"I am well aware," he said with a sigh, rubbing his temples. Of course it was ridiculous, but they did live in a world where you could go to the store and buy spinach-flavoured jelly beans and not have anyone think that was weird. By any objective measure, everything in the wizarding world was ridiculous."But the facts remain: after Lily and James died, Voldemort was sufficiently alive to kill Harry, and doing so killed him." McGonagall was giving him a very strange look, now. Well, the truth had been strange. Lily Potter and Remus Lupin had been working on some very interesting new charms in the weeks before the Potters" death (Lily hadn't believed that Remus could be a spy, and they ought to have listened to her; everyone had been too busy laughing over the time travel bet, the more fools they). Protection charms that would not just block but fight back ... Remus said they hadn't finished anything, but Lily had been desperate enough to try incomplete spells, and it was possible that something she'd done had made the Killing Curse kill both target and caster. "Some kind of terrible magic happened that night - what, we are not yet sure. But it is enough to make me wonder."