Chapter 36: Presents

Chapter 36: Presents

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Chapter 36: Presents

24 December

The Potters were sitting at the table and enjoying their Christmas dinner while chatting.

Harry looked over at his 'new' family and smiled. This was a scene he had dreamed about many times during his lonely childhood years. Just having a family and spending time with them...he had wanted that for so long and now that he has it, he was willing to do anything to protect it.

Lily looked at her son with her bright green eyes.

"Harry, dear. Is everything okay? you have been very quiet."

He nodded at his mother.

"Everything is great, mom. I was just thinking about some stuff."

"Were you perhaps thinking about how many classes are you going to fail in your first year?" Said Lyra with a mischievous smile.

"Lyra, don't say those things. Harry is not going to fail any classes...you are studying properly, right son?" Asked James.

"Of course Dad. I'm doing fine at school." He made sure to not stand up too much during his classes, but he wasn't going to fail either. All of his grades were at least decent, even in potions, much to the professor's displeasure.

"What about potions?" It was like his father had just read his mind.

"Snivelus is not giving you trouble, I hope. Or else, I will have t-"

"James!, you have to stop calling him that, even more so in front of the children. That being said..." Lily's eyes turned to look at Harry.

"Is he giving you a hard time? you can tell me if he does."

"He is a tough teacher, but I don't think he is harsher with me than with the rest of the students." Harry decided to lie a bit. He didn't want his parents to go complain to Snape, that would just make things worse. He already knew the man quite well.Nnêw n0vel chapters are published at novelhall.com

Lily looked slightly upset.

"He shouldn't be tough with his students at all, and especially with the first years. The process of potion making is very delicate and being able to keep calm is extremely important for good results...Severus was always strict with himself when we were students. He was the type of person who would not tolerate even a small mistake. If he is putting his students to the same standard..."

Pushing the negative thought aside, Harry found two boxes with his name written on it.

His two sisters were already busy opening their presents so he decided to do the same.

Inside the small box, were two books. One looked new while the other one was a fairly worn out note book.

"This is?..."

"Oh, thats mine." Said his mother as she moved to his side.

The cover of the new book said "One hundred tips and tricks for young potioners".

"That book contains a lot of incredible usefull information to make your potion class much easier. I always lamented that I only found out about that one when I was in my fourth year, so I told myself that I would get one for my children when they were old enough."

She pointed at the other one.

"I figured that Severus could give you a hard time...that notebook is from my own first three years. It has a lot of useful guidance on how to perform the potions from Howarts curriculum. It was written by both me and Severus. But dont let him see it!, he may get mad..."

Harry opened the notebook. It was filled with notes handwritten by his mother.

'I would have given anything to have a memento like this in the past...'

Lily gave him an apologetic smile.

"I know that books are not a great present for children. So I put a lot of candy at the bottom of the box."

"No...this is great, thank you...mom." Harry smiled softly, doing his best to contain his emotions.

"Open mine now, come on!" James approached them.

"You are going to love it!"

Harry nodded and opened the box. There was some sort of clothes inside.

'No...these are not clothes...this is!-'

"James!, is that what I think it is?" Questioned Lily.

"Hehe!, this is my good old cloak of invisibility!" James proclaimed proudly.