Did Lily know Snape loved her?

Unlikely. Lily and Snape were childhood friends, and had been friends up until they got to Hogwarts when Snape "fell in with the wrong crowd. In Deathly Hallows, when Harry approached the Pensieve, he was grief-stricken and broken by battle.
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How did Lily feel about Snape?

Lily Only Ever Saw Him as a Friend

As much as people romanticize Snape's infatuation with Lily, the fact that she did not love him back—at least in a romantic fashion—seems to go ignored by many fans of the series.
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Did Snape care about lilies?

Snape loved Lily deeply: through their years at Hogwarts; through her marriage to another wizard, James Potter; through his time as a Death Eater; and long after her murder at the wand of Lord Voldemort.
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Who loved Lily more Snape or James?

Probably Severus, but really, it is hard to quantify. It also doesn't really matter; Lily loved James more and that's ultimately why the paths between the three diverged.
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Why did Lily stop talking to Snape?

Snape calls Lily a Mudblood, Lily tells James that she would never date him because he's an egotistical jerk. Later, Snape tries to apologize for calling Lily a Mudblood, but she's not interested; she ends their friendship due to his association with Death Eaters.
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Why Lily Chose James Over Snape



Why did Lily not marry Severus?

Why did Lily Evans choose James Potter over Severus Snape? Lily chose James because James proved so unyielding in his loyalty and selflessness to anyone important to him. Snape could never do that while she lived.
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Why did Dumbledore say Lily when Snape cast his Patronus?

Severus Snape's Patronus was also a doe, which symbolized his love for Lily. Snape uses his doe Patronus to show Dumbledore that he never fell out of love with Lily, his childhood best friend. Warner Bros.
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What if Voldemort spared Lily?

And this is after he gave Lily three chances to move (which is three more than he gives most of his victims). If Voldemort had stunned her, then Harry wouldn't have had her protection. He would have died, leaving Lily with a dead son and a dead husband.
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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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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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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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Did Snape love Lily or obsessed?

Snape's obsessive love for Lily fed his equally obsessive hatred for James, and meant he would stop at nothing ' even arranging the murder of her child ' to possess Lily. Voldemort tried to spare Lily, and may have agreed with Snape, before the attack took place, to let her live.
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Why did Voldemort call Lily a Muggle?

Lily was a Muggle born witch just like Hermione. And because of Voldi's issues with Muggle-borns he believed that it was an insult to point it to Harry, that he is not Pure-blood (not that Voldemort was, but his mind was twisted, anyways).
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Did Snape know Harry was under the Invisibility Cloak?

Snape finds Harry's invisibility cloak near the end of Prisoner when he learns it's Harry's. @leftaroundabout: true.
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Why did Lily and Severus have the same Patronus?

What is this? Snape was most likely aware that Lily's Patronus was in fact a doe. Snape loved Lily Potter with all his heart for all his life. These deep, unchanging, and all-consuming feelings caused Severus Snape's Patronus to take on the exact same form as Lily Potter's Patronus.
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Why did Voldemort give Lily a chance?

He wanted to hurt Harry, and knew exquisite detail would do so. It was intentional: Voldemort wanted Harry to know that he gave Lily the chance to live. He wants to understand that because of him (Harry), Lily made the conscience decision to die, rather than hand her son over to death.
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Why do people think Snape was obsessed with Lily?

Simply because Lily was kind to him, he became obsessive and delusional. He believed that Lily Potter wanted more from him and in their relationship. When Lily tried to stand up to James Potter while he was bullying Snape, Snape lost his temper and called Lily a mudblood.
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What is Ginny's Patronus?

Coincidentally, the Patronus of Harry's future wife, Ginny, was a horse. James Potter's Patronus was the same form as his Animagus.
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Did Hermione know that Harry was a Horcrux?

People have taken this, together with this scene where Harry says "I think I've known for a while, and I think you have too," to mean that Hermione realised that Harry was a horcrux (okay, not a horcrux but let's call him that for simplicity's sake).
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Why did Snape hide the sword in the lake?

In addition, the portrait of Dumbledore told Severus Snape that the sword must be taken under conditions of need and valour, which was why Snape put it into the frozen pond in the first place. As goblin's silver, it imbibed only substances which strengthened it, which could then be used against enemies.
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Who did James Sirius Potter marry?

James Sirius Potter was born on July 16, 2005. James is the eldest child to Harry and Ginny Potter. He has two younger siblings, Albus Severus and Lily Luna. He is the husband to Mavis Longbottom, and the father to her children, Maverick and Jasper Potter.
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How old was Lily when James died?

For years, fans have wondered how the Potter family came to be so rich, especially given that Harry's parents, Lily and James, were only 21 when they were murdered by Lord Voldemort.
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Was Lily Potter an Animagus?

James Potter

James's Animagus form was that of a stag, which earned him his nickname, Prongs. Strikingly, Harry's Patronus was a stag and his mother Lily's was a doe, a female deer, showing that the family's characters were in harmony and formed part of the same animal group.
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