My eyes had been glued to the clock and my wand in my left hand. It was 11:59 and it was 42 seconds to my birthday. This year was a very special Birthday, my 17th meant that I was of age in the wizarding world and meant that I could use magic outside of Hogwarts. I headed for the door of my room and into my brother Albus's room and sat in the chair opposite his bed and yes, I will admit that this was a little creepy if anyone was watching but there not. I got my phone out of my pocket and the time said 12:01, shit how did a minute get past me I pointed my wand at Albus and thought hard Levicorpus and like a hook had grabbed his right ankle, Albus went straight up legs first and a huge girly scream came out of his mouth. I couldn't breathe it was so funny as Albus hung yelling at me. "James what in god's name are you doing" my Dad Harry burst into the room, he pointed his wand at Albus and the long limmed git fell back into his bed. I realised that I didn't think of the reaction that I would get from my parents as my mum Ginny ran into the room. There was a silence as both of my very loving parents stared at me with daggers in their eyes. "Hahahaha" Albus was laughing in his bed, Dad looked surprised and immediately turned to me "Did you put a laughing curse on him as well" he growled. "No dad he didn't, but of course the first spell that James ever used when he became of age was a crappy joke spell on me" Albus continued to laugh. "James dear, did you really have to wake your father and I up at midnight, you know that we have work tomorrow morning. I hung my head a bit, I didn't mean for them to wake up, Dad had huge bags under his eyes being the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcment had really taken it out of him. My parents than began to lecture me for ten minutes of proper use of my wand or what the consequences would be and after mum kissed Albus and I and left, Dad stood by the door "Your grandfather used to use that spell all the time, I'm glad its sticking in the family I used to use it on your uncle Ron" and with a rare smile he left. I looked at Albus who was now grumpy because I hadn't been punished more severely. "Get out" he said, I stood up and pointed my wand at him "Aguamenti" water burst from the tip of my wand and soaked Albus, deciding to give me his own punishment Albus grabbed a heavy book from his bedside and lobbed it at me, I raised my hand to knock it away and as if I used a spell to stop it the book stopped in mid – air. "What's wrong with your hand?" Albus asked, I looked down at my hands and they were glowing with white heat.