Did you ever wonder, how wizards appeared in our world? Short fiction about the beginning of magic.
Disclaimer: some if these ideas belong to J. Rowling.
A/N I hope you all know the theory about people evolving from apes. If you live in a country or religious community preferring creationism, feel free to search Internet and read about the evolution in your spare time.
Chapter 1: First spell
Every story has a beginning, even story of magic. From Rowling' s books and fanfiction we know only parts of it. Story of Harry Potter begins with the letter; story of Mary Sue starts in a poor American farm and continues between elves. Hogwarts were founded by their founders. Merlin lived for all wizards to curse in his name and body parts, but he was not the first, because millennia before him were Egyptian priests leaving magical artifacts in pyramids for Charlie Weasley to dig them. All ancient tribes had their shamans for Mary Sues to inherit their unique powers. So who was the really first to use magic? What did the first spell do? When it happened? What if magic is much older then we though?
The fact is, that most of wizards are not proud about the beginning. It makes them too similar to muggles. But if you are interested and not afraid of knowledge, here are results of the latest research in Africa. Wizards even had to cooperate with muggle archaeologists to obtain this knowledge, so honor their sacrifice by reading this essay.
This is text for first semester of advanced history of magic; each lesson will be ended by exact instruction on most ancient spells.
Story of magic begins long long ago in times when some apes started to walk on the ground instead of spending all the time in tree branches. Those were dangerous times. Brave ground walkers who picked fallen fruit or delicious worms were in a constant danger of being eaten by some beast. Other apes usually stood on nearby branches and were hurling leaves, fruits or small branches on the approaching beast. With a questionable success.
Two ape brothers lived in this time. One of them was really rebellious and the other was well-raised and obedient good boy.
The rebellious one was one day feeling reckless. He jumped to the ground and went far into the savanna to show how independent and tough he is. That was a really bad idea, because behind low bushes was hidden a lioness. She smelled the ape and charged. Our ape started to run back to the trees, but running ape is naturally slower than attacking lioness, so he was as good as dead. But then came the idea. Instead of hurling leaves and small branches he picked a stone from the ground and with a lot of luck he hit the lioness right between her eyes. She stopped and several times shook her head to clear her vision and this gave our ape enough time to return home.
His mama of course scolded him for his behavior and his good brother turned his nose on him. Who ever heard of throwing rocks to felines? It's traditional to throw leaves and branches. But friends of our hero thought he is soooo cool and decided to try it themselves. They more and more often climbed down and picked a lot of rocks and had more and more success in repulsing carnivores. Soon they spend almost all the time on the ground in the mud and sometimes they even killed various animals with their rocks and enjoyed tasty meat afterwards.
The rest of this group including good brother was keeping to the tradition of throwing branches and they despised the other ones, who invented throwing rocks.
One day the well-raised brother kept patrol over some youngsters playing on the ground. Suddenly he saw approaching jackal, but he realized, that there are no leaves, fruits or small branches nearby and all he has is one small stick of wood in his hand. He started frantically ook and eek on the youngster, who shrieked too, and he pointed with his stick to the jackal and wished it to go away. So much screeching apes scared the jackal and he really ran away.
Other apes collected the youngsters and they were really surprised by this new method of repulsing big animals. They were looking in awe on the guardian and they were a little scared of him. He must be really mighty when all he needs is to point stick of wood to an animal and screech and it goes away.
Many of them were trying it in following weeks, but no one succeeded. And because apes are not very patient animals, most of them after several failed attempts left this group and joined rock throwers living on the ground. Only several of them stayed with this brother and they were looking up to him. And of course they were a little scared. Because - believe or not - he managed to repeat his performance. He was pointing his stick and shrieking and dangerous animals were running away.
Technical parameters of the first spell:
wand move – held wand in right hand or leg, sharp point in the direction of target, you can jump up and down
pronunciation: ook eek oook (very loud in high shrieking unpleasant voice)
function: repels animals
Next lesson will be about the separation of society.