Wormtail Has NO Intention Of Saving Harry

[catorman]

No: HPFGUIDX 31054

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> "luminary_extraordinaire" wrote:
> 
> > Wormtail will NOT "feel the need" to save Harry's life.  Wormtail 
> > will NOT "try" to jump Voldemort or protect Harry.  
> 
> I guess we have to consider the possibility that Wormtail has 
already 
> re-paid his debt to Harry.  After all, Wormtail untied Harry and 
gave 
> him back his wand.  These acts allowed Harry to escape.  Maybe 
> Wormtail is now off the hook.

I don't see this.  Wormtail only untied Harry and gave him back his 
wand because Voldemort told him to - so they could duel.  Therefore I 
don't understand how this repays the debt or lets him off the hook - 
he was acting on his master's instructions.  

> As Dumbledore explains it, though, Wormtail's debt may be of a type 
> that cannot be repaid.  Dumbledore says, "When one wizard saves 
> another wizard's life, it creates a certain bond between them . . . 
> and I'm much mistaken if Voldemort wants his servant in the debt of 
> Harry Potter."
> 
> Maybe Wormtail's debt to Harry and Snape's debt to James exists for 
a 
> lifetime.  

I'm not sure about this, either.  Doesn't Dumbledore say at the end 
of PS was that Snape was spending so much time keeping Harry alive 
because of the debt between him and James - and that once this was 
done (as it was partly during the Quidditch game, and also by the 
fact that Snape was keeping his eye on Harry the rest of the time) 
that Snape could go back to hating the memory of James in peace?  In 
other words, Dumbledore seems to think that Snape has paid his debt 
to James by saving his son, and doesn't owe him anything else.

Going back a few years as well, and repeating something said before, 
I think that it was from Snape that Dumbledore heard that the Potters 
were in danger.  So did Snape feel that he had tried to pay the debt 
back at this point as well - only to be ignored?  Or did Snape feel 
that because the Potters died anyway, then he failed?  Perhaps he was 
sure that it was Sirius who was the spy.

Catherine