Frowning a little in confusion, Daniel asked, "What's the name of the school?" Then said, "Oh! Silly me, I was thinking of Universities considering your current age. So, which high school?"
"A very private one," Harry fondly smiled. "It was the alma mater, I think is the term, my parents attended. Hogwarts. They'd paid for me to attend within weeks after I was born. Therefore, my aunt and uncle couldn't stop me attending; though they certainly tried."
"Hog what?" blinked Jack.
Harry chuckled and said, "I know!" As if they were sharing a joke. "However, believe it or not, Hogwarts is the name of a flower." After dinner, or what the Americans called 'supper', Harry returned to his room, claiming he was looking forward to sleeping in a proper bed.
Obviously Jack felt he'd got enough out of Harry for one session and happily escorted him back.
The next morning, Harry rose and meditated on the floor of the sitting room, fully dressed, waiting to be 'shown' to the cafeteria to eat breakfast. He was, once again, sorting memories in his fully-formed mindscape and tweaking it to improve it.
This time he was collected by Sam.
Again, the questions were subtle and again they were joined by another member of the SG-1 team. This time it was Teal'c.
"Major Carter, Mister Potter," he said with a slight bow to each of them while holding one of the metal serving trays they used in military establishments between his two hands. "May I join you?"
"Yes; of course, Teal'c," replied Sam.
As Teal'c sat and carefully laid out his breakfast, Sam continued with her soft interrogation. "So, Harry," she over-nonchalantly said. "Did you leave behind a girlfriend?"
That almost immediately put him off his breakfast of bacon, eggs, hash browns and baked beans on toast. Pausing for a moment while he forced the pain he suddenly felt down - he believed Hermione had died, that night - he quietly replied, "No. There was one girl..." and sighed.
"Loved her from afar?" asked a clearly compassionate Sam.
"Yes," he sadly replied, looking down at his breakfast. "I have no idea what happened to her." "People move on, Harry," she said. "She was, what, sixteen at the time?"
"Yes," he sighed. "Nearly seventeen. Because the age of adulthood is seventeen in Scotland, she was only a few months off being recognised as an adult. Her birthday was... is... the thirteenth of September. She was born in 1979, so she would have turned twenty almost seven weeks ago."
"What was her name?" she kindly asked.
"Hermione," he replied. "Hermione Granger. Her name was supposed to be in a play by William Shakespeare. I don't know the significance of that, though. I'd not had the chance to ask, as she was quite touchy about her name."
"Her name's from Shakespeare's A Winters Tale," said Sam. "It's a beautiful name."
"I thought so, too," he smiled. After breakfast, Sam escorted him back to his VIP suite and told him she'd come back and collect him 'in about an hour'.
Harry just smiled at her and said, "Thank you."
He returned to his meditation, interrupted by breakfast, as he now had all the information he needed to make his getaway. He actually had that once Daniel had both confirmed for him that they were underground and that the depth was somewhere near three thousand five hundred feet.
He was going to pull a trick he figured out how to do on Hadrian. He was going to apparate, but not laterally. It was how he'd been able to quickly scout around on Hadrian once he figured out how to do it.
Once twenty minutes had passed, he stood and, with his back shielding what he was doing from the camera, carefully drew his wand from his hidden holster. Then, still with it out of sight, he pointed it straight down and, with the exact dimensions of the suite firmly in his mind, firmly incanted in his mindscape his 'Super' Cleaning Charm. 'Clean!' he firmly thought, while pumping maximum magic in one burst out his wand and into the parquetry-wood floor.
As soon as the magic pulse did its cleaning job on the suite, he immediately turned his head to look at the camera. The little almost unnoticeable red light had gone out and there was a tiny wisp of smoke rising from behind its lens.
Grinning to himself, he gave one last check of himself while listening to an muted alarm go off out the door somewhere, pictured in his mind where he needed to be and mentally incanted, 'Beee THERE!' And apparated on 'there', disappearing with a clearly audible crack of displaced air.
As he knew he had to apparate through three thousand five hundred plus feet of rock, power-wise he held nothing back; hence the loud crack and the amount of will he pumped into it.
In the command base's monitoring room, the two airmen and sergeant manning the 'post' at the time were alerted to the main camera, plus all the listening bugs, suddenly go on the fritz in the 'VIP Brit's' suite. At the same time, the EMP alarm, signalling an electromagnetic pulse had gone off inside the base, sounded its alert.
"Shhhhit!" said the Sergeant. He immediately reached over and hit the Command-wide alert signifying an EMP burst within the complex.
However, most of the command staff had already known something major had happened when their live camera and audio feed of Harry's suite suddenly turned to, respectively, nothing but snow and static noise. Jack and Teal'c immediately ran for Harry's suite, while the rest of the staff tried to find out what had happened.
They arrived at the door within a half-minute, to find the airman on guard duty already had the door open and was scanning the room from just within the doorway with the barrel of his side arm up and pointed everywhere he looked.
Both Jack and Teal'c slipped right past him and started to look through the rooms themselves. Within a few seconds, Jack came out of the en-suite and looked to the airman. "He's gone! Did he pass you?"
"No, Sir!" the airman immediately replied, lowering his weapon to the ready position.
Teal'c asked, "Did the door open, seemingly of its own accord?"
"No, Sir!" the airman more calmly replied.
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