What stopped Harry from dying?

Question

Harry didn't die because of his mother's protection or because of the Hallows?
People who say because of the Hallows, he didn't have the stone and cloak "with" him while he fought Voldemort, so how could it be?

Answer 1

Do you mean in his final showdown with Voldemort? While he didn't have the stone at that time, he did have the invisibility cloak with him, however he'd taken it off. But Voldemort wasn't the master of the Elder wand, Harry was, and it had never worked right for him. In that final battle the wand realized it was fighting it's own master, and was prefroming even less for Voldemort than before. Harry's disarmament spell caused Voldemort's killing curse, which would have been far stronger if the Elder wand had been working for Voldemort, to rebound on it's caster.

How did Harry become the master of the Elder wand? That's pretty easy, he defeated it's last master, Draco Malfoy, and took his wand from him as his own. As Ollivander explained in the first book, the wand chooses the wizard, and though you can use someone elses wand, you'll never get as good a result as you will using yours. Ollivander further explains Wand Laws in the seventh book. Any wand can change it's allegiance should you defeat it's master in some way.

That way does not have to be killing the person. Down through the ages the Elder wand has left a bloody trail as it's passed from master to master and been used to kill. In most cases it's sworn it's alliegance to a new master because they killed it's last master. But it is clear you don't have to kill to become it's new master as it's last four masters did not kill it's previous master when it became theirs and swore to serve them.

Grendelwald was the first of these four, and he took it from Gregorovitch, who was apparenty the wand's master at the time, without killing him. Voldemort kills Gregorovitch in book seven, undoubtedly well over a hundred years after Grendelwald stole it and defeated Gregorovitch. Dumbledore is the second of these four, defeating Grendelwald in 1945 and sending him to Nurmengard. The very prison Grendelwald had built to house his enemies. Over fifty years later Voldemort, still seeking the wand after having killed Gregorovitch over the wand, goes to Nurmengard and ends up killing Grendelwald. Malfoy was the third as he disarmed Dumbledore the night Dumbledore died. Dumbledore would have fought Malfoy to prevent him from damaging his sould by killing him, but Malfoy disarmed him before he could fight. Snape was the one who killed Dumbledore, but as he and Dumbledore had already planned this, and as Dumbledore would have been defenseless had Snape not been on his said when he killed him, the wand would never have sworn alliegance to Snape. Only the last person to defeat Dumbledore. Harry then became the fourth of these known and named masters when he defeated Malfoy in his own home, taking his own wand from him. The Elder wand could doubtlessly sense the hawthorn wand, the wand that had defeated Dumbledore, had sworn it's alliegance to Harry when he used it in the duel with Voldemort.

Before the final duel, Voldemort did kill Harry, but at the same time he didn't. At that time Harry had the stone and the cloak with him, along with the hawthorn wand, but he'd put the cloak and the wand away so he wouldn't be tempted to use them and he'd dropped the stone to the forest floor when he told Voldemort he was there. Harry allowed Voldemort to kill him, but he actually went to a point on the very edge of death. It was at that point he was able to see Dumbledore and talk with him. And it was at that point that he learned he could choose to truely die (as Dumbledore said, Harry could choose to board a train away from where they were meeting which appeared to be King's Cross Station though they weren't actually there) or he could return to life and face Voldemort once and for all.

Because Voldemort had taken some of Harry's blood against his will, he in affect made himself akin to being a horcrux for Harry. Unlike a true horcrux, Harry's soul was not shattered when Voldemort did this. But like a true horcrux, it provided an anchor point to return to life. When he'd tried killing Harry as a baby, he'd inadvertedly made Harry into an unintentional horcrux. With a living horcrux you don't have to physically destroy the living being, their death destroys the horcrux. So, when Harry let Voldemort kill him, he was also letting him destroy his own unintentional horcrux. And because Harry's blood flowed through himself, he served as a means for Harry to escape from death if he should so choose.

Answer 2

The Hallows :- 1. The Elder wand - Makes the master of the wand powerful . 2. The Resurrection stone - Can bring back the dead in front of you. 3. The Invisibility cloak can make the person under the cloak invisible, even to death.
The reason for Harry's survival was the protection offered by his mother's sacrifice.
Similarly Harry also sacrifices his life to save the life of others, [ in the Forest ] ,so that Voldemart can not kill others, due to the sacrifice of Harry. This is told by Harry himself to Voldemart ,during his duel with him , in the 'Great Hall' .
In the duel in 'Great hall' The killing curse of Voldemart did not reach Harry because it was met in the middle by Harry's 'Expelliarmus' curse and Harry's curse prevails upon Voldemart's curse and disarms the Elder wand from Voldemart's grip and The Killing curse was also blocked and diverted back to kill Voldemart.Here also as Harry tells Voldemart during this duel ,since Harry is the true master of 'Elder wand' used by Voldemart the killing curse used against it's Master was not powerful enough and was deflected by Harry's curse.
Here, Dumbledore's conversation with Harry in the ' Place in between life &death ' , can be recalled. By having the three hallows Harry has conquerred Death and it means he is no longer afraid of Death.

Answer 3

It was the fact that the Elder Wand would not kill its true master which in fact was Harry Potter at the time Voldemort tried to kill him.
His mother's protection went away when he became of age.
The hallows did not save him since he in fact dropped the stone. So at that moment since he did not control all 3 it was not because of the Hallows.

Answer 4

Harry didn't die the first time because he was a Horcrux and that Horcrux was destroyed while we lived. The second time was because Harry was the true owner of the Elder Wand and it wouldn't work against him, so it back fired on Voldemort.

He had both the stones and cloak with him in the forest when he confronted Voldemort.

Answer 5

He didn't die because he had part of Voldemort's soul within him. Because of this, he couldn't die while Voldemort still lived. In other words, Voldemort couldn't destroy one of his own horcruxes. Harry was only able to kill Voldemort with the all-powerful elder wand, which overcame any previous protections and such.

Answer 6

He had the choice of going back because he died for all those people, like his mom did for him. So instead of killing Harry, Voldemort Killed his own piece of soul that lived within Harry.

Answer 7

$$$ stopped Harry from dying. The only thing that will kill Harry Potter is a lack of commercial viability for the franchise.

Answer 8

It wasn't the hallows, it was becuase he excepted that he was going to die. Dumbledor explains it.

Answer 9

The writer!

Answer 10

good question