What a great sixteenth birthday! Get beat till I'm black and blue, do a ton of chores, and when it's midnight and it becomes July 31st, (my birthday) a teal glass bottle appears out of know where, teal colored smoke pours out of it and wraps around me. Now I'm freaking out trying to get away from the teal colored smoke, but I can't do a thing, I can't even move. Then as the smoke clears I look down and I'm wearing the weirdest clothes I've ever seen. Then I all but run to my wardrobe, open the door and looked in the full length mirror on the inside of the door, and I can hardly believe my eyes. Which is hard to believe because my glasses are gone and I can see perfectly without them.

So I run my glassesless eyes over my body. My hair is longer and less wild looking. My Avada Kedavra green eyes are outlined with black koi, my shirt is gone and in it's place is a teal vest with gold edging that shows my Quidditch toned muscles, on my upper right arm there's a band of gold. Then as I look lower I see two bands of gold one on each of my wrists, and I also see my bellybutton is now pierced with a gold piercing and has teal colored gems on it. My trousers are gone as well and now I'm wearing in their place arabian styled trousers also edged in gold, and on my feet are teal and gold fabric shoes.

The first words I can even think to say are ,"what the hell?!"

Seconds after I say that the bottle starts smoking again and wraps around me again, but this time I feel it pulling me and the next this I know is that I'm being pulled into the bottle.

Inside the bottle the floor is cover with a thick teal carpet, there's a small circle knee high table, and one side of the bottle is covered with pillows of every size in different shades of blue, green, and gold.

As I continue to wonder what in Merlin's name is going on, and on the table appears a small, worn blue book with gold lettering thats said Genies, on it. And I try not to freak out even more than I already was. I try to calmly sit down and open the book to read it. On the first page it said The Potter family genie book. That very first page confirmed all my fears.

This is your family copy of the book that every family with a genie ancestor has. This family book like all other genie family books, is passed magically, from one genie in the family to another. This book explains what it means to be a genie and everything that being a genie entitles. From personal experiences of your genie ancestors, to what you can and can't do, and what happens, and what you shall do if or when you get a master. How you get a master is simple, any witch or wizard that picks up your bottle, that is not a genie, muggle or squib, and holds it for more than a minute, becomes your master. Now many people think a genie's master only gets three wishes, this not true, there is no limit on wishes. And unless you get a new master, or your master allows you to stop serving him or her, you serve your master for the rest of your or their life. Now there are three limits to your powers, you can't kill anyone, make anyone fall in love, or bring anyone back from the dead. Any and all other wishes you must grant.

When a witch or wizard turns who has a genie in their family they come into their inheritance and become a genie (unless their a muggle or a squib). But not all people who have a genie in their family can become a genie, you need a certain level of magic to power the dormant genie genes, and because the level needed is high, wizard and witch genies are rare (as are all other genies). The reason for that is because genies are immortal, but a genie can be killed. Most people who become genies don't even know they had a genie in the family. Which is not surprising because most people when it becomes know that that person is a genie they end up getting enslaved even more than if they just happened to get a master, because people looking for genies use them in a negative way and tend to treat them like slaves. With that being said don't tell anyone that you're a genie, unless you truly trust them or you have no other choice but to tell.

A good way to make sure you don't get outed as a genie or get a master is to hide your bottle extremely well. Many genie's have tried to bury their bottles or lock them away, but a genie needs to be in their bottle at least once a week for two or three hours, or the bottle pulls you in and keeps you there for a week. No genie, witch, or wizard has found out why.

When your bottle appears, smoke come out and changes what you wear to your true appearance. To make the clothes, piercing, koi, and gold bands disappear, will them to become invisible, hide from sight, or something similar. So unless you have a master you need to hide all of these things as they can point out that you're a genie.

By now I was half way between freaking out and something else that I didn't understand. But as I read the next paragraph I understood.

Genies being magical beings are naturally submissive and crave the need to have a master, someone to dominate them, to have not a care in the world, but pleasing your master. This is why most genies jump at a chance to have a master. The only exception to this is when a genie is being treated poorly, but even then they crave the stability of a master. Another way to get outed as a genie is showing your natural submissiveness, which no genie can control. And thus a genie is neither dark nor light but genies are what is called, chaotic neutrals. Genies have no real morals, they see neither good or bad in things, they see things as they are. Death they see as a natural part of a mortal life. Now with saying they have no morals, this does not speak for all genies, but generally genies have no morals. Yet they can feel and experience love, hate, sadness, guilt, and others emotions, along with not feeling these, and this is one of the reason genies are dangerous. Genies are often called tricksters, and we are. Say a genie with a master, who the genie doesn't like asks to be young again, the genie could grant the wish and make their master a baby again. And thus not have to serve said master and let their master die, as babies can't take care of themselves. This does not mean all genies are like this, but most are.

By the time the Harry figured out how to leave the bottle, it was nine and the Dursley's were so pissed and Vernon and Dudley beat Harry so bad that by the time they were finished the bottle pulled Harry back in, laid him out on the pile of pillows and Harry's genie magic set to work healing him.

And by the time Harry woke up all healed it was four in the morning the next day.