Just a little after 3:00pm the Hogwarts Express pulled into Hogsmeade Station. One Head Auror Leroy Jethro Gibbs exited the train. Two days ago, an Auror named Carl Winslow had discovered something shocking about a young girl in California and Leroy Gibbs had been sent to Hogwarts to find answers from the one man who might have them, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As Leroy exited the station, he couldn't help but think that only yesterday this same train had taken the students of Hogwarts home for the summer. Harry Potter was at home right now and soon his world would be turned on its head. Especially when the world found out the other intriguing news regarding Lily Potter.
Coming up to the front gates of the castle Gibbs spotted a man you might confuse with a vampire if not for the direct sunlight he was standing in. Long greasy hair and a hooked nose. He wore long black robes and gave of the fill of darker magic. Leroy was quickly on guard. He just knew he wouldn't like this man.
"Good afternoon, I'm Head Auror Leroy Gibbs of the A.R.W.K. International Affairs Office here to see Headmaster Dumbledore." Gibbs said.
"I'm the Potions Master Severus Snape. The conductor messaged us about a visitor to the school that was riding in, but I've had no prior knowledge of an appointment for the Headmaster. Do you have an appointment Auror Gibbs or did you just drop by unannounced an expect the Headmaster to drop everything he is doing to see you? He's far more than the Headmaster and has a remarkably busy scheduled." Snape snapped. the fact that he had been the only staff member available to meet the man at the gate had left him in a sour mood.
"No, I don't have an appointment." Gibbs answered angrily. "The matter I'm here to question him about is urgent and I didn't fill there was time to make one."
Never let it be said that Severus Snape was a stupid man. As Leroy Gibbs had walked to the gate Snape had taken notice of the man's robes. The dark blue with gold trim was the standard issue for American Aurors, a fact Snape had learned during his Death Eater days, and four silver stars on his left shoulder marked him as a lieutenant and the gold wand with silver sparks on his right sleeve marked him as a senior field agent of at least twenty five years. He appeared to be around sixty-five with sold white hair in a crew cut. He was still in great shape. There was no doubt in Snape's mind that Gibbs could easily hold his own against much younger adversaries.
It was his eyes that where the most of putting. his carefree smirk and casual walk that he adopted on his way to the gate would make most people think Gibbs was an easy going individual. Severus was not most people and wasn't fooled for a second. The oppressive fill of this man's magic and his eyes told Snape that Gibbs had seen his share of darkness and suffered grate pain. Leroy Jethro Gibbs was a wizard that wouldn't hesitate to kill his enemy to protect others from filling the pain and suffering that he had. Snape would never try Legilimency on a wizard as powerful as this one but could tell from his body language and posture that he was telling the truth. So, the Potions Master wisely opened the gate.
"Please follow me and I'll take you to the Headmaster Auror Gibbs." Snape said a little more politely.
The walk to the Headmaster's office was uneventful and Professor and Auror parted ways without further incident.
It was as Snape returned to the dungeons that it dawned on him just who Leroy Gibbs was. Sense the man had given his name Severus couldn't help but think how familiar it sound. He could have sworn he herd it somewhere before but couldn't place it. He almost wished he hadn't.
The English wizarding community sometimes forgets that the Dark Lord campaigned overseas. The truth was that he was obsessed with wandless magic and believed it was the key to defeating Dumbledore, concurring Hogwarts, and more.
In one of the worst attacks committed on American soil during the war three wizarding families where virtually wiped out. In the Spring of 1971, in the state of Maryland, a small all Wizard town named Clear Pond, was attacked by Voldemort's forces. Like Hogsmeade the town was hidden from the Muggle world. Among the dead had been the wife of Leroy Gibbs, Shannon, and their 8-year-old daughter Kelly. Shannon was targeted because she was a muggle and Gibbs was a Muggleborn wizard. Voldemort had hoped to instill terror in the hearts of the Americans but only fueled their furry. Leroy Jethro Gibbs was no exception.
In the American Death Eater ranks where three brothers from France whose family name was Whitehall. Their names from oldest to youngest where Acel, Marq, and Tavin. They were some of the best dualists of their age. Alone one was deadly but together they were unstoppable. Devout fallowers of the Dark Lord who delighted in torturing Muggleborns and Muggles alike, they were as feared as Bellatrix Lestrange. It was they who lead the attack on Clear Pond.
In the Winter of 1971, the three brothers and six other Death Eaters had finally been cornered in a warehouse in Brooklyn. In their desperation they took five Muggle hostages and barricaded themselves inside. Gibbs ordered his men to surround the building as he comely walked inside to negotiate with the enemy. Gibbs comely walked out with all five hostages twenty minutes later leaving all nine Death Eaters dead behind him.
As Severus Snape stood in his office, he couldn't help but shake. That battle had earned Gibbs a moniker he had lived up to during the war. He was known from then on as The Dark Magic Killer and personally cut down over seventy Death Eaters from 1972 to 1981. He also launched some of the costliest attacks on Voldemort's holdings overseas. There was no way to ever truly know the number of bodies that Gibbs was responsible for, but it was said the man had made a graveyard to hold them all. Severus, a reformed Death Eater, had just spent twenty or so minutes with a man who didn't believe in reformed Death Eaters. Why would the A.R.W.K. send The Dark Magic Killer to talk with Albus Dumbledore. Why did America want the Death Eaters afraid? He would have to alert all known Death Eaters to keep a low profile for the time being. He just hoped Lucius Malfoy listened to his warning. Gibbs had killed his younger brother Armand.