The Fifth Member Series Omakes

'What's my Age Again?'

Odyssey Bridge.

It was a moment between events. Before, actions, orders and the like, all related to the fact that the Odyssey was now safe from the Ori Motherships through a unique set of circumstances, and the after yet to come which would surround the issue of, what to do with the aged and the newcomers.

Someone had just asked a question, which pushed him into those kinds of moments that only ever happen between events. Moments of reflection, introspection, and all the other '-tion' words applicable.

The question was rather simple. It's answer was somewhat simple, but it spawned a few other questions with answers far more complex.

"How old are you now?"

And so one Harry Carter, or Harry Potter as the others know him as, had become trapped in such a moment to work out the answer to them all, and compared his ages against the others of SG-1, past and present members from Earth.

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To start with, he was born 31st July, 1980. In the September of 1991, he started at Hogwarts. Sometime in 1997, when he otherwise would have been in the first term of his 7th year, he had experienced his first reality jump, and more. He never did work out just how much time he spent reality-jumping before he returned to the moment he had left. He never bothered to adjust his age for it, otherwise he was sure he'd be a few years older. Even worse, he'd have been unable to work out his new birthday, as the chances he had spent time reality jumping for exactly a year, or two, or three, or even four, was so small. So he never did. All future calculations of his birthday and age did not take them into account.

It was June or July, he did not remember exactly anymore, of 1998 that he disappeared. It was that date but in September? October? That he reappeared in the 'Gateverse', as they all called it. But the year was 2001. At the time, it allowed him to calculate his new birthday. It worked out to Halloween. 31st October. He turned 18 that year. Adjusted to this, his 'birth date' would be 1983. Indeed, his 'gateverse' birth certificate that the Air Force had, created for him, stated as much. So 31st October, 1983.

He was 19, a few months off of 20, when he officially/unofficially got his license that allowed him to pilot an F-302.

Compared to SG-1, he was quite young.

First, Jack had been born 20th October, 1952. He was a few months off of 52 when he was promoted to Brigadier General and given command of the SGC in mid-2004.

Harry turned 21 a month before he completed his special training to become an Officer in the Air Force. He had only taken a few months to do this, when others would have taken as much as 2 years, considering what was on the curriculum. Indeed, it was only because Jack had become a General, that Harry got the permissions to do this while keeping active on SG-1, which made it even more amazing that Harry had completed his training in such a short time.

Then half of that year had passed him by when he had lost his magic, and had to live with the Asgard for that time while they treated him.

A time after his return, and SG-1 became inactive. Harry had temporary assignment to Pegasus with the Daedalus. In the meantime, he missed Daniels' big 40th birthday party. He was born 8th July, 1965. And while Daniel was like a big brother to him, the age gap (18 years) had made some people at first think it was like Harry considered Daniel his adoptive Dad. Then again, those people who thought that had this idea that Dads encourage their sons to be somewhat promiscuous or at the very least to have a large porn collection.

In actual fact, the times people thought Daniel was being like that, he wasn't so much doing that, as he was encouraging (and failing) Harry to speak to girls at college who apparently had a crush on him. The difference between this being brotherly and fatherly, lay in the other areas however. How Harry would be annoyed at the man for some things, like creating a mess.

On the other hand, those who knew Harry would have expected this no matter what he saw Daniel as.

But regardless of the age gap, that was indeed what Harry had seen the man as – His older Brother.

At the time, Harry had still been in college, half a year since arriving in the 'gateverse'. He rejected the advice, because of reasons he, back then, didn't realise he had. He liked someone else, only he couldn't use that advise to ask her out, because of who she was, and the age difference there.

He had a crush on Sam. He didn't know her that much, back then. They mostly interacted due to a few things – She was Daniels' team mate and she was a scientist, so they spent time together, trying to quantify and later simulate/recreate Magic.

Back then, she turned 33 just after he had turned 18, her birthday being 29th December. Born in 1968. Only 3 years younger than Daniel.

A 15 year age gap was, at the time, quite insurmountable to him. Indeed, had he asked her out then, he'd have gotten a pat on the back and an 'Ask in 5 or 10 years'.

Outwardly, he grinned as he thought about this, making Teal'c, who was sat at Tactical and had looked at him, wondering what he was thinking.

Harry mused that, indeed, he had asked after 5 years.

When Harry returned from Pegasus, that first time, having missed Daniels' 40th, he learned that there was a Lieutenant Colonel, a pilot who's name sounded familiar, that was trying to get SG-1 back together.

Of course, he remembered why after a moment. Cameron Mitchell was an F-302 pilot, who lead Earth's Defense forces of F-302s during the battle of Antartica, covering SG-1 as they used some kind of laser drilling (a modified Goa'uld ring platform emitter) to drill through the ice, down to an Ancient outpost.

Considering the rings were Ancient in origin too, he idly thought that they should call them that – Ancient ring platforms, not Goa'uld.

Cameron was trying to put the team back together, as he wanted to work with SG-1, only to get out of the hospital and get that assignment to find they had gone their separate ways. The Lieutenant Colonel was only about 14 months younger than Sam. He was born 17th February, 1970.

14 months between he and Sam, but 14 years between him and Harry. Well, 13 years and a few months.

So, at the time the bubble went up, Daniel had turned 42 a month prior, (A/N: which was ironic as he had been a Prior. Haha!) Sam and Cam were 38 and 37 respectively, and Harry was a couple months off of turning 24.

The issue came from that He, and Teal'c whom never had actually revealed his age, had come out of the time bubble staying at the age they had become towards it's end, while the others were reverted both physically and mentally to how they were just when the field activated.

They had, those within the field, agreed to actually postponing the reversal, so it would revert Harry's birthday to the 31t July.

Only, he was much older.

He had turned 42 within the field, and they had waited to purposely revert his age. That had been Teal'c's idea after the issue of when their birthdays would be again came up.

So he was now 42, as younger to Jack, as Daniel is, He and Daniel, now being the same age, a difference of a mere 23 days. He was now older than Sam and Cam both, who were, still, 38 and 37. Jack turned 55 in a few months.

This put his newly-adjusted Birth Date at 31st July, 1965. A full 15 years before his original, and just over 18 years before his first-adjustment.

So when he got back to Earth, and the Air Force made the changes so that he officially was born then... The SG-1 birthday calendar for the next year would be:

Jack – 20th October, 2007 (55) [+12 years 8 months 12 days]
Sam – 29th December 2007 (39) [-3 years, 4 months 29 days]
Cam – 17th February 2008 (38) [-4 years , 6 months 17 days]
Daniel – 8th July 2008 (43) [+23 days]
Harry – 31st July 2008 (43)

Before the time bubble, it would have been:

Jack – 20th October, 2007 (55) [+31 years, 11 days]
Harry – 31st October 2007 (24)
Sam – 29th December 2007 (39) [+14 years, 10 months, 3 days]
Cam – 17th February 2008 (38) [+13 years, 8 months, 12 days]
Daniel – 8th July 2008 (43) [+18 years, 3 months, 24 days]

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A/N: This is to settle the matter of when who was born and ages between each. plus or minuses indicate their age gap to Harry. plus: older, minus: younger than harry. The above 'calendar of birthdays' would take place in the 'season 11' period, so count a year back and age down one (on the bottom) to get the season 10 birthdates/ages, 2 for s9, 3 s8, 4 s7, 5 s6 6 s5 etc.

Yes, this makes Sam 28-29 in season 1, and jack 44-45. daniel turned 32 during his year or so on abydos, and daniel 33 at the end of the season. it is near the end of 'season 1' that Harry entered that thing that held him in limbo before arriving in the SG'verse... which is kind of curious as this is when Daniel "Jumped realities" for the first time, himself. :D

No, they are not linked events. the 'vortex' thingy was created due to circumstances happening within that potterverse reality, but was 'pulled' into the 'gateverse' reality of TFM due to the supernova/blackhole interaction through stargates combined with the fact that Hyperspace windows were also opened (and before they 'moved' as it were with the ship inside, overtaken by the supernova shockwave thing... all th ese poked holes and 'pulled' that pocket of reality from Harry's verse to this one. Harry's previous Reality-jumping served as like a magnet, hence why he and nothing else from that reality (or others, as so far storied) came through.

Think of it in terms of the show Doctor Who - because Rose and Doc jumped realities themselves they got covered in Void Stuff. so when the tear was opened to full in 'doomsday', they were being pulled through. A bit different in the how-it-works for my story, but basically yes, the tear in the void on the 'potter' end was due to events there, but the exit was then created in the gateverse.