It was early in the morning, just past midnight, in the Dursley home on 4 Privet Drive. Everyone was fast asleep. All except for a ten year old Harry Potter, sitting in the dark, in the cupboard under the stairs. Harry, who had been laying on his cot starts to speak softly into the night.

In Life's name, and for Life's sake, I assert that I will employ the Art which is Its gift in Life's service alone, rejecting all other usages. I will guard growth and ease pain. I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its own way; nor will I change any creature unless its growth and life, or that of the system of which it is part, are threatened, or threaten another. To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I will ever put aside fear for courage, and death for life, when it is right to do so—looking always toward the Heart of Time, where all our sundered times are one, and all our myriad worlds lie whole, in That from Which they proceeded.

As Harry speaks, there is a silence wrapping around him to listen to the words. As Harry finishes, the pressure that has been building disappears as if it had never been.

"Nothing's happened," Harry sighs, "I hope this isn't some joke."

Harry remembers how he came to speak this point. It started with a book. No that is not accurate. The real beginning was Harry's attempt to avoid a beating at the hands of his cousin Dudley and his gang. Dudley is best described as a whale-like bully or a pig in a wig. Yesterday Dudley decided it was time for another rousing game of Harry Hunting. Harry, not liking this game decided to hide. He hid in the library and came across the manual when looking at imported books that the library was throwing out. The book's title was "So You Want To Be A Wizard" and at first glance looked to be a children's book. Harry picked up the book without quite realizing it and was reading it before he knew what he was doing

The book described the various forms of wizardry and its hazards. It also waxed upon the rewards of working with things that most people cannot comprehend. He agonized silently, as his relatives would lock him into his cupboard if they found out, over to take the oath. In the end he decided to wait till his relatives were asleep and then say the oath.

Harry pages through the manual and came to the section detailing the wizards in the local area. He was surprised to see his name in it.

POTTER, Harry J.
4 Privet Drive
Surrey
Novice rating
(RL +8.2 +/- 0.9)
On Ordeal: no calls

"It is real," Harry thought.

Seeing that his status was 'On Ordeal' he was reminded of the section he read earlier on that topic.

The Ordeal:

When a new wizard has excepted the oath, a test of wizarding aptitude will follow. This test, named the ordeal, once completed wizardry will ensue.

Harry, pondering the new development, thought on how to escape from his cupboard, his prison. First looking for unlocking spells, though he finds that they are not actual spells. To do a task such as this, he just has to persuade the object to do what he wishes using the Speech. The Wizarding Speech is the language of the Universe. All life understands it, as well as inanimate objects and even the forces nature. The universe itself was created with the Speech.

Speaking in the Speech softly to the latch on his cupboard in a persuasive voice, Harry says, "Come on, you don't want to be latched all the time. Relax and enjoy the rest from holding the door shut."

*CLICK*

The latch slides over and the door to the cupboard moves slightly. Harry opens the cupboard door completely and walks out to the backyard. He decides to leave the Dursleys. In the manual there is a section on temporospatial claudications. Temporospatial claudications can be used to bend space-time in order to travel large distances. There is a translocation spell that does not require any material spell components.

Harry walks to the nearby park and grabs a stick walking over to a dirt patch. He draws a circle and begins to write the formula describing what he wants to do in arabic looking characters combined with symbols that would be at home in a Calculus textbook. When he gets back to his starting point he draws a figure eight to 'knot' the circle, which is a form of the wizard's knot.

He examines the diagram for any mistakes and checks his name. As Wizardry is done with the Speech by describing an object or force so completely that it can be changed, he needs to have his name in the spell to keep him, himself. Harry stands in the middle of the circle and starts to read the diagram out loud.

"This is a temporospatial claudication of type..."

As he speaks the area around him becomes silent as the universe leans in to hear him. He reaches his name and after carefully saying it speaks the last syllables to complete the spell and set it loose.

There is a soft "wumpfht" sound and Harry Potter is in the yard no longer.