Why was it a mistake for Voldemort to use Harry's blood?

The use of Harry's blood in the potion, however, would come to be a mistake as it prevented Voldemort from killing Harry because the blood passed Lily Potter's protection to Voldemort and anchored Harry to the living world through him, ensuring the Dark Lord's defeat three years later.

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Did Voldemort have to use Harry's blood?

In order for Voldemort to regain a full, strong body and all his abilities, Peter Pettigrew helped him conduct a ritual with required “bone of the father, flesh of the servant, and blood of the enemy”, meaning that Voldemort, from his rebirth in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire until his death, had Harry's blood in ...

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Why didn't Voldemort use Avada Kedavra on Harry again?

Why does Voldemort keep using Avada Kedavra against Harry even though it can't hurt him? Because Voldemort is an experimental scientist. He has a problem (Harry, or rather Harry being alive) that he is trying to find a solution to. He keeps manipulating variables, and trying again to see if he gets the desired results.

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What if Voldemort didn't use Harry's blood?

If Voldemort didn't use Harry's blood, then he wouldn't be able to get passed the love protection and the next time he tried using AK on Harry the spell would backfire and destroy him again.

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How does Voldemort contain Harry's blood?

The Dark Lord kept Harry alive by keeping Lily's sacrifice alive. The Dark Lord having Harry's blood inside him meant that Harry's blood (and therefore Lily's sacrifice) was kept alive in a body that wasn't Harry's own.

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Why did Voldemort need unicorn blood if he had Horcruxes?

Voldemort's desire to beat death and become immortal was also why he and Quirrell ended up slaying innocent unicorns. Drinking the blood of a unicorn would keep someone alive – even if they were an inch from death.

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Did Voldemort pretend to be pure-blood?

It is perhaps interesting that Voldemort himself is not a pureblood; while his mother, Merope Gaunt, was a member of one of the oldest Wizarding familes in existence, his hated father was a “Mudblood”. In spite of this, he is still considered the heir of Salazar Slytherin.

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Why did Draco's mom say Harry was dead?

Draco Malfoy's mother Narcissa was cold, cunning and devoted to the Dark Lord. But she was also a mother, which meant she was willing to risk everything to make sure her son was safe. When Harry survived Voldemort's Killing Curse for the second time, Narcissa pretended he was dead so she could get to Draco.

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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 couldn't Voldemort use Malfoy's wand?

At the beginning of this book, he measures it against Lucius Malfoy's showing he still has it and it is intact. Dumbledore explains to Harry in book 4 that since both wands contained a tail feather from Fawkes the phoenix, the couldn't face each other as they'd refuse to destroy each other pretty much.

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Has Harry ever used an unforgivable curse?

The darkest of the Dark Arts, Harry Potter unforgivable curses are the Cruciatus Curse, the Imperius Curse, and the Killing Curse. Although the curses are highly illegal, Harry using Unforgivable Curses happened, but he uses them once he was thrust into the Second Wizarding War.

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Did Voldemort respect Snape?

He doesn't trust Snape as Dumbledore does, but he believes that he can detect any disloyalty. Moreover, Voldemort regards Snape as highly intelligent and therefore ' as a true Slytherin ' a person whose top priority is to take care of himself.

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Why was Snape's Avada Kedavra blue?

In order to conjure the avada kedavra curse, you have to want to kill your victim. We all know that Voldemort could easily kill a child without an ounce of remorse... but not Snape. Snape didn't want to kill Dumbledore, and this was why the spell was blue instead of the usual green.

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Is Harry a full blood wizard?

Harry James Potter holds half-blood status in Rowling's imagined wizarding world because his mother is Muggle-born and his father is pure-blood. There are three main blood statuses; pure-blood, half-blood, and Muggle-born, which are all methods of determining a witch or wizard's magical lineage.

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Did the Death Eaters know Voldemort was half-blood?

Yes, they did. The Riddle surname is not a Pureblood name, and it's a name that Tom had at school. Ergo, the other Purebloods knew that Riddle was not a Pureblood. The Pure-Blood Directory also came out in the 1930's, and 'Riddle' was not one of the names listed on there.

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Why was Tom Riddle the heir of Slytherin if he was half-blood?

If yes, then how did he enter Slytherin without being a pure blood? Yes. Voldemort had a muggle father, and a witch for a mother. Slytherin is not a house exclusive to pure bloods either.

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Why doesn t Harry cast Avada Kedavra?

Though Harry encountered many opportunities that deemed Avada Kedavra necessary, it remains as one of the Unforgivable Curses Harry Potter never cast. For one, he viewed the spell as an immoral practice commonly used by users of the Dark Arts.

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Is Neville Longbottom the prophecy?

Neville's role in the prophecy in Order of the Phoenix is frequently referred to in a hypothetical scenario where Neville was the Chosen One rather than Harry. It is often suggested that Voldemort chose Harry over Neville because of Harry's half-blood status.

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What spell did Lily protect Harry?

Her sacrifice gave Harry the power of love, a protection spell sealed with the blood spilled by her death.

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Why didn t Draco tell Bellatrix it was Harry?

Draco's refusal to reveal Harry's identity to Bellatrix was not because he liked him. It was because he believed that Harry was the only chance they had at defeating Voldemort. At first, Draco admired and revered Voldemort until he threatened his family's safety.

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What was Draco's wife's blood curse?

In Cursed Child – Part Two, Draco Malfoy explains to Harry that his wife, Astoria Greengrass, was sick for many years. Draco says she suffers from a “blood malediction,” which ultimately ends up killing her the summer before Scorpius's third year.

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What happened to Draco's sister?

She managed to leave without confrontation by simply not returning home to the manor again, instead going to live with her sister and their friends when not at Hogwarts.

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Why did Bellatrix call Harry a halfblood?

Because to a pureblood fanatic like Bellatrix, Harry is a Mudblood because one of his parents (Lily Evans) was a Muggleborn. Anyone with Muggle ancestry is one, including Snape since his father was a Muggle (Tobias).

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Are the Weasleys pure-blood?

The Weasleys

' We finish on a family who are technically quite pure-blood, but are deemed 'blood traitors' by various peers, and seem proud of it. It is, indeed, the Weasleys' compassion and morals that led to several members marrying half-bloods, Muggle-borns, etc.

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Is Luna Lovegood a pure-blood?

Luna Lovegood is a Pureblood witch, who was sorted into Gryffindor House during Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry.

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