Did Harry ever call out Snape for being the reason Lily died?

It seems like a perfect fit Harry being angry at him for some transgression and just throwing it out that If James had just let Remus eat Snape both Lily and James would still be alive.

 

Well, Harry was angry after he learned through Trelawney that Snape was the one that gave Voldemort the prophecy. But he only yelled at Dumbledore about it, IIRC. Then they went to the cave to retrieve the locket. When they returned, Snape murdered Dumbledore, so... that trumped something that happened nearly seventeen years before. Pretty sure Harry only screamed about how Dumbledore trusted Snape ("He trusted you!" or something), referring to how Dumbledore always defended Snape and, well, told Harry how he trusted him. After, Harry didn't see Snape until he was with McGonagall in Hogwarts nearing the final battle. Then Harry saw Snape again as Nagini killed him. There was no time for chit chat.

 

For how long had Dumbledore been teaching at Hogwarts as the Transfiguration professor before he became the Headmaster?

 

We don't know for sure, but he became the Headmaster shortly before 1955/56 when Voldemort approached him for the Defense position.

As he was still the Transfiguration Professor when Riddle started Hogwarts in 1938, we can guess that it took him at least 17 years, but it was probably a lot more than that.

 

Is there anything in cannon regarding wizards and faster healing time and/or them being simply more robust than muggles? I mean without the aid of spells or potions.

 

Hagrid says in the first book that there's no way Lily and James would die in a car crash.

 

That's probably cause he thought everyone knew they didn't or were much to awesome to die in a car crash.

 

Here's the quote:

 

I saw that more as him idolising them as Heroes....

 

Thanks. I think I'll just go with "magic can help prevent injuries"

 

Neville once bounced when he was dropped from a second story window as a child, as opposed to going splat.

 

That was confirmed to be accidental magic though.

 

Well, there are a few examples of magic enhancing a wizard or witch's physical capacities past the level of mundane humanity. Dumbledore is unnaturally spry for a man of his age, Tom Riddle scales the cliff as an orphan without having to fear for his life the way the children he led to their dooms did, i.e., finds it easy, I think (from the way Albus phrased it). We know from JKR's various commentaries that wizards don't suffer from mundane diseases, etc. And this is to say nothing of whatever 'luck' being magical might enable one to possess. We have wizards being hit by bludgers, or falling hundreds of feet, and while they are injured, it is never as critical an injury as it would/might be for a Muggle.

What I always took away from Hagrid's statement about the car crash story is that it would be very difficult for a wizard (especially of James or Lily's caliber) not to possess the resilience/strength/reflexes/skill/agility to avoid such a mundane sort of doom as dying due to a car accident.

EDIT: That, or Hagrid was scoffing at the idea of wizards of any decent level of skill having to use something like a car when they have teleportation available to them.

 

I always interpreted it as Hagrid being shocked Harry believed his parents died in such a mundane way as a car crash when they really died as heroes. It would be like someone saying JFK died in a car crash.

 

Or saying, that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

 

It runs along the same lines. You act out magically to protect yourself without cognitive thought. Neville did it without knowing what to Conjure or Transfigure to make himself safe. It just happened because his brain said, "HELP!" There's no reason not to believe that the same thing can't happen at the autoimmune/subconscious level.

In both scenarios, it'd be nothing more than his self-preservation driving his magic.

 

Does it actually say in canon that Lupin is too proud to accept 'charity' or any kind? It's pretty common in fics to have Lupin immediately jump to the conclusion that Harry or Sirius giving him a job is charity and then refusing but I don't know if there is actually anything in canon to support it.

 

People so often confuse Lupin and Weasleys for some reason.
As far as I know canon is silent on the matter except to say that during the first war Lupin acted as a full time fighter in the Order, living off James's inheritance.

 

I believe it's mentioned in HPB that when riddle returned from his travels Dumbledores promotion was still quite recent