When Harry entered a bookstore named Flaurish & Blotts he pulled out his school supply list to check out what books he'd exactly needed. He had figured out that the books would give him probably a quite easy introduction on using magic and the new world he just entered. Walking between the shelfs he noticed first-years-all-in-one-packages and took one. Just before he decided walking towards the counter to pay for the books, another book got his atention. It was named. 'Magical Artifacts from A to Z'. Without thinking he took one from the stack, and took another book about curses from a nearby stack. Ten minutes later he stood outside of the shop, knowing he would come back next day.

Following the instructions of the Headmaster he headed back to The Leaky Cauldron to get dinner. When he asked the bartender if his room was prepared, so he would be able to drop his stuff first, he didn't recognized the boy. 'I am Harry Potter. I was here with the headmaster around 12pm' the boy explained. 'Oh, I see. Mister Potter, your room has been prepared. Shall I bring you to your room right now?' Harry nodded. 'That would be fine Sir.'

After the Bartender brought Harry to his room (room 6) and handed him a key, he then asked if the boy wanted his dinner, and If he'd prefer it to have it at his room or in the common dining room. 'I prefer it to be brought here.' Harry said 'Good, Sir, It will be brought to you in about 10 minutes.' The shopkeeper said. Then he left the room.

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After Harry ate his dinner he unpacked his schoolbooks and started reading in a book called Magical theory, wich seemed for now the most interesting. He'd read about how to use his wand and started to cast some minor spell that he thought would come in handy, after deactivating the tracking spells on his wand of course.

'LUMOS!'

A small beam of light flashed at the tip of his wand.

He grinned. It worked. He was indeed, as the Headmaster and Sliphis said, a wizard. He then tried some other spells such as Accio, a Hover charm and a collor changing charm. But then he suddenly lowered his wand.

'Sliphis?' he adressed the snake who layed curled up at his bed.

'Yes?' the snake answered quite sleepy

'I just read that magic is sometimes used in wizard duels. However, my textbook teaches me to speak the spells out loud. If I do so, and it would be in a duel, my enemy could hear exactly what spell I used and thus would be able to easely defend against it.'

Sliphis seemed to think about it for a short period. Then he said.

'There might be some way to cast the spells without saying the incantation. However, I have no clue on how'.

Harry sat down. Thinking about the issue. It would be very advantageous to be able to cast spells without anyone knowing what spell it would be. Then suddenly he had an idea. Raising his wand he parseled 'Lumosss' .

Nothing happened.

His wand still raised he hissed in an agressive manner 'lumos, stupid thing!'

A grand beem of light flashed at the tip of his wand. It was brighter than the flash he had conjured when spoken the spell out loud. Harry wondered why the spell spoken in Parsel would be stronger then when it was spoken normally, but for now it didn't matter. If the Headmaster was correct with his statement that it is quite rare for a wizard to speak the snake language, most wizards wouldn't be able to understand Harry, if he used an incantation in such a manner. Untill he would discover how to do non verbal spells, it would be a rather nice way of casting spells.

After experimenting with other spells casted in parseltongue, Harry checked on the encyclopedia of artifacts he'd bought. Inside were various moving pictures of the most rare and less rare artifacts. Harry wondered if it was normal for a picture to be moved. After checking the register in the back of the book, he figured that he'd probably could get his hands on some useful artifacts, at least he had enough money to buy some. Now the only thing he needed to know is what artifacts would be the most useful to purchase.

After browsing and reading discriptions of artifacts for the next three hours, he decided it would be time to sleep. He'd made himself ready for the night and stepped inside his bed. 'Tomorrow I have turned eleven.' Was what he thought, before he fell asleap.