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For those who have asked, yes this is a repost of the original story with some fixing and fleshing out. I did say that in the story summary so not sure why I keep getting asked.

Chapter 6

Ellie was impressed by Harry, he was keeping calm when most kids his age would be panicking. Instead they were sitting discussing his schooling and career goals. She was shocked that a private school in Britain didn't teach science, but the wealthy and nobility could be odd. To kill time, she took some blank paper from a printer and wrote up a test, pulling up what she vaguely remembered learning in school and then gave it to him. "Just answer what you can, no time limit."

"You're trying to keep my mind off the fact my cousin's driving towards a T-rex, aren't you?" he asked as he took the paper and pen, already scanning the questions.

Ellie smiled and shrugged. "Sitting and waiting is boring, this gives you something to do."

Harry nodded and bent over the handwritten test while Ellie moved to join Ray at Nedry's computer, she didn't know enough to help but she felt better if she could see what he was working on.

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The Jeep was silent as Robert floored it, speeding towards the pen of a deadly predator and the two electric Jeeps stranded there. "There they are!" They rounded a corner and came to the top of the hill, where the attack took place. The jeep skidded to a stop and they jumped out. The road was a rutted, muddy mess. The cement block house was a pile of rubble and one of the Explorers was gone, the other stood untouched, both doors hanging open.

"Oh, God. Where's the other car?" Nym asked as she looked around, taking in the destruction. She took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down and observe. She moved to the empty vehicle and glanced inside but there was no sign of any kind of struggle. And then they froze as a roar shook the trees around them, both looking around wildly for the animal that had made the sound. "I think it's ahead of us? Maybe…"

"It could be anywhere. With the fences out, it can go in and out of any paddock it likes," Robert snapped, going to grab his rifle, though how much damage he could do to such a large dinosaur… Nym began moving to the cement ledge, looking for the other car when they both froze again, this time the sound was much more human and definitely close. They ran for the destroyed toilet block.

"I think this is Gennaro…" Robert muttered as he found the remains of a shoe and Nym grimaced, looking away as she yanked debris aside.

"It's Dr. Malcolm!" She was relieved to have found someone alive…and in one piece.

Robert shone his light along the length of Malcolm's body. His shirt was soaked with blood, but his right leg was even worse off. The right ankle was bent outward at a strange angle from his leg, the trousers flattened, soaked with blood. Malcolm's belt had been twisted around his thigh. "He's put a tourniquet on. Malcolm!"

Malcolm groaned as Nym gently tapped his cheek while Robert called to him. "Remind me to talk John for a lovely weekend," he moaned and Nym laughed before the T-rex roared again, but closer now. Nym and Robert looked at each other.

"Can we chance moving him?" She asked, wanting nothing more than to draw her wand and start some basic healing until they got back to the Centre where Harry had the magical first aid kit.

Ian shuffled up on his elbows weakly, looking around wildly. "Please -chance it." The two of them shifted around until his arms were over their shoulders and then as gently as possible hauled him up, keeping him off his damaged leg. They got him over to the Jeep and Robert held him up while Nym quickly cleared out the back. Muldoon lay Malcolm as carefully as possible in the back of the jeep. "Where are the kids?"

"Lex! Tim!" Nym called, listening for any response. She was on the verge of tears but was fighting them back, she had been an Auror candidate and Aurors did not cry.

"Miss Tonks, I've seen a lot of animal attacks. People just disappear. No blood, no trace. That's the way it happens."

"No, I refuse to believe they're dead." She walked to the edge of the road, her eyes following the deep ruts the Explorer made when it went over the edge. Robert got ready

to leave.

"Miss Tonks, come one!" he yelled even as she spotted something that didn't belong.

"The other car!" she pointed, and he joined her.

"I'll be…this way." he led her into the trees and a path down the embankment, thankful the car had gone off the embankment and not into the enclosure since that was definitely the T-Rex's territory. They made their way across the clearing at the bottom, stepping over the tiny stream of water to come to the tree, their flashlight beams spraying light by the base of the tree. "Dr. Grant!" He peered inside, looking for anything.

"Do you see anything?" she took advantage of him looking away to cast some quick spells.

"I don't know," he admitted as the T-Rex roared, even closer. "They're not here, no blood…looks like some vomit in the back."

"Here…footsteps heading into the jungle, three sets, one large and two smaller."

"Good eye Miss Tonks," he could barely make them out, he didn't know she'd found them with magic.

"Call me Nym, it'll be easier," she commented, she wanted to track the footsteps, but another roar had them running for the path.

Laid out in the back of the jeep, Ian felt something strange. He looked down, at one of the T-rex footprints in the road, the rain had filled it with water and now the water in the puddle was vibrating rhythmically. Ian's eyes widened, and he looked around, frantically. "Uh anybody? Anybody hear that?" Ian stared, wide-eyed, at the rings in the water, which were getting bigger. "It's a…an impact tremor is what it is, it, uh" BOOM. BOOM. "I'm fairly alarmed here!" he called and then began waving frantically as Nym and Robert came up onto the road. "Gotta move, gotta get out of here. Let's go, we gotta go, we gotta get out of here, right now! Go, go! Let's hurry, let's get out of here!" he babbled as they ran for the Jeep, jumping in. "Move now! Let's go, let's go, right now, right now!"

The tyrannosaur smashed out of the jungle foliage, bursting onto the road, and running straight at them, moving at least thirty miles an hour.

"GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!" Malcolm screamed.

Robert fumbled for the keys, turning the jeep over, and slammed it into gear. He dropped the clutch, hit the gas, and tore out of there. But the jeep was slow to work through the first few gears. Terrified, Nym dared to look down, to the side view mirror, which told her 'Objects Are Closer Than They Appear.' And they sure were. The T-rex was still gaining on the slowly accelerating jeep. All three of them stared back at the rex in terror…

"Faster, faster!" Nym urged, wand in hand but mind blank. What spell could even slow that down?

"Must go faster, it's getting closer - must go faster!" Ian urged, leaning towards her as the animal continued to gain on the flat road.

"Faster! Merlin, Merlin, Merlin, faster!" Nym gasped, she wanted to put a shield up but that could affect the Jeep.

"Must go faster, go, go. Open it up, 5th gear, 5th gear! Here it comes! Stand on it! Fifth - stand on it, fifth gear, go!" He screamed as the Rex lunged, barely missing him as Nym yanked him into the space between the seats.

"Get off the stick!" Robert yelled, unable to change gears with them on it. Nym scrambled off it and then he changed gears, gaining a little. Robert looked back up at the road, seeing a half-fallen tree branch right in front of them, blocking the path of the road. "DOWN!" they all ducked, and the windshield hit the branch, shattering as the jeep flew ahead, really picking up speed now. The T-rex just ran right through the branch, smashing it entirely. Losing ground now, the dinosaur made a final lunge for the jeep and crunched into the left rear quarter panel.

"Faster, faster!" Nym yelled.

Robert coaxed as much speed out of the Jeep as he could, and the T-rex gave up, fading into the distance. They drove in silence for a few moments, all scared out of their wits.

"Think they'll have that on the tour?" Ian finally asked and Nym burst into laughter.

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Harry handed the completed test to Ellie who went to work marking it. For someone who hadn't had a science class in two years it was very good. "Where in the US are you moving to?"

"Florida," Harry answered, grinning at all of the ticks on it.

"There's some good science orientated schools there, I'll write a list."

"Thanks!" and then his eyes widened as he stared out the circular windows. Ellie turned and then scrambled up to open the door as Robert and Nym carried Ian into the Command Centre. Ray quickly moved to help, relieving Nym of his weight. They laid him out on the ramp as Ellie began checking him over. Harry blanched slightly as they got a look at his leg.

"That bad huh?" Ian asked, teetering on the edge of unconsciousness now the adrenaline was wearing off. Robert returned with a comprehensive first aid kit and Ellie began digging through it.

"Any drug allergies?" she asked, and Ian shook his head, so she pulled out a vial and syringe, drawing out a dose. "Morphine for the pain," she warned before injecting him. She then found the scissors and began cutting his pant leg off to really reveal the damage. She glanced at Harry and then to Nym. "Why don't you show Nym your science test, Harry?"

Nym nodded, "great idea." She gently pulled Harry away while Ellie and Robert worked to stabilise Ian.

He was given another shot, this one an antibiotic and then, once sure he was pretty out from the morphine, she pulled out needle and thread, doing her best to stitch the wound closed, he'd still need a doctor for any internal damage, but she was trying to prevent more blood loss. They then tightly bandaged and splinted the leg before carefully removing the belt, watching for any sign of further bleeding. There didn't seem to be any thankfully.

Nym was very impressed with Harry's work, she'd kept up a bit with a non-magical education thanks to her grandparents and living partially in each world as a child, but she had let it slip after they had died, and she'd started at Hogwarts. The talk at the computers was over her head, Harry's too since he'd never been allowed near a computer. John Hammond left the control room as the group began splitting up to get food, rest or check the buildings security. Ellie followed John after a few minutes and Harry went to sit with Malcolm who was obviously still in pain and awake again, despite the morphine.

"Don't suppose you have a pain potion on you?" Ian asked, and Harry froze, eyes wide.

"Uh…"

Ian chuckled, though it was very pained sounding. "Harry Potter, son of James and Lily, right?"

"You're not…."

"No, uh, I think you Brits call us…. squibs?"

"Oh." With that realisation Harry dug out the magical first aid kit and handed him the asked for potion which he quickly downed, relaxing as it went to work.

"Hogwarts as good as they say?"

Harry shrugged. "The castle is incredible… but there's been a lot of problems, at least the last two years. The Tonks have moved us to America now."

"I hear Ilvermorny is good, had an Uncle who attended, my grandparents went to Hogwarts too."

"Why did you become a mathematician…chaotician?"

"Because Arithmancy fascinates me and maths is the non-magical version. Just because I can't magic doesn't mean I can't do the theory work. I actually passed the Arithmancy NEWT test with an EE."

"You were allowed to sit the exams?" Harry was surprised, squibs in Britain were either given away or ended up like Filch.

"America's not perfect but they treat their own better, there's no real blood distinction either. But I hear you want to follow in Dr Grants hallowed footsteps?"

"Yeah, but Hogwarts only teaches magic, so I thought I couldn't. Aunt Andromeda is making sure I can attend high school and get my NEWTS."

"Ambitious but doable," he smiled and then closed his eyes and Harry tugged the emergency blanket up around him better before getting out the bruise salve and dabbing it on his face, arms and chest.

"How's he doing?" Nym asked as she joined him. "Harry!" She hissed in alarm when she realised what he was doing.

"It's okay, he's a squib," Harry quickly told her, and she stared at the sleeping man in shock.

"Huh. Okay then," she drew her wand carefully and cast what medical testing spells she knew. Sure enough, he read as a squib and one with bruise salve and a general healing potion at work, it also picked up blood loss, heavy bruising, and a rather mangled leg. They looked up as John and Ellie returned, Ellie handing out half melted tubs of ice cream which the two magicals happily dug into. Too much sugar was never an issue for their kind, that was why chocolate was handy to keep close.

"So, what do we do now?" Nym asked the group as John and Ray began arguing. Ellie shrugged slightly, and they all listened to the two men.

"Shutting down the system," John was saying as they re-joined the group, but Ray shook his head.

"That's crazy. You're out of your mind. He's absolutely out of his mind."

"Wait, shutting down the system? What exactly would this mean?" Ellie asked as she put her ice cream aside.

"We're talking about a calculated risk, which is the only option left to us. We'll never find the command Nedry used. He's covered his tracks far too well. I think it's obvious now that he's not coming back. So, shutting down the entire system..." John explained.

"Get somebody else. I won't do it," Ray shook his head, it was far too dangerous.

"Shutting down the system is the only way to wipe out everything he did. Now, as I understand it, all the systems will then come back...on their original start-up mode. Correct?" John pushed, and Ray sighed.

"Theoretically, yes, but we've never shut down before. It may not come back on."

"Would we get the phones back?" Harry asked, and Ray nodded.

"Yes, again, in theory."

"What about the lysine contingency? We could put that into effect." Robert offered from where he was leaning against the wall, watching everything.

"What's that?" Nym asked seeing the instant frown on Hammond's face.

"That's absolutely out of the question," the elderly man snapped.

"The lysine contingency prevents the spread of animals if they ever get off the island. Wu inserted a gene that creates a faulty enzyme in protein metabolism. The animals can't manufacture the amino acid, lysine. Unless they're supplied with lysine by us, they slip into a coma and die," Ray quickly explained.

"Wouldn't that take time to work though?" Harry asked, and Robert nodded.

"People are dying," John slammed his walking stick into the floor, glaring. "Will you please shut down the system?"

Ray sighed but nodded. Robert moved to an emergency locker and began handing out heavy duty torches, there were no windows so deep in the building so once the lights went out it would be very dark.

"Wait…. this will shut everything down? All the fences?" Harry suddenly asked, and Ray nodded. "Even the Raptors?" Robert swearing was a pretty good answer. "They aren't on independent power or even have their own backup generator?" the teen demanded in shock, even he knew that much. The park needed a lot of work before ever opening! Maybe get some goblin warders in to help secure the paddocks further?

"Power should only go off for a minute, maybe two. Not long enough for them to notice and escape," John answered, looking to Robert even as Ray went around setting everything up for the shutdown.

"Is all the power controlled from here? Or is there somewhere else that might need turning back on?" Nym asked and Ray paused.

"It could trip the circuit breakers, though it's unlikely," he offered.

"And they are?" She pushed.

"In a shed at the other end of the compound."

"Right, I'll go there and be ready to turn them back on if needed," Nym stood, making sure she still had her portkey, just in case.

"No, I'll go," Robert said, he was not letting her go, he knew what he was doing and if the Raptors got loose….well, better him than her.

"There's no need…"John shook his head.

"Mr. Hammond it's better to be safe than sorry. If they are tripped and no one's there to turn them back on then they would have to cross the compound, right passed the raptors," Harry argued, and John wavered before nodding.

"Alright, just to be safe, I want everybody in the emergency bunker until Mr. Arnold has the whole system's running again." The men carried the still unconscious Ian down to the bunker where Robert grabbed a high-powered rifle and a radio before heading out. Ray grabbed a radio too and returned to the control room while Nym locked the bunker door physically and with a quick spell, just to be safe. John turned on a third radio and Ellie grabbed the blue prints of the bunker, so they could talk Robert through it. Harry stayed with Ian, making sure the man was alright after being moved. They waited anxiously until finally the radio crackled to life.

"I'm in the shed," Robert reported.

Ellie grabbed the radio as she looked over the plans. "Okay, down the stairs you need to look up, you'll see a group of thick black pipes. They should lead you right where you need to go."

"I see them." They waited as Ray too reported he was read. "I'm at the panel."

"Hold on to your butts." Ray warned as he threw the switches and they waited with bated breath, the lights in the bunker flickering as the main power went off and the emergency generator for the bunker kicked in. "It's okay. It worked. Shutdown tripped the circuit breakers. Turn them back on, and I'll reboot the systems."

John took the radio from Ellie as he read the schematics. "You can't throw the main switch by hand. You've got to pump up the primer handle in order to get the charge. It's large, flat and grey."

"Got it. One, two, three, four." They could hear the noise of something heavy moving over the radio. "Charged."

"Under the words "Contact Position," there's a round green button which says, "Push to Close." Push it."

"Done."

"The red buttons turn on the individual park systems. Switch them on."

In the shed Robert flipped them open and began hitting the buttons one by one, the boards lighting up as he did so. "We're back in business. Over to you Ray."

"Understood," Ray answered as he turned the computer on and went to work rebooting all the park systems. He reactivated the Raptor fenced and compound security first, and then things like motion sensors and cameras, using them to look for Dr. Grant and the kids, the last thing he wanted to do was lock them in a predator's paddock, the fences were back up, but he could turn one off briefly to give them a way out or open the door for them. "You can come up if you want, compound security is back up," he told the others over the radio as he worked. Harry was soon at his side, helping to scan over the images and readings, looking for the three missing people.

"Found the T-rex, in the Gallimimus enclosure," Harry announced as John and Ellie entered, Nym staying to watch over Ian and help speed his healing.

"Found them….in the same paddock," Ellie pointed at the motion sensor readings and Ray swore as Robert joined them, still armed.

"What is it?" he demanded.

"Dr. Grant, Lex, Tim, and the T-rex are in the same paddock," Harry answered, eyes wide.

"Robert?" John looked to the Game Warden who nodded and headed for the garage alone. He needed to get in and out fast, another person would just add unnecessary weight.

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"Looking at the map, I'd say the visitor's centre is just a mile over that rise there," Alan offered the exhausted kids, trying to keep them motivated. They needed to get out of the paddocks fast. They began walking down the valley only to hear something approaching.

"What is that?" Lex demanded, scared as the massive flock ran into the open valley.

"Tim, can you tell me what they are?" Alan asked as they watched the animals move together.

"Gal…Galli…Gallimimus!" Tim grinned.

"Are those meat-eating? "Meat-asauruses"?" Lex asked warily, looking to Alan for comfort.

"Look at the wheeling. Uniform direction changes. Just like a flock of birds evading a predator," Alan grinned as they watched them.

"Um…they're flocking this way," he tugged at Alan's hand and they went to run only to hear a Jeep horn. Alan turned to see a gas-powered Jeep flying towards them at top speed. It braked, and he saw Muldoon at the wheel.

"Get in! The T-rex is in here too!" He yelled, and Alan tossed the kids in before scrambling in as well, holding on tight as Robert raced for the paddock exit, hoping the T-rex hadn't moved between it and them.

"Look at all the blood!" Tim called, and the adults looked back to see the T-rex happily eating a Gallimimus.

As soon as they were through the small door it locked behind them and Robert slowed a bit, tossing the radio to Alan who quickly turned it on. "Ellie?"

"Alan! We're safe in the command centre. The kids okay?"

"Tired, hungry and filthy but otherwise fine. What happened?"

"I'll tell you when you get here." She promised.

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When the Jeep pulled up Ellie and John were waiting, the kids immediately ran to their Grandfather who hugged them tight, not caring that they were utterly filthy. "Alright?" he asked, and they nodded shakily. He took them to his private villa to clean up and get some food while Alan and Robert went back to the control room with Ellie.

"So, what the hell happened?" Alan demanded as they entered, taking in Ray at the computers with Harry watching him work.

"Corporate espionage," Harry answered, and Alan blinked. "The guy in charge of the computer systems stole dinosaur embryo's and shut the fences down to get off the island."

"I see…is everything back up? What about the raptor pen?"

"The park is fully up and running again, the raptors are safely in their enclosure thanks to Mr. Potter and Miss Tonk's pointing a few things out," Ray assured him.

"We've called for a chopper, anyone who wishes to leave can, Dr. Malcolm will be air lifted to a hospital for further treatment," John added, and Alan closed his eyes, relieved.

"He's alive?" he hadn't thought the man could have lived through that, he didn't know that most squibs were a little tougher than your average non-magical.

"In the emergency bunker with Miss Tonks looking after him."

In the end Hammond's grandchildren left with Ian, Nym had wanted to take Harry as well but the young teen had refused to leave. There was no danger anymore with the systems back up and he wanted to discuss increasing security with Mr. Arnold and Muldoon. Alan and Ellie agreed, if Hammond wanted them to endorse the park a lot of changes were needed.

They spent the weekend going over every bit of information there was on the various systems, paddock security, animal welfare… and then the Costa Rican government showed up, demanding answers. Three deaths needed answering too. Harry and Nym were quickly sent back to America as it was assumed they were simply kids and bystanders and Nym didn't disabuse them of the notion.

When they explained everything that had happened Ted was very willing to file against InGen and Andromeda was continually scanning for injuries.

"We're fine Mum," Nym assured her after the third lot.

"And please don't file anything Uncle Ted. Yes, mistakes were made but all theme parks and zoos have problems at first. I'd want to bring in ward experts secretly to increase the security on the paddocks for starters."

"You sure?"

"Positive."

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Harry loved the new house in Miami, it was close to his new school too which was handy. They had decided to home school him in magic rather than send him to another boarding school, but he didn't have to worry about that for a while since it was still summer vacation. It was amazing how the time on the island had gone so quickly and yet had also seemed to last all holidays. They received an official letter from Madam Bones on how the investigation into the school and teachers was going. Snape had been sacked and would be standing trial while Binns had been sent on to the afterlife. Trelawney, the Divination teacher, had also been fired for being drunk while teaching. And the biggest shock to be revealed was that Dumbledore was also facing a trial over his handling of Harry since he was the one to place him with the Dursley's, not to mention young Ginny's fate and the intrigue surrounding first year and Quirell. It was possible Hogwarts would have a new Head for next year, though Ted figured the man would find some way to place the blame on others and hold on to at least his position as Headmaster, if not the others.

Harry received a file from Mr. Hammond and was shocked to find the Park would not be opened. The islands were only leased from the Costa Rican government, they had not been bought, and the government was refusing to allow the Park to open. They had wanted to simply incinerate both islands, killing everything, thankfully Hammond had managed to stop that. Instead everything was shut down, with no electrified fences the animals would be able to wander where they wished and live their lives in secrecy. Harry instantly set the goblins on the task of buying the islands fully from the Government to really protect the dinosaurs and hopefully open the Park one day. His fortune was ever growing thanks to investments, even with the hit he'd take to the InGen stock falling in value. If necessary, he could seek other investors as well in order to finance the purchase. And Andromeda pointed out that he could throw his name around too, Costa Rica had a magical population as well.

Harry was ecstatic when a week later the Grangers arrived in Miami.

TBC…