Harry Potter – Alteran, Part 2
*This is Alteran speech*
-"Mental communication"-
-oo00oo- scene break or time jump.
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Unknown Location
A soft crack of displaced air was heard as a person in dark robes appeared in the center of the room and immediately knelt down on one knee. They didn't say anything as they waited to be acknowledge. The room itself was nothing of note and bare of any visible furnishings. The walls of the room were all hidden in shadow, the only light was a spot light over the head of the person that knelt in the center of the room.
"You have news for us?" Came a disguised voice from the shadowed corner of the room.
"The device has been delivered." A man's voice replied from the kneeling person.
"Do we know if it worked?" Came a second disguised voice from the other corner of the room, behind the man in the center.
"The muggle scientist we had create it for us, assures us, it would do as we wanted." The man replied not looking at anything but the floor.
"That does not ensure it was successful in killing Potter! or his troublesome friends." Came the reply from the first shadowed corner.
"No, there is no way of knowing, the one that delivered the package has not returned though."
"That muggle diplomat." The shadowed person spit on the ground in front of them. "Is of no consequence."
The other voice replied to the first. "True, but if she does not return as scheduled…"
"Yes, yes you are correct. There is no word of anything from that filths office?" replied the first voice.
"No, our spy has heard nothing yet. If the diplomat fails to return, he will be the first to know." replied the man in the center of the room.
"You are sure it could not be detected?" The question came from the corner behind him.
"The device was in an expanded pocket sewn into and sealed within the bag. A notice-me-not was then applied to the pocket and stitching. The muggles would not have found it." replied the kneeling man.
"How was the device triggered?" asked the person behind him.
"A simple linked tracking charm. When the link was severed by the portal closing, it started a ten second timer."
"Ten seconds, what if Potter! was not there?" Growled the first shadow.
"The scientist says the blast from it would be several miles." replied the man.
"Fool, even so, you can not be sure. Crucio!" The red beam of light shot out of the corner and struck the man in the middle of the room, he fell to the floor screaming.
"Enough!" Came the voice from the other corner and the red beam stopped. "He is loyal to us, we only need to wait. If he has failed us, his life is forfeit."
"Very well." replied the first. The person leaned forward toward the man in the middle of the room, the hood of their robe coming out of the shadow, a few strands of red hair peeking out of the bottom of the hood. "If you have failed me…"
Struggling back to his knees the man in the middle replied. "Yes, I understand." He then disappeared in a louder crack of displaced air.
"I will have my vengeance." The first shadow hissed in anger.
"We! Will have it." the second replied.
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Harry hadn't moved from his spot looking out the window of the Control Room. He watched as the purple cloud of hyperspace energy opened up and the city shot forward. He knew his rage was in control, he didn't care. As a child he had been abused, as a young boy he had been heralded one moment and ridiculed the next.
He had no love loss for the wizarding world of Earth. It was why he had left, it was why he didn't recruit witches and wizards from within the active communities. He only wanted those that had not been tainted by the bigotry, by the corruption, and by the ignorance that flowed so freely in the wizarding world. It was why he hadn't approached Neville or Remus even though they were his friends and he trusted them.
He was happy they were with him now but the choice to include them had been taken out of his hands by Hermione and Dumbledore. He didn't hold any animosity toward either of them, they had done the right thing. Neville and his parents, Remus, Tonks... they were all family and he should have never left them behind.
Now though, someone, some group, the community had attacked him and his. Today was suppose to be his wedding day. It was suppose to be a beautiful day, one that had been turned ugly with hate, his home had been forever tainted. He was going to make them pay even if he had to destroy every single place the wizards held dear.
As Olympus traveled through hyperspace, he was already setting targeting coordinates into the computer. Diagon Alley, Hogwarts, the Ministry building. He had the Antarctic outpost scanners going at full power locating every magical enclave it could find and was adding those into the computer as targets as well. As Luna said, nowhere to run and they couldn't hide from him.
The others in the room couldn't see his thoughts, even Lya had been locked out of his mind. What they could see was information appearing on the curved window in front of him. Pictures of places that were then moved to a list with coordinates listed next to them. Some of those places even the members of SG1, General Hammond, and the Secretary recognised, like the United States Capitol building, a block of buildings in Washington DC, another block of buildings in Chicago. Daniel even recognised historic sites in Egypt, England, and across Europe.
Jack had taken a quick look in the direction of the girls still off to the side of where Harry was standing. What he saw scared even him. He could see the malaise in the eyes of Luna and Aliya, they were both lost in their anger toward whoever had carried out this attack on them. Hermione though, while he could see the anger, also had tears trailing down her face. She wasn't going to stop whatever Harry was doing but it was causing her great pain to see it happening.
Jack and General Hammond shared a look with each other then Hammond nodded to Lya who Jack was closer to. Jack leaned in close to her. "What is Harry doing? Why is he listing all those places?"
Lya turned to him and looked into his eyes and he could see the sadness in them. "The High Councilor is lost in his rage. So are the only the people that could calm him down." She looked to the three girls still holding each other. "I am trying to reach his mind but he has blocked me, the Nox."
"And the places he is listing?" Jack asked. He already had a good Idea but he needed confirmation before he did anything.
"Those are the places that the descendents of the Alterans are concentrated. The wizarding world as it is known on Earth to those that know." She looked at the Secretary when she said that. "He is setting targeting information. He is going to do to them, what they just did him."
Before Jack could react to the information, Olympus dropped out of Hyperspace above Earth in a very high orbit. Before anything could happen though several more large purple clouds erupted in space between the city and Earth. From those hyperspace windows appeared sixteen Asgard ships, the bows of the ships pointing toward the city.
Everyone could see that Harry had paused in what he was doing. The list of targets stopped updating, and his hands started twitching. A hologram of Thor appeared behind Harry, facing him. "The Asgard will not allow this." He spoke.
Harry whipped around and looked at the Asgard standing there. "You will not deny me!" Harry spat out.
"We will defend this world, even if it means our destruction." Thor replied calmly as his big eyes blinked. Behind Harry on the window Jack and the others could see targeting information appear for the Asgard ships.
"Stand aside Thor, I do not wish to fight you but they need to pay." Harry responded with venom in his voice.
Lya then stepped up next to the hologram of Thor. "If you do this, the alliance is broken. You are allowing your anger to control you. This is not the way." Lya spoke in her normal shy sounding voice but Jack could hear the authority in it.
Jack step up next to Thor and Lya next. "We will help you find the ones responsible, I'll do whatever it takes to find them, but Thor and Lya are right: this is not the way Harry."
There was then a flash of transport beam in the room between Harry and three facing him. A little girl appeared there wearing what looked like a white flower girl dress. Jack noticed that she couldn't be more than nine years old and she was holding what looked like a scrapbook to her chest.
"Rena! How...how did you get in here?" Harry asked in surprise at seeing the first girl he recruited to become an Alteran.
"You told me that no matter what, I could always come to you, You even told Olympus to allow me too. Don't you remember?" Rena replied with a smile.
Harry knelt down on one knee in front of her. "I remember Rena. This isn't a good time though princess. They destroyed our home."
"It is though. It is alway time to remember the good. You brought us to Olypmus, to a better life." Rena looked over Harry's shoulder at the Earth below with all the targeting information covering it and a single tear leaked from her left eye. "If you destroy them, they will not have that same chance. You won't be able to teach them a better way."
Rena then held out the scrapbook she was holding to her chest. "This is my wedding present to you, Hermione, Luna, and Aliya." Rena held it there until Harry took it from her.
He opened the book and the first page was a picture of him in the suit he wore when he first met her. He didn't remember them taking a picture of him that day. He started flipping through the pages and it was full of pictures, doodles, and writings of Rena's life since she came to Olympus. Harry felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up, it was Hermione. She knelt down next to him, still in her wedding dress, and was looking at the scrapbook too.
A few moments later Luna and Aliya joined them as they looked through the book. By the time they finished looking through it they all had tears in their eyes. Harry looked at Rena then reached out to her and pulled her into the hug with him and the girls.
After a few moments Harry looked up at the others in the room. "Olympus, clear targets, cloak the city. Lya, Jacob, can you see to our guests please." Harry and the four girls with him then disappeared in a flash of light.
Jack noticed just before he and the others were engulfed in transport beams that the hologram of Thor disappeared and the Asgards ships broke formation and disappeared into purple clouds.
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The group appeared in a large room, Jack looked around it and realized it was the same one he was in during the Cromwell incident, or at least it was similar to it. He noticed that Lya had arrived with them as had Jacob. Hammond had noticed as well and his attention was on Lya. He hadn't met her before but from the descriptions given by SG1 and what had just happened he figured she was the only one that had answers.
"Miss Lya, what's going to happen? And what was all that about magic and descendents of the Alterans?"
Lya turned her focus to the General. "I believe the High Councilor and his mates are currently... " She looked down to the floor then back up. "Consoling each other. Once he calms down, he will come talk with you." Lya turned her attention to the Secretary. "Madam Albright knows of what the High Councilor spoke, what she does not know is that those people are the descendents of the Alterans. They however are not aware of this. I must go, I will return when the High Councilor does."
"We are expected back on Earth in..." Hammond looked down at his watch. "Seven hours. If we don't arrive on schedule..." Hammond didn't finish his sentence since honestly he didn't know what the SGC or anyone could do about it if they didn't return.
Lya tilted her head for a moment before replying. "I will make sure the High Councilor is reminded." She then disappeared but it wasn't in a transporter beam.
Hammond looked around the room then focused on the Secretary. Jack and the rest of them were already looking at her but had kept quiet since Hammond was the ranking officer in the room. Daniel had the most questions and was just about ready to burst out with them.
Hammond spoke first though, "Madam Secretary, what were the High Councilor and Lya talking about?"
Albright looked at General Hammond for a moment while she tried to decide what to tell them and what not to but whatever she didn't, she was sure the High Councilor would. "There are people… no, there are hidden communities on Earth, many nations have them. From what I was told the three largest are in the United States, Britain, and Asia; China and Japan, but they exist everywhere."
She paused and looked around for a seat, seeing one behind her, she sat down. "From what I understand the community in the United States is the newest but grew quickly. I don't know much, they stay hidden from us for the most part, it's one of their laws, the Statute of Secrecy is what it's called. They have hidden themselves because of the Witch Hunts of the middle ages and in more recent history, the Salem Witch Trials. I do know they have been around for at least two thousand years."
Daniel jumped into the conversation at that point. "Wait, from what I know of the Alterans, from what Harry has told us, a group of them returned to Earth about ten thousand years ago. He told us some of them mingled and merged with the primitive human cultures that were just starting. It was around the same time the Goa'uld showed up on Earth and started taking hosts and enslaving humans. So this hidden community must be much older than two thousand years."
The Secretary nodded to him. "You may be right Doctor Jackson, I don't know. Every time the United States has an administration change, a representative from their U.S. Magical Congress comes and introduces themselves to the President and his closest cabinet members, gives a demonstration, and then tells him and us a very brief history. I don't think they know much of their own history beyond two thousand years ago."
"So these magic people are actually, Alterans?" Jack asked.
Daniel turned to him. "Harry did say that. Now can someone tell the rest of us what happened. What caused all that destruction?"
Jack looked at Daniel, Sam, and Teal'c, remembering they hadn't been there when Harry had explained what happened. Jack moved over to another seat in the room and sat down. He leaned forward and put his head in his hands for a moment then ran his hands through his hair. "Daniel, Sam, you may want to sit for this." After they both found seats, Jack knew Teal'c would want to remain standing, it was his way. Jack explained everything that had happened.
Sam and Daniel's faces both became ashen as they listened to what had happened. Even Teal'c looked ill and had found a seat as well. By the time Jack finished explaining everything Daniel looked ready to throw up and Sam was just staring of into the corner of the room.
"Major Carter." Hammond got her attention.
"Sir?"
"How many people on Earth could build a naquadah bomb?" Hammond asked her. He figured the list would be very short.
"Sir... " Sam stopped, her expression taking on a look of contemplation. "Sir, I could count them on one hand. I can get you a list when we get back but we don't know what these Alterans on Earth are capable of, one of them could have built it."
"I don't think that is likely," replied the Secretary. "From our observation and a little covert digging, we found out that most of the Magical World, as they call it, is stuck in the late seventeenth to early eighteenth century, technologically speaking. They rely on their magic for everything and view the inventions of the normal world to be nothing more than clever toys. They are quite insular, with the exception of the U.S. community, and even they are still very close-minded."
"Well that doesn't make any sense." came from Daniel.
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Edge of the North East Pier, Olympus
Harry, Luna, Hermione, Aliya, and even little Rena where sitting on the outer edge of the pier looking down on the Earth below them. Hermione was cuddled up to Harry's right side and Luna his left. Aliya sat against Luna's left side with Rena sitting in her lap. Harry still had Rena's scrapbook open in his lap as he stared down on the world below him, his arms were around Luna and Hermione.
Harry could hear Hermione was still quietly sobbing and Luna was just… well she wasn't in a towering rage anymore. She was still muttering to herself about ways to end someone existence but it was better than her being quiet. Harry was just glad that her nature preserve was on Navo Videeum 3 and not around the city. He didn't think even he would have been able to stop her if that had been destroyed. Her zoo was in the city so it hadn't been affected either.
Harry took a couple deep breaths then looked up to the stars above them. He made a silent vow to bring the people (or person) that did this before the Council. What happened after that he didn't know, he wanted them dead but the Alterans didn't have the death penalty. If it hadn't been for Rena, the Earth would have been a smoldering hunk of rock floating through space right now. He wouldn't have stopped finding new targets and reason to target them if she hadn't shown up.
Harry looked to his left and could see that Rena had been silently crying on Aliya's shoulder but saw her now looking down on the Earth with the rest of them. "Rena." Harry started.
"Yes Harry." she replied, Harry could hear her voice catch a little in her sadness.
"When we find those that harmed us, what do you think we should do?" Harry asked.
Rena raised her head from Aliya's shoulder and looked at Harry, then at Luna and Hermione. She then turned her head to look at the Earth again below them. Rena was a smart kid, she was top of her class in school for her age group. She didn't answer right away, she was thinking of what the Nox taught in the ethics class, what Professor Dumbledore taught about the wizarding world and magic, and about what Professor Hills taught in the Alteran culture class.
Instead of answering, Rena asked a question. They were taught to always ask questions before answering a question, find out all you can before you reply. "You think it was a descendent, one in the magical world of Earth?"
"I… We do. We have reasons for that." Harry replied.
Rena continued to stare down at the planet as it slowly spun benight them. "Exile them." She finally replied. "Find a planet somewhere far away, strip them of their powers, and exile them there."
Harry turned his attention from Rena to Luna and he saw her nod ever so slightly. He then looked to Aliya who also nodded. Harry then turned to look at Hermione. She didn't nod but spoke for the first time in the past hour since healing his eyes. "It would be fitting."
Harry turned back to looking out at the stars, a short time passed and he nodded his head as well. "Thank you Rena. Sometimes the youngest among us can be the wisest of all." That got the young girl to smile.
"Rena, I have a favor to ask." Harry spoke as he pulled his arms from Luna and Hermione, closed the scrapbook, and started to stand up.
"Anything Harry."
"Take these three back to the bride's quarters, get them fixed up. We have a wedding to have. Let everyone know it will be in four hours. A little late but I am not letting this ruin this day for us." Harry then smiled at the young girl, the first smile he had since the alarms sounded.
Rena nodded her head quickly even as the girls all looked up at him in surprise. "I can do that Harry." Rena replied. "Let's go brides, you don't want to be late to your wedding." She admonished them. Rena and the girls then disappeared in transporter light.
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VIP Room, Olympus
Jack, Hammond, and the others had continued talking for about a half hour before Jack wondered out to the balcony of the suite. The view from the balcony was extraordinary, the city was lit up and laid out below it with the Earth in the background. Teal'c joined him shortly after followed by Daniel and Sam. General Hammond and Secretary Albright joined them all soon after that with Jacob following them out. The technology on display was absolutely mind boggling. Sam was trying to find and point out where the shield emitters were.
They all stood out there just looking. The technology to move an entire city, to move an entire civilization was simply inconceivable to everyone there. Sam was trying to figure out the power requirements but was coming up short. Teal'c was taking everything in stride but Jack could see he was impressed. Daniel actually looked disappointed as there wasn't anything cultural in view. Madam Albright and Hammond were standing next to each other quietly talking about what had happened and what they were seeing.
Jack's thoughts were on what had happened. No one on Earth had seen devastation like what happened before. The bombs dropped during World War two didn't even compare except for the loss of life that happened with those. At least no one had died in this attack and Jack felt that was the only thing keeping the Earth looking like it currently did. He wasn't even sure if Harry would have spared them if someone had died.
This whole thing was one wrong step away from going really bad. The Goa'uld were bad enough, having the Alterans angry with them was a considerably worse situation by a magnitude he didn't even want to contemplate. Jack turned his attention to General Hammond, "Sir, whatever happens, we need to assist however we can."
"The Secretary and I were just discussing that. We don't have enough information but she is going to offer whatever it takes to de-escalate this situation." He was interrupted from continuing as they all heard the sound of a transporter behind them. Hammond and Jack turned around to look into the room behind them. Standing there was Harry in his High Councilor robes and Lya standing next to him. Jack could see that Harry wasn't locked in his rage any longer and actually had a small if pained smile.
Before anyone could say anything Harry spoke. "Madam Albright, General Hammond, everyone, please come take some seats."
Madam Albright led the group back into the suite and she took the seat she had earlier before going out on the balcony. No one said anything as they found places to sit. Teal'c remained standing near the entrance to the balcony. Once everyone else had taken a seat, Harry looked around the room. He then conjured a padded, wooden chair for himself and sat down on the edge of it. A chair also appeared for Lya and she sat daintily on it.
Harry wasn't going to apologize for what he almost did, he didn't feel he needed to. He wasn't expecting an apology from anyone in the room either, they weren't the ones that attack his world. He was going to get more information though in order to find who did.
Harry started first. "First let me say, the wedding will be happening in three and a half hours. My girls are currently getting ready. I know you all have questions. I'll answer what I can until I have to leave to get ready. Lya will then escort you to where the wedding is being held." Harry then looked to Secretary Albright.
"You said the descendents of the Alterans in reference to the wizarding world that I was briefed on when the current administration came to power?"
Harry looked around the room, seeing their full attention was on him, he sighed. He never wanted to have to expose the wizarding world but this just couldn't be ignored. At leased the Secretary had already been in the know of it. "I did. That is because they are. I guess a little history lesson is in order."
Harry sat back in his chair. "I've told General Hammond some of this, I'm sure he's shared it with a few of those he trusts." Harry looked at General Hammond who nodded, saying; "Only those in this room, excluding Jacob and Madam Albright until today." he replied.
Harry nodded. "Ok… the Alterans abandoned Terra, Earth, about five million years ago. Terra had been the capital of their society for millions of years. I've told you this part." Harry looked at Jack, Sam, and Hammond, he then glanced at Daniel, who nodded. He had been told.
"So, in 11456 BC. by the Earth calendar, a group of a few thousand Alterans returned to Earth via an Astria Porta." Harry didn't clarify that it wasn't the one the SGC had in its possession. "Most of those that returned, departed again into the Milky Way galaxy, not long after arriving. The Alterans that remained on Earth eventually integrated into the human communities that were developing.
We don't know a lot of the history between then and about 3000 BC, we do know that was when the first magicals started to appear, though there isn't much history recorded until about two thousand years ago. We think it was an evolution in the mix between Alteran and Human DNA that caused the powers they display to come about. All Alterans have abilities but not like the magicals."
Harry looked at Daniel, caught his eye, and read the question he had from his surface thoughts. "No Dr. Jackson, we don't know the history of the Goa'uld on Earth or if they ever encountered one of these evolving hybrids."
Harry then turned his attention back to the General and Secretary while Daniel sat there, stunned that Harry knew what he wanted to ask. "Now things get a bit difficult. The wizarding world's recorded history is pretty well documented, a lot has been lost but not all of it, and the closer you get to the present the more you will find. There is however a problem with magicals."
"What would that be High Councilor?" Albright asked.
"After the magicals started to appear and learn to use their powers, their mentality seemed to stagnate. The early magicals and most of them even now, have less than thirty percent Alteran DNA. Now, as you know Madam Albright, they are very insular. They don't mingle with non-magicals unless they have to, and in some areas not at all."
Harry looked around to make sure everyone understood so far. "So you can imagine, this caused, in some areas, inbreeding because they won't dirty their magical blood with non-magical blood." Harry frowned and people could see this was upsetting to him.
"I won't get into their social mentality but I think words like Purebloods, Half-Bloods, Muggle-born gives you a good idea. If you're not a pureblood, you are looked down on. The purebloods are the ruling class. If you're a non-magical, you're looked at as nothing more than a smart animal. That could be different in the Magical United States and other areas around the world but I was part of the British Magical society."
"What is Muggle?" Daniel asked.
"It's a derogatory term used to describe non-magicals. If you are muggle-born, you are a witch or wizard that was mysteriously born from non-magicals, and you are looked down on as… You get the idea. Now recently, Alteran DNA has been starting to exert itself. Hermione is normal born but has over fifty percent DNA. Her parents have about twenty six percent each, Alteran DNA, but aren't magical. Luna is a pureblood but is close to sixty percent Alteran."
Harry paused and waited for anyone to ask a question. When none came he continued: "So, right now, there are actually three groups on Earth: normal humans, witches and wizards that live in the wizarding world, and emerging Alterans that have fifty percent or more Alteran DNA. The last group is very small, some have magic like the witches and wizards, some don't. It's the last group we are contacting and bringing to Olympus. We try to get to them before the Magical World does in the case of those with magic, which means before they turn eleven."
"You don't consider the magicals as Alteran?" Hammond asked.
Harry looked down for a moment. "Don't get me wrong, most of them are good people, they just want to be left alone and not burned at the stake. They fear you, normal humans, they believe if they ever came out of hiding, they would be hunted and used or killed outright. It's not an unfair assessment, humans fear what they don't understand, religions around the world would persecute them for paganism, witchcraft, etc. It would be a mob mentality on a global scale."
Harry could see understanding in the eyes of everyone there. "But there are also bad people in that world. Dark people that use their powers against any that don't subscribe to their ways or that just want to rule the world. The magical world is pretty good at policing them and not letting it spill over into the normal world, though there have been a few cases in history that have gotten out of hand. You all know World War Two, Hitler and the Germans. What you don't know is that there was a dark wizard behind Hitler and that a war was happening in the magical world at the same time."
Harry heard a few gasps. Harry paused again and checked the time on the network, they still had plenty of time. When no one asked any questions he continued. "Now comes the hard part, and the reasons that led up to today. I was born on Earth, I am seventy six percent Alteran and I was the first to rediscover our heritage. I grew up in the normal world until I was…"
"Until you were eleven." Daniel blurted it out.
"Yes Dr. Jackson. When I turned eleven I discovered I was magical. I was brought into the magical world, specifically the British community. I was also famous in that community for something that happened when I was eighteen months old. My birth parents were both magical, my father a pureblood, my mother a normal-born, they were killed and I was sent to my non-magical relatives, it's a long story, best left for another time." Harry had a pained look on his face at the memories. Lya placed a hand on his shoulder and whispered something to him.
Harry nodded to Lya then continued. "Anyway when I turned fourteen, a Dark Wizard appeared, and he had it out for me, why is part of that story. When I was fifteen, I learned of my legacy as an Alteran, I won't go into how that happened. Anyway, I used the power of the Alteran technology to rid the world of this Dark Wizard and his followers. Unfortunately I didn't get them all. I have a price on my head on Earth, at least among the followers that I didn't get. Hermione and Luna share in that price."
Harry turned his full attention to Madam Albright. "I thought I was free of them out here. Somehow, they are getting information about the Stargate and about me. When I asked you, 'who knew you were coming here in advance', only one of those people is not in this room: The President. Either he is being controlled or they have a way of getting information from him."
Harry looked around the room as everyone started talking at once. No one was yelling or screaming. Some like Hammond, Albright, and Jack were all asking questions at the same time. Daniel, Sam, even Jacob were asking questions to but they were directed at Hammond and Albright or Jack. Teal'c was the only one that had stayed quiet.
Harry gave it a minutes for everyone to calm down. "General, you said that only the three of you knew?" Harry asked when every took a pause, he then turned to Madam Albright. "When and where did the President tell you?"
Albright answered him immediately. "He told me in the Oval Office just after I finished the vetting process. It was October 4th if I remember correctly."
Harry held his hand out in front of him, palm up, and a hologram of the White House appeared in it. Everyone watched as it zoomed in on the Oval office and a single person could be seen sitting behind the President's desk. The hologram didn't change for a minute except for what looked like energy waves passing over it, then a spot on the wall to the left of the President glowed red.
"What is hanging on the wall there?" Harry asked as he looked at Madam Albright.
"It is a painting of… Thomas Jefferson… It was that painting that first told the President that he would be getting visited by... "
Harry looked back down at the hologram for a moment then he closed his hand making it go away. "Then that is how they are getting their information. I assume General, each time you talk to the President, he is in the Oval Office?"
Hammond thought about it for a moment. "Not every time but most of the time yes. With one exception, when you came for the Tollen, he's been in the Oval Office."
Harry nodded his head. "Then that is the leak. Madam Albright, after the wedding, and all of you return, don't speak to the President in the Oval Office. I would prefer if, whoever did this not know of your return. They will expect you to have been killed as well. If you return they will know it failed and possibly go into hiding."