Why did Dumbledore give Harry the Resurrection Stone?

As for why he gave him the Resurrection Stone, it's really quite simple--he wanted to give Harry the courage he would need to walk into his enemies camp and sacrifice himself. That kind of self-sacrifice is really very rare.
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Why did Dumbledore want Harry to have the Deathly Hallows?

The reason Dumbledore wanted Harry to know about the hallows was because harry was likely to find out about them anyway (since one of the Horcruxes was a hallow - which Dumbledore needed Harry to have to complete his quest - and Harry owned another Hallow).
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How does Harry come back to life without the Resurrection 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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Why was the resurrection stone in the snitch?

After Dumbledore recovered the ring, he destroyed the Horcrux with the Sword of Gryffindor, which is to say he specifically destroyed the ring. The resurrection stone was not destroyed. The stone was then placed into the Golden Snitch for Harry to find.
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Why didn't Dumbledore come back when Harry used the Resurrection Stone?

Because Dumbledore did not want Harry to bring anyone back - if we remember the tale of the three Hallows, it was exactly bringing back the dead that got the original possessor of the Stone killed.
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How did Harry survive Avada Kedavra in the forest?

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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Why didnt Dumbledore protect himself?

Dumbledore had become so weak after the duel with Voldemort at the Ministry, and also he was being consumed by the curse, slowly. So, He never had the intention of living beyond the 6th book (i.e. Harry's 6th year). Dumbledore did not defend himself because, he wanted the elder wand to end up with Severus Snape.
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What was inside Harrys snitch?

The first Snitch Harry caught returned in a vital way

It turned out that the Snitch actually contained another of the Deathly Hallows: the Resurrection Stone. We also learnt that Snitches contained 'flesh memory', meaning they only react to the person who first touched them.
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Why did Dumbledore wear the cursed ring?

Therefore, Dumbledore may have specifically worn the ring—which would indicate his success in tracking down Voldemort's past—both to help encourage Slughorn to return to Hogwarts, and to help persuade him to turn over the correct version of the memory of Slughorn talking to Riddle about Horcruxes.
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Why did Dumbledore ignore Harry in Order of the Phoenix?

He has grown afraid of Harry's connection to Voldemort. Perhaps Voldemort, knowing Dumbledore's love for Harry, would possess Harry and provoke Dumbledore to kill him. So, Dumbledore attempted to avoid Harry throughout Book 5 for Harry's own good.
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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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How did Dumbledore destroy the ring?

July 1996: Albus Dumbledore destroys Marvolo Gaunt's ring with Godric Gryffindor's sword in his headmaster's office at Hogwarts.
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Did Dumbledore know Sirius was innocent?

They could have learned it at Hogwarts. Dumbledore did know that Sirius was innocent, because he is the one who set up the fidelius charm and the Potters almost chose Sirius, but Sirius thought it would be obvious, so he suggested pettigrew to be the secret keeper.
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Did Dumbledore give Harry the invisibility cloak?

In the first book of the series, "Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone," headmaster Albus Dumbledore gifts Harry an invisibility cloak, which belonged to Harry's deceased father, James. The gift included a note: "Your father left this in my possession when he died. It is time it was returned to you.
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Is Dumbledore good or evil?

Harry Potter's Major Reveal Turned Dumbledore Into a Cold-Hearted Bad Guy. Albus Dumbledore has always been a man who had to make tough choices for the greater good. But one Harry Potter scene framed him as a bad guy.
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How did Dumbledore know that Harry was a Horcrux?

Background information. During the 1996–1997 school year, Dumbledore began to share his findings regarding Voldemort's Horcruxes with Harry Potter. Using the Pensieve, he showed Harry a series of memories about the boy who was Tom Riddle and the man who was Voldemort.
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What was Dumbledore drinking?

It is emerald green in the books. Also, in the book version, Dumbledore conjured a crystal cup out of thin air to drink the potion, while in the movie version, there was a seashell-shaped cup placed on top of the basin (originally a crystal cup in the script).
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Did Voldemort know the ring was the Resurrection Stone?

It is a gold ring inset with a black stone (actually the Resurrection Stone, but neither Marvolo Gaunt nor Lord Voldemort were aware of its existence) engraved with what Marvolo Gaunt called the Peverell coat of arms (having come into the Gaunt line from an heiress of the Peverells, not the Slytherin family), which is ...
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Did Draco ever catch the Snitch?

After Johnson scored to make it 80-20, Malfoy plummeted towards the Snitch. Harry pursued him and took both hands off his broom to reach out and capture the Snitch, winning the Quidditch Cup for Gryffindor.
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Why did snitch open when Harry kissed it?

Dumbledore had also enchanted the Snitch to hold the Resurrection Stone inside of it, and it would only open for Harry once he accepted the fact that he needed to sacrifice himself in order to defeat Lord Voldemort.
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Who gave Harry the Nimbus 2000?

In the movie, professor Minerva McGonagall gives Harry Potter a Nimbus 2000 when he joins the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
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Why didn't Dumbledore tell Harry about the Deathly Hallows?

He didn't tell Harry about the Hallows because he thought Harry would go after those instead of the horcruxes and would get them when the time wasn't right.
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Why can Voldemort touch Harry in Goblet of Fire?

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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Why did Snape put the sword in a 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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