CHAPTER 27 –

Harry and Sam worked in the kitchen that afternoon to cook dinner for everyone. Harry could tell that Sam was distracted but not by him. She was distracted because of the problem that Hermione had given her of how two gates could work on one planet. He smiled at her as he went about cooking.

Teal'c, Daniel, and Jack arrived with a surprising addition of Jacs on his arm an hour early. Harry looked at what Jack was drinking and pulled a fresh pint of British ale for him. He went out and snatched his beer and then promptly placed the pint in his hand. "Damn uncivilized Americans I don't know why I even bother."

Jack with a smile yelled "British snob!" Hermione smiled at the interaction.

General Hammond arrived and everyone sat at the table. Once they had finished dinner they remained at the table. Harry finally stood up "General Hammond if you will indulge me I have a proposal for the Star gate program and your country."

"I hope you will understand my point of view and agree." Harry stood behind Therisson "She is a modern living Ancient. Some might call her alien but really they were the first to seed this galaxy with life and were here long before us."

Daniel looked at her with what looked like a thousand questions "An ancient. I have so much I want to ask."

Harry held his hand up to stave off any other comments "Daniel, if this plan is accepted you can work with one hundred and thirty-nine Ancients, that is how many are stationed at her base." Harry said in ancient.

Daniel looked at him "That sounds very similar to Ancient."

Harry smiled at him "Daniel that is the way Ancient sounds when spoken correctly."

General Hammond asked "Where did you meet her."

Harry smiled "They use Alterran outpost 47 to manufacture parts when they need them. I followed her back to her base and we got to know each other."

General Hammond with concern asked "How did you get to outpost 47 to do that?"

Harry smiled "I used a Star Gate on Earth and before you ask, it was not yours."

General Hammond leaned forward "You found another gate and didn't report it to us?"

Hermione sat up "I don't want to put too fine of a point on this General but did you report what you did last year to us? Did you report to us when you found the Star gate to begin with?"

General Hammond's jaw tightened "This was not part of the bargain when we put you in the loop."

Harry leaned forward "Our bargain General was always helping each other towards our different goals and it was mutually beneficial. The Star Gate is not the exclusive Property of the United States and it technically belongs to the world."

Harry ran his hand through his hair "General I do not plan on upsetting the status quo but it does not mean I don't intend to use this gate to improve my situation."

Gabby cleared her throat "For the last year Harry has worked very hard to change our political system in the magical world. In Europe and in Britain it is like we are stuck in the Victorian era. Over there I am considered a Dark creature with no rights, that is until Harry got involved. I am still considered a Dark creature with no rights but they are unable to snatch me from the streets to make me a sex slave."

"Harry tried everything to include financial ruin for those with antiquated ways. He lost the vote to get the government to change to an elected body."

Harry squeezed her hand in support "They refuse to change so I am left with trying to make an antiquated system work, overthrow that system, or leave that system to its' own devices. I choose the latter of the choices and I found a perfect planet to make this new start. I am going to accept many different races, half-bloods, muggleborns, veela's," Harry paused "It is exactly like your statue of Liberty says Give me your tired, your pour. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The retched refuse of your teeming shore… I lift my lamp beside the golden Door."

General Hammond stood up and gave this some thought "This is my own opinion and not my government's but you are right Harry by our own legal precedence we claimed exclusive rights by owning the star gate. Since we are no longer the only owners I guess you have rights too."

General Hammond sat back down "That being said there are dangers out there that cannot be ignored by either of us."

"That is where I come in General." Therisson stated. "My people left knowledge repositories throughout the galaxy. There are wonders yet to be discovered that your scientist can only dream about."

"Part of my job at Base 39 was to check certain knowledge repositories such as base 47. To monitor who had accessed to our database and others have been before you. If their intentions were not good, I would shutdown access to them by sabatoging the device. You were the first group who had mastered our language and understood enough of our technology to gain full access."

Harry broke in "That was only because the magicals had learned base seven math and kept ancient runes alive for the base of their language. Without the magical's you would have gotten nowhere."

Hermione then added "What made us so different was the muggle need to improve technology and you brought that to the table. Magic users rely too much on magic and don't trust technology. If we had not gone together we could not have completed our task."

"That you acknowledged the need for magic, which we call zero particle energy, and technology to work together has changed my mission from one of observation to one of assistance. You are mastering our math and language, you are after all our legacy in this galaxy and our ancestors." Therisson stated.

General Hammond looked at her "The Drones you used to defeat the Hatak vessel and about to attack your planet are a good example. If you tried to take them on any vessel you had and attack with them, they would not work. If they sense danger to you and you unleash them they will devastate the aggressor. They are a super smart bomb and if you are the aggressor, they will attack you."

General Hammond shook his head "That is a good thing to know. I suppose Harry that this meeting tomorrow with the President is to inform him of these new developments."

"That is one of the purposes but I will also offer a mutual assistance agreement too." Harry stated to him.

General Hammond got up "Well ladies and gentlemen I can honestly say this has been a night of great revelations. I will look forward to tomorrow. Good night."

The next day at 1:00 PM the conference telephone in the SGC briefing room came to life. Above it Harry appeared as a hologram with a smile "Good afternoon Earthlings." This made everybody smile. "Well I have decided to change the venue for our little meeting thanks to Therisson and her people.

Before anyone could ask questions, white beams of light encompassed each person. They landed in a conference room someplace else and the President and one secret service agent landed at the head of the table. The secret service agent moved to stand in front of the President and pulled his gun.

Harry chuckled "I am going to push this switch that will open the viewing portal and nothing more." Harry did that and the viewer began to open to reveal two other ships beside this one and below them earth.

Harry chuckled "Agent I understand your job and that is why I beamed you aboard with the president. I want you to think about something. If I had wanted the president killed I could have materialized him about ten meters outside and he would be dead already. So please put your gun away as the president is safe."

The president sighed "Thank you Bob you did a great job so put the gun down and take a seat. Call your boss and let him know we are ok and all is well."

The President looked at Harry "Potter can't you do this the normal way?"

Harry laughed "Well that would be no fun at all." this made the President smile while the rest of the room chuckled.

With that Harry began his presentation after an hour the President sat back and looked very thoughtful as he rubbed his chin.

"So let me get this straight." The president stated "We get these three ships to help in our planetary defenses and you use the 2nd Gate and take over the planet with the lab in it. We can come and go as we please there and we can even leave a contingent of troops, scientist, or whatever we want."

Harry added "We can also use our ships to mutually defend ourselves in an emergency."

The president turned around and looked at Bob, his body guard "Bob, you are with me for most of these meetings what does your gut tell you about this."

Bob looked at him as the President smiled "Harry over there doesn't bullshit. If he says it he will do it, then he will do it. I think you might want to ask these people for their input."

"General Hammond your recommendation?" The president asked.

"Sir," General Hammond said "I see no down side to this offer and much advantage to letting Mr. Potter do this. Gaould are already on the run and this would give us a solid tactical advantage. The mutual support pact is good for us. My vote is that we go with Harry."

"Major Carter I need your input from your Ph.d background." He asked her.

Major Carter looked at him "Sir, I think it is clear that we almost let a fantastic opportunity pass us by when we keep too many secrets. Harry and Hermione alone have opened many doors for us that we could have never gotten by ourselves. Hermione is right we do not own exclusive rights to the Star gate or the universe. We should put some kind of plan together so we can introduce the world to the Star gate. I think the possibilities would be endless."

The President seemed in thought for a moment "I didn't expect that from you and there is a big part of me that agrees with you."

Harry spoke up "Mr. President this is a perfect opportunity for you to make use of the second gate as a way to include the international community without revealing your gate. When word gets out through the magical community that they could move to a new world, well it will eventually reach the muggle world, not only that but millions of people missing from the planet will get noticed."

"You think that many people will want to go?" the president asked him.

Hermione grinned "We have five nations the goblins, centaurs, Veelas, free Elves, and Dragons that are already preparing for the move. That is world-wide and the estimate is upwards of seventy thousand individuals. Magicals we predict will be 40 to 60% in those countries with suppressive governments and 15 to 20% in those like America. I would tell you that the magical community will notice and those that are squibs and muggles that know of our world will let it be known."

The President smiled "Well we are about to find out because I promise that America will not interfere I think Bob said it best Harry doesn't bullshit anybody and we can trust him. Now can I get a tour of this vessal?" The president started to be led down a corridor as they looked around the ship."

The four entered Potter Manor three days later. Their trip had been tiring but fruitful as they had the backing of the US in this endeavor. After he checked in with all the leaders of the growing group that occupied the manor estates he came back to the study to prepare his public statement that he would announce to the world.

His first letter was to Ragnok to have his entire five families vault contents liquidated. Stocks, holdings, investments, everything would go. He started on this a month ago and to date he still had 30% of his investments not liquidated. He could not do all of this at once because it would flood the market and lower the value of his holdings. Neville had begun the same thing and was positioned a little better than he was at the moment."

Ragnok was going to announce a week later that Gringott's was closing its' doors after thirty days and all accounts should be closed within that time. Following his announcement a general advertisement would go out offering an opportunity to make a fresh start on another world. The advertisement would then have a contact number for people to call.

Things were about to change in the magical world and no one, not even Harry, was able to predict how much turmoil that would cause.

Harry finished his letter to Ragnok and then began to work on the announcement letter that was going to the daily prophet and a bunch of news paper's on the continent. He knew when people read it that it would capture many people's attention. He wondered at their reaction.

Two days later the prophet had in big letter

"HARRY POTTER AND FAMILY TO LEAVE THIS WORLD

TO CREAT A NEW AND BETTER ONE!"

The article had Harry's letter in it and then went on to speculate about how he was going to accomplish this. There was even more speculation on how this would affect the economy, British politics, and the social atmosphere. The speculation seemed light hearted until Amelia Bones came to the house.

Amelia swept in to the room "Lord Potter you are not going to believe this but the Wizengmont just held an emergency session on you leaving. They have issued a warrant for your arrest if you try to leave the country."

Harry was laughing now "Is there any legal reasoning behind this warrant?" he asked her.

Amelia was mad "None what so ever and this is not funny the same pompass asses that refused to have an elected body, now are trying to force you to remain."

Harry just shook his head and sat down at his desk and began to write a response to this issued warrant.

The next day the prophet headlines read:

HARRY POTTER MOCKS THE WIZENGMONT AND THEIR BOGUS ARREST WARRANT

IN HIS NEW HOME IN SHANGRA-LA!

Hermione and Gabby were at the breakfast table reading the article and laughing. Harry walked in and smiled "It is like reading the funny papers." He stated boldly.

Gabby came over and kissed his cheek "It is brilliant in it's duplicity at showing how corrupt and uninformed those in charge are. To think they can arrest someone without criminal activity is just ludicris." She added.

Hermione looked at him "You know they will send aurors here to try and arrest you don't you?"

Harry chuckled as he drank his tea "I suspect within thirty minutes they will be here and Ragnok and Shreve have worked on a welcome they won't soon forget." Harry asked "How goes the transfer of people to the planet?"

Hermione answered "The goblins that can move, about 500,000, have done so in the last week. The centaurs are next with about 100,000."

Harry interrupted her "What I thought we were talking a lot less than that?"

Hermione grinned so did I but both groups had under reported their numbers to the ministry."

"Do we have the facilities and living arrangements completed?" Harry asked with concern.

"Well the capabilities of the Mbots were better than we thought and they are able to keep pace because they increased production." Hermione stated "Our home will be completed next week and Therisson is moving in then. The Alterrans are going to stay at Base 39 until things quiet down and then they will move. It looks like it will take a few months to get everything and everyone moved over."

Harry kissed her cheek and then kissed Gabby's "Thank you both for helping me with all this."

Ragnok walked into the room "Lord Potter you have some uninvited guests to see you."

Harry smiled "How many?"

Ragnok grinned "Twenty."

Harry wiped his mouth "Is everything ready?" Ragnok put his arm around his shoulders and led him out the door.

Harry stepped out on the porch to see twenty aurors just outside of the wards. He looked them over and then leaned on a porch post as if there being there did not bother them a bit. "Can I help you gentlemen?"

Lord Potter "We are here to arrest you to ensure that you do not leave the country."

Harry clicked his heels together to activate the runes to eliminate magic. He smiled at them and then chuckled "I know I am not up on the latest legal issues but I am pretty sure that to arrest someone they have to commit a crime, correct."

The lead Auror looked up "That is correct Lord Potter."

Harry looked at him "So I am pretty sure that paper says I will be arrested if I leave the country and not before but you are here to arrest me before I can leave so I can't be arrested for what the warrant states." Harry smirked "Did I miss anything?"

The Auror looked down at the warrant and studied it for a minute "Well that is what is says but there is a report that you left England for Shangra-la."

Harry looked at him "What person saw me in Shangra-la?"

The auror "Lord Potter you were reported as being in Shangra-la by the paper. There is no other official report other than the paper reporting it.

Harry shook his head "The warrant said I can't leave the country correct? But it said I was in my home in Shangra-la which you assumed was out of this country, so you and the Wizengmont decided to come and arrest me, is that correct?"

Harry pointed to a sign above the front door "Shangra-La" the auror looked at it and then rolled his eyes. Harry crossed his arms "Is there any other further silly questions or warrants you want to try to execute?"

The auror pulled out his wand as did the others with him "My orders were explicit Lord Potter I was to arrest you and then take you to Azkaban to await trial."

Harry's eyes became green flames as he said with a hard voice "You think you can do whatever you want? that the selfish wizards in the Wizengmont can do whatever they want without repercussions? Auror think about this for a second if the savior of the wizarding world can be arrested on trumped up bogus charges how long before you, or you, or you piss one of the false gods in the Wizengmont off and find yourself in the same position I am today."

"If you help them today what does that say about you, the enforcers of the law who know in your hearts that this is wrong but help them anyway." Harry stated.

A voice from the back stated "He is right. If we refuse to assist in this who will do it for them then?" This is not right and we all know it. The wizard stepped forward "Harry I am sorry for every stepping foot or even being a part of this."

Harry looked at him Ernie? Ernie McMillian? The auror smiled at him and nodded his head.

He threw his badge on the ground at the head aurors feet "I quit as of right now. I will not be part of an organization that acts like this." Ernie turned to his fellow Aurors "I wouldn't be alive today if Harry Potter had not come to rescue us at Hogwarts and defeat Lord Voldemort. This is wrong and everyone of you know it. Stop now before its' too late." Harry shook his hand.

Twelve other Aurors did the same thing and then stood with Ernie looking at the seven remaining aurors. Harry looked over his shoulders "Hermione and Gabby can you take them in the dining room and get them some tea and something to eat?" Hermione nodded and took them inside.

Harry turned to the head Auror "If that is not a sign that you shouldn't be doing this then I don't know what to tell you."

The head Auror responded "I guess we will have to do this the hard way. He pointed his wand and then said 'Stupefy' and nothing happened. Another tried it and then another. The aurors looked panicked "What did you do Potter?"

Harry smirked at them "I took away your magic because you are not responsible enough to use it." Harry stated next "Expelleramus" and seven wands flew into his hands where he took them and snapped them. I have learned a few things in my travels one of which is that little spell." Harry snapped his fingers "Here is another spell I learned and all of their clothes, portkeys, and extra wands disappeared."

Harry looked at them "People that do the right thing are having lunch and tea with me and will be able to leave with their dignity. Those that don't can have a nice little walk back to London. That should give you plenty of time to think about what being an auror really means. Tell the Wizengmont unless they bring the leaders here, I will refuse to obey anything they say.

The lead Auror seemed scared "We can't walk all the way back, it will take us two days."

Harry pointed behind him "I would like to introduce you to my friends." The aurors turned around to find ten dragons and a twenty-five foot monster in front of them. The big dragon took a breath and roared a mighty scream that shook their bodies. They began yelling as the dragons chased them off the property. The goblins smacked their behinds with swords as they left.