How old was Snape when he died?

According to the author, Severus Snape's birthday is 9 January 1960 and he died on 2 May 1998 at the age of 38.
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How old was Snape when he died in real life?

Alan Rickman

Rickman's family confirmed the death of the star, who played Severus Snape, to BBC in 2016. The actor died following his battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 69. "He was surrounded by family and friends," the family said in a statement to the outlet.
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Are Snape and Lily the same age?

Snape was the same age as Lily, making him 31 at the start of the series and 38 when he passed away.
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How old was Snape when he met Lily?

He met Lily and Petunia Evans when he was nine. He fell deeply in love with Lily upon their meeting and became a close friend of hers. Severus started at Hogwarts with Lily in 1971, where he was Sorted into Slytherin House.
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Are Voldemort and Snape the same age?

Voldemort was a generation older. He went to school with Lucius's father, Sirius' parents, Snape's mother, James' parents. Or around that time depending on when each of them attended themselves. So Voldemort was the generation of their parents, Harry and co's grandparents time.
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How old is Dumbledore when he dies?

During his time as a student, Dumbledore was in Gryffindor House. Rowling said in an interview that Dumbledore was about 150 years old. However, on her website, she states that Dumbledore was born in 1881, making him either 115 or 116 at the time of his death.
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How old is McGonagall?

According to the author, Minerva McGonagall's birthday is 4 October, and she is about seventy years old when the series begins.
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Did Snape love Lily romantically?

Severus Snape spent the majority of his life in love with Lily Potter. It is easy to understand why Snape, who had an unhappy homelife as a child, fell hard for the first person to show him love and kindness.
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Why did Snape and Lily have same 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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How much older is Snape than Harry?

And seeing as the Half-Blood Prince was in the same Hogwarts year as Lily, he must have been born between late 1959 and mid-1960. That means Snape was in his 30s during the events of the books – Harry Potter is a 1990s kid, after all.
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Who did Severus Snape marry?

Who does Severus Snape marry? Marriage. He married the pure-blood witch Eileen Prince. He abused her mentally and emotionally, as Harry Potter saw in Severus Snape's memories during an Occlumency lesson.
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Was Snape in love 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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Was Lily Potter pregnant with her second child?

J.K. Rowling has revealed that Lily was pregnant with her second child, when Voldemort killed her.
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Did Snape had a child?

Does Severus Snape have a child? Arabella Lily Snape (born 12 June 1981) was a half-blood witch and was the only daughter of Professor Severus Snape and an unknown descendant of Slytherin. She attended Hogwarts from 1992 until her death in 1998.
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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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What was Sirius Black's Patronus?

The fifth year was boring for Sirius. Except for the fact that he had mastered the Patronus Charm, -his patronus was a black German Shepherd, and became an Animagi, -which was the same as his patronus, the fifth year wasn't very interesting.
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Why does Snape have Harry's mom's Patronus?

A doe. And in his final battle with Lord Voldemort, Harry explained the significance of this to his adversary, and to us: 'Snape's Patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's, because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from the time when they were children'.
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Why is Snape's Avada Kedavra blue?

As for everyone's favourite child-bullying adult, Snape's Killing Curse was 'blue' due to the cyanish background of the film scene. It was actually green, but the camera and effects made a bluish overlay which overlapped the green spell.
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Why did Harry name his son after Snape?

As Rowling sees it, Snape eventually sacrificed himself in order to save Harry at the Battle of Hogwarts, so Harry felt the need to honor him. Snape died for Harry out of love for Lily. Harry paid him tribute in forgiveness and gratitude.
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Did Snape ask Voldemort spare Lily?

It was Snape that persuaded Voldemort to give Lily a chance to save herself. He also protected Harry during his time at school (however reluctantly).
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What if Lily chose Snape?

If Lily had chosen Severus, she wouldn't have defied and escaped Lord Voldemort(thrice), then Voldemort would have been left with one choice... Neville Longbottom, the child of parents who have defied Lord Voldemort thrice and who was born on closing day of July, and have the powers which Voldy had not...
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How old is Hagrid?

According to the author, Hagrid's birthday is December 6th; events in the stories lead us to believe he is approximately 60 years old when Harry first attends Hogwarts.
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How old is Sirius Black?

Sirius Orion Black (born November 3, 1959 - died June 18, 1996, aged 36), also known by his nickname Padfoot, is a major character from the Harry Potter series.
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Is filch McGonagall's son?

No, McGonagall wasn't Filch's mom. She never had a child. Filch belonged to a completely different wizarding family and was a squib.
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