Why did Harry's wand fight Voldemort on its own?

Their wands recognised each other as "brothers" and refused to attack one another. A battle of wills began, and Harry's wand forced Voldemort's to regurgitate its spells, resulting in the emergence of the spirits of: Harry's parents, Bertha Jorkins, Frank Bryce, and the recently murdered Cedric Diggory.
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Why did Harry's wand connect with Voldemort?

The reason for the case of the 1995 duel between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort are the shared wand cores; since the wands recognised each other as "brothers", they refused to destroy each other. When spurred on, however, the dominant (Harry's) forced the submissive to regurgitate its spells.
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How did Harry's wand beat Voldemort?

Harry defeated Voldemort by realizing how wands truly work, showing the Elder Wand's allegiance rules. Voldemort's fear of death and quest for power caused his downfall, unable to truly win with the Elder Wand.
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Why couldn t Voldemort hurt Harry with Lucius 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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Why did no one want to give Voldemort their wand?

Because of this, Voldemort was unable to fatally harm Harry. He told the gathered Death Eaters that if he was to kill Harry Potter he would have to do it with someone else's wand, and asked if anyone would volunteer their wand for the honour. No one did, as a wizard rarely would want to part with his or her wand.
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Why didn't Hermione just show Bellatrix's wand?

They know she's an impostor. They've been warned", so obviously the request for the wand was unexpected even to him. It's thus pretty safe to conclude that the real Bellatrix had reported her wand stolen and alerted Gringotts prior to the trio's attempted break in.
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How did Voldemort get his original wand back?

Pettigrew recovered Lord Voldemort's wand and went in search of its master, finding the Dark Lord in Albania. There, he helped the Dark Lord create a rudimentary body so he could travel and perform magic. It was then that Voldemort was reunited with his wand after his fall in Godric's Hollow.
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Who betrayed the Seven Potters?

So, Snape was telling Voldemort that Harry was being transfered earlier. Making him the betrayer.
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What happened to Draco Malfoy's wand?

When Harry disarmed Draco in Malfoy Manor, the Elder Wand's allegiance shifted to him. Thus, when Voldemort tried to use the Killing Curse on Harry, the Elder Wand refused to attack him. The curse backfired, defeating the Dark Lord once and for all. It is unknown if Draco ever got his original wand back.
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Why didn't Bellatrix give Voldemort her wand?

The Dark Lord could relatively easily get a wand, and she probably didn't want to part with hers. In addition, if she did give it up, it'd mean she would be in the midst of a wizarding war with a less-than-optimal wand. Actually taking part in the war to the best of her ability would be very important to her.
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What spell killed Voldemort?

The Disarming Charm became Harry Potter's signature spell, and it notably caused the final defeat of Lord Voldemort during the Battle of Hogwarts by rebounding his Killing Curse, because the Elder Wand recognised Harry as its master through the spell connection, and thus strengthened the Disarming Charm to the point ...
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How did Harry's Expelliarmus beat Avada Kedavra?

Expelliarmus did not beat Avada Kedavra. Voldemort's wand (the elder wand) recognized its true master (that was Harry) and refused to attack it. In a way Voldemort killed himself as his own spell backfired on him.
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Who killed Voldemort, Harry or Neville?

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Neville is actually the person who destroys Voldemort's last Horcrux in Nagini, rendering him mortal, meaning that he and Harry truly delivered the final blows to Voldemort.
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What spell can block Avada Kedavra?

One of the three Unforgivable Curses outlawed under wizarding law, Avada Kedavra kills the victim on impact, instantaneously and painlessly, usually with a blinding flash of green light. There is no way to block the spell, and there is no counter-curse - it can only be dodged.
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Was Umbridge a death eater?

Harry describes Umbridge to Sirius Black, saying that she's vile enough to be a Death Eater, despite not being one. Umbridge is also depicted to be a prejudiced person, despising half-breeds and Muggle-born witches and wizards to the point of firing Hagrid due to his half-giant birth status.
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Who killed Mad Eye Moody?

Voldemort fired a Killing Curse when Mundungus Disapparated, and hit Moody in the face, killing him. Moody fell backwards off his broom, and about a thousand feet to the ground. Because half a dozen Death Eaters were on their own tail, Bill and Fleur could do nothing.
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What is Draco's patronus?

J.K. Rowling says Draco doesn't have a patronus because he never learned the spell but I think it's because he doesn't have any powerful happy memories to use. He has tons of happy memories... He had an amazing childhood. However, she also said Snape was the only Death Eater who could produce a Patronus.
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Why did Dumbledore let Draco disarm him?

Ultimately, it's a good thing that Dumbledore's plans didn't work out because if Draco hadn't disarmed the headmaster, Harry wouldn't have gained the Elder Wand's power when he later disarmed Draco. This was proof that, unlike Dumbledore, Harry was destined to reunite the Hallows and become Master of Death all along.
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Why does Dumbledore have two wands?

Behind the scenes

This wand was used during filming but was later replaced in re-shoots and post-production with a wand with a different design after it was felt by J. K. Rowling to be too similar to the Elder Wand.
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What was the saddest death in Harry Potter?

  1. 1 Dobby.
  2. 2 Sirius Black. ...
  3. 3 Remus Lupin & Nymphadora Tonks. ...
  4. 4 Severus Snape. ...
  5. 5 Dumbledore. ...
  6. 6 Fred Weasley. ...
  7. 7 Hedwig. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Harry appears to get over the loss of his beloved pet Hedwig remarkably quickly. ...
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Who is the biggest traitor in Harry Potter?

Peter Pettigrew Selling Out His Best Friend

This betrayal had the biggest damage in the series as it made Harry an orphan, sealed Sirius in Azkaban for twelve years, and led to all the deaths shown in the future when the Wizarding War resumed.
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Who killed Hedwig?

According to the films, Hedwig's killer might have been Selwyn, who was known to be pursuing Harry and Hagrid at the time since Hedwig's death in the film happened quite a while into the fight when there was only a couple death eaters following them, or it might have been Stanley Shunpike under the Imperius Curse.
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What was Voldemort's patronus?

No, Voldemort cannot produce patronus because he can't love which is because he was concieved under the effects of a love potion.
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How did Voldemort lose his nose?

The prevailing theory has been that Voldemort gradually lost his nose (and humanity) throughout his life due to his exclusive use of Dark Magic. The more Dark Magic he tapped into, the less human he became both figuratively and literally. This was only amplified as he split his soul to create the Horcruxes.
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Did Voldemort have a child?

In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, it is revealed that Bellatrix gave birth to Voldemort's daughter Delphi in Malfoy Manor before the Battle of Hogwarts.
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