AN: Short chapter today. Thank you for the reviews :) They are helping keep me motivated :) I might not be writing tomorrow, but we shall see. Tomorrow i have a rather lot of work to do at my job, and then I have to get out and vote. I am VERY fortunate that where I work I start at 8am and then go until i am done, so sometimes this means i get out around one, and other days... like Tuesdays... I am there for quite some time.

well I hope you all enjoy this short chapter, and i hope the tutorial doesn't feel like a filler chapter. This is my first Gamer style fic, so I'm learning as i go!

Chapter 6

Once his aunt left the room to go sit with her family for a bit, before her own nightly routine, he felt safe enough to pause the world. There was no way he wanted any of his relatives in the room when he did that, just in case he accidentally un-paused and was suddenly doing something they deemed 'freakish', as that would only cause him more pain. On the other hand, if he did get them to strike him, then Director Bones would have to come and get him out of here, things to think on for later.

Taking a deep breath he opened the menu and then the quest log. He had to take a seat on the floor as he realized just how many quests he had yet to accept. Many of them he could have completed while going to Diagon Alley. Looking over the list, at the very bottom was in fact his Tutorial.

Tutorial – Accept Deny

This time he accepted the quest. No time the like the present to get the thing out of the way, that way he could inform her via Hedwig tomorrow that he had in fact kept his word.

Welcome to the tutorial. In your time doing this quest you will be unable to accept any other quest. This is done to keep you from being bogged down with too many quests right from the get go.

During your life as a Gamer many things will be different, for example the ability to pause time. This should be done in order to read important documents, examine locations, as well as to go over information with your bonded family members. Pausing is also a good thing to use when emotions get too dangerous, and one might make a rash decision that could result in the need of restoring a save point, or the general loss of life that would see you getting yet another stern talking to by your personal Death.

Now if it happens that you had skipped this quest and ignored all the wisdom placed here, you will be happy to know that you will be able to just collect the experience points for having completed the things. Being as we suspect that Hermione Granger, Player 2, will have gone through this with a fine tooth comb, we suspect that Harry Potter, Player 1, will have skipped it to start with. The two of you will be happy to know that those of us who work in the GAMER LIFE DEPARTMENT were able to override Player 1's Death as he wished to force the young man to have to relearn all the controls of his life from eating, to walking, to even using the facilities. As humorous as this would be, we cannot in good faith force this to happen, as we were not certain how long it would be before he read this, and we did not feel a death from a bladder burst fitting, nor the idea of the embarrassment of wetting oneself in public.

We hope both Players will be happy with this knowledge, as well as the fact that we have gone over your past lives in order to figure out how to set up quests, how quickly you should grow, and how the skill grid will work. Please understand that this grid is still in its experimental stages, though we are glad that you have chosen this option so that we may work out the kinks.

The next few quests he was able to immediately complete, such as walking, examining, looking at the skill grid, sneaking, pausing and un-pausing, how to move through the menus.

Looking at your Diary – To look at your diary, you must be un-paused. You then reach into your trouser pocket and concentrate on your diary. This is an actual book but cannot be lost, if another person takes this book from your hand, the moment they set it down it will return to your personal inventory. This book will make an entry for every important thing that happens and may contain clues as to what you need to do next, if you get stuck. Anyone else trying to read this book will just see some kind of code, but the book has been 'spelled' to resist anyone trying to crack the code with a spell. To move onto the next part of the Tutorial you must un-pause and get your diary out.

It was with a sigh he un-paused the game, and listened to the television and the muted voices of his relatives from the next room. Rather than just getting the book out, he continued to wash the dishes. It wouldn't do for them to get suspicious as to what he was doing if it suddenly got quiet when he was supposed to be working.

Once the dishes were resting in the drying rack he quickly collected the rubbish, and placed it in the bag. Taking the bag to the bin outside was the perfect excuse needed to pull out the book. So with practiced ease he pulled the bag out of the kitchen rubbish bin and hauled it through the garage to the side door where the bin for weekly pickup was. Once that was safe inside the bin, he reached into his pocked and though about this diary.

Lo and behold, he felt it in his hand. It was a shock, but as he pulled it out and opened it up, he got the reward for doing so. Inside this book were numerous tabs for quick finds, one was for people, places, and items, then there was one for spells, potions, and pranks.

Most of the pages were blank, but under people it contained what he had found out about his relatives, as well as the names of other people he had met with the ? where the descriptive information would be. After reading about his so-called family he was not very keen to the idea of prying into someone else's life like that, but he could think of a few people he would most definitely have to read.

Once more pausing the world he checked to see what else he needed to do to finish this very informative quest. He was now a bit upset with himself for not doing this before, it would have saved him from feeling even more our of place, as well as probably gotten him more quests and levels before he had to get to school. The stronger he was, the better he would be for the long haul, and once he and Hermione got to school they could begin planning exactly what to do with their first year, and how quickly to view their last trip through this life year by year.

Saving – This will be a life saver. No seriously. You can have up to ten saves going at a time. The first save slot is designated for the auto-save. This happens when something big has just happened, you enter platform 9 3/4 , Hogwarts, Gringotts Bank, or the Leaky Cauldron. You will not be notified of an auto-save, as this would disrupt your life considerably.

Because you are in school, we recommend saving at the end of every class to start with, just in case you get into trouble getting from class to class. This means as well you will not have to redo classes if you reload because you got into trouble. We here in the department can think of nothing worse than having to sit through the same lecture twice because of trouble and having to reload a save, and it would be absolute torture to have to repeat more than one because of an issue that happened later in the day. Consider this friendly advice on why it is very important to save often.

In order to save, merely concentrate on the function and a screen will pop up showing all current saves that you have done.

Quickly harry brought up his window and did a save in slot 2. May as well get that out of the way, since he was back here it might do well to save often as well, who knew what pain he could save himself by a quick reload.

Load Game – Like the save function just concentrate on it and the screen of your saves will pop up, and you will be able to choose one to reload. Also of note, if you have forgotten when a save was done in your life, you can check your diary. After you make your first manual save a tab will appear in the book that will give you a brief summary of what had just happened before the save took place.

That would be very helpful. It wasn't that his memory was the worst, it was just that there was always so much going on he couldn't always recall everything like Hermione did, at least not yet anyway. Her scary ability to recall things was something he really wanted to purchase right now, but he had to get there by buying other skills first, and for that he would need to level up to get enough points to get it.

Inventory – This life hack is almost a cheat for you. We simply ask that you use it quite wisely. Food can be stored in the inventory as can potions, and while in this space IT WILL NOT AGE. So food placed in just after you finished cooking it, when removed a month later will still be as fresh as if you just finished cooking it.

However you should be warned you should not place living things in your inventory. So unless you want to kill something, DO NOT PUT LIVING THINGS IN YOUR INVENTORY!

To open just concentrate and a new screen will appear. This screen will have tabs for easy access, tabs for food, school supplies, books, clothes, weapons and armor, quest items, and misc.

Harry was thrilled by this prospect. Now he could hoard food, and keep things away from people if he needed to. It would also give him the chance to store potions to bring home with himself every summer in order to heal wounds and the like instead of lying around and suffering.

But the first thing he was going to do was to get into his trunk and put things into his inventory. If they decided to lock him into that cupboard early he most definitely wanted something to do instead of read over all the quests he could have gotten done had he just done the tutorial like he should have.