After Sirius was arrested, his personal belongings, including the letter, were turned over to his mother Walburga Black, who was still alive at the time and living in 12 Grimmauld place, since she was his nearest next-of-kin.
She talked about Harry's birthday present from Sirius, a toy broomstick that only went 2 feet off the ground. And about how dumbledore had James' invisibility cloak. Then she says that bathilda bagshot came over and was telling them stories about dumbeldore.
Why couldn t Snape tell the Death Eaters about Grimmauld Place?
These were a Tongue-Tying Curse to prevent him from telling others of the place and a dust-composed form of Dumbledore, which disintegrated when the person it advanced upon said the word kill or a variant, the point of this being that Moody believed that Snape would be too overrun with guilt to say that he had killed ...
Unfortunately, Pettigrew was the actual spy among the group, and he told the secret (which was the location of Godric's Hollow) to Voldemort, leading to the deaths of Lily and James.
Lily Potter's SECRET Letter to Sirius Black - Harry Potter Explained
Why did James sacrifice not protect Lily?
In order for the protection to form, the sacrificing person must be given the option to live, but consciously choose death. This is why James Potter's death did not confer magical protection on Lily and Harry in 1981; Voldemort was set upon killing James and thus never gave him an opportunity to choose to save himself.
James is destined to die, as Voldemort never gives him an option to save himself. On the other hand, Lily has the choice to step aside — most likely because Snape had requested Voldemort to spare her life, in exchange for details about the prophecy.
J.K. Rowling apparently confirmed that Lily Potter was pregnant again when Voldemort murdered her | Fandom. Thus, in murdering the Potters, save for Harry, Voldemort also killed a younger brother or sister that Harry would ultimately never know before it was even born.
Originally Answered: In the Harry Potter series, why didn't Lily marry Snape? The simple answer: She didn't love him. The more complicated answer: He proved again and again that he wasn't willing to listen to Lily, respect her or her views, or love her in a healthy way.
Severus Snape spent the majority of his life in love with Lily Potter. It is easy to understand why Snape, who had an unhappy homelife as a child, fell hard for the first person to show him love and kindness.
What did Harry do with Grimmauld Place after the war?
After Sirius Black was killed by Bellatrix Lestrange in 1996 during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, the house was inherited by his godson, Harry Potter. He continued to allow the Order of the Phoenix to use it as a safe house.
To defend her students, McGonagall casts a series of spells Snape's way, but he manages to evade all of them before flying away. But what McGonagall doesn't know is that Snape is actually a double agent working for Dumbledore, so he has no intention of harming her.
She missed Snape, but she knew she could never forgive him. Snape never stopped trying to make amends. But Lily remained steadfast. She could not, would not, forgive him.
And it really was not for him (Harry) but for her (Lily). And Snape's doe hopped on and away leaving behind Snape filled with pure memory of his love for her. It was then that Dumbledore really understood how much Snape loved her and how real his love was...
"... have mercy..." Lily Potter's death practically set in motion the wheels for the entire series. She died at her home in Godric's Hollow trying to protect infant Harry, whom Voldemort was hell-bent on murdering. Lily's last words were an ardent request to the Dark Lord to let her little boy live.
James Potter loved Lily more. James Potter and Severus Snape are very different and yet very similar. James was born to a wealthy inventor, Fleamont Potter, and his loving wife.
Though Snape and Lily were only friends, Snape was in love with Lily and couldn't move on because of his guilt. Through his memories, it's revealed that he was worried about Harry's future when Lily and James died and that he was afraid of seeing Harry when he was old enough to attend Hogwarts.
Delphini was born in secret at Malfoy Manor in early March 1998 as the result of a liaison between Bellatrix Lestrange and Lord Voldemort. On 2 May 1998, both of her biological parents were killed in the Battle of Hogwarts.
She was pregnant with a second child when she was murdered and was going to ask James to make amends with Severus Snape. Lily even intended to make Severus the godfather of her child (as stated by J. K. Rowling).
Lily J. Potter, Harry Potter's mother, was born on 30th January 1960. This made her 21 years old when she was killed by Voldemort on 31st October 1981.
According to Voldemort she didn't know: 'You all know that on the night I lost my powers and my body, I tried to kill him. His mother died in the attempt to save him – and unwittingly provided him with a protection I admit I had not foreseen… I could not touch the boy.
They weren't. It's obvious from every interaction and mention in the books with how Molly and Arthur act, plus their ages are older than James and Lily by almost a generation; they'd have not been at school together.
James was slightly better because he truly did change and he allied with the Order out of basic morality compared to Snape who stayed an all around bitter person. and only allied with the Order out of love for Lily.
