Then, on a reread, I noticed Harry's fantastic luck - as someone else on this post has already said, there are a whopping 29 instances in the books when he was in mortal danger, he should have died, but didn't.
The Rowling Library on Twitter: "Without Hermione, Harry would have died in book one.
One reason that Harry lived after being hit by the Harry Potter Killing Curse in The Deathly Hallows is his mastery of the Elder Wand. There was a belief that obtaining the Deathly Hallows would grant the finder some sort of immortality, which is how Harry survived Avada Kedavra in the forest.
But he didn't die, and the reason's rather simple: when Voldemort cast the killing curse, it only killed the piece of his soul within Harry, not Harry himself. Harry then saw Dumbledore in a version of King's Cross station, something that Dumbledore said was happening in his head.
While Dumbledore was a depressing death for Harry Potter to face as his only real father figure, the death of Sirius Black hit him the hardest. When Sirius first showed up in the pages of Harry Potter and the Prison of Azkaban, Harry thought the man was responsible for the death of his parents and wanted him dead.
Despite Harry Potter using Unforgivable Curses, one of the Unforgivable Curses Harry Potter never used the Killing Curse for several reasons. Avada Kedavra was Lord Voldemort's signature spell.
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.
So why wasn't the Horcrux residing in Harry's head destroyed when he was bitten by the Basilisk? The answer is simple: He didn't actually die. Fawkes quickly healed the bite wound with his phoenix tears just in time.
Voldemort thought Snape was the owner of the Elder Wand. Using Avada Kedavra while the Elder Wand was resisting Voldemort was already a risky business, but using it against the true owner would be suicide (as Voldemort would find out when he used the Elder Wand against its true owner: Harry).
Her sacrifice gave Harry the power of love, a protection spell sealed with the blood spilled by her death.
The disarming spell would have specifically taken away Voldemort's powerful wand. Even if he were to use a Death Eater's wand after that, it wouldn't be the Elder Wand. Also, the time between disarming & rearming Voldemort could be used to decisively defeat Voldemort.
A centaur named Firenze rescues Harry and carries him back to Hagrid.
Antonin Dolohov used the curse twice during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, first against Hermione Granger, who was knocked unconscious but survived.
Her fears were often centered around academic failure or expulsion, a fate she famously claimed to be worse than death. But Hermione also had a big heart, and the thought of anyone suffering — from house-elves to her nearest and dearest — frightened her to her core.
While Harry and Hermione have never been romantically involved, that has not stopped many others from assuming that they two of them are together.
Myrtle's life was cut shockingly short when she was killed by the Basilisk at Tom Riddle's command.
Voldemort thought Snape was the owner of the Elder Wand. Using Avada Kedavra while the Elder Wand was resisting Voldemort was already a risky business, but using it against the true owner would be suicide (as Voldemort would find out when he used the Elder Wand against its true owner: Harry).
Harry can no longer speak it
Once the part of Voldemort's soul that dwelled inside Harry was destroyed, however, Harry discovered he was no longer a Parselmouth; an added bonus of Voldemort's demise.
Narcissa's greatest moment, however, was when she chose to betray Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Not knowing whether Draco was alive or dead, Narcissa chose to lie to the Dark Lord rather than risk losing her son.
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.
In fact, Lucius' own support to Voldemort is revealed to come only under some form of duress, which is likely Narcissa's Veela Allure. When Lucius turns on Voldemort due to the reveal of his Horcruxes, Narcissa divorces him, taking 75% of Malfoy's wealth with her.
The Killing Curse ('Avada Kedavra')
Obviously there's no coming back from this spell, and according to the Ministry of Magic's classifications (and, again, fake-Moody) this is the worst Unforgivable Curse.
Snape dismissed the curse as bearing no change to her appearance, causing Hermione to flee in tears. We knew Snape wasn't exactly chummy, but this was a real tipping point.