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Harry rolled over, pulling the covers up over his ears.
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He burrowed under his pillows and stuffed his fingers into his ears
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Groaning and giving up, he threw the covers off himself and rolled to his feet. He padded sleepily to his bedroom window and threw it open.
A large brown owl soared into his room, dropped a newspaper on his desk and landed back on the windowsill. Harry put a Knut in the pouch on the owl's leg and watched the bird take off. He shut the window carefully and quietly behind it. No sense waking the Dursleys.
Harry yawned. What time was it? He glanced over at his clock. 4:30? 'Newspapers come earlier and earlier.'
He rolled back into bed for another few hours of sleep.
He woke four hours later to sunlight streaming onto his bed like a golden waterfall. He rolled onto his back and tried to remember why he felt so strange, like a weight was tied to his heart but his stomach was trying to float. Oh, yeah. Today was his birthday. He could get his Apparition license today, but he has to leave the Dursley's house, as well. That in itself wasn't a problem, as it meant the fact that now, no matter where he went, he was vulnerable.
'On the other hand,' Harry thought as he pushed his shaggy black hair out of his eyes, 'I can use magic outside of school now.' He grinned at the thought of how the Dursley's would react if he "accidentally-on-purpose" cursed one of them.
"Now," he muttered, "Time to decide what 'licensed' spell I should use first."
In the back of his mind, a voice spoke up. 'Levicorpus on Dudley, then pack your stuff.'
Harry smiled. Sounded good to him, so he sneaks across to Dudley's room opens the door very slowly so it doesn't creak then concentrate hard on 'Levicorpus.' Then "Argggg!!! Bloody Hell" screamed Dudley. Harry quickly concentrated on 'liberacorpus' and ran across to his room as Uncle Vernon came running into Dudley's room.
"What the hell is going on in here?" he bellowed.
"Nothing, Vernon," smirked Harry.
"Don't get that tone with me, boy!"
Harry leveled his wand at his uncle. "I'll get whatever tone I like thank you. And, as you seem to have forgotten, today's my birthday. Which means I'm 17 and means I can use magic whenever I please."
Uncle Vernon backs away slowly with wide eyes "Boy put that away or get out of my house." He says a little shaky
"I'm leaving therefore I'm not staying in this house anymore" Harry says calmly. "So there is no need to threaten me"
He points his wand at his trunk which is already packed and his trunk disappeared. He walks calm past his Uncle Vernon. He gets to the door, turns around and says "Good-bye" with a big smile on his face.
Slamming the door, Harry turned to face the street and dragging his trunk behind him, left his uncle's house.