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. Only after her death did he finally learn how.
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Why did Lily and Snape not end up together?

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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Who is Snape's love interest?

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. This put him in the same year as Lily but unfortunately for him in her rival house.
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Why did Lily and Snape both have a doe?

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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Did Severus Snape ever marry?

↑ Severus died in 1998 without marrying nor having children, and his parents' fates are unknown. Aside from that, it's likely that his parents never had any other son or daughter as it's never mentioned if Severus had a brother or a sister.
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Why Lily Chose James Over Snape



Who is Snape's Favourite student?

It is without a doubt Draco Malfoy, it's very obvious throughout the series how favourably he treats Draco, there are many different factors for this, as we know Both Student and teacher are in we're in Slytherin and so this is a reason for the connection.
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Did Snape sleep with Lily?

No (probably). There are no in-canon descriptions of Snape having a close personal relationship (sexual or otherwise) with anyone other than Lily Evans. Some time around her 15th birthday he managed to offend her and that seems to have been that.
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Why did Harry name his daughter after Luna?

She was named in honour of her late paternal grandmother, Lily Potter, and her middle name came from her parents' good friend Luna Lovegood. Lily began her education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 2019 along with her cousin, Hugo Granger-Weasley, and was sorted into Gryffindor House.
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Why did Harry's dad 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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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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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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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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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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Who does Lily Luna marry?

Lily also goes on to marry childhood bestfriend/boyfriend Lysander Scamander and the pair goes on to have one daughter Lyra Scamander born in 2040.
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Why did Voldemort offer spare Lily?

After Snape overheard the part of the prophecy he did, he told Voldemort about it. Voldemort determined it referred to Lily's child, and Snape asked him to spare her. Then he went the extra step and told Dumbledore in an effort to save her.
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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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Why did Lily and Snape 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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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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Does Ginny look like Lily?

Ginny in no way looks like Lily…. The one thing could be that both are ginger but ginny had tomato red hair while lily...
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Why is May 2nd Harry Potter day?

If you've read the series, you may remember that this is no arbitrary date. May 2, 1998 was when the epic Battle of Hogwarts was fought. In declaring the day, he said… “We hope that children and adults alike will be reminded of Harry Potter's strong and courageous character on this day.”
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Why did Hermione call Luna Lovegood loony?

Luna was continually teased at Hogwarts for being eccentric, for being a bit of a free agent and for following the beat of her own drum, so much so that she was perceived as being not all there. Other students nicknamed her 'Loony' and we would wager that this connection isn't a coincidence.
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Was Dumbledore a virgin?

Now, even after the show finished airing, people are still talking about his virginity. Similarly, it's been nearly 12 years since J.K. Rowling declared in 2007, that Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore, was gay.
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Was Lord Voldemort a virgin?

By the time he was Lord Voldemort (despite what I said earlier about the graveyard scene), Tom Riddle had become fully and completely asexual. So my answer to the question is yes, Lord Voldemort was a virgin.
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Was Severus Snape a virgin?

Until the question is answered by J.K. Rowling and read by ourselves, Severus Snape is both a virgin and not, like Schrödinger's cat .
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