DISCLAIMER: I own neither JAG nor Harry Potter, If I did I'd be writing scripts and not fanfic. Just playing with them, no copyright infringement intended.

A/N: Speech in double quotes, thoughts are in singles.

Thanks to: Bekki. Her story and its positive reception made me brave enough to post this, and to Raindrops on Roses for constructive criticism.

CHAPTER 2: REVELATIONS, OR, ONE VERY BEWILDERED MUGGLE

NOVEMBER 14, 2003

1430 ROMEO

AJ'S OFFICE

JAG HQ

FALLS CHURCH, VA

"Reporting as ordered, Sir!" Bud and Harm came to attention in the Admiral's office.

"Sit down, Gentlemen. Mac and Harriet, I'll let you open the conversation." AJ said firmly.

Harriet replied, "Bud already knows, so Mac can open."

"Thank you, Harriet." Mac said. "Well, there's no easy way to put this, so I'm just going to say it. I'm a witch."

The only one who looked surprised was Bud. "You, too?"

"Yes, me too." Mac looked at Harm. "Harm? Say something, please."

"I've waited a long time for you to tell me that. I'm assuming you thought it would come as a shock."

"Uh, yeah, Flyboy. How did you find out, and why didn't you tell me you knew?" Mac asked dumbfounded.

"I've known ever since Bud was on the Seahawk," Harm stated matter-of- factly. "Bud and Harriet weren't the only ones Singer tried to start trouble between. She found out when she checked a register of something called Animagi, whatever they are. She had been suspicious of Harriet, and she found your name. She correctly assumed I didn't know, and thought that it would start a fight on trust issues or break us up – she apparently thought we were seeing each other as more than friends. I, however, decided you would tell me when you were ready, and didn't bug you about it. That infuriated her." He crossed the room to stand beside her.

"SINGER!?" Mac screeched, causing Harm to rub his ear. "How did she even know what an Animagi is, or how to check a list of them?"

Albus spoke again. "Singer was a witch too, Mac. She was also a Death Eater. You knew her, so it should come as no surprise to you that she went where she thought the power was. In the end, it finished her." Albus spoke softly. "They made it look like an accident, but really she was hit by a Ministry Hit Wizard. The "baby" they found in her stomach was really a magical illusion, and a body was transfigured to look like Lauren. She had actually given birth already, she was really 8 months when she went out to the Seahawk. A little Slimming Charm did its job almost to the end. She isn't dead – she's in the permanent spell damage ward at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical maladies and Injuries. She's absolutely insane, there is not much hope for her to get better. The baby is in the care of Molly Weasley, by orders of the Ministry."

Harm spoke up. "Mac, what's an Animagus?"

"It will be easier if I show you. I hope I can still do it, its been awhile." With a soft "pop" Mac was gone and there was a beautiful tan Persian cat sitting there. She walked to the open-mouthed Harm and rubbed against his ankles, and then jumped into the only remaining chair. A second later there was another "pop" and Sarah was again sitting there. "I could have probably rubbed against your jaw, it was certainly hanging low enough… do you need help getting it back in its socket? An Animagus is a human who can turn to a specific animal at will, Harm."

"WOW!" Harm commented. "Can I see that again?"

"I can show you something better, Commander." Harriet spoke up. I'm a Metamorphmagus, which means I can change my appearance at will. With that she wiggled her nose and Harm was staring at an exact copy of himself. Then in quick succession she became Bud, Sturgis, Jen, Tiner, and the Admiral. Just for fun she became Judge Sebring, Brumby and the SecNav. After shifting through a variety of animal species, she said "close your eyes, Bud." She very quickly moved so she could whisper to Mac, who grinned. "You can open them, honey."

Bud opened his eyes to find himself staring at two identical Sarah MacKenzies. "Bud – quiz time. Which of us is really Harriet? Kiss her."

Bud chose the Sarah closest to him and kissed her on the lips. At the same moment the other Sarah turned back into Harriet. "Oops, sorry sweetie."

"It's ok, Bud, when my cousin - who is the only other Metamorphmagus on the East Coast- tried this with me, even my mother couldn't tell us apart."

Albus spoke again. "Voldemort was responsible for Lauren being in this office, but I or my predecessors are responsible for several more. When a certain young lady who attended Salem academy got in trouble and was going to be expelled, I arranged for her to transfer to Hogwarts, as I knew how smart she really was. When she started having troubles again after graduation, I convinced the judge in Hagerstown to allow military service as an option, and got her placed on the Seahawk. Likewise, when Sarah was getting ready to join the Marines, her uncle tipped off a friend, even though Sarah wanted nothing to do with the wizarding world, her uncle knew she would pick up on strange events. Harriet we knew about, being from a respectable pure-blood family - star of Beuxbatons, Quidditch player, Head Girl and a Triwizard Champion to boot! AJ, I tipped someone off after you graduated – the senator who gave you your nomination to the Naval Academy was a wizard who chose Muggle politics. We also have spies in the Army, Air Force, the White House Staff, the CIA… anyplace that is important, you will most likely find a magical person. We're very through. Commander Rabb, the Ministry is going to have an interdepartmental Quidditch tournament, and I already took the liberty of entering all of the magical people. I heard you are good at Muggle planes. We're a few short – perhaps we'll see if you can handle a broom."

"Thank you Sir, I'd like that." After Harm's statement all of them stared at each other. Finally Mac spoke, looking at Harriet.

"I can't believe I've known you this long and didn't put two and two together. Harriet Beaumont, Triwizard Champ and the Keeper of the All-American Olympic Quidditch Team! I've even seen pictures of you in Quidditch Quarterly!"

"Harriet retorted, "I can't believe I've know you this long and didn't figure out you were a witch! The visions alone should have been a major clue." Just then the phone rang.

"Okay. I will. I'll tell them." AJ hung up the phone. "Our intel on the case is on its way. Mac, please go open the window." As he said this, a pigeon flew by and landed on the ledge.

Mac complied and a few minutes later the pigeon who had been sitting on the ledge nonchalantly stepped into the window and flew to the floor. A second later the bird began to grow, and Clayton Webb was standing in the office.

While (almost) everyone else was busy gaping at him, Harriet walked over and kissed Clay on the cheek. "How ya doin',Cuz?"

"You two are COUSINS?!" Mac exclaimed.

"Yes, all the pureblood families are related. If your mother was a pureblood, I'm sure you are too. Remind me when we aren't so busy and we'll look it up in Warbeck's Wizarding Geneology. The Admiral and I probably are cousins as well, if he's a pureblood. Loren and I were first cousins. And one of my ancestors emigrated to Australia and married a Brumby.

"BUGME is your COUSIN?" This bit of information was too much for Harm. He put his head in his hands as if he had a massive headache. "Jeez, think you know people…."

AJ spoke up again, ignoring Harm. Well, if you go looking in Warbeck's, you need to look under my Wizarding name – My mother changed it when I decided to enter the Muggle world, but my given Name is Adalbert Josephus Chegwidden. You now understand why I started calling myself AJ. You definitely don't want to know what I did to anyone who dared to call me that."

Dumbledore smiled. "If I remember, you transfigured Wesley Rookwood into a mouse and were in the process of tossing him to the caretaker's cat when Mr. VonMeer caught you. I imagine you still have marks, that was one of the severest punishments ever given out at Hogwarts. And from Dippett, too."

AJ nodded. "I still have a lot of them. It's the reason Marcella and I moved back here before Francesca was born, since Salem had no punishments like that. Then, of course, the old punishments were outlawed when you became headmaster."

A loud crash issued from the opposite end of the room, where little AJ had taken big AJ's wand off the desk and, poking the flowerpot, made the plant grow so big that the pot exploded from the root pressure. He ran to hide behind his Auntie Mac, hoping that Harriet wouldn't pull him out and spank him. He didn't get his wish. Then Harriet took him off to the bathroom to get cleaned up – there was just too much dirt for a single Scourgify spell – She needed to take his clothes off and do them separately – Big AJ shrunk the plant and used the Reparo spell to fix the pot.

TBC