DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter, Stargate: SG-1, Star Trek, or any of the real quantum physics and science in this story, the characters, plots, or stories from those series, but I do own my own characters, plot, and story. However, if in my zeal to squish real science together with sci-fi, if I accidentally stumbled upon something that works, I do want my Nobel Prize. There is a cash reward that comes along with the trophy right? Oh, and if you build one of these things and it works, you damned well owe me a ride.

Harry Potter and the Cochran Effect - Chapter 6

After The New Defenders returned to their base in New York (Tanzania) they sat down to draw up a plan to put their new warship to use to finally take out Voldemort and end the magical war in Britain. They then set a meeting with the OOTP to enlist the right sort of help.

Harry sat six devices on the table. Five very similar to their Sniffer probes but designed for a different purpose, and another that looked like little more than a large cell phone with a button on it. "Professor Snape. Could you get away with planting these five devices in a circle just outside the perimeter of the Fidelius of Riddle's headquarters?" Harry asked.

"I could. What will they do?" Snape answered.

"They will allow us to overcome the Fidelius charm, so that we can bomb the headquarters from the sky." Harry replied.

"How is that possible?" Molly interrupted.

"It's simple really. While we cannot know the information about the location protected by the Fidelius, nor could Professor Snape tell us where he is going or where he has gone. That location nevertheless still exists. What we can do is target the center of the five homing beacons, which are themselves, each outside of the Fidelius." Harry explained.

"Is that possible Albus?" Minerva asked.

"Indeed, I think it might be. Dumbledore replied. If I understood correctly, Harry would only be targeting or aiming at the center of the physical location of the targeting beacons specifically, knowing otherwise nothing else of what is actually in the exact location. They would rather simply be targeting the center of where the five beacons meet. However, to a bomb or any object dropped on the center of their target, the effect would be the same. It would still destroy the area protected by the Fidelius. The Fidelius only protects the information about the location, preventing anyone from knowing or seeing the location but it is not an actual shield or an alternate dimension or anything. Neither they nor we would have any idea what was at the location that was bombed unless of course, the secret keeper died in the explosion itself." he concluded.

"And that, in a nutshell, is exactly the plan. Harry added. Except also, I would expect then that Professor Snape, himself having been party to the secret, could thereafter return to the site in any case, and determine if we did or did not take out our target."

"That is a good plan." Snape begrudgingly admit. What would this other device do?" he asked.

"That, answered Harry, Is for you to use after you have planted the beacons, verified the presence of snake-face, then afterward when he dismissed you, you would leave and when outside the danger zone-you would push that button...sending a signal to us that the mission is a go, for us to drop our bombs. We will already be in position high in the sky, cloaked and ready, just waiting for your signal. We won't drop the bombs until you've signaled us that he's there and that you're clear of the area."

"I see. It is good that you have thought of that too. Snape reluctantly admitted, thinking privately that this Potter was not as big a dunder-head as his father was. Why did you say bombs, plural? Are you using more than one?" he asked.

"Yes, we will drop two plasma bombs. One will follow the first at exactly three seconds. In this way, if a certain amount of magical shielding and wards manages to protect the facility at all; the first should take out the protection then the second would finish the job and make sure anything, including spaces deep underground, is destroyed." Harry explained.

Seeing that Snape seemed to be onboard with the plan, Dumbledore said, "That's splendid. Let us go forward with the mission then. When can we do it?" he asked.

Snape answered, "This coming Saturday at our regularly scheduled weekly Inner Circle meeting would be the best time."

"Won't he leave after dismissing you though?" Harry asked for clarification.

"Oh, not as such, I am not a part of the Inner Circle myself. I would only be there ostensibly to perform my duties as Potions Master. I could slip away easily enough once I verify the meeting has convened and you should have your window of opportunity to strike." he finished.

"Excellent. It is a plan then, we will do it this Saturday. I will get back in touch with you Friday to confirm everything and make sure we're all set." Harry said. Dumbledore dismissed the meeting with everyone feeling quite cheerful about a possible end to the war finally.

The bombing of Riddle's headquarters went off exactly as planned without a hitch. Snape confirmed that Riddle and his snake had been present and even a week later no one had seen or heard from him or any of the other Death Eaters who were there. Furthermore, they all then knew where the location was on the map. The Fidelius had obviously fallen, and the rural secluded estate that had been Malfoy Manor was then a smoking ruin, nothing more than a deep hole in the ground where a magnificent mansion once stood. They were convinced of their victory and so, with Harry and Hermione in tow, Dumbledore and Mad-Eye Moody went to the Ministry of Magic to declare the war over and Voldemort destroyed for good.

The news made headlines in all of the magical press the world over and Harry acclaimed as the hero of the wizarding world for a second time, at least in Britain and the European mainland where Voldemort was the most active. Harry would not accept a Merlin First Class unless his wife Hermione received one with him; as such were both honored in the Great Hall of Hogwarts by the Ministry and the Press.

...

During the following year, the world's geo-political balance more or less reset itself thanks to the spectacle of news deliverance put on by Harry and The New Defenders. It took months of stress, with the other major powers intervening to make what had to be done come to pass. The angered UK and incredulous Prime Minister and Queen who knew full well who Harry Potter was, the infuriated China, the defensive USA, the other powers of the UN Permanent Security Council, France was in the middle as usual, and Russia who suddenly held all the cards and were playing them. All the other major parties wanted to have their investigations and their say in the matter too, which made the whole thing drag on it seemed like forever. There were mobs of angry citizens, especially in the US who wanted to hang all the currently serving politicians and a number of the retired ones.

During that fiasco, rogue NID agents seized their opportunity with Hammond's neck already hanging out to use kidnapping and blackmail to get him to resign. They had put in his place their ally, Major General Henry Bauer. For what little good it had done by that point, since they had no Stargate to run a program.

Since they were off world it was unknown to the SGC, but the android copies of SG-1 were killed by Cronus' Jaffa. In the intervening lull for the SGC, TND made its own connections with the Tok'ra to let them know what happened back on Earth and that while the rest of the world sorted out its problems, they would help the Tok'ra prosecute the war against the Goa'uld.

Then during February to June Two-Thousand and One, while the new IOA Stargate program was getting set up, ND-1 went to Vorash to help the Tok'ra use the Ha'tak they stole from Cronus in a previous op.-to attack Apophis.

(1) However, instead of taking the attack to Apophis, during the planning session they learned that he and his fleet were already on their way to Vorash themselves thanks to the actions of Apophis' Goa'uld spy, Tanith. With time of the essence, Harry came up with a new daring plan that if successful could ultimately spell the end of Apophis.

Harry, with Selmak/Jacob Carter's blessing devised a plan that since Apophis was coming they could possibly destroy his entire fleet by blowing up Vorash's sun. That would be done using the Tok'ra Ha'tak to throw the Stargate currently on Vorash into the sun while it was connected to P3W-451 – the planet where SG-1 previously found a black hole. The gate would suck in enough mass from the star to cause it to supernova. The Tok'ra agreed to the plan.

After the Tok'ra was all evacuated, ND-1 and Selmak/Jacob flew to the sun where they were able to connect the Stargate on board to P3W-451 as planned. They then sent it to the sun and tried to flee. Suddenly an Al'kesh de-cloaked and attacked. Although Remus fired back, he could only make one hit. Finally, the Al'kesh was able to damage the ship, so that they could not enter hyperspace.

On the Ha'tak, Jacob had launched all the Ha'tak's gliders, programmed to flee the solar system. Apophis followed them, but soon realized that it was a trick. Finally, the sun exploded and ND-1 fled aboard the Ha'tak, while Apophis' fleet destroyed.

Selmak managed to restore the hyperdrive and was able to escape the super-nova on time, but ND-1's flight through hyperspace interrupted. When Jacob scanned the area they realized that they crossed four million light years in mere seconds, which left Harry stunned, he told Jacob that what they had just done was impossible. Apophis' mothership then appeared, trapped with them one hundred twenty-five years from home, facing each other in a standoff.

With very little choice (their weapons wouldn't cause a dent in Apophis' upgraded mothership, and their hyper-drives were again offline), ND-1 and Selmak/Jacob decided to make contact with Apophis to try a subtle cajoling approach so not to get killed. However, Apophis showed no interest in what they were going to say, and even ignored their surrender, saying "Klavel ha" in Goa'uld, which meant "too late."

Apophis charged up weapons, but took a while in actually firing them, which made ND-1 feel uneasy. However, as the ship finally fired, the shots all missed their Ha'tak as Apophis was trying to hit a second unidentified vessel instead. The ship's shield proved powerful, and even used its weapons to block several shots, as well as fired back at Apophis.

While Sirius admired the people of the ship for fighting Apophis first, calling their style "shoot first, send flowers later," Jacob decided to retreat, since they had no idea if the aliens on board the ship were hostile or not. He set a course for the corona of the system's Blue giant, since its radiation could make them invisible to ship's sensors, but ND-1 would also be blind.

Another problem was that they had one hour until the radiation could become dangerous so Jacob and Harry decided to fix the shields to buy them nine more hours. After they switched the control crystals, the shields were back online. However, they discovered another problem; the hyperdrive crystals were burnt, and with no spare crystals, they could not go into hyperspace.

Meanwhile, back at the NDC (New Defenders Command) in New York, a Tok'ra contingent arrived in the Gate Room. One of them introduced herself as council member Ren'al. She informed NDC Operations Commander Ben Grimm, that the plan to wipe out Apophis' fleet worked, though they did find a one-man pod that traveled to Goa'uld-occupied territory, the identity of the occupant was unknown for the time being.

They also informed Ben that they detected two distortions during the supernova, implying two ships may have escaped, though they were confident nobody would have survived, thinking ND-1 and Selmak/Jacob were those people. Ren'al told Ben that whether they survived or not, their actions caused a power vacuum for the Goa'uld, who would be fighting each other for years to come. When they said, they considered the team heroes, Ben said to her "you'll forgive me for holding out hope a little longer. ND-1 has a surprisingly good habit of beating the odds."

Nine hours later, the shields had almost become ineffective to the radiation, and Harry and Selmak were still unable to repair the hyperdrive, as even retrofitting other crystals did not work. With no alternative, they had to risk leaving the corona of the blue giant and face whoever may have survived.

Meanwhile back at the NDC, Ben had called in the rest of the members and placed a call to Reed for advice. When they believed there was no hope, Reed suggested otherwise. "I think we can locate them by locking onto the sub-space communicators in their armor."

Ben countered "That will only work if they are in range right?"

"Yes, that range being somewhere in this galaxy, so odds are good I would think." Reed answered, presuming they were still in the galaxy. The idea they might not be had not occurred to him. They tried Reed's tweak to the sub-space communicator program and it picked up a radial vector but no target.

"Shit. I guess you were right Ben." Reed said.

"That's a first," quipped Johnny.

"Why what did you find out?" Ben asked, ignoring Johnny for once.

"The only reason I could think of for the signal tracking like this is if they are in fact out of the galaxy, but, close. If they were not relatively close, the signal would not have been strong enough to give us a direction. It would simply not have found it at all. It just can't get a hand-shake and a lock from the other end." Reed explained.

"Come again, Egg-head? Ben replied.

"It's likely that they somehow made it to another galaxy, probably the next galaxy over-in that direction." Reed explained, pointing to the three-dimensional spacetime galaxy display where the signal vector cuts off at the edge of the disc.

"What galaxy is that?" Colin asked.

"That is the Triangulum galaxy." Reed answered.

"How is this going to help us? There's no way to go that far is there?" Ginny asked.

"Hmm, not safely no." Reed answered.

"Why, what do you mean not safely, what to you have that can do that at all?" asked Ben.

"It's nothing I have. It is what Harry has, The Phoenix." Reed replied.

"No. That's not going to do it," said Dan. "His warp-drive doesn't travel that fast or that far.," he explained.

"His original one didn't for sure. But, Harry and I have been playing around with some theories and some equations ever since we decided to abandon warp-drive to go with the more reliable tried and true Goa'uld hyper-drive technology in our first warship." Reed paused, as if he really did not want to open this assortment of problems and suggest this.

"We worked out the equations some time ago and Harry has been fiddling with the Phoenix in his spare time, doing some upgrades, tweaking his old navigation system with the new ideas. I'm not sure if he was finished yet and it certainly wasn't tested in any way." Reed continued.

"What are you saying Reed? Is there a way to use Harry's Phoenix to get my daughter and him back?" asked Emma.

"Possibly, if he finished the work, and if it works. It is also possible, as he and I discussed, that due to the physical limitations of his original design, the Phoenix might be able to get us there, but not back again. Wherever they are, at least three million light-years away by this reckoning, we'd just be stuck there with them," said Reed.

"Explain. How would this work? What is this upgrade to the Phoenix?" Johnny prompted Reed to continue and take the leap. He wanted to get his friends back.

"He was calling it hyper-warp." Reed said. There were a lot of confused expressions and disbelief in reaction to that.

"What we were able to show on paper was that by opening a standard Goa'uld hyper-space window and accelerating into it at max thirty-two kls velocity, then at the precise moment when we cross the event horizon of the window, engage a warp-fold jump. Just one time, just one fold, or else you would blow the ship apart, no shielding that we have could withstand more..., and he paused to try to word it right.

Moreover, the timing would have to be perfect or you would not be able to predict the exact velocity you would achieve. However, theoretically, since hyperspace is nothing but a field of tachyons that are already moving at superluminal speeds. And because our HS velocity would already be at thirty-two kls, the warp-fold of the hyperspace directly in front of the ship, and the one compression behind the ship; would theoretically move the ship at anywhere from one to ten exponential orders of magnitude faster than the original hyper-space velocity, then drop back to normal hyperspace velocity."

"Did you say exponential orders of magnitude?"

Johnny asked. "Yeah, that's the incredible thing." Reed said.

"Wait a minute said Ben, I can calculate that right here at the console and he began plugging in the numbers which already had a navigation modality for the original Phoenix ship specs in the database. He was not particularly well versed in software engineer lingo, but he knew how to operate his own console well enough.

Congrats, Egghead, at Warp Two you would get to three times standard hyper-drive speed, at Warp Three, we would get to almost three times the speed of Apophis newly upgraded super-fast Ha'tak. We can do this!" yelled Ben.

"Wait ...wait Ben. Remember, this is all theoretical. Harry was only tinkering with it in his spare time. We don't know if he finished it and it certainly hasn't been tested." Reed reiterated. The group circling around the NDC main console stood quietly contemplating for a couple minutes, there was some pacing. Emma was biting her fingernails off.

"You could though, couldn't you? Dan asked. I mean get inside the Phoenix, check it out. See how far he got it, maybe finish it if need be." Dan asked hopefully.

"Yes, I probably could. However, there is another thing. Harry did not make any changes to his original warp-drive, because he could not. The whole airframe is built around it. He just added the Goa'uld shields and Hyper-drive, ripped out the old GE90 and RS-25 engines, and replaced them with a Goa'uld sub-light drive and a single naquadah-reactor. The only changes to the navigation system were the old Mark II upgrade prior to the Hyperion. We do not know if it was integrated to the hyper-drive yet. In addition, the most important thing is that his original warp-drive could only go just over warp one to warp one point five maximum by design. To achieve the numbers we would need we would probably have to blow the warp-coils to make the one jump, we would need to hit between warp two to three. Who knows if his crystals would even survive after that?" Reed countered.

"So, it's a one-way trip either way." Emma observed.

"Yes, probably." Reed answered as honestly as he knew.

"You'd still have hyper-drives though wouldn't you?" she asked.

"Yes. If they were not damaged by the other damage. Nevertheless, we would get no-where fast with that. We are already assuming that ND-1 has their hyper-drives even now and it would take them almost a hundred years to get back more than likely. Therefore, it would be the same for whoever took this trip, if it even works, and if it does not explode and kill the whole crew. So, how would this help?" Reed finished throwing his hands up and sounding exasperated by the whole idea, sorry that he had brought it up at all.

"How about if we took a spare stargate with us, from the three we have in storage that we stole from those abandoned planets?" Colin said. The rest of ND-2 nodded along, that is what they were thinking too.

"I see what you're saying." said Johnny. "When we get there, even if we have to abandon the Phoenix and their Ha'tak, we just use the Stargate to gate back."

"That could work. However, that is another theoretical. Less risky though, we just need to know we have enough power." Reed replied.

"Harry had been planning for inter-galactic dialing someday. It just needed a greater number of the hybrid SSFIRE crystals, as you have on the main gate now. We just had not gotten around to creating and hooking up a larger matrix reactor of them, to try it out." Reed finished.

"So, I'm hearing it is doable and we can make it back into a return trip, home safely for everyone, said Emma. I say we give this a try." she finished looking at her husband for support.

He put his arm around her, pulled her tight and said, "I agree, Reed, if this can be done, we want to try. The rest of you do not have to go. Tell us how to pilot the Phoenix and Emma and I will go. You all don't have to risk it."

"Bull-feathers, said Ginny. We all love Harry and Hermione, and can tolerate Sirius and Remus. If you are going, we are going too. The full set." she finished.

"Uh. Okay. However, folks I am going to have to go too and I know Sue is going to kill me. This thing might not work at all, and if there is any chance, I think I am the only one here capable of improvising or dealing with the potential problems. He sighed.

He paused appearing introspective for a minute then said... Look, you all begin prepping as if it is a go. Get your normal gear, extra supplies prep the spare star gate and open Harry's private hangar. In the meantime I will give Sue a call..." Reed said.

Two hours later, they were prepping the Phoenix for launch. Sue decided to join them. She was not pleased at first. However, she did not want Emma and Dan to lose Hermione either, or the rest. She decided that she had sat on the sidelines long enough and if lives were at stake, it was once again, time to step up. She understood Reed's importance to the risky mission. Nevertheless, if he was going she was going.

Reed was back in the warp-reactor room working on some gizmos. Apparently, it was done, but he had to double-check some of the patched together systems integration and verify the sub-light and hyper-drives that also had not been tested were installed correctly and safely, and ready to operate.

There was more room aboard the ship since Harry removed the two old space-consuming twentieth century propulsion and launch systems. It still only had comfortable life support for four, but they hoped the trip would not take too long. With the stargate stuck into a makeshift cargo arrangement, there was room for the Fantastic Four who were all going. Johnny and Ben did not want to jinx it by staying behind with both Reed and Sue going. ND-2 would ride in the dining room.

Ben was pilot, while Reed rode second-seat as navigator so he could improvise on hyper-warp controls if and as needed. Johnny and Sue crammed in with the four ND-2, making six in the space for four people. However, magic could make things more comfortable even in a pinch, so it was no problem. Reed sat there with his PDA plugged into the console uploading the latest hyper-warp equations. For that flight, other than sub-light and orbital maneuvers that Ben would handle, every iota of the warp warm-up, hyperspace window opening, hyper-drive acceleration, followed by the precisely timed warp-jump, one warp-jump only, into the hyper-space window-would all be handled by the computer AI when Reed executed the auto-pilot program.

The only other trick was they did not know how far away ND-1 really was. Therefore, they decided to go with the reasonable prediction of traversing the entire space from beginning of hyper-warp through the edge of the Milky Way, clear across the void, and just inside the galactic disk of Triangulum. In that manner, it would be unlikely to overshoot them, and then they hoped their sensors could pick up their position. They could then travel at best hyper-speed to them from that position, and certainly be able to open up communications to them immediately. The plan seemed sound enough. Everything had to work, but assuming it did and they were all so assuming...except for Reed, who never assumed anything. They had a good chance to succeed.

After triple checking everything, Reed gave Ben permission to proceed and they got started. The Phoenix might just have become the fastest bucket of bolts in two galaxies. They just hoped it would hold together.

Hours had passed and back in Triangulum, ND-1 just finished their maneuver to exit the corona of the star they were hiding in. As they emerged, they saw that the other ship that had been fighting Apophis was gone and that Apophis Ha'tak was just drifting with no life signs aboard.

ND-1 was just about to maneuver over to board it to obtain its hopefully undamaged hyper-drive control crystals when they received a hail over standard comms from ND-2. "Hello, this is ND-1; did you say ND-2?" Harry replied with hope and trepidation in his voice.

"Yes, we found you!" they heard Emma cry out over the radio.

"Hi mom, yup, you found us. Do not know how though. We are all okay for the moment. However, we had a visitor tag along on our unlikely jaunt to another galaxy... Apophis mothership is here too," she said.

"Not to interrupt the happy, Sirius said. But, how in Merlin's name did you find us?"

"It's a long story, they heard Reed reply. We will tell it when we catch up to you. It looks like we're still a day away according to these readings."

Okay, we see you on sensors now. We were going to try to board Apophis mothership to steal his crystals, but if you have a way home; which I assume you would or you would not be here. We will just make our way in your direction at best sub-light speed to put distance between us and his Ha'tak." said Harry.

"Okay. We'll see you in a few minutes less time then," laughed Dan, who was feeling giddy all of a sudden from being back in the same galaxy as his little girl and believing the rescue was working.

"So, Reed, why don't you tell us how you got yourself and ND-2 all the way out here?" Harry asked. Reed and the others filled them in during the trip to catch up to them.

"It's a good plan. I am glad I had Phoenix almost ready to go. I do not know what we would have done without you guys. Reed, do not worry about the warp-coils frying. We can always build it again if we need to. Moreover, I agree with your plan. We will bring the spare gate over here. Dock the Phoenix to the hull of the Ha'tak. Set a timer to blow them both, then all gate back home. It's perfect." Harry agreed.

The next day, things were mostly going as planned. The Phoenix docked such as it was, with the Ha'tak. They transported the gate to the gate room on the Ha'tak and powered it up for inter-galactic travel. They were in the process of proving that worked and that they had enough power by sending a Sniffer drone through, when the Ha'tak shook from taking a couple shots of fire. Since no one was in the Pel'tak manning the flight and weapons consoles, they had no idea what was going on. That had probably been a tactical error on their part.

By the time Selmak/Jacob, ND-1 and ND-2 got to the Pel'tak, it was already taken control of by Apophis and his few loyal Jaffa guards that apparently happened to escape the immobilization of their Ha'tak and presumably followed them all the way to their rendezvous cloaked in an Al'kesh.

ND-1 and ND-2 raised their armor head, hand pieces, and attacked the Jaffa killing them all, while their blasts deflected off Apophis personal shield. Recognizing failure, he used his ring remote to re-board the Al'kesh.

Selmak/Jacob started the Ha'tak self-destruct, and Harry clicked the button on his remote to start the timer to detonate the Phoenix at the same mark. Then they blasted the Pel'tak consoles so that if Apophis came back again after they left this time, there would be nothing he could do.

"Let's go, back to the gate room. Harry said, and they all ran back to the gate-room yelling, dial it up. It's going to blow in fifty seconds..."

Ben dialed home and said it was ready at T-20 seconds... they began running into the event horizon two by two, when the last to go through, Harry and Hermione looked over their shoulder and felt the ship explode just before they too went through the gate.

They all arrived in the gate-room of the NDC tumbling out of the gate onto the ground. Selmak/Jacob who did not wear TND armor was squashed under a couple of them and would need to heal some bruises, but he would be fine. Everyone made it home safely. Their mission, such as it was, had been accomplished. The Phoenix sacrificed in the life-saving one-way mission, as was the Tok'ra's one captured Ha'tak, also lost.

Later, during the debriefing, they sat and pondered. "Do you think we got Apophis? Is he dead?" Jacob/Selmak asked.

"There is a good chance, either he's dead or if he survived on his Al'kesh, that he's stranded all alone in Triangulum looking at a very long trip home. If his own mothership was any option he probably wouldn't have been following us to our rendezvous." Harry suggested.

"That will have to be good enough. We got his entire fleet otherwise as well. So, I'll head back to meet with the Tok'ra council." Selmak/Jacob said and departed.

After he was gone, ND-1 and ND-2 thanked Sue and Reed profusely for coming to get them and they agreed once things settled down a bit more, the lot of them and some others would take the Richard's up on an invite back at their home for a big victory and rescue celebration party.

/.../

Later during the year, TND continued to help the Tok'ra and they followed up on other projects that were works in progress. The major Earth governments began making progress toward a joint diplomatic solution to their Stargate problem. While at the same time, it became known through back channels that the TND had essentially taken the place of the SGC in representing Earth off world. That actually put a little bee in the bonnet of some of the recalcitrant leaders who knew who Harry really was, not to allow the magical world take the lead in all off-world relations going forward. They experienced a bit of the same feeling Harry had that motivated the Potters and friends when they first started TND.

After settling back into their projects, TND sent teams to explore several promising sites on Tollan, until finally they recovered an intact computer and storage device from one of their abandoned underground military bases. All they had to do was restore power to it. The storage did not have documents on their entire tech, but it had several important military grade items, which had been their goal. They obtained plans how to build a Tollan Ion Cannon which was believed capable of one-shooting a Goa'uld Ha'tak (at least the old original variety), its Fission Generator power source, Phase-Shifting Devices, a Long-Range Communication Satellite, and a Long-Range Inverted Phase Communicator.

With the Riddle problem behind them, several of the members of the OOTP who had been only part-time went full-time with TND and a number of other friends joined up as well, growing their ranks a bit. As it was, the humans in the program were still outnumbered two to one by Elves, and three to one by their android soldiers and crew. However, in total there were now four hundred fifty beings of various types working in New York or their remote operations.

They began discussing with Dumbledore the possibility of him helping them broach the subject of what they were doing with the various Ministries and not just rely going forward on his personal ICW authority and organically grown manpower. Dumbledore told them he would think about it and possibly try to groom some contacts now that things would settle down with the war over.

A/N:

(1) The part in italics is a heavily paraphrased, AU retconned quote from a portion of the wiki page for that episode. I needed it to go substantially as written originally for a portion of it with the names and faces changed. I was told in the past that I do not need to attribute other original works when I quote them inline to fan fiction, but it still bothers me not to mention when an entire part is not my work, other than my edits.