Why are Harry Potter's parents not ghosts?

Although they surely would have done whatever possible to remain in Harry's life, they had no reservations about giving up their own to save him from Voldemort. Since they demonstrated a lack of fear of death, they were immediately less likely to become ghosts.
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Why doesn t everyone become a ghost in Harry Potter?

Muggles cannot come back as ghosts, and the wisest witches and wizards chose not to. It was those with "unfinished business", whether in the form of fear, guilt, regrets or overt attachment to the material world who refused to move on to the next dimension.
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Why didn't James and Lily Potter become ghosts?

It's was their decision not to come back. According to the book, the ghost Nick(nearly headless,the one u must have seen in the sorcerer stone) told Harry that wizards can come back as ghosts but few choose that path.
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Why didn't Dumbledore come back as a ghost?

However, the Hogwarts headmaster was not a comforting character with unconditional love that Harry would want at his side as he died. Rather, as an insightful adviser, Harry had Dumbledore waiting for him in Limbo where he could choose to live or die after being “killed” by Voldemort.
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Why is nearly headless Nick a ghost?

Post-mortem. Sir Nicholas chose to linger as a ghost rather than "go on", because, by his own admission, he feared death. He became the resident ghost of Gryffindor Tower at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and would spend his life after death there.
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Why is Moaning Myrtle a ghost?

Myrtle Warren was once a Hogwarts student, but after her untimely death, she stayed back as a spirit to eternally haunt the second-floor girls' bathroom. Myrtle had a hard time at Hogwarts, and was frequently bullied. Prone to wailing morosely, the ghost became known informally as Moaning Myrtle.
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Why can't Harry see his parents as ghosts?

Although they surely would have done whatever possible to remain in Harry's life, they had no reservations about giving up their own to save him from Voldemort. Since they demonstrated a lack of fear of death, they were immediately less likely to become ghosts.
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Why is Snape the half-blood prince?

Family. Snape's family background is mostly shown in flashbacks during the course of the last three novels. Snape was born to Eileen Prince, a witch, and Tobias Snape, a Muggle, making him a half-blood (hence the name, "Half-Blood Prince").
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Why didn't Harry see Snape with the Resurrection Stone?

Snape might have been carrying an antidote for a Snake Bit on him (to be safe) and doesn't show up when Harry finds the resurrection stone.
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Why did Lily hate James?

One with a severe dislike of Lily's former best friend. Let's get into your points one by one, though I would like to say first that I'm not sure if that quote from Lily about James making her sick really matches up with her being the 'submissive one'. - Yes, Lily knows James is a bully. That is why she loathed him.
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Why did Voldemort choose Lily and James?

James and Lily were in the original Order of the Phoenix and therefore knew they were risking their lives in the war against Voldemort. Still, the Dark Lord's whole reason for trying to kill them all was to eliminate the threat posed by a certain prophecy.
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Why didn't Dumbledore tell Harry how to destroy horcruxes?

Dumbledore Never Really Had Time To Explain How To Destroy The Horcruxes. As much as Harry would have benefited from Dumbledore's knowledge of how to destroy the remaining five horcruxes, there was simply not enough time before his death to do so.
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Is Cedric Diggory a ghost?

During Harry's subsequent duel with Voldemort, their wands connect, and Cedric's ghost emerges from the wand along with the ghosts of Harry's parents.
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Who is the nicest ghost in Harry Potter?

The Fat Friar was a merry soul who loved the students of his house, Hufflepuff. He had a kind, charitable nature and even voted to give Peeves a second chance to attend the start-of-term feast: 'Forgive and forget, I say.
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Why did Dumbledore not defeat Voldemort?

The simple answer to that is that Voldemort was in hiding so Dumbledore would have had to abandon his job to track him down, and he was needed to protect Harry and the young wizards from ministry and other influences, it would take prodigious skill to duel him and win (Dumbledore fails to do this OOTP, for instance.
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Why was Snape in Slytherin as a half blood?

In the case of Snape. he was Sorted into Slytherin because he was ambitious, leaning towards the Dark Arts, his mother was one, AND he had an anti-Muggle bias, same as Salazar Slytherin himself.
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Why did Harry survive without the resurrection stone?

Harry held the resurrection stone right before he was killed by Voldemort. Even though he dropped the stone at that time he was the Master Of Death. He was in possession of the deathly hallows because the wand was his the cloak was his and then the stone was his. That is why he did not die.
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Did Voldemort not know he had the resurrection stone?

Due to Riddle turning the Stone into a Horcrux, he either did not know of its status as one of the three Hallows and power or simply did not care. He would not care because he had no loved ones to resurrect, as he did not feel love and feared the dead. It is more likely that he did not know about the stone.
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Is Bill Weasley a werewolf?

Although he wasn't turned into a werewolf, he did develop some wolfish tendencies such as a liking for very rare steaks. He married Fleur on 1 August 1997, although their wedding was disrupted by the arrival of Death Eaters following the fall of the Ministry of Magic.
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Is Draco Malfoy evil?

By Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it's a stretch to call Draco a villain anymore. We just watched — or read — him struggle to reconcile his choices and morals in The Half-Blood Prince. He can no longer justify his actions, and is far more aware of the evil he was born and raised into.
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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 called her a mud-blood by accident because he was frustrated that lily did not like his closest friends. He did not mean it.
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How did Lily Potter protect Harry?

James and Harry were destined to be cursed on Halloween, but Voldemort intended to keep his promise to Snape. Lily didn't have to die when she sacrificed herself willingly. By shielding her son, she locked the love-magic in place for years. Like John Gilbert, she offered her life, hoping to keep her child safe.
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Why did the people Voldemort killed come out of his wand?

This is called a Reverse Spell (Priori Incantatem), which forces a wand to show an "echo" of the last time the spell was performed. Since Voldemort had used his wand to kill Harry's parents and Cedric Diggory, they appeared as echoes from the wand while he was losing the duel against Harry.
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Why are there no grandparents in Harry Potter?

JK Rowling revealed in an interview (via Mugglenet) that both Harry's paternal and maternal Grandparents had died, leaving Aunt Petunia as Harry's only blood relative. Rowling explains, disposing of Harry's Grandparents was purely to provide a more interesting backstory for Harry.
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