Harry Potter in The SOS-Potter

Created By: Steve's Place

Episode 2: Day 2:

“Aftermath, and a Mystery in History, Solved”

Written By: Steve's Place

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Episode 2: Word Count: 13,902 

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Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. I don't own Harry Potter or any of JK Rowling’s characters nor do I own any of the TV shows, Movies or Books or other Fan Fiction Stories that episodes could include. I neither earn or receive nor expect any money from this writing. I write only for my own amusement and the amusement or entertainment of any who wish to read my Harry Potter Fan Fiction story.

Author Note: About this Fan Fiction Story/Series "The SOS-Potter." I welcome any Writers /Authors that wish to participate in this series to write your own, (Completed Episodes.) (10-25 thousand words thereabouts). You will of course, be properly credited for your completed Fan Fiction SOS Potter Story Episode; should you choose to accept this mission. Think of it as any other episodic story series which can have many different writers for various episodes.

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Summery: Episode 2: Completing crew appearance alterations and further preparations for the ships Human habitation. The aftermath of you-know-who’s squibbing, including press coverage and the MOM reaction. Then the crews’ first mission is planned and executed with a little help from Murphy's Law which inadvertently aided in solving a Historical Mystery.  

Main Characters: Episode 2: Harry-> Hank Stone (H), Dobby-> Danny Fixit (D), Fred-> Frank Clay (F), George-> Greg Slate (G). Secondary characters for this episode include Rufus Scrimgeour, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Amelia Bones, Auror Dawlish, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black,  a rather stunned rat, an editorial By Rita Skeeter, and a brief introduction to Eddy.

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And now. . . Episode 2:

"Aftermath, and a Mystery in History, Solved”

Day 2: June 30, 1996:  7:33am GMT:

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Harry woke up quite refreshed after a full nights sleep on his new sectional. He headed for the facilities and after having a unique experience with the sonic shower, dressed again in his environment suit and accouterments and headed for the conference room. On his way he tapped his com unit calling for Dobby. “Dobby, are you up yet?”

“Yes Sir, Harry I’ll meet you in the conference room right away Sir. I have prepared breakfast for you.  Fred and George have teleported up with some supplies and the Daily Prophet. Be warned Capt. Your not going to like what that Skeeter woman has to say this time, Sir.”  Dobby looked over at Fred and George and cringed a bit and shrugged, then went back to his earlier modifying of the food dispensing units while F and G also just shrugged and continued with their Dobby made breakfast and reading the Daily Prophet while the conference room computer monitors were displaying local Muggle events in the news.

As Harry walked in the conference room he looked at Fred and George and barked out; “Report!”

Fred began with updating Harry on the status of Moony and Lee accepting their new jobs with little or no questions asked on their parts, then George took over to report on the supplies acquired last evening and what was still left to do that morning.

As Harry sat down to eat his breakfast, in front of him was the Daily Prophet with an oversized front page headline that read;

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He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named; Reduced To a Squib!

Is Potter, The-New-You-Know-Who?

Potter Demands Reforms; Issues Ultimatum!

By: Rita Skeeter: (PR)

Last evening the Minister of Magic, Auror Kingsley Shacklebolt, The Daily Prophet, The Quibbler and the W.W.N. received a letter presumed to be from “Harry Potter” proclaiming that he had removed the Magic from, and deposited “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” who Potter claims who’s real name is "Tom Marvolo Riddle" in a Ministry holding cell, effectively neutralizing “You-Know-Who” as a present and future threat. Potter also claims, You-Know-Who created seven Horcruxes to insure his immortality.

(Horcrux Explanation. See page 7.)

(Demands from Harry Potter. See page 2.)

At first we simply couldn’t believe that claim, but after receiving confirmation from the Ministry of Magic, it would seem that Potter has not only done the impossible but has also issued an ultimatum to us, the British Magic community in general, stating in his own words... “CLEAN UP YOUR ACT, OR ELSE!” 

It would seem that Harry Potter has somehow acquired the power or ability to remove the Magic from individuals and claims he can do the same to the general population as a whole and has demonstrated this ability by doing so to You-Know-Who, as his first victim. 

I can’t help but wonder who might be Potters next victim?

Potter claims that Lucius Malfoy is a willing Death Eater with an obvious dark mark and claims that dark mark must be taken willingly. Will Mr. Malfoy be Potters next squibbing victim or perhaps that victim will be yours truly, Rita Skeeter, Tenacious, Intrepid, Daily Prophet Reporter the one that digs to find the truth and is never afraid to report that truth, as I have in the past, pointing out for one example Mr. Potter’s proclivity to attention seeking madness and wild exaggerations on past occasions.

Is Potter the new You-Know-Who?  Is Potter taking over for the now squibbed, X-You-Know-Who? Will Potter carry out his threats to remove all the Magic and place the beasts and other dark creatures in charge of us all, turning us into slaves to his new menace?  This reporter believes we may have a new threat to deal with in the form of Harry-James-Potter: The-New-You-Know-Who.

Potter continues his claim that Dolores Umbridge used a Blood Quill on students including Potter with seeming approval from then, Minister Fudge and attempting an unforgivable curse as well. If these claims are proven true, then indeed Miss Umbridge and Mr. Fudge should be investigated and prosecuted for this behavior.

Harry Potter also claims that our justice system seems to work in reverse by prosecuting the innocent and releasing the guilty, by way of black-mail and bribes. Potter has not offered a single piece of evidence to prove these outrageous claims of Political and Judicial corruption, but has suggested if we open our eyes and actually look for that proof, we will find it.  If these outrageous claims are proven true, then perhaps Potter is correct to demand prosecution of these individuals including sweeping and widespread reforms to our system of Government.

Potter has also recommended, or was it demanded, that we remove the current Minister of Magic and in his place elect a barely 17 year old Muggle born school girl, Hermione Jean Granger, certainly with no Magical Government experience, to the prestigious and demanding post of running our Magical Government. This reporter has had past experience with Miss Granger and is quite concerned that if that ever came to be, Miss Granger would again use underhanded tactics to make her will obeyed. Would we want a Muggle born, near squib, injecting Muggle Politics and Justice, upsetting our current system? This reporter has serious concerns about this particular recommendation, or was it a demand.

The citizens of Magical Britain demand the Ministry of Magic take steps to contain this new menace in the form of Harry Potter. However, I personally can't help but wonder, if that policy is pursued, will Potter actually follow through on his threat and either squib or out right Muggle, all of us? Do we believe he can do this? The evidence that he has done this to you-know-who, seems clear.

Despite what the citizens might actually demand, I for one would like to keep my Magic. Perhaps we should bow down to this new threat, or at least investigate his claims. So far, Mr. Potter does not seem to have harmed anyone else, yet, and has indeed removed the You-Know-Who threat that has terrorized and killed many innocent people over decades. However, do these threats and demands for reform, seem oddly familiar to that of You-Know-Who, or perhaps a new, you-know-who-Dark-Lord in the making? Anyone that has the power to remove Magic from an individual or on a wholesale scale, that Potter claims to have, is certainly, someone to be feared. The questions we must all ask ourselves now are.  What do we do about his demands and threats and should we even investigate his outrageous claims?

Until next issue, this is your Tenacious, Intrepid, Daily Prophet Reporter; Rita Skeeter.

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Harry sat there for a moment staring at the paper in utter disgust, wondering if he really should squib that witch bitch. Then he came to the conclusion it would just prove her point. On the other hand, he could publicly point out her illegal Anamagi status, as the bug she is, and perhaps neutralize her pointy tentacles that way, at the same time giving her some time to spend in a dark cell, with snake boy Tommy for company.

He couldn't help but wonder though, if the justice system would actually lock up the acid witch bitch for breaking the law or turn her loose like so many others. She no doubt has dirt on anyone who has any power and could likely black-mail her way out of trouble.

While Harry was fuming a bit and musing what to do about, acid Rita; Fred, George and Dobby were watching out of the corner of their eyes to see if their Capt. would blow a fuse. 

Much to everyone’s surprise, Harry didn’t get overly angry, as he half expected this editorial from the acid Queen bitch anyway. But, at the same time he realized that she was one of the biggest problems this Magic community had in their midst and just knew he would have to deal with her, in some way.

It kept nagging at his subconscious that he didn't care any more what these people said or did but knew that wasn't true as he did have some friends that lived in this backward system and didn't really want to squib the whole population of Magical Britain. He just wanted some reform and proper justice adjustments to their backwards ways. 

He would have to give it a lot more thought and perhaps put his crew together in a think-tank atmosphere to come up with a method of effectively altering this prehistoric, backward system of political corruption.

Then, as though a Lumos had struck him in the eye, his first idea for dealing with Skeeter came to him. Perhaps he could convince her to study Muggle Democratic Politics and their justice system for a few months?

Although far from perfect, that system is a giant leap forward from the current Magical system. Then have her report or perhaps write a book and introduce the concepts of that, for the benefit of Magical Britain? But, how would he convince her to do this? Threats of squibbing or turning her into a permanent Muggle? Threatening to turn her into her bug form, permanently? Paying double her normal salary, effectively bribing the bitch? Black-mailing the bug in her?

He would have to give it a bit more thought; he mused but felt he was on target with the right idea. That being, to make her an asset to both himself and the community in general instead of the menace, she has been. And she calls me a menace? He mused again.

While all this was zipping around like a snitch on speed, in Harry's head, the others were just watching his face change expressions with each new thought, but said nothing as they continued their breakfast occasionally eyeing him discreetly, they thought.

Then Harry looked up at the three of them realizing they were watching his reactions and suddenly yelled out. "What? What the hell are you all staring at?" Then a pregnant pause ensued.

"Oh, I get it; you’re all waiting for me to blow us all up in a fit of rage, right?" And he just watched as they all nodded their heads in unison, then added.

"Oh relax guys, I'm trying to keep a lid on my anger and thanks to new found brain functions, I believe I can think things through much better now without blowing up the planet in a fit of rage, but still, try not to piss me off, ok guys?" He cracked a half smile while waving at the Prophet then he continued. "We will have to do something to neutralize the acid Queen Witch bitch though; she is almost as big a problem as old snake boy was."

Fred entered the conversation rather reluctantly at this point saying. "Your not planning on killing her are you, Har...  um... Capt.?"

"Oh... come on guys, do I really look like the killer type?" Harry said with a questioning and somewhat agonizing expression, wondering if they really thought he would do that, or were that afraid of him.

George then casually asked. "What's your plan for her, Harry? It looked as though you had come up with some way to deal with the, what did you call her... right... the Acid Queen Witch bitch?" And George looked from Fred to Dobby and back to Harry all nodding their heads in confirmation.

Then with deliberate drama, Harry said. "Well; . . . I thought it might be the best idea; to turn her into; . . . another pregnant pause ensued as Harry stretched out the drama a bit more while looking from one to the other; . . . an asset." And watched as all three of them let out a breath as though they were all expecting some great . . . something else?  Except for Dobby who was just playing along with Harry for dramatic effect, as he had been reading most of what Harry was thinking as he had some concern for his Captains sanity regarding that Skeeter witch.

"Merlin, Harry do you have to scare us half to death with your dramatics?" Both Fred and George asked simultaneously. Then Fred continued with. "Have you come up with a method to persuade the (Acid Queen Witch Bitch), into becoming an asset?"

"I have some ideas but nothing definite as yet.  In fact I'll give you two the job of thinking up the best way to convert her acid tongue to our way of thinking.  I want some plan for that within a few hours. My first idea was to have her study Muggle Politics and Justice and write a book for the Magic community to incorporate. However, that was just my first thought.

You two can go back planet side and complete the shopping; in fact, I may just join you to see what the atmosphere is like down there today. I will need to create an altered identity for myself as well. That reminds me, Dobby I want you to age your alter-ego Neal, about 10 years and F and G you will need to create altered appearances as well, also to appear around 27 years old or there-about. I want us all to appear as full adults so as to be taken seriously instead of treated like children by others. And don't slip up with that twin speak either, it would be a dead giveaway and need I say, don't create twin alters either, for the same reasons. Then we better familiarize each other with those new identities as well. You will also note that using the altered projection we can alter our voices as well. So we will get started on those new appearances first."

"Dobby, what more do you have to do in your re-programming efforts?"

"I have finished with most of the computer interface terminals, they all have a hand pad interface designed for my 3 fingered hands now and I have slightly altered the original hand pads to conform better to human hands. I have about one more hour to complete the food dispensing systems and stasis chambers as well as to make a new interface for the food dispensers to display in English. We will have a variety of ways to order food as individual items, or about 20 varieties of complete meals.

Fred and George can use the second crew quarters and alter it according to their needs in creative product development as well as our need for some potions like Veritaserum for example, as we don't actually have another way to force people to tell the truth. There will also, eventually be a need for certain other potions as well, I expect. But that will be their department, with your approval, Sir?"

"Excellent work Commander, very well done. I would like you to make the crew assignments as to what areas we each are best suited to be assigned to, including my ships duties, but as a suggestion I will take on most data retrieval and conversion duties, final decision making on things that require Captains approval, general ships pilot and operations, some inspection duties. But I expect all crew to be efficient in all of ship operations areas as to trade off duties and be far more versatile since we have a very small ships crew to begin with.

On another note, I also want to float another option past you all and that is can we go back in time and prevent Sirius from falling into that damn Veil and bring him on board. One, I want him rescued if possible and two, I think we could really use his skills once he has had some regeneration and Brain upgrades, and just off the top of my head, I think we can do this without changing the time line as well.

 It will appear to everyone else that he fell through the Veil, even to him, but we rescue him a micro-second before he falls and bring him back to this future time. Dobby, you will be responsible for coming up with the plan and the calculations to pull that off.

One more thing, Dobby we need an interrogation and holding room, say about 2x2 meters, some place we can teleport someone that we don't want to see any part of the ship. It will have to have scrambled or anti-apparation, anti-portkey in other words anti-escape systems in place, even though escape would be certain death, they would not know that as they would think they were on solid ground.

It can be set up in your crew quarters or perhaps in here or if you can think of a better place to put it and must be impenetrable from outside sound as well, etc. The front or at least one of the walls will need to be transparent, one way from the outside looking in and some method of interrogating the occupant without that occupant being able to see, hear or identify anyone or anything we don't want them to.

In other words we need a full interrogation and holding room covering all the bases. Perhaps you can make it a two room type set up with a communications terminal in one of the rooms for us and the other room for the interrogated person. Just my thoughts on that, I leave it up to you Dobby to come up with the best method and placing for this. See if you can get a handle on that while Fred, George and I are planet side today. I hope I’m not over working you Dobby, do you think you can handle all that?”

Dobby Managed to squeeze in. “No problem Harry, I should be able to have something put together by early this afternoon. It might take a bit longer to work out the problems with rescuing Sirius though. Perhaps when you return later today, we can all go over that together and fine-tune the procedures?”

Harry nodded his acceptance and continued. “We will certainly need this for Skeeter and possibly Sirius as well; as I am not convinced Sirius will be able to adjust to this, or take orders from a 16 year old, even if that 16 year old is me, and possibly, because it is me. He would see himself in a protective role, that being, taking care of me and may not be able to make the needed changes to that perception.  If not, we will wipe that part of his memory and place him with Moony, give him a job at WWW after we clear him of his charges, then perhaps a bit later we can turn him also into a planet side asset. Either way I want him rescued, if at all possible. Who is best at memory charms, Dobby, Fred or George? As sure as Merlin had wrinkles, it’s not me. Someone will have to become an expert at that, if not already.”

Well . . .  what do you all think?" Harry let out the rest of an apparent deep breath as he managed to say all of that without blinking or seeming the need to take another breath.

Fred spoke up finally, saying. “Both George and I have also had to learn a variety of memory charming techniques, so one of us can handle that if the need arises.”

“Very well, shall we proceed to create our altered appearance and personalities then?” Harry asked.

Three nods of the head and they began the alterations to the holographic projector units. Harry took on late twenties male with light brown hair, hazel eyes, and square type face with chiseled features with pronounced cheek bones and hollowed or sunken cheeks with a masculine square chin and a slight five o’clock shadow. All in all giving him that hardened but commanding, tough guy look. He chose the name (Hank Stone).  

The others followed Harries lead much the same in appearance all looking much like hardened but not over developed fighters. (Frank Clay) for Fred and (Greg Slate) for George while Dobby chose a new name for his new appearance, (Danny Fixit) all keeping the first initials of their names to preserve that part of the code names H, D, F and G.  

In an effort to be more like real Government agents might look, also choosing dark or black pants and shirts, similar black coats and had the computers manufacture curved but otherwise normal looking sunglasses that were black from the outside but when wearing them, and from the inside looking out, they made everything brighter, clearer and more defined also having other features like night vision, microscopic and telescopic vision as well as a magnetic wave connection to the ear piece communicators for amplified eavesdropping. 

These glasses also had microscopic visual sensors in the middle front that could transmit real time video and audio back to the ship and to each others glasses allowing each other to see what the others were seeing by a sort of heads up display horizontal along the top one third of the inside of their lenses. The glasses had touch controls along the stems for fine tuned adjustments and also drew their magnetic current power requirements from their suits and surrounding environment. 

One last thing was needed to complete the agents look and authenticity and that was identification that would fool all Muggles and Wizards alike. For that, it was chosen to use a Department called [S O S - "GLOBAL-99-ULTRA"] clearance levels, bearing authentic but recreated top level International/Global Security Badges, which would assume it to be from some ultra top secret International over Government Issue of some sort.  Although this part would be almost impossible for anyone to find, the S O S in this case, also stands for [Systems Off-World Security].

Harry created this ID from the same ceramic fabric material the environment suits were manufactured from but reconstituted to look and feel something like a combination of a Black Dragon Hide (outside), Basilisk Hide (inside), No seams or stitching (fused together) folding type wallet... Cover (top outside) Branded into the Black Dragon Hide [look-alike] is a Hungarian Horntail with full wings spread, overlaid on Earths Globe with Moon in the background and several star systems, randomly placed. The Hungarian Horntail was chosen so the Magic communities in general would recognize that these were both Muggle and Magic agents but Muggles would see something more closely resembling the American Eagle. 

Wallet Size closed 12cm x 10cm x 1/12cm

             Top inside Section

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(Picture here)      Agent: Hank Stone:

[SOS-GLOBAL-99 ULTRA 1 CLEARANCE]

  All Units Defer Your Command “Here”

Signed:  H. Stone:  D. Fixit:   (S.O.S. Seal)

Co-Signed: F. Clay:  G. Slate:  (Global Seal)

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  6 Gold Badges on Bottom inside section.

     European,   Russian,   American,

        African,   Asian,   Islamic

(Badges fused and sealed into [look-alike] Basilisk Skin)

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Back cover bore the words “Property of the S O S” Embossed in a half moon, upward arc.

(Sorry no picture is available for this ultra classified document; somehow it has resisted all attempts to be photographed).

It was determined that the more outrageous the ID, the more believable or the less questioned it would be. This identification would not likely be questioned, even by the Queen or any President.  This was such a high level, top secret clearance that even the issuer didn’t question it for fear of 20 years imprisonment. In fact the issuer was none other than Harry Potter himself, laughing his ass off as he created them. 

He also realized it would not be too difficult to input the necessary data into some Government computer main frames to have a form of authentication if only to say that there is an [S O S - GLOBAL-99-ULTRA] Security Department, but all files and information are Ultra classified to this warning. . .  “Defer Your Command To ID Holder!" "You are now being traced, your clearance levels do not allow further access; any disobedience or further attempts to view these files will result in imprisonment for not less than 20 years!” Would be the only info or message one could get, if anyone actually tried to check.

This would effectively make Harry and crew completely legal and quite untouchable, not forgetting to mention, way above the law. This is why Harry was on the floor in front of the computers, in out of control laughter, while the others just watched him in amazement after he created 4 ID packets, before they also caught on.

At last, after finally getting a grip back on himself; H, F and G were ready to visit down below and complete the shopping and anything else they could think of while on walk about and find out just what was happening and what people were saying in general about Tommy boys’ squibbing and subsequent incarceration.  But Harry was most interested in what the Ministry of Magic’s reaction to his so called ultimatum, and the Skeeter editorial about said letter.

Fred and George were going to go back as them selves but Harry opted to try out his new Hank Stone persona but decided to stay a bit in the background and just watch people and events from the background as F and G went about collecting the remaining shopping items and so on.

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Day 2:  June 30, 1996:  10:21am GMT:

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Diagon Alley:

H, F and G opted to teleport down in a Muggle alley just outside the Leaky Caldron and had altered their hologram to conceal the new sun glasses. Another feature of the holographic unit was that the hologram did have a substance to it meaning that you could touch the holographic projection and it would look and feel the way it was projecting. This was due to the dynamics of the magnetic field matrix, it was created from.

Fred and George appeared just as they usually did, flaming red hair, freckles and twin speak in tow, while Harry watched and listened through his glasses in the background as they proceeded into the Leaky Caldron.

The Caldron was packed with Witches and Wizards celebrating the Dark Lords defeat. Snippets of conversation could be dissected as they passed through the Caldron on the way into Diagon Alley. Parts that were over heard went like this.

“. . . Stripped his Magic . . . How could a mere boy . . .  that Skeeter Witch is going to get herself . . . Old Rufus must be . . .   Malfoy a death . . .  Black-mail and bribery, you say . . .  Blood quill, she wouldn’t . . .  Horcruxes, what are Horcr . . .  School girl recommended to be the next Minister of . . .  Umbridge Sent Dementors after Pot . . .  Fudge may have approved . . .  Those decrees were just . . .”

Those were just some of the snippets garnered as they passed through into Diagon Alley.

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Meanwhile at the Ministry building in the office of the Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour was not having a good day, to say the least. He was reading over that letter from Harry Potter again, and the Daily Prophet Skeeter editorial, and had taken to throwing a few things around while swearing at the situation he now found himself in.  For old Rufus was one of the bribed people Potter had referred to.  He had to make the right choice here and even if he did he could lose his job along with half the Ministry. If he chose to go after Potter and arrest him, as Skeeter suggested, he could doom the whole community to squibbing or worse.

He sent for Kingsley Shacklebolt and the head of the DMLE, Amelia Bones, and still had not decided what he was going to do until he felt them out on this subject.   As they walked into his office he instructed them to sit, and asked. “Well, what do you two make of all of this and what do you suggest we do about it?”

Just a moment earlier, Dobby tapped his ear piece and called to H, F and G telling them he had been probing the Ministers office and then eavesdropping in on the Ministers conversation with Kingsley and Amelia Bones and that they might want to hear what was transpiring right at that moment, and then opened the channel for all three of them to hear.

Rufus could then be heard by all, saying. “Well, what do you two make of all of this and what do you suggest we do about it?”

Kingsley was the first to respond. “Minister, I know Potter, he is nothing like Skeeter would have us all believe. He is not an attention seeker in the least. He hates his fame with a passion. He is a straight up Wizard and if he says he squibbed Vol-Volde, Damn it, Voldemort. Then you better believe him. If he says he can do it to all of us, I for one believe him. My best advice is to get to work at cleaning up the bigotry and corruption that we both know is rampant in our society. Yes, it may mean some of us will lose our jobs and may even be arrested and sent to prison, but if we do it right we may have yet another chance to correct the problems and save some of us, who have not been too badly corrupted. Minister, I know that you are, at heart, a righteous Wizard, it is time now to do the right thing.”

Amelia then entered her comments by injecting. “Minister, I concur entirely with Kingsley here. Potter has given us the opportunity to clean up this entire mess from the top down or the bottom up. If we take the proper steps and acknowledge your own failings first, then promise to do better, you may avoid prosecution as well as keep your job Sir.  If you choose to follow that Skeeter Witches suggestions and go after Potter, who I might add, just fixed our biggest head ache in years, who is now sitting in a holding cell with little more Magic than a squib, then I fear Potter will do just what he claims he can, and render us all Muggles or worse. I suggest we start by putting a leash on Skeeter; issue detainment for questioning orders for Fudge and Umbridge; issue arrest warrants for Lucius Malfoy and Peter Pettigrew and start a sweep of all Ministry employees that may have the dark mark or affiliation with you-know-who’s death eaters. I recommend the use of Veritaserum for everyone, starting at the top.  And as they say, the next move in this game is yours; choose wisely, Sir.” 

Rufus thought about how deeply was his own involvement and since he had only taken a few bribes from time to time he could likely risk the Veritaserum, and then let out a long tiring sigh, and then said.  “Very well then, start procedures on all of that and I’ll schedule a press conference for 3pm today. I need to address the people personally if we are to make things right. I want that Skeeter Witch in my office in less than 30 minutes, one way or another.  It is time to get control over that witch, or shut her down; from this day forward they will only print the truth and only with confirmed sources for their published stories. There will be no more making up the so called facts or Skeeter style speculation and innuendoes type of editorials. As for the Quibbler, well Xenophilius Lovegood has not been a problem and mostly, he just prints outlandish entertainment stories, so I think we can leave him alone, for now anyway; same with the W.W.N. The Daily Prophet is the real problem publisher here.  Take whatever steps you both feel are necessary, I will back up any decisions you may have to make, while in the field.” He waved his hand at the door while saying; “Dismissed.”  

As he watched his two best people leave his office, the old Lion-look-a-like, put his head in his hands and said out loud to himself and basically to the empty room. “Potter, you sure have created a nice mess for me to clean up here! You could help us clean it up instead of running off to, what was it, ahh . . . yes, (Extreme Traveling)! And why is it, I wonder, that no Magic use for you has shown up on our detection devises? Can someone explain how you can drain, you-know-who, of almost all of his Magic with no record of a Spell, Ritual or whatever you used?” Then old Rufus let out another sigh and rubbed his temples in an attempt to shake off his now throbbing, Potter induced headache.

Meanwhile Back in Diagon Alley.

H, F and G were continuing on with the shopping while listening to the Ministers diatribe about Harry Potter giving him such a headache and not knowing that Harry was actually listening in. Harry tapped his com unit just to say that they may not actually have to convert the Acid Queen Witch Bitch but they can wait a few days to see what will happen in that regard. Then reiterated that it would seem old Rufus may be making the right choices for a change.

They continued their shopping through Diagon Alley entering a book store just off the main circuit and partly into Knockturn Alley. One which F and G seem quite familiar with. Looking around while F and G picked up several obscure books on becoming Animagi, a few on Potions and three on apparition. With these last books the book shopping part was mostly done. There was one thing Harry wanted to look into and directed them to go to a luggage shop to see what kind of trunks might be found, particularly trunks with Hyper or Sub-space dimensions inside. Meaning they were much larger inside than they looked from the out side. Harry had been thinking about old Moody's trunk and thought if he could find something like it, they could create more rooms and spaces on the ship, if they would work in the Magnetic Gravity and general ships atmosphere?

They entered a store called “Stanley Lexx Luggage.” (Author puzzled by this seemingly familiar name?) Harry stood back and watched as the twins asked questions and looked over some of the trunk models. They found one that was just right. Standard from the out side, a bit longer than a meter, about half as wide and a half meter deep. Inside was quite roomy having four separate compartments entered by a slide in, and ladder out, each about 5 meters square. The one they were looking at was an empty model and Fred asked if they could leave a deposit and take the model one with them to see how it would fit in at home.

Mr. Stanley Lexx had no problem letting them have it for a few days and shrunk it down for them. They wanted to make sure it would work in the ships environment before going back to purchase a few of them as they could be needed for a variety of reasons including extra ships space.

They took one more walk about Diagon Alley, wandering up to Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor, sat and ordered three Sundays, all different flavors. As they sat there watching and listening to passers by, Moony happened by and spotted the twins sitting with an unknown man at their table. He simply could not resist the temptation to come over and say hello to them.

"Hello there, what are you boys up to today?" Moony casually asked while looking over the strange man at their table. Then reached out his hand and said. "Hello, I'm Remus Lupin, nice to meet you."

Harry reached out his own hand and shook Remus hand introducing himself as Hank Stone. Remus noticed a strange accent to this man and asked. "Mr. Stone, I don't recognize your accent, where would you be from then?"

"Actually, I travel a lot and my accent often changes to blend in more with the native inhabitants of wherever I might happen to be visiting; it's just a talent I acquired in my travels. But right now it seems to be a blend of British, Canadian and Dutch, I think?" Hank reiterated nonchalantly and smiled disarmingly.

Moony smiled as he asked. "And how did you meet up with these two delinquents?"

"Hay, is that any way to speak about your employers, my dear Mr. Moony?" Both F and G said half the sentence each.

"Mr. Moony, I thought you said your name was Remus Lupin?" Hank asked.

"Oh, Moony is a nick name given to me by friends a long time ago." Moony said.

"Is that because of your condition, then?" Hank asked.

Moony sat up straight a bit defensive and just muttered "How...?"

"Oh, fear not Mr. Lupin, in my travels I have come across many so called dark creatures, most of which are not even so called dark, it's just a label power people like to tag on those they fear. As to how I know, well I have very sensitive senses; I can smell the wolf in you." Hank answered.

Remus relaxed a bit as F and G talked about some new store policies and of looking for a shop in Diagon Alley as well as the one they now had in Hogsmeade. Expansion had been on their minds for a couple of months and now it was more than possible to take advantage of that. They set Remus on the task of looking for a proper store to lease or even bye out right. It would seem that Remus was well on his way to earning his new position of General Manager of WWW by hunting down new staff, full and part time, to man the store or stores as needed and people he could call in at the last moment to take over for one or the other when needed.

After a few minutes Remus made his, pleasure to have met you, goodbye speech and resumed his WWW Diagon alley searches.

About 5 minutes later they were just about to leave when several apparition pops could be heard and then several screams rang out as flashes of spell light could be seen in the distance. 

"Must be bloody Death Eaters attacking? What do you want us to do Hank?" F screamed out.

"Quickly into the Alley over there and change into Frank and Greg, shields up full, use only wands..."

"We haven't tested a wand from the inside of the shields yet Hank. We may end up hexing ourselves, I suggest we spread out, Diggers on stun." Fred said.

"Right, I forgot about that, very well, Diggers on stun, lets take em down." Hank ordered.

So, H, F and G entered their first fight as agents of the [S O S - GLOBAL-99-ULTRA] Security.

Spreading out, Magnetic Shields at full and began stunning the Death Eaters which had no defense against the Digger stun weapon. Since this digger weapon emitted a blue beam of light in the stun setting it blended right in with the multi colored lights the wands spells produced. There were 15 Death Eaters in all and all had been stunned within the first five minutes with no casualties other than a few repairable hexes on some of the by standers. People were still running around screaming though, not having realized the fight was over.  Then the Aurors arrived, arrogant as ever not having been given the word from the Minister to alter their behavior and approach.

"You there!" One of them yelled at Hank. "Drop your wand, face down on the ground, now!"

As Hank was turning around to face the Auror who had ordered him down, the Auror fired a stunner at Hank which just bounced off the shield. As Hank approached the Auror he said. "What the hell is the matter with you, I just did your job for you and you have the arrogance to try to arrest me!"

Hank then took out his ID and shoved it in front of the arrogant Auror, saying. "Unless you want to spend the next 20 years in a prison cell for attacking a Government Special Agent, I suggest you get your boss down here right now! Move it mister!"

Auror Dawlish nearly messed his pants when he saw the ID card and badges and just stammered out. "Y… Y… Yes Sir, right away Sir." and popped away to return with Kingsley Shacklebolt a few minutes later while the other Aurors were securing the Death Eaters.

Auror Dawlish introduced Kingsley to agent Stone of [S O S - GLOBAL-99-ULTRA] Security, and then backed away for a bit of distance.

Agent Hank Stone showed Kingsley his ID and answered his questions about the Death Eater attack. F and G were just standing to one side watching as Harry took complete control over the situation and the Aurors, while learning from him how to take this control and hold it amongst a growing crowd and the officials that show up in the aftermath.

At the same time at the Ministry of Magic.

More death eaters were trying to break into the Ministry in an attempt to break out their Lord Voldemort from the level nine holding cell and were met by another 20 Aurors and Ministry staff at wand point. Spells were traded with the death eaters, then 3 Aurors and 1 staff member lost their lives to the killing curse.

Just at that moment the Ministers voice could be heard over the sonorous spell giving permission to use the killing curse in retaliation for the 4 dead Ministry employees. It didn’t take much longer to kill or subdue the 30 death eaters that were storming the Ministry.

Several Aurors had been hit with life threatening spells and were rushed to St. Mungos Hospital for much needed repairs, while the still alive death eaters were ushered into holding cells, searched and all objects and wands confiscated and then given medical treatment to stabilize their conditions. Among the captured death eaters was none other than Peter Pettigrew who it seemed had just transformed into his rat persona in an attempt to escape but was spotted, then stunned by Auror Nmphadora Tonks.  

Meanwhile back at Diagon Alley.

The mop up continued as an Auror ran up to Kingsley telling him of the attempted breakout at the Ministry. Kingsley excused himself and apperated back to the Ministry. By the time he got back the whole thing was over.

H, F and G had all they needed for the moment and decided to discretely return to the ship.

After arriving Harry said. “Let us test those wands right now to see if they will work within the shielding of the suits.”

Fred and George energized the shielding once again and threw a few curses at one another and much too every ones surprise, they only ended up cursing and spelling themselves.

“Well, Harry said. “We will have to do something about that!” He deactivated the shielding and then enervated the twins and suggested a variety of Magnetic displacement adjustments and modifications until they got the shielding to work with the wands. It took a few well placed spells and they were quite the rainbow shades of color and shapes before they got it right. This was much to Harry and Dobby’s great amusement as they watched the two exchanging spells.

After they had experimented and got the settings just right so they could fire spells out but none would get in. All four of them made the same adjustments and tested the units again. Satisfied they could now use spells and wands within the Magnetic shielding of the suits they all went back to the conference room to discuss the next mission, that of the time travel back a year and the rescue of Sirius Black.

The first thing was to pinpoint the exact date then the exact time they needed to be at. It was determined by way of pensieve memory that the DOM fiasco took place on the 26th day of June, 1995 at exactly 8:42pm: GMT. This was the exact time that Sirius was hit with a stunner from Bellatrix Lestrange and fell backwards into the Veil.  So it was determined that they would have to be there at least one hour earlier to make sure or at least hope that nothing went wrong.

“New Entry into Captains Personal Logs, ‘Do not do, list!”

Captains do not do Order #7: “Do not Invoke Murphy’s Law!” Harry sighed.

Dobby had come up with the method of this rescue by way of a Holographic double of the veil placed directly in front of it but in a way to obscure the real veil from sight and having placed a Magnetic net over the real veil in an effort to prevent any accidents. They would set this up before any of the Ministry crew (as they called themselves) or the death eaters even entered the Veil room, then they would wait, in an out-of-phase condition for the right moment and then teleport Sirius right into a stasis pod placed in the holding cell that Dobby had created in the far right corner of the conference room. 

About 45 minutes later, Dobby announced he and Harry had finished the calculations for using a Hyperspace jump, utilizing the Suns Gravitational well, incorporating the Dark Matter curved gravity between Earth and the Sun would bring them to the right day and they should arrive back in orbit at approximately 4:30pm on the 26th day of June, 1995: GMT give or take one hour.  

Harry took his place in the Bridge control chair as Dobby, Fred and George stood off to the sides of the computer console. Harry would be piloting the ship for this journey.

“All systems are go, Capt., Earth Date and time is.”

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June 30, 1996.  1:18pm GMT

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“Right, on 1 then, prepare for Hyperspace time jump in . . . 5 . . ., 4 . . ., 3 . . ., 2 . . ., 1 – execute”

Just seconds into the jump as the ship had reached 1.1 light speed and began the automatic acceleration phase around the Sun, the ship was hit with a massive solar flare accompanied by a Dark Matter displacement, both hitting the ship, seconds apart, causing a gravity distortion almost liquefying space-time; which sent the ship spiraling out of control towards Earth and knocking out several of the ships systems including inertial dampeners and the artificial gravity, sending all four of them hurtling into the bulkhead walls and rendering them all unconscious for the duration of the journey. Fortunately, they were all wearing the environment suits although their magnetic shields had not been turned on, the environment suits were the only thing that kept them all from being ‘Matter Splatters’ on the bulkhead walls. 

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June 14, 1917: 1:04pm PT:

British Columbia, Canada

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Harry was the first to come back to awareness, as he tried to look around he could see magnetic sparks dancing around the ships circuitry and a few wall panels hanging loose with the Triaminicon-serptaline or newly re-named Magnetic Current Ceramic fibers used for connecting the circuits, hanging in the open, holding the panels from dropping to the floor.  They had crash-landed, that was certain.

Harry made his way over to Dobby and the twins and then enervated all three of them. Fortunately, all were alive and not overly damaged from the incident.

“What the hell happened? Harry, are you ok?” George managed to gargle out.

Harry said. “The only thing I am sure of at this point is we have crash landed. I have no idea how long we have been out of it.”

They made there way down to the main deck avoiding hanging control panels and dancing magnetic discharges that seem to arc across large distances within the ship. Then they saw it, a rather large, gaping tear in the outer hull between the tools and information center.

Then Harry noticed a body lying on the floor in front of the information control computer.

“Dobby, can you start an assessment as to our damage and where we might be. Fred, George, you come with me and we will try to determine who our uninvited guest is!” Harry rasped out.

Approximately One Hour Earlier:

In 1917 a 29 year old Eddy had been working for various lumber camps in California, Texas and currently in Canada. Eddy had immigrated from Latvia, a couple years after his planned wedding in 1914 was canceled at the last minute by the bride to be, sighting age differences for the reason. Eddy had spent a little more than a year moving from camp to camp where the work could be found. On this 14th day of June, 1917; Eddy was working this lumber camp in Canada’s British Columbia Forest just North of Merit BC.  When out of the blue (as they say), he heard this screeching, humming  and crashing sound as something fell out of the sky just a few hundred yards from his position. He hadn’t seen it, as it came down so fast while Eddy was with his back to the object wrapping a yellow ribbon/cloth around a rather large tree, marking that tree for culling by the lumber camp he was currently working for.

Naturally, and being the vary curious sort of person Eddy was; he went to investigate the unusual sounds he had heard. As he approached the thing that fell from the sky he couldn’t help but wonder what this was and where it had come from. He was looking at some sort of disk shaped object, metal or something like it in nature and most importantly, it seem to be a manufactured construct and not a natural object like a meteor that you might expect to fall from the sky in 1917.  He walked around this object and found an opening, bludgeoned through the hull from colliding with a massive tree, he suspected, and ventured cautiously, inside the thing.

He looked all around himself then bending down to pick up something that caught his eye. It was small and disk shaped and had a ring protruding from it as though it was meant to be worn on the middle finger and the disk part placed in the palm of your hand. The ring, he thought, was big enough in diameter for him to place two fingers through it.  As he picked it up he could feel a strange tingling sensation, dance across his finger tips for a moment and then stopped.

He absentmindedly pocketed the object and for the time being just forgot about it. He ventured a bit further inside and saw the computer console for the mapping and information room but had no idea what to make of it until he saw the newly configured four fingered and one thumb hand pads access to the computer console. Magnetic sparks were dancing all over the ships systems but Eddy did not seem frightened or overly concerned and then curiously, placed his right hand on the hand pad. A momentary jolt of seeming lightning struck him and he was instantly out cold face up on the floor, in front of the console.

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Harry bent down to look over the stranger that was in their midst and could not help the feeling that he look familiar in some way, as though he should know who he was. A rather slight man somewhere around 28 to 32 years old, Harry thought, thin and rather fragile looking by comparison to most others and at first glance, rather unsuited physically, to be pounding about in the woods cutting down trees, Harry thought.

“Well, shall we enervate this stranger and find out who he is”? George asked.

“Enervate.” Shouted Fred from the other side of the man.

Groggily, the man sat upright and looked around at his audience and tried to splutter out. “Who are you? Where am I?  What is this thing?” Then he took another look at his audience and they were all wearing some sort of greenish body suit and spluttered out again. “What are you?”

Sighing, Harry said. “If you don’t mind, we will ask the questions and you will answer them, ok?”

The man just nodded his head in agreement, and then said. “My name is Eddy, I work for the lumber company contracted to remove some of the trees in this area. My job is mostly to scout out the right size and age of the trees to be cut down, and then mark those trees for the cutters.”

“Fred” Harry called out. “Go out side and place notice me not, Muggle repelling charms and anything else you can think up to keep us hidden. Circle the entire area; we may be here for awhile.”

“Aye aye, Capt.” Came the response from Fred as he made his way through the opening to the outside world.

Then Harry asked Eddy. “What is the date today Eddy?”

Eddy looked at the green suited man strangely and said. “June 14th, Sir.”

Harry had to sigh when he asked what the year was.

The man, Eddy, looked even more perplexed by the fact that someone had not known what year it was but answered nonetheless. “Why it is 1917, Sir; June 14th 1917”. He repeated.

“And where are we on a map?” Harry asked.

“Um… Oh, this is the forest north of a small town called Merit in British Columbia, Canada, Sir.”

Ok, Harry was satisfied he had all the information he needed out of this oddly familiar man, but never once did it occur to him or anyone else to inquire of this mans last name. It was as though that notion was prevented from entering their thoughts, like some cosmic force was preventing it.

Harry asked George to escort Eddy out of the area and obliviate his recent memory of finding them. 

That part handled; Harry addressed Dobby asking how bad the damage was.

Dobby just looked at Harry in astonishment for a moment wondering what Harry was expecting him to say. “Well . . . , Harry . . . , Capt., Sir . . . , we are, sort of . . .  ahhh. . .  in big, Dragon dung, trouble; Sir!”  Dobby exclaimed.  “We are in the year 1917, the ship has sustained major damage, we are in the middle of the bush, in the middle of know where, likely a very long distance and time from the nearest repair shop for ultra high tech, U F O’s! Sir!” Dobby, with twisted sarcasm, factually, informed his Capt.

Then Dobby let out the Elf version of a sigh, took a deep breath and said. “The good news is; with magic and the ships self repair functions actually working now with a few minor repairs and a rebooting, the ship will go as far as it can to repair circuitry for the most part then it will begin on structural reformation.  We could be here a few days or even a week, possibly longer.”

“Well. . . that’s not so bad then, I can stand a week of smelling the forest, I think?” Harry said with a relieved expression.  “We better pick up all the crash material from the ship, that is scattered around the area, it will be needed for some repair work I suspect, and we can’t leave any evidence that the ship was ever here.”

After 4 days with the ship and crew working mostly around the clock and little to report about or worthy of including here, most of the repairs had been made. The gaping hole in the side of the ship had slowly recombined and was now just about finished. The ship was now standing upright on its 8, spider like, telescopic legs and Dobby had just reported ship functions at 99.7 Percent. It was time to leave here and get back into earth orbit and begin working on the next major problem of getting back to their proper time, or continuing the original mission of rescuing Sirius. But they needed to know what had happened in the first place for them to wind up crashed in 1917. They couldn’t, wouldn’t dare try another time jump until they understood that.

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June 18, 1917. 10:42am PT

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The four time travelers entered the Bridge which had been altered during the repairs, to accommodate  four separate computer control consoles, three in front and one behind, facing  forward with one viewing wall in front and one to each side. The left and right control consoles were Fred and Georges respectively and slightly angled toward the side viewing walls.   Harry’s station was like that of his remembered Capt. Kirk’s placement just behind the other three stations and elevated a few centimeters on a swivel. Harry could pilot and control all ships functions from this new station while delegating more hands on and monitoring tasks to F, D and G.  

“Prepare for liftoff and vertical acceleration to a 250,000km standard, stationary orbit. After standard orbit is attained put the ship in full stealth and out of phase condition.” Harry ordered!

“Aye aye, Capt.” Dobby answered.

The ship gracefully rose a few meters then a few more meters as the landing legs collapsed back into them selves. Suddenly, the ship shot straight up and would have appeared to an outside viewer as though it had just, blinked out of existence.

“Standard stationary orbit obtained, directly above Canada, Capt.; activating full stealth Magnetic Shielding and optical curve, frequency shift alternators; now activating resonance Hyper-Space frequency generators, for ships 180 degree, Sub-Space, out of phase condition. All ships systems now operating at 100 percent efficiency; switching to automatic stabilizing and operational controls, or as you may prefer Capt.; auto-pilot.” Dobby rattled off.

“Excellent and I have two new, standard Captains orders.  Number one, from now on before any space maneuvers are activated, all ships personnel present will activate their utility belts full personal Magnetic Containment Shielding.  Secondly, and this seems very important, DO NOT invoke Murphy’s Law!”

Dobby already knew what Harry meant by Murphy’s Law but the twins had never heard of this law and just looked from one to the other with the word ‘what’ poised on their lips. As they looked at Harry for an explanation, Harry just gave them that ‘Don’t ask’ look, and a small pregnant pause ensued as they all smiled, just a bit.

“Well, let us head to the conference room, shall we?” Harry quizzically, ordered.

They each took their respective seats in the conference room and Harry began with. “Well, the first thing we have to understand is how we had this little accident, in the first place. Both Dobby and I did the initial calculations and we didn’t miss anything. Dobby can you run a graphic and an optical interpretation of the jump, from the beginning? Look for any anomalies that could have interfered with the control settings, ships operations or the ships Dark Matter Gravity Rectifiers? Just before I was rendered unconscious I thought I could see the entire ship warp or bend in a rippling, or liquid like effect?” Harry said in a partial questioning tone, then began nibbling on his bottom lip and rubbing his thumb and forefinger over his chin.

“Another thing we need to know is just, who is Eddy? There is something biting the back of my mind about this bloke, but it is as though I just can’t recall anything other than that this guy is familiar in some way, or I should know who he is, or something like that, but it’s like a Cosmic Memory Charm that I just can’t break through? When we have the time, (sorry about the pun), we need to do a full historical search from 1900 to 1996 under the name Eddy, Edward, Ed or any other variations to see if anything turns up in the historical data bases. We will likely have to wait until we return to our own time as to make use of the late 1990s, internet data bases, as well. In the meantime let us go over the time jump data to find the cause of our mishap.” Harry stated again with puzzlement written across his face.

Dobby spoke up then adding that he had already done a internal history search and the only thing that turned up, and it seemed reluctant to display, was a data file on the name Ed Lee, but the rest of the file seemed to be scrambled or damaged in some way and Dobby was not able to clean it up or gleam any more information, after several adjustments and filtering attempts.

They began running the jump data displaying it on the transparent viewing walls, a few moments into the viewing and analysis, Harry said. “There, right there, what the hell was that flash?”

Dobby said. “Ahh that would do it all right Capt.; that was a solar flare, a rather large one with a high intensity, Dark Matter Gravity distortion right behind it and we were caught right in the middle of it. The combination of the two is what caused our Artificial Gravity and Inertial Dampeners to discharge violently throughout the inner and outer hulls, which is what you perceived as a warping or liquid like effect on the ship itself. Honestly Harry, it’s a Cosmic Miracle we survived at all, much less that we were able to affect ships repairs and return to Earth orbit! It might take another Cosmic Miracle to even get back to our own time!”

“Do I detect a bit of cynicism there, Commander Fixit?”  Harry inquired with a smile and then continued with. “Well, our calculations were spot on then and we should not encounter this type of happenstance accident again as the odds are contingent with being hit by lightning, several times in a row, I would think? Never the less, we will look for such happenstance anomalies for any future time jumps we might attempt including the next one, getting us back home.”

Now Harry addressed Fred and George with a new proposal. “I have been thinking about the Mars and Moon probes we sent out. We are no doubt going to investigate these two nearby planetary bodies at some point in the future. While Dobby and I are calculating the variables for the return to our own time I want you two to create a new matrix for the manufacturing of what I call, four fly chairs. These are the specs for what I want manufactured, there is no rush and I suspect this will take some time to complete so work on it when you have nothing else critical to do.

Then Harry entered into a data document the specifications for his ‘four Fly Chairs’ basic design. The twins read over his shoulder as he input his specifications. The chairs would be used for surface exploration of the Moon and Mars or any other planetary body that the need arose for. Each chair would be a basic ships control chair modified to include a smaller Gravity propulsion matrix similar to the ships propulsion systems but more directed to using planetary Gravity differentials. Chairs are to have built in and back up systems for Visual Communications, Atmosphere, Pressure and Magnetic Shielding. Also to be included are element sensors for detecting, analysis and readout of elements on the ships periodic tables, which have many more than Earths current understanding of the elements and compounds as stated on its periodic table.

Next, each arm of the chair is to be approximately 20cm wide with adjustable heads up displays at the end of each arm. The left arm is to contain the sensors, analysis and display protocols, and the right arm for manual controls for all systems. Each arm is to have a hand pad interface connected to the core control computer located in the back of the chair. Four digger weapons are to be installed in each chair. One in front on each arm and one in back on each arm mounted on pivots for variable movements.

The inside of the chair arms are to contain carry pouches for back up equipment such as Teleport modules, Holographic projectors, additional environment suits and utility belts, additional Digger weapons etc.; you get the idea. I want the chairs Atmosphere, Pressure and Magnetic shielding to work in both parallel and in series with the suits systems so that if there is a failure in one, the other will automatically take over for the failed unit. Just for extra back up protection.  Each chair is to be independent but also able to be slaved to the other chairs so to travel longer distances, one can, as they say, drive, while the others are resting.  Add additional controls to the personal utility belts for remote control of each or all of the chairs. Equip the chairs for invisibility and also the 180 degree out of phase stealth mode.  The chairs should be able to fly from a stationary hover then up to 500km/h, up, down, left or right, backwards and naturally, forward.

Finally and I’m not sure about the need for this but perhaps the chairs should be enclosed with a transparent wall or sphere of some kind. But the Magnetic shields may be sufficient for that purpose. I only mention this because it seems like a good, third back up for rider protection. The whole thing when finished should be about one and a half meters wide, deep and long. In other words, one by one by one meter or up to one and a half meters, if needed, something like a very small, one seated Muggle car. The built in Holographic projectors can project it to look like anything that might be needed to blend into an environment as well. When slaved together in the quad formation, that is two fronts and two behind, it could even take on the appearance of a four seated Muggle car.  Anyway, you get the general idea, it is up to you to manufacture these, and refine my initial design into something workable.”

“Dobby, you and I need to get to work on the return jump calculations.” Harry stated.

Harry could hear Fred and George as they walked away saying, “This is brilliant, absolutely brilliant, where do you suppose Harry came up with this Fly Chair idea?” Fred asked George as they headed for their ships quarters to brain storm this new idea.

An hour later Harry and Dobby had completed the calculations for the jump back to the future and had decided they would risk the planned original jump to rescue Sirius. Having set all the variables and double checked the Sun and its vicinity for any anomalies that might cause a problem. They were satisfied that the jump to 1995 should come off without a hitch, this time.

Harry tapped his ear communicator calling Fred and George to the Bridge to take their positions. Once everyone was in position, Harry ordered all to activate their personal protective shielding to full then maneuvered the ship into and orbit above the United Kingdom. They would start their jump from those coordinates as it was calculated that they should end up at the same place in orbit in 1995.

Harry stated. “Verifying ships chronographs read, June 18th, 1917: Time: 12:24pm PT. Verified.  Beginning countdown . . . 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1! Jump!” 

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June 26, 1995. 8:04pm GMT

Above the United Kingdom 

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“Is everyone ok?” Harry asked.

 Three nods of the head were all Harry got in response.

“Verify the chronometer reading, Dobby?” Harry ordered.

“June 26, 1995. 8:05pm GMT.” Dobby happily stated.

“Well, that went well so far but we don’t have much time, 37 minutes to be exact. Fortunately we had everything prepared before hand.” Harry stated as he maneuvered the ship keeping it in a complete out of phase condition to forgo the possibility of being seen as a UFO again.  He brought the ship to a hover, 1000 meters directly above the entrance to the Ministry of Magic. Harry then input the coordinates from his Pensieve memories, just off to the right of the death Veil in the Department of Mysteries.

Since this was basically a one man operation and as Harry was the only one familiar enough with this particular situation, he was elected as the teleport down person. Making sure he had all the necessary equipment, meaning a secondary Holographic projector and the magnetic net displacement field projector to place over the original Veil as well as a coordinate tag to place on Sirius. Harry set his own environment unit to invisibility, double checked he had all his ducks lined up and hit the teleport switch sending him to his desired coordinates. 

He could hear the commotion in the other rooms and new time was closing in. He threw the net over the Veil and activated his alternate Holographic projector, and then adjusted it slightly to make sure it was in the correct position 20cm in front of the Veil and waited for Sirius to arrive.

Harry had momentarily forgotten that the fight in the veil room had been going on for a few minutes before Sirius and the others arrived. Almost caught up in the action and of watching himself a year younger battling with Lucius Malfoy he nearly missed Sirius entrance. Then Sirius began defending Harry from the Malfoy creep. Harry took a look at his watch; he had managed to tag Sirius in the first few seconds of his defending young Harry from Malfoy and had to hit the switch to teleport him at just the right moment.  Then Bellatrix showed up cackling with drops of drool forming in the corners of her mouth as she fired a few spells around then aimed and fired the stunner at Sirius.

It was now or never Harry had to act as Sirius was beginning his backward arc. At just the right second Harry hit the switch and Sirius was teleported straight into the stasis pod in the corner of the conference room. Sirius was now out of danger. Harry had to wait a few minutes to make sure that everyone including younger Harry thought Sirius had fallen into the death veil in order to not alter the time line.  The only difference this time was, that whitish-blue glowing light from the teleport which Harry and Dobby had worked to reduce as much as possible. Harry thought he could remember and looking back through the Pensieve memory he could now remember there was indeed a light flash at the same moment Sirius fell into the Veil.

He felt all was as it should be as he watched his younger self in agony over the perceived loss of Sirius and the same agonized expression on Moony as he held Harry from running after him. When the rest of the veil room was emptied of the people fighting and they entered the atrium of the ministry to continue their fight, Harry removed the Holographic projection and teleported himself back to the ships Bridge, then ordered Dobby to take the ship back up into a standard orbit once again and collapsed into his command chair letting out a deep breath as though he had been holding it for 10 minutes.

After Harry calmed a bit he said. “Mission accomplished, all went as planned, and Sirius should be in the stasis pod in the conference room. We will leave him there until we get back to our own time and consider what to do with him next. I don’t want to hang around here any longer than necessary so lets get the calculations done for the next jump.”

Dobby said. “I have them all worked out, all that is left is for you and I to go over those calculations and double check that all is correct and then make the jump. Are you sure you don’t want to take a bit of time to rest before we do that Harry?”

“Actually, I will get a bite to eat and something to drink first. In the meantime go over the calculations again with Fred and George then meet me in the conference room for a bite to eat as well. Another hour here won’t kill us I expect.”

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June 26, 1995.  9:07pm GMT

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Harry entered the conference room and walked over to the interrogation room where the stasis pod was and just looked inside to make sure Sirius was actually in there. Satisfied he then went over to the food dispensing console and ordered two pork chops, a baked potato with kernel corn on the side and a piece of chocolate cake for desert along with a cup of frothy hot chocolate, with marshmallows melting on top. Harry relaxed for the first time in 4 days, and took his time eating. About 20 minutes later F,G and D entered and repeated what Harry had done on checking that Sirius was actually there and ordered up their dinners as well. 

After a short while of calmly sitting in the conference room sipping hot chocolate drinks. Harry stood up and motioned for the other to follow him back to the Bridge. It was deemed that enough time had been spent making sure the calculations were correct so Harry only skimmed over them and told everyone to take their places and activate their personal Magnetic shielding once again.

Since Dobby was more familiar this time with the full calculations he was to pilot the ship from his Bridge station for this next jump.  They needed to arrive after they had originally left the first time as to not cause a time-space paradox by arriving before they left. They had considered arriving in real time, that meaning accounting for the four days spent in the past, but felt that Fred and George might have been missed and didn’t want to answer the unwanted questions that would surely be asked. So they opted to arrive between one and 6 hours after they left.  Ships logs indicated the time they left was 1:18pm June 30th GMT, so that meant arriving somewhere between 2:18pm and 8:18pm that evening.  They were aiming for 3:18pm giving a two hour margin for error. They all felt that they had enough experience with two jumps that they could reasonably hit this mark.

“Ready then?” Harry questioned and got 3 head nods in response. “Very well, Dobby take us home.”

“Dobby spoke up then saying. “On 1 then, 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . and 1 - Jump!"                                                                                            

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June 30, 1996.  3:28pm GMT

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“Chronometer reading Dobby?” Harry asked.

“All is well Captain, we have arrived just 10 minutes off the mark; the time is 3:28pm June 30th 1996 GMT Sir.”

Harry let out another deep breath and ordered Dobby to secure the ship again in a standard orbital configuration, stealth and out of phase, and to set the auto-pilot. Then had them all follow him to the information control room.

Dobby sat in the control chair in front of the so called mapping and information centre and did another search but this time an internet search for the unknown ‘Eddy Lee’ as this had become a nagging question to answer to all of them, by this time.

Several pages came up in the search but one caught Harry’s eye as soon as he saw it and pointed it out to Dobby asking him to bring up the file information on that persons name, Edward Leedskalnin.

“Now I remember!” Harry exclaimed, as a picture of Eddy came up on the viewing wall. “That’s him alright, a bit older than when we met him but that’s Eddy alright. Now I remember having read a magazine article about this guy who had single-handedly quarried fossilized coral and sculpted it into a structure he called . . . what was it . . . right . . . ”Rock Gate Park”, somewhere in Florida in the 1920s and 30s then later moved the entire structure to . . . where was it now . . .  right . . . ‘Homestead Florida’ and re-named it. . . damn it, what was it called again?” and both Dobby and Harry said together at the same moment, “Coral Castle.” That article was where I came across the term ‘Magnetic Current’ before, as well, but could not remember where I had heard or seen that term, only that is was somehow familiar after I received my accidental information download from the ships computer.” Then Harry continued.  “It all makes sense now, Eddy must have found or picked up one of the hand held ‘Mass Re-aligners’ in the ship crash debris and he must have gotten a jolt in info from the computer console as well, that is why he was out cold when we found him. Dobby, does the data tell us where Eddy is now if he is still alive?”

Dobby said. “According to this biography on Eddy; he died in December 1951 of malnutrition and kidney failure at age 64. No one ever understood his theories on Magnetism or Magnetic Current or could even read his diagrams or notes that he made over time while apparently studying the effects of the ‘Mass Re-aligner’. Apparently, no one ever saw how he managed to quarry move massive coral rocks weighing several tons with only a block and tackle a shovel and a pick axe, apparently, all by himself. His accomplishments were quite astonishing for the circa 1920-1940, but I think we know how he managed all that, now.”  I think, for us anyway, we can mark this particular ‘Mystery in History’ under, Solved.”

Harry then switched on the ships log recorder.

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Ships Log:

Earth Date: June 30, 1996: 4:53pm GMT.

Supplemental information on Edward (Eddy) Leedskalnin:

What Eddy had apparently discovered by accident and some experimentation, was that the disk shaped object, a [Hand held Mass Re-aligner] which Eddy apparently could not remember where he had found it, but assumed correctly it was while working in the Canadian forest; had the power to realign the electrons at the sub-atomic level, effectively creating a Magnetic field around an object in a 180 degree out of phase condition with an objects normal Magnetic field, then vibrating that object until a resonant frequency was obtained there-by, removing the gravity of certain types of materials, or in plain English, making a heavy object effectively, weightless.

Despite having only a 4th grade education, but it does not necessarily take a genius to understand the concept of anti-gravity and through experimentation Eddy eventually understood the basics of how this object did its work. This was the same type of technology that made the Great Pyramids possible in the first place, built more than 10,000 years ago and made possible the building of ‘Rock Gate Park’ by one slight even sickly looking man over a time frame of about 20 years and the subsequent moving of the entire ‘Rock Gate Park’ structures to a knew home in Homestead Florida. Eddy had accomplished this, much to everyone’s astonishment and lack of understanding, completely alone with no construction company or other workers to help him.

It would seem that fate itself played a part in creating this mystery as there is no other explanation as to why I could not remember this information or it could not be retrieved when Dobby made the attempt before we returned to the present time. It would seem that fate itself had meant for us to play this part in the Mystery of Coral Castle.

More information about this otherwise none remarkable man can be found in Earths Internet databases by looking up his name or the creation he engineered “Coral Castle’ on any Earth based internet terminal.

Included in this log entry are three primary, Earth Based Internet addresses where historical data can be retrieved...

http://www.coralcastle.com/biography.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Leedskalnin

http://magneticcurrent.blogspot.com/

Or interested parties may search for . . .

Coral Castle:

Wikipedia for Edward Leedskalnin:  

Magnetic Current blogspot:

End Log entry by Capt. Harry J. Potter

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“Well! We managed to miss the Rita Skeeter spanking and the Ministers public speech that was to take place at 3:00pm.” Harry said with a sigh after he switched off the log recorder then continued with. “I guess we will have to wait to read that in the Prophet. In the mean time Fred and George can continue their new project on the Fly Chairs when time permits, while Dobby and I consider what to do about Sirius.." (Hiccup)..

Episode 2: “Aftermath and a Mystery in History, Solved.”

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Harry Potter in The SOS-Potter

Created By: Steve's Place

Written By: Steve's Place

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Summery: Episode 2: Evening Interlude: Harry decides it's time to get a little Harry style, eye for and eye, payback on his dear, so called, relatives and Harry is sporting a really wide faced smile after he discovers just the right way to have that fun.

Main Characters: Episode 2: Evening Interlude: Harry-> Hank Stone (H), Dobby-> Danny Fixit (D), Fred-> Frank Clay (F), George-> Greg Slate (G).

Secondary Characters Include: Vernon Dursley, Petunia Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Along with several unnamed local residence, a few Muggle Ambulance and Fire Truck Personnel, a handful of Bobbies and a few Muggle reporters as well as Arabella Figg, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Nymphadora Tonks, Amelia Bones and Rufus Scrimgeour with an even bigger, Potter induced headache.

You may also wish to consult original diagrams of the ship. If so and since I don't seem to be able to include a link at some sites, you may need to go to my FF(dot)net Bio Page to find that link.

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