What IS a Life Debt? Was:Re: New categories needed?

[a_reader2003]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "corinthum" <kkearney at s...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone remember if a Life Debt is actually a form of ancient
> > magic?  Because if it is, it codes up under that category.
> > 
> > Anne
> > finding coding kind of addictive
> 

> I'm pretty sure the idea of a "life debt" is a reader creation, 
> rather than stated canon fact.  Dumbledore mentions the idea, but 
it is never defined or even confirmed to exist (outside a persons' 
mind).
> 
> That said, it is an idea that is discussed quite often, so I vote 
for it having its own category, but not as a subset of ancient magic.
> 
> -Kelly

Carolyn:
I have just looked up the key quote in POA, which is as follows (Ch 
22):

(DD)'Pettigrew owes his life to you. You have sent Voldemort a deputy 
who is in your debt. When one wizard saves another wizard's life, it 
creates a certain bond between them.. and I am much mistaken if 
Voldemort wants his servant in the debt of Harry Potter.'
.. 'This is magic at its deepest, its most impenetrable, Harry'.

I don't think 'deepest, most impenetrable' is necessarily quite the 
same thing as 'ancient', so on the basis of this I have put in 'life 
debt' as a new category as a subset of types of magic.

Ok ??