Could Snape have been saved?

“That's why the elder wand didn't belong to Voldemort, because he hadn't really killed Snape. “Snape's body is not mentioned at all, and his ghost doesn't appear with Lupin's and Harry's parents, even though it should have, so Snape obviously survived.
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Why couldnt Snape save himself?

Snape did try to protect himself. He raised his wand once Voldemort's intentions were clear. He didn't immediately attack- Maybe because he thought he can talk his way out of it, or because he preferred a strategy of defending himself rather than attacking the dark lord.
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How could Snape survive?

There is virtually no way that Snape would have survived. His fate was sealed the moment Lord Voldemort decided to kill Snape, as this officially made Snape the most wanted man in the country. At best, Snape could have probably escaped from Voldemort when Voldemort decided to kill him.
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What did James do to save Snape?

When James realized what Sirius had done, he risked his life to catch Snape before he reached the Shack and bring him back to safety. Snape had seen WereLupin by that time but had not been hurt.
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What was Snape's last thing before he died?

12. Snape's Last Words. In the [Deathly Hallows] book, Snape's dying words to Harry were "Look at me". Right then we did not realize the significance of his words but in the very next chapter when Harry goes through Snape's memories in the Pensieve, he comes to know how much Snape loved Lily.
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All The Times Severus Snape Protected Harry Potter



What was Fred Weasley's last words?

In the book, Fred's last lines are spent marveling over his estranged brother Percy joining them for the fight and cracking a joke. He's described as gleefully saying, "You actually are joking, Perce ... I don't think I've heard you joke since you were —" immediately before his death.
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What was Sirius last words?

Sirius Black

"Come on, you can do better than that!" Black loses his battle with Bellatrix and just like that, another member of Harry's makeshift family has died. Photo: Warner Bros.
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Did Snape owe James a life debt?

Known life debts

In his fifth year James saved Severus Snape from a near-fatal prank that Sirius Black played on him, which involved luring Snape to the Shrieking Shack where Remus Lupin was in his werewolf form. As such, Snape owed James a life debt, although they hated each other.
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Was Harry's dad a bully?

All Potter fans know the story: Harry glimpses Snape's “Worst Memory” in fifth year and discovers that his father was not the great guy that any orphaned child would prefer to envision. His dad was a horrible bully who tormented fellow classmates and had a towering ego to match.
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Why did James Potter bully Snape?

James and Snape had a strong rivalry throughout their time at Hogwarts. To Remus and Sirius, the reason this rivalry began was due to Snape's jealousy over James' talent at Quidditch and his popularity, as well as Snape's interest in the Dark Arts, which James despised.
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Why was Snape's Avada Kedavra blue?

In order to conjure the avada kedavra curse, you have to want to kill your victim. We all know that Voldemort could easily kill a child without an ounce of remorse... but not Snape. Snape didn't want to kill Dumbledore, and this was why the spell was blue instead of the usual green.
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Why can't Harry use Avada Kedavra?

When the Dark Lord used Avada Kedavra for the final time in the Harry Potter series, the spell deflected as a result of Harry's ownership of the Elder wand, killing Voldemort with his own signature spell. Following Voldemort's demise, the Unforgivable Curses were strictly deemed illegal by the Ministry of Magic.
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What spell killed Snape?

In Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, Voldemort kills Snape using his snake Nagini instead of his favorite spell Avada Kedavra - here's why.
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Did Voldemort know Snape was a spy?

Voldemort in turn knew the first half of the prophecy from Snape. He knew from his own knowledge of the wizarding world and his spies (presumably) that the prophecy could refer to either the Potters or the Longbottoms, and he knew from Snape that Dumbledore knew this too (if not more).
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What did Nagini Snape do?

Snape tried to reason with Voldemort, but Voldemort instead moved Nagini in her orb over Snape, commanding Nagini to kill Snape, in which she bit into Snape's neck with her poisonous venom. Voldemort then left Snape to die, taking Nagini with him.
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Why didn't Snape defend himself from Nagini?

He knew it was his time to die. Maybe that's why he didn't defend himself. He wanted to finally die at the hands of the person who killed the person whom he loved, or at least by the killer's pet, after doing all that he could to have his revenge. His sweet revenge.
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Did the Marauders bully Snape?

The fact of the matter is that bullying is wrong no matter who the victim is, and the Marauders were no doubt the bullies in the scenario of their school lives. For some reason, though, they held onto their hatred of Snape well into adulthood.
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Did James forgive Snape?

No. There is nothing written about James ever apologizing to Snape for his bullying and harassment.
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Would Lily have married Snape?

Obviously Lily ultimately chose James Potter over Severus Snape, and Lily and James got married and had their only child, Harry Potter. But Lily could have just as easily made another choice, and despite some of Snape's more obvious negative qualities she certainly did have strong feelings for him as well.
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Is Snape an Animagus?

“A creature I wouldn't want to kiss . . . a spider!” Harry figures out the riddle, and realizes that a spider is about to attack. But what he doesn't realize is what I now believe: that the spider in the maze is Professor Snape, in his Animagus form. It is Spider/Snape who bears down on Cedric and Harry.
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Did Pettigrew care about Harry?

He didn't care about Harry

"The boy is nothing to me, nothing at all! While this is something that one would say even if it wasn't true, and indeed Voldemort accuses him of lying in that very scene, I don't see evidence that he was lying about that specific point.
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Why did Snape call Lily a Mudblood?

In the heat of the moment, Snape lost control and called Lily the forbidden word. He was embarrassed. He called her a mud-blood by accident because he was frustrated that lily did not like his closest friends.
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What was Dumbledore's dark secret?

In the opening scene of The Secrets of Dumbledore, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) revealed that he was in fact in love with Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) when they were teenagers, and the blood oath was a witness of their love.
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What was Lily Potter's last words?

"... have mercy..."

Lily's last words were an ardent request to the Dark Lord to let her little boy live. As the books reveal by and by, the fact that she made the ultimate sacrifice for her son sealed Harry with her love, a form of old magic that proved powerful enough to keep him safe in years to come.
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