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• What does Snape mean by he thinks it's her son?▾

  In Snape's memories, he realizes that Dumbledore has been raising Harry like a pig for slaughter, telling Snape that Harry must die at the right moment because a fragment of Voldemort's soul lives inside him. Snape's reaction reflects his horror that the son of Lily Potter, the woman he loved, has been kept alive only to be sacrificed.

• Who did Voldemort fear?▾

  Voldemort feared Albus Dumbledore above all others, and he also feared death itself, which is why he split his soul into Horcruxes to achieve immortality.

• Why did Hermione change Harry's face?▾

  Hermione transformed her appearance into Bellatrix Lestrange's using Polyjuice Potion so the trio could break into Bellatrix's vault at Gringotts to retrieve Helga Hufflepuff's cup, one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. Harry's face was not changed by Hermione in this scene; instead Harry used his Invisibility Cloak and later cast a Confundus Charm on the goblin Bogrod.

• Why does Harry have to die in the Forbidden Forest?▾

  When Voldemort attempted to kill Harry as an infant, a fragment of his own soul latched onto Harry and made him an unintentional Horcrux. As long as that soul fragment survived inside Harry, Voldemort could not be truly killed. Harry had to allow Voldemort to cast the Killing Curse on him so that the piece of Voldemort's soul would be destroyed, leaving Harry himself alive because the curse struck the Horcrux rather than Harry's own soul.

• What happens to Harry inside King's Cross after Voldemort kills him?▾

  Harry enters a limbo-like version of King's Cross station where he meets the spirit of Albus Dumbledore. Dumbledore explains that because Harry willingly sacrificed himself, his death created a protective charm over everyone at Hogwarts — mirroring the sacrifice Lily Potter made for Harry years earlier. The mangled creature writhing under a bench represents Voldemort's damaged, fragmented soul, which cannot follow Harry back to the living world.

• Why is Snape's final memory so significant?▾

  Snape's memory, given to Harry through his tears as he dies, reveals that Snape loved Lily Potter since childhood and dedicated his life to protecting her son out of that love — even while playing the role of a loyal Death Eater. It also discloses Dumbledore's plan: Harry was always meant to die at a specific moment so that the Horcrux within him could be destroyed, a secret Dumbledore kept from Harry to ensure he would face Voldemort without flinching. The famous line 'Always' encapsulates the depth and constancy of Snape's love for Lily.

• How is Voldemort finally defeated, and why does his body disintegrate rather than fall like a normal person?▾

  Once Harry returns from limbo, he is the true master of the Elder Wand because he disarmed Draco Malfoy earlier, who had previously disarmed Dumbledore. When Voldemort casts the Killing Curse using the Elder Wand, it rebounds on him because the wand refuses to fully act against its true master. With all his Horcruxes already destroyed, Voldemort has no protection left, and he crumbles into ash — a visual choice in the film to show that his soul is so fragmented and unnatural that there is nothing whole left to leave behind.

• What is the significance of the Elder Wand's allegiance shifting without Voldemort realizing it?▾

  Wand allegiance in the Potterverse transfers through conquest or disarmament, not through ownership or theft. Voldemort believed he gained the Elder Wand by raiding Dumbledore's tomb, but Dumbledore had already been disarmed by Draco Malfoy at the Astronomy Tower in the previous year. That act transferred the Elder Wand's allegiance to Draco, and when Harry disarmed Draco at Malfoy Manor, it passed to Harry — meaning every spell Voldemort cast with the wand after the tomb was never backed by its full power.