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I hope you enjoy this story that I got from katie13 (yes another one) that she said that she had never put up on this site.

Chapter 40

While they were waiting for the pizza to arrive, the conversation turned more serious.

"Harry, do you have any questions for us?" James asked.

Harry bit his lip as he considered this. In fact, there was a question he had wanted to ask his parents ever since his eleventh birthday….. A question Dumbledore himself had not answered for him…..

"Why did Voldermort's curse fail?" Harry blurted out. "How did I survive?"

James sighed wearily and rubbed his temple.

"Harry….. I know you must have been wondering for a while….. But not now, please, Harry, later….. When you are ready."

Harry scowled moodily.

"I hate later's," he muttered. James, Sirius and Lily smiled softly.

"Do you have any more questions?" Lily remembered him gently.

Again, Harry bit his lip and thought for a while. There was something else on his mind: "Why does Aunt Petunia hate magic?"

James and Lily both sighed and slumped back in their seats.

"You don't ask easy ones, do you?" James commented, half joking, half serious.

Harry grinned and shook his head.

"Of course not," he stated matter-of-factly, "If they're easy questions I can answer them for myself."

James and Sirius grinned at that.

"You will have to ask Petunia about that, though, Harry," Lily said thoughtfully, "I honestly don't know. Personally, I think it is jealousy."

Harry nodded.

Before they could say anything else, the doorbell rang and their food arrived. They spent a happy half hour in the kitchen, eating pizza and drinking sodas.

After that, they went back to the living room where Harry told his parents about his fourth year. James and Lily were shell-shocked; Lily was almost in tears and hugging Harry tightly.

"It's nice to see that you are safe," James said, eyeing Harry worriedly, Harry just smiled sleepily.

Sirius noticed that Harry had trouble keeping his eyes open and glanced at the clock on the wall. It was only seven o'clock! Still, Sirius guessed that the Animagus training earlier that day had tired Harry out greatly.

"Harry, why don't you go to bed?" Sirius suggested firmly.

Harry was too tired to argue, so he simply nodded and trudged up the stairs after bidding his parents and godfather goodnight.

James frowned as he heard the door to Harry's room shut. "Padfoot, why did you send him to bed?" he wanted to know, gesturing towards the clock.

"Because he was falling asleep, Prongs," Sirius grinned.

"It's only seven o'clock!" James cried in disbelief.

"Why was he falling asleep?" Lily asked almost at the same time. "What did you two do earlier today, Sirius?"

Sirius grinned broadly.

"Why, I gave him a little surprise, Lils," he answered cryptically, using his old nickname for her. Lily eyed him wearily.

"Alright, Shoot."

Sirius smiled.

"Well….."

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