Disclaimer: Thanks for catching my spelling error, D4RKSPYDA! Oh yeah, before I go any further, this is H/H. I also made up the places where the people have to Apparate to. I don't own Harry Potter.

When Harry entered the Ministry Building, he saw more forest green tiles. There was a squat little witch at the front desk, talking to heads in the fireplace. Harry knew that his godfather, Sirus Black, did that once, along with Amos Diggory, a worker at the Ministry, but he didn't know what he was called. He was about to ask Ron this, when Ron answered for him.

"They're firating. It's sort of like the phellytone Muggles use. You just step up to a lit fireplace, and I think the spell is Firo Communi, then you say the place you want to firate to, and there you have it."

"I never knew wizards had that type of spell skill," Harry said, slightly perplexed.

"Well, there's a lot of things you don't know about the wizarding world."

"Like what?" Harry asked as they walked past the witch and the firaters.

"Well, your Marauder's Map has now had a spell made for it, so you can make any map do that," Ron explained.

"How'd the Ministry-"

"Lupin told them," Ron said.

"Oh. What's the spell? Other than I solemnly swear I am up to know good, I mean."

"Erm... you'll have to ask Hermione when we see her. She'd know that," Ron said, and led Harry to a gigantic map of the Ministry of Magic.

Just like Harry's Marauder's Map, this map had miniscule dots running all over it, each labeled with names. However, instead of Hogwarts, this map was of the Ministry. Harry saw Cornelius Fudge was sitting at his desk, asleep, because little Z's were coming up from his dot. He saw Mr. Weasley was in his office, tinkering with a CD Player. Harry snorted at this, then saw a dot labeled Hermione Granger come into the building.

"Hermione's here," Harry told Ron. Ron turned around and saw her examining the firaters, and then rush up to them.

"Harry!" she said, and hugged him. "Ron!" she said, and hugged him, making his ears go red.

"Ready to go take our Apparating tests?" Harry asked, and Hermione and Ron nodded.

They climbed up the stairs towards the Department of Magical Transportation. It was a long climb, going up nine flights of moving stairs. They got lost twice, had to double back, and then ended up back on the fifth floor for the third time.

When they finally reached the tenth floor, Harry saw many old Hogwarts students standing nervously waiting for the Apparating test. Harry saw Neville Longbottom, an extremely forgetful boy with a round face, Seamus Finnigan with Dean Thomas, two best friends, Pavarti Patil and Lavender Brown. They were all Gryffindor's. Then he spotted Draco Malfoy and his Slytherin cronies, Crabbe and Goyle. They sneered at Harry, Ron, and Hermione. They just ignored it.

Suddenly, a large oak door creaked open, and a muscular wizard with a beard stepped out. "Attention! I am Gregory Rhump, Head of the Department of Magical Transportation! Please follow me to take your Apparating tests!"

All of the former students shuffled through the door, and saw a large room. It was very plain except for an extremely large window that took up a whole section of the wall. There were twenty pairs of what looked like brass binoculars, and Harry immediately recognized them as Omnioculars. "I have a list of you all, and you will be going in alphabetical order." Ron groaned at this, because he was usually last when somebody went alphabetically. "I know you might have heard of the spell that helps wizards Apparate, but you only have to think it instead of saying it. Do you all know the method of Apparating?"

There was a chorus of "Yes," from everybody in the room.

"Good. Then I'll start. Brown, Lavender!" Lavender walked up to Rhump. "I want you to Apparate to Liverpool. Specifically, Café Liverpool. Do you think you can do that?"

Lavender nodded, then closed her eyes. Within a minute, she disappeared, along with Rhump. Three minutes later, they Apparated back into the room. "Good, good. You pass. Next- Crabbe, Vincent!"

Crabbe ambled up towards Rhump. "I want you to Apparate to the small woods where the World Cup was held three years ago, alright?"

Crabbe nodded stupidly, then closed his eyes and vanished, quickly followed by Rhump. They Apparated back into the room, with Rhump frowning. "I said woods, not Woodlantown. You have to come back next year to take the test."

Harry watched as the people all Apparated. Most of them passed, but Goyle didn't pass. When it was Hermione's turn, she disappeared then reappeared, looking very pink.

"What's wrong?" Harry asked.

"I Apparated three inches away from where I needed to land," Hermione said, blushing profusely. Ron snorted with laughter, and was promptly slapped by Hermione.

"Potter, Harry."

Harry gulped, but walked up to Rhump just the same. Rhump did the familiar eye-flick upwards at Harry's scar, but Harry ignored this. "Harry, I want you to Apparate to Loch Ness. Moreover, right near the kelpie there."

"Alright," Harry managed to get out. He was shaking all over. "Get a hold of yourself! You got passed a Hungarian Horntail! You've escaped Lord Voldemort three times!" he told himself, then closed his eyes. The image of a sea-serpent floated into his mind, quickly followed by a lake. Sellicria! he thought, and a peculiar sensation came over him. He thought he was flying on his Firebolt, but he wasn't in the sky. He thought he was traveling by Portkey, but he didn't feel the jerk behind his naval. However, he still felt like he was flying. Suddenly, it came to a stop.

Harry turned around, and saw a sea-serpent. He tried to scream in horror, but then saw it turn into an otter. A second later, Rhump appeared. "Well done, Harry! Full marks! Now you can come back to the Ministry."

Harry closed his eyes, thought Sellicria after seeing the Department of Magical Transportation room, and the flying sensation came over him again. When he opened his eyes, he was back in the room, and walked over towards Hermione and watched the rest of the people Apparate.

After Ron (the last person) had finished taking his test, Rhump asked all of the people who had passed the test to come into his office to give them their licenses. They walked into his office. It had forest green walls and floors, and the desk had a forest green top. He magically made parchment slips appear, and he signed them. Harry read his.

Harry Potter now has the right to Apparate. Gregory Rhump

"Harry, remember what you told me?" Ron asked, grinning.

"Oh yeah..."

"What'd you tell him?" Hermione asked.

"I told Ron I'd take him to the Muggle world," Harry said. Hermione smiled slyly.

"Can I come?" Hermione asked.

"Sure," Harry shrugged.

"Where should we go?"

"How about Kings Cross Station," Harry suggested.

"STOP!!!" Hermione said quickly.

"What?" Harry asked, puzzled.

"We can't Apparate into Muggle London! We'd be seen!"

"Oh yeah..." Ron said, looking down.

"We'll just have to leave the Ministry building," Harry said, and walked out of the room with Hermione and Ron.