How did Harry survive Voldemort as a baby?

Lily Potter
Lily Potter
Potter (née Evans) (30 January, 1960–31 October, 1981) was an English Muggle-born witch, the younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Evans, and the younger sister of Petunia Evans. She learned of her magical nature as a child, after Severus Snape recognised her as a witch and told her of the existence of magic.
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sacrificed her life in order to protect her infant son, Harry from Lord Voldemort
. This placed Harry under magical protection, so that when Voldemort cast the Killing Curse at Harry in turn, the spell backfired, leaving him unharmed (save for a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead) and Voldemort bodiless.
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How did Harry survive Voldemort's killing curse as a baby?

Voldemort intentionally made six Horcruxes, but when he used Avada Kedavra on Harry, he unintentionally created a seventh Horcrux. Instead of dying, Lily's love for Harry created a counter 'curse' known as Sacrificial Protection and saved Harry.
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How did Harry survive from Voldemort?

Harry survived because Voldemort took his blood in GoF. His blood contains Lily's Sacrificial Protection. As some of it lived on, in Voldemort, Harry was tethered to life. It's like a light-side Horcrux, using someone else's love rather than your own soul.
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Why did Harry survive when Voldemort killed?

In taking Harry's blood to regenerate himself, Voldemort ensures that Harry will not die if Voldemort kills him. The blood ties Harry to Voldemort's life, therefore Harry will live.
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How did Harry come back to life without the stone?

As we know, in his quest for immortality, Voldemort created seven Horcruxes. But because Lily's protection saved Harry from dying, when Voldemort tried to kill Harry his spell rebounded and actually killed himself — at least his corporeal body — and caused a bit of his soul to latch onto Harry's.
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How Did Dumbledore Know HOW Harry Survived Voldemort? - Harry Potter Theory



Did Voldemort know Harry was a Horcrux?

Voldemort wasn't aware of Harry being a pseudo-horcrux because he didn't plan it, and Harry didn't know either until Voldemort “killed” him, but he actually killed the piece of soul kept in him.
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Did Dumbledore have all 3 Deathly Hallows?

Dumbledore, at one point, possessed all three Deathly Hallows. From Dumbledore's letters to Grindelwald in Deathly Hallows, it is obvious that the headmaster of Hogwarts was obsessed with the idea of the Hallows in his youth.
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Why could Voldemort touch Harry?

In the graveyard in the Goblet of Fire, Voldemort was able to freely touch Harry without harm once he possessed Harry's blood (which contained Lily's sacrificial protection).
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How did Voldemort survive without a body?

We all know that little Harry Potter became the first, and so far only, wizard to ever survive a killing curse. We also know that Lord Voldemort unintentionally transformed Harry into one of his Horcruxes. Furthermore, we know that Voldemort survived that night because of the existing Horcruxes he had already created.
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What did Draco's mom whisper to Harry?

In a whisper, she asked if Draco was alive. When Harry replied quietly that he was, Narcissa betrayed the Dark Lord and asserted that Harry was dead. She knew the only way her family would be reunited was as part of Voldemort's conquering army, thus proving she loved her family more than she supported Voldemort.
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How many times did Harry survive the killing curse?

The two most obvious times was when he was a baby and the curse rebounded and weakened Voldemort. And the other time was in Deathly Hallows in the Forbidden Forest where Voldemort cast the curse onto Harry but ended up destroying the Horcrux part of him.
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Did the resurrection stone Save Harry?

“Had he died, the Horcrux would indeed have been destroyed.” And when a fan pointed out that the Resurrection Stone still worked for Harry after Dumbledore used Godric Gryffindor's sword to destroy the Horcrux inside Marvolo Gaunt's ring, the author provided some further explanation.
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Why did the Elder Wand not work for Voldemort?

Voldemort did not win The Elder Wand from its rightful owner (Dumbledore) - he got it from his grave. Draco Malfoy was supposed to be its rightful owner, as he had disarmed Dumbledore holding it (but did not claim it). But Draco was defeated by Harry, so the wand chose Harry and was reluctant to serve Voldemort.
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How did Voldemort become fetus?

Pettigrew mixed up a potion for Voldemort using unicorn blood and the venom of Nagini. With this potion, they were able to create a new body for Lord Voldemort to finally return to. However, this body was not what Voldemort needed to return to his fearful leadership form. Instead, it was that of a scaly, hairless baby.
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Does Hagrid know Tom Riddle is Voldemort?

In Half-Blood Prince when Dumbledore shows Harry the memories related to Voldemort he never mentions that Hagrid had any idea that Tom Riddle was Voldemort, even when they discussed the part about Riddle opening Chamber of Secrets and framing Hagrid for it.
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How did Voldemort get so small?

Known ingredients

Two of its main ingredients were unicorn blood and Nagini's snake venom. The drinker had to continuously drink the potion every few hours in order to maintain the little health that they had regained.
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Why was using Harrys blood a mistake?

Voldemort believed, out of his lack of understanding love, that by using Harry's blood, it would allow him to bypass Lily's protection and thereby enable him to circumvent what the boy has which robbed him of power years ago, when in fact it actually strengthened it.
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Why was Dumbledore happy that Voldemort took Harry's blood?

In the Deathly Hallows, when Harry talks to Dumbledore in King Cross station, Dumbledore tells him that when Voldemort used Harry's blood, the protection charm that his mother has given him was transferred to Voldemort, but the effects were that they were then tethered, meaning the protection would stand as long as ...
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Was Lily Potter a Muggle?

Harry Potter's mother, Lily Evans, and his best friend, Hermione Granger, were Muggle-born. Unlike children of wizarding families who receive their Hogwarts acceptance letter via an owl, a Hogwarts employee will usually hand-deliver the letter to Muggle-borns in order to meet their Muggle parents and explain.
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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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Did Harry lose the Invisibility Cloak?

As Ignotus's last remaining descendant, the Cloak was rightfully Harry's and was kept by him after Lord Voldemort's defeat. Harry resolved to pass it on to his children one day, just as his ancestors had done.
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Why did Harry's dad have the Invisibility Cloak?

how did james get the invisibility cloak | Fandom. His dad gave it to him. To elaborate on Icecreamdif's answer, he inherited it as a family heirloom dating back to Hardwin Potter, who married Iolanthe Peverell, granddaughter of the Cloak's original owner Ignotus.
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What are the 8 Horcruxes?

This is the definitive ranking of Voldemort's Horcruxes, from least to most effective.
  • Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem. ...
  • Helga Hufflepuff's cup. ...
  • Salazar Slytherin's locket. ...
  • Tom Riddle's diary. ...
  • Harry Potter. ...
  • Marvolo Gaunt's ring. ...
  • Nagini.
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Why was Dumbledore's hand curse?

Hoping to revive his dead family members (particularly his sister Ariana Dumbledore), he disregarded the ring's status as a Horcrux and put it on. This enacted the ring's deadly curse, and it began to quickly spread through Dumbledore's body, starting with the hand on which he had put the ring.
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What caused Dumbledore's hand to turn black?

What caused his hand to turn black and decay? Like all the other Horcruxes Voldemort created, a protective curse was placed over the Ressurection-Stone-turned-Horcrux. Anyone who tried to take the ring would be cursed the moment it touched their finger, which is exactly what happened to Dumbledore.
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