'If you believe that the first wizard became so by noticing that strange things happened when he willed them to, discovered, oh, let's say a unicorn, stuck one of it's hairs in a piece of wood, said some gibberish and invented a spell, you're wrong. The first wizard used only his mind. He called himself a mind magician. Magic began as a person acquiring of a type of sixth sense gene. Born of supernatural beliefs, this gene reproduces recessive, and when activated, usually by particularly strong emotion, a chemical reaction can take place. The gene reacts with blood, and creates magical energy. The emotion has to be very very strong. As in a tragic event occurring, or the death of the person closest to you, or a life-changing decision. The first wizard was 22 when he became so. Although the exact age is unknown, it is believed that the gene (if never active) will became permanently inactive after a certain age. When a wizard and a muggle (non-magic folk) produce child, the child will receive the gene, but the gene is usually inactive. If the child receives the gene (inactively, of course) from the other parent, the gene becomes active, and the child is magical. People who receive one of these genes, a hybrid, has what is called potential wizardry, has the gene, but is classified as muggle due to the gene being inactive. Muggle- born wizards are children who received the gene from both parents, who must be potential wizards. Squibs are mutations.

The first outbreak of wizards happened in the Caribbean, during the time when humans were cannibals. Wizards were not regarded as dangerous until the Salem witch trials, they were regarded as priests. These priests would often gather together, and share the knowledge they had acquired of late.

However, after the first generation of mind magicians, they realized that they would die out very soon. As there were not many mind magicians yet, the gene would remain inactive unless a tragic event occurred. The magicians had to find a way to activate the gene without a tragic event. The solution didn't come to them, until they found their residue magic entering animals, and creating magical beasts. Then came the era of magical beasts, when animals were tampered with until they created a new species. It was around that time when the wand was invented.

The invention of the wand, like any other incredible discovery, happened by accident. A wizard married a muggle, and his son contained the gene, inactive. The wizard would often take his son for walks in the wood. Apparently, they came upon a dead unicorn, lying by a tree. The son leaned against the tree with one hand, and bent down to touch the unicorn with the other. A shower of red sparks erupted, and the wand had been discovered. It was found that any mix of wood and magical creature would unlock the gene. Some magical creatures worked better than others did. Among these are the phoenix, the unicorn, and the dragon. Today, in order not to harm these creatures (except the dragon) feathers are taken from the phoenix, and hairs from the unicorn. In that way the mind magicians continued to reproduce, and prosper. However, the mind magicians found that the magic produced by a wand is only active when in contact with the holder. While mind magicians didn't need a wand, the new magicians couldn't perform magic without it. All wizards have a trace of mind magician magic in their blood. Children, of course, are not to be trusted with wands until they reach age eleven, the beginning wizard schooling age. Around this time, the mind magician in children will often show up in little episodes until they receive their wands.

The mind magicians had always known that the magic they performed was more effective when said in words, but the new magicians needed words for the magic they performed. In that way, the first book of spells was made, the words produced according to a language long forgotten, that most closely aspires with Latin. Because of their close contact with animals and magic mixed together, most mind magicians were animagi. Today, most animagi have mind magician magic in their blood. Magically produced animagi is performed by enhancing the mind magician blood magic into an animal form. In the end, the mind magicians did die out, but a new kind of magician was born, the wizard.'

Candice sat back against her chair. Her report was finished. Her assignment had been to write a foot long report on the creation of the wizard. Her first assignment. She felt rather proud; she now knew where she came from, and how she came to be. That meant both of her parents had been wizards, and their death had caused her to become a mind magician. She wondered for a split second how her parents had really died. The official story was their house had burned down. This was true, the house had burned. Her parents' bodies were never found, thought to be burned out of recognition. This was probably true too. The strange part of the tale of her parents' deaths had been that she had been left unharmed. She had been nine months old, and was found at the front doorstep of the house. She hadn't caught on fire, and she hadn't died. She now supposed someone had cast a fire-resistant spell on her, but if the spell had been cast on her, why hadn't her parents cast it on themselves? She shook her head; she probably would never know what happened to them.

She was beginning to enjoy this work. Not as much as regular school or dance, but she could see how this could be paradise for certain people. The voice left lessons for her daily on the laptop. She had no Internet connections; this computer was simply for schoolwork. Besides learning the history of magic, she was learning basic mind magician techniques. The voice had told her that she herself was an animagus, she could turn into a cat. Therefore, she had some mind magician in her too. The first step was shielding. Putting a magical wall around her mind, so she didn't communicate her thoughts to others' minds. Once she had shields, there was the tactic of breaking someone else's to look into their minds. Then there was resisting someone breaking her shields. Then came basic human levitation, seeing far-away places, and thought-speaking. The rest was mostly what regular students learned. Candice was good at this, no matter what she wanted to do with her life. She got good grades, and passed her tests. For three glorious years she had it all: witchcraft, school, dance, gymnastics, and martial arts. Now she had gotten into Interlochen, and the voice had been silent.