Suddenly she looked up and focused on something only she could see. As she sat there for a few minutes her expression slowly turned from one of focused intensity to one where she was relaxed and smiling.
"Not quite yet," she murmured. "But soon, Harry Potter. Welcome home." She had work to do and time was running out.
After assembling in the gate room fully 'kitted and booted', as they say in the military, the four waited as the gate was dialed by computer for them. It wasn't as fast as using one of the Dial Home Devices (DHDs), but it still worked.
Once the seventh chevron locked in and lit up, the gate activated.
A moment later, the gate on 'Hadrian' also activated.
Harry, who was already back at his home to the north, Safe Haven, felt the alert on the Chappa'ai trigger.
As a slow smile spread over his face, he packed up what he wanted to take with him into either his moke-skin pouch at his hip or a quickly transfigured backpack, donned it, donned his 'Sorting Hat' lookalike hat and apparated to a spot that was under a hiding charm behind the gate. Using his version of a Notice-me-Not, he quietly walked around the Chappa'ai to ensure for himself who was there. After all, it could have easily been more of those Jaffa blokes.
Instead, he saw four people. They were all dressed in what he thought was US Army uniforms. With the exception of the big black dude who was also carrying a blaster staff, the other three were carrying really short looking sub-machine guns, ready to shoot. Not wanting to get shot, he watched them and carefully listened as they talked to one another and scanned the area with their eyes.
The older white man with hair beginning to grey, demanded, "Anyone see anything?"
'English!' Harry happily thought. 'American accents, too!'
"Nothing yet, Sir," replied the blonde haired and only woman of the four. "Me neither, Jack!" declared the brown hair stocky guy with glasses.
"I do not see him, but I believe him to be close, Colonel O'Neill," said the black guy.
As the black guy, though he was wearing the same desert uniform as the three others turned towards Harry's direction, Harry saw a similar symbol as those Jaffa he'd fought had on their foreheads. However, his was in gold.
'First Prime,' he thought. He'd already encountered Imhotep's First Prime on a few occasions. Killed the first one, too.
Harry knew this was the leader of the Jaffa. At least, the one who had his forehead tattoo in gold was the leader of the ones who invaded his planet. He captured him first and used his version of Legilimency to get the information he wanted. The trouble was, it also killed the man when he'd done it. However, while it was distasteful, he was already well past the feeling of revulsion and horror that he first suffered from by killing a man when he'd captured him.
He'd needed that information and, though he managed to pick up some of the language they used, couldn't communicate with it or understand what one of them said when they said something to him.
When he'd also used it on 'Glowy Eyes' he found out he was actually possessed, though didn't understand how. He also knew the man to be thousands of years old, so he'd had a good life. He'd considered himself a god and the Jaffa were his personal army and slaves. If there could be anyone considered more evil than Voldemort, it was that bloke. That was why he no problem killing him by burning him alive in his camp and then vanishing the ashes. It sent a message to his slaves and to any others like him who tried to take his planet from him.
However, this Jaffa send to be - surprise, surprise - a friendlyJaffa. At least he was likely to be, considering he was working with these Americans.
He then listened closely to them talking as they seemed to be waiting to see if he turned up.
He heard the older man called 'Jack' by the younger man, 'Sir' by the woman and 'Colonel O'Neill' more formally by the Jaffa. He heard the younger man called 'Daniel' by both the older man and the woman, while the Jaffa called him 'Doctor Jackson'. He also heard the woman called 'Sam' by both the older and younger men and 'Major Carter' by the Jaffa. And, finally, the other three all called the Jaffa 'Teal'c'.
That now meant he had their full names, less any middle names, as 'Colonel Jack O'Neill', 'Doctor Daniel Jackson', 'Major Sam (likely short for 'Samantha') Carter' and the Jaffa, of course, as simply 'Teal'c'. Jaffa... slave soldiers... didn't have last names. After watching them for a while, Harry made his decision to 'greet' them. He carefully placed his staff weapon on the ground at his feet and carefully allowed the Notice-me-Not to fade away.
As soon as he did and before they saw him, he slipped the wand into his hidden holster on his forearm under the bracer on his left arm.
Of course, the big black Jaffa spotted him first and whirled on him with his staff weapon. However, Harry immediately saw it wasn't 'activated' as the tip was still closed and not 'sparking'. He tensed, but otherwise didn't react.
"Colonel O'Neill!" Teal'c sharply called.
That had the other three whirl about, bringing their own weapons to bear. Thankfully, none of them shot. That spoke of training.
"Damn!" said O'Neill, looking at him in surprise. "How do you do that?" "Do what?" asked Harry.
"Turn invisible!" said O'Neill.
Harry just grinned back and said, "Trade Secret."
As Harry eyed the other four and they eyed him back it was a few moments before O'Neill asked. "So, you sound... English?"
"That would be because I am," Harry replied.
"A bit far from home, aren't you?" asked O'Neill.
"Wouldn't know," replied Harry. "All I know is this is a different planet. I have no idea where it is, or how far it is from Earth."
"8.6 light years," explained Carter. "It's in the Canis Major system." Indicating the sun - or the main one, at least - she continued, "That's the star Sirius A." Then indicated the very bright star he could always see during the day. "And that's Sirius B." "Sirius?" he perked up. Then covered himself by asking, "Isn't that what we call the Dogstar? Supposedly the brightest star in the night sky? After our own sun, of course.
"Well, brightest star on Earth, at any rate," he muttered. "Of course... here... as it's the planet's sun, it's even brighter."
"Yep," she beamed back as first she and then the other three lowered their weapons. "I doubt you'd know that if you weren't from Earth."
"How did you get here, anyway?" asked Jackson.