asked Harry

"Went for a little run." answered Jack as a tired looked Sparky walked up the stairs before taking a long drink from his bowel once that was done he jumped onto the bed before closing his eyes.

"A little run?" asked Harry

"Only about five and half miles." said Jack as he walked toward the bathroom. As the sound of the shower filled the air Ron finally got up. Ron yawned as he got ready for the day, by the time he was ready Jack was dressed once again in his school uniform minus the beret. In his book bag unknown to everyone was an arsenal a weapons that would make any special forces officer jump for joy. Jack walked behind Harry, Ron and Hermione as they entered the great hall. Almost the moment they sat down a woman he had seen the night before.

"Hello Mr. O'Neill I am Pr. Minerva McGonagall and I am head of the Gryffindor house." said Pr. McGonagall

"Hello." said Jack

"Now you may be a new transfer student but do not expect any breaks this is the fifth year so the OWL test are happening for your class." said McGonagall

"I don't want any breaks." said Jack

"Good I have your schedule." said McGonagall as she handed out a sheet of paper "You will be in all the same class as with Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley."

McGonagall tried not to notice the moan coming from Ron at the idea of being with the American all the time. A loader moan came out once Ron saw what classes he had that day, History of Magic, double potions, Divination and then defense against the dark arts."

"Luckily you." said Hermione "At least I don't have that."

"You have all the same classes only instead of Divination you have ancient ruins." stated Harry

"I know but at least I don't have to deal with Trelawney." said Hermione with a smile as he thoughts turned to the idea of the huge test near the end of the year which would decide what job they would likely have in the future.

"So do you know what you plan to do with your life?" asked Hermione

"I think it would be cool to be an Author." said Ron

"Ya, it would be." said Harry with a smile

"And we all know you plan to be a soldier." said Ron as he turned his attention to Jack

"There is nothing greater then to serve your country." said Jack

"Well I was thinking I would take SPEW to the next level." Said Hermione as Jack raised an eyebrow

"Don't ask." Stressed Harry as they quickly ate their breakfast before rushing off to the first magical class Jack had he had been ever in. To his amazement it was horrible; apart from the fact it was taught by a ghost it was boring. It was by far the worst class he had ever severed though that was until later that day. The only thing interesting that happened was when Harry was talking to a girl from another house. She was very pretty almost hot however Ron interrupted them yelling something about Quidditch and what team she supported. All the while Hermione stayed back with Jack watching the scene.

"Who is she?" asked Jack

"Cho Chang." whispered Hermione "She is in Ravenclaw and Harry likes."

"I can see that." Whispered Jack as he watched Harry make goodly eyes at the girl

"Well her old boyfriend was killed by you know who last year and Harry saw it." whispered Hermione

"Awkward." whispered Jack

"And Ron isn't helping." said Hermione as she looked at Jack "Are you missing your friends back in America?"

Jack closed his eyes for a moment as he remembered all the times Sam, Daniel, Teal'c and himself sitting around a small fire off world laughing at jokes or in the case of Teal'c raising an eyebrow.

"You could say that." Said Jack as Cho Chang walked away

"Are you ready to go?" asked Hermione

"Yes, we don't want to be late for Potions or else Snape will do something horrible to us." said Ron as he rolled his eyes.

Jack was a little surprised by the Potion room, it was in the darkness of the sublevels of the castle and smelled worst then the shower room at the SGC after a team had gotten back from a week off world.

"This is your OWL test year." started the potion master Severus Snape "Most of you I will never see again in this class room after this year because I only take the best of the best into the higher level potion classes. Now I know we have a new student would you please rise."

Jack slowly rose to his feet.

"As an American I do not expect much out of you, American wizards are not known for being great potion makers they focus on muggle technology." said Snape "I do not know why our headmaster let you come here but I know you will not do well in class."

Jack eyes narrowed he felt like he was being dressed down by another officer however what Snape didn't know was he wasn't dealing with a simple kid he had dealing with a soldier.

"You may sit." Said Snape as Jack sat down his eyes still focus on Snape as he ordered the students to start their potion. Jack read the stuff on the board and while some of the ingratiates sounded very weird the way it was made was no different the hundreds of times he had to make explosives ordnance in the field. He quickly finished the potion and when Snape came around to rip apart the potions he looked at Jack's potion before declaring it acceptable before moving on. The next class wasn't really a class but instead was lunch however something wasn't right. Ron was going back an forth with Hermione about Snape, and it was really getting to Harry, finally he snapped.

"I am sick of you two fighting like cats and dogs." snapped Harry as he walked off leaving his two friends at the door to the great hall stunned.

"I will take to him." said Jack as he followed Harry though the mess of students, he didn't approach him right away letting him think as he walked toward the tallest tower in the entire school.

"WHY ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME!" snapped Harry as he entered a large room.

"I am trying to see if you are ok." answered Jack

"I have been better." said Harry "Now why don't you go bother someone else."

"I know you don't know me that well and you only meet me yesterday but I know why you are acting like you are." Said Jack as Harry glared at the American as he looked out the window "You blame yourself for the death of that Cho Chang's boyfriend."

"Hermione told you." Said Harry

"Yes, and I don't know all the details of the event but more than likely it wasn't your fault." Said Jack

"How could you know it wasn't my fault?" asked Harry "The trap was meant for me and he fell into it."

"The trap was set by another it wasn't your doing, I on the other hand caused a person to die." Said Jack as Harry's eyes widened

"Who?" asked Harry

"My half brother Charlie O'Neill." said Jack since he could tell him the truth "I was done cleaning my dad's gun, I left it out for only a moment. Charlie found it and shot…."

Jack closed his eyes as he tried to fight back the tears "Shot his own head off."

"I am sorry." said Harry as he looked down as he mentally kicked himself for acting like he did.

"No it is ok." said Jack "I don't really like to talk about it so…"

"I will not tell the others." said Harry

"So why did you come up here?" asked Jack

"Our next class is up there." said Harry as he pointed toward the trap door in the roof "I actually hate his class, because she is always predicting my death."

"Well you are still around." Said Jack

"Not by lack of trying from Voldemort." Said Harryas the two of them waited out the lunch period, soon everyone was walking up a ladder into a small circle room which was full of cushiness, sitting by a crystal ball was a small women with very large glasses on her face. The glasses caused her eyes to look more bug like then anything else.

"Welcome back class." said the women who stood up as she looked at Jack "I am Pr. Trelawney and I welcome you Jack O'Neill to my classroom."

"I see." said Jack as everyone split up into pairs Harry must have forgiven Ron as they were sitting together.

"Now below we begin with our next level in the opening up the inner mind let's take a look at your future." said Trelawney as she lead jack to the front pouring him a cup of tea. "Now let's take a look into your future."

"That is strange, I can see the star clearly meaning you are well traveled and have gone to unbelievable places and your journey is not over yet." said Trelawney "Next to it is the Hammer of Thor."

"Thor?" thought Jack

"It means that you are a warrior of the most noblest kind you will never turn your back on people and you will not leave people in their time of need." said Trelawney "Next comes the Eagle of war you will be in a great war."

"The last one is the arrow of cupid, you will find love very soon." said Trelawney as Jack looked at her.

"I see." said Jack "Are you done."

"Yes, I only wish your inner eye was clear, if so you would believe everything I say." Said Trelawney as Jack stood up and found the only empty seat next to a girl with dirty blonde hair.

"Hello I am Lavender Brown." Said the girl

"Jack O'Neill." said Jack as the two of them shock hands as Trelawney began to speak about understanding a person's dream is a way to tell the future.

"So in your group members I want you to share a dream and look in your books and find the meaning of the dream." said Trelawney before she sat down to look at the tea once more.

"So I dreamed about my dead bunny, so that must mean I am still not over his death." Said Lavender as she looked at Jack

"I dreamed I was in an the Simpsons." Said Jack as Lavender just looked at him as she tried to figure out what Jack was talking about.

"Alright." asked Lavender "Anything else?"

"Nothing I am going to share with you." said Jack.

"Was I in it?" asked Lavender "I mean I saw you looking at me yesterday."

Jack just looked at her as he realized what she thought he was dreaming about, when in fact e was dreaming about getting his old life back at the SGC. Going on missions and hanging out with his friends.

"No." said Jack as he pulled away from the girl and waited for class to end, so he could go to the next class defense against the dark arts. Of all the classes this was the most interesting to Jack because if he was really going to watch Harry's back he needed to know in more detail how a wizard or a witch fought. However when he walked in all he found as that pink loving woman sitting behind a large desk. Jack found his seat beside Hermione on the opposite side of where Ron and Harry sat.

"Good afternoon class." said Dolores Umbridge as she stood up.

"Good afternoon." mumbled a few people as Umbridge's face narrowed.

"No…no..no that simply will not do." said Umbridge "Now every time I ask you a question you are to answer loudly as a class. Now Good afternoon."

"Good afternoon." said the class much loader then it had before.

"That will do for now." said Umbridge "Now wands away."

Everyone looked at each other as they followed the orders of their teacher "Now because of the very poor teaching you have had in the past we will follow a carefully laid out plan set forth by the Ministry of Magic."

"Yes, because teaching right out the book is such a great idea." whispered Jack to himself as he remembered teachers he had both times he went through high school who simply took students to read from the book, nothing more. He waited for Umbridge to finish her little speech.

"Now you will all read chapter one, there will be no talking." Ordered Umbridge a few people got out the book and started to read what in Jack's mind was possible the most boring book he had read since Daniel's report on the ancient ruins of some pre-industrial society on P3X-1347.

After a few minutes everyone else fell on the girl beside him as Hermione tried to get Umbridge's attention.

"Is something wrong Mrs…." asked Umbridge as she finally noticed Hermione's arm.

"Granger…Yes, I have a question about your course goals." said Hermione

"I don't see how you could?" asked Umbridge

"Well I don't see us using any spells on the list?" asked Hermione

"My dear why would you need to know how to use them?" asked Umbridge as everyone else widened.

"You can't be serious." said Jack as Umbridge's eyes locked on him.

"Ah the American, the minster was not pleased to hear that you where here." said Umbridge "However you will tamper down your rudeness in my classroom, her in civilized Europe we raise our hand in a classroom."

"But he is right." snapped Harry

"Hand Potter." snapped Umbridge back as Harry raised his hand only to be ignored.

"You all need to understand that for the past few years you have all been taught by very dangerous people…irresponsible wizards and dangerous half breeds making you that dangers are under every rock and around every corner." said Umbridge "In the eyes of the ministry if you know the theory behind the magic then you should have no reason to practice it."

"You have got to be kidding me, with Voldemort back we all need to be practicing everyday in order to defend ourselves!" yelled Harry at the top of his lungs as everyone looked at him and a few people looked frightened.

"Ten points from Gryffindor!" yelled Umbridge "Now let's get some things straight you have been told that the Dark Lord has returned that is a lie."

"NO it is not!" yelled Harry "I saw him."

"Detention Friday my office." ordered Umbridge

"It doesn't matter if it is a lie or a not." Said jack as Umbridge looked at him.

"What do you mean?" asked Umbridge

"Well personally I believe Lord Moldybut is back." said Jack with a grin as people eyes became as wide as dinner plates it was one thing to say his name but to fun of him was unheard off "However even if you are right and he isn't back then what will we do when the next Voldemort craws out of the darkness or hasn't your ministry thought of that."

"And how does the school in America teach you?" asked Umbridge

"They teach us how to fight." answered Jack as he crossed his arms and leaned back in his chair "If you want I can show you."

"Why would I want to fight you?" asked Umbridge

" Because you are a coward who like to attack people who speak out against you or your government." said Jack as Umbridge's face turned as pink as her cloths before becoming red with rage.

"Mr. O'Neill get up here and bring your wand." snapped Umbridge in a fury of rage as she grabbed her own wand. Jack slowly stood up and walked to the front of the room stopping right in front of Umbridge. "I will teach you some manners and since you Americans love to fight and it is the only thing you understand I will do it this way. I will embarrass you in front of the entire class."

"Alright." said Jack "Then let's make it interesting, if I win you drop Harry's detention. If you win I join him."

"Very well." said Umbridge as she turned around to picked up her wand, slowly the two of them stepped apart. "I will even be nice and let you go first."

"Wrong move." said Jack as he prayed it would work as he though up what he wanted in his mind "flashbang.". To his amazement the wand developed by the American Wizard government read his mind and picked a spell that best fit Jack's need. He didn't even raise his wand as suddenly a blinding flash of light filled the room and the sound of small explosions filled the air. Umbridge and the other students where blinded and stunned for a moment, most covered their eyes or looked away but when the light faded Jack was gone.

"Where is he?" asked Umbridge as she looked where Jack was suppose to be.

"Behind you." Answered Jack as he grabbed Umbridge from behind twisting her arm to make her drop her wand and at the same time placing his free hand around her neck, if he wanted too he could black her out in 10 seconds with death in another twenty seconds. He had done to so many lazy security guards in the Special Forces. "I win."

"You cheated." said Umbridge

"I believe you failed to remember one key fact about American wizards Pr. Umbridge." Said Dumbledore as he entered the room "They are not taught the same wizardering duel rules we are, they don't really care about honor and fighting face to face like we do. They follow our Chinese brothers ideas, they only care about winning. I believe it originates in a muggle general named Sun Tzu. Now Jack if you would be so kind."

"Of course." said Jack as he let Umbridge go

"You are out of here for this American." Said Umbridge

"No, he isn't." said Dumbledore

"He just attacked a teacher." said Umbridge

"Yes, after you took his challenge to a duel." said Dumbledore "Why should he be kicked out for doing what you asked him to do."

"He didn't follow the rules of the duel." said Umbridge

"He followed the rules as he was taught." said Dumbledore "If you had set the rules ahead of time it would have been different."

"I am not letting Harry Potter out of detention." Said Umbridge

"What of our deal!" snapped Jack

"It's ok, Jack just watching that was enough for me." said Harry as Jack backed down.

"Now Pr. Umbridge I need to borrow Mr. O'Neill for a bit." said Dumbledore

"Take him." growled Umbridge.

"I see you have made quite an impression on your first day." said Dumbledore as he and Jack walked down the hallways of the school.

"Ya, sorry about that." said Jack

"Don't be." said Dumbledore "You where protecting Harry by giving her another target to go after."

"You could say that." Said Jack as they stopped to look out a window "However I do not think you came to ask how my first day went."

"No, I have received a message from the America Government it is for you." said Dumbledore as he handed Jack a letter.

"Did you read this?" asked Jack as he read the print out from the SGC

"No, that wouldn't be right of me." said Dumbledore "However the urgent message on the front caused me some alarm."

"It is the older me." said Jack "He got his head trapped in an ancient brain sucker again."

"Brain Sucker?" asked Dumbledore

"It is a machine that downloads a shit load of information into someone mind, had it happen before and it almost killed me." said Jack "For it to happen a second time…things must be going badly out there."

"Mr. O'Neill I know you may want to be what you where before but you can't." said Dumbledore "Instead be whomever you want to be."

"Thank you sir." said Jack

Well I hope you liked this longer chapter and what I did between Jack and Umbridge. Now until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.