[HPforGrownups] Life-debts

[Nguyen, Marc]

No: HPFGUIDX 42322


Corinth WROTE: 
<<<The life-debt seems to be a pretty consistent theme on this list. 
However, I don't believe this is as important a concept to wizards as
many make it out to be.>>>

I agree with you here, I didn't get the feeling that it was like a life-debt
in Stars Wars where the person's life you save is "now your servant forever
until they save your life back". I just thought that it was a
I-owe-you-a-huge-favor-since-you-saved-my-life-but-I-understand-that-I-don't
-have-to-repay-you-back. Otherwise, wouldn't a lot of the WW have a
life-debt to Harry since he "destroyed" Voldemort that first time? and he
did save a lot of lives by killing the basilik from CoS. that would have
killed lots of kids if left alone.

Corinth also WROTE: 
<<<<
Reason #1: Snape has much better motivations for his actions in PS/SS.
 Snape works for Dumbledore, not just as a professor but as an
anti-Voldemort soldier-type person.  His objective throughout PS/SS is
to stop Quirrelmort from finding the stone.  Once Quirrelmort
discovers that Harry Potter is at Hogwarts, he renews his attempts on
Harry's life.  Whether or not Snape's hatred of Harry is real or an
elaborate plot, he isn't about to let Harry die.  His hatred seems
much more petty than that.  This behavior continues throughout the
series: Snape    always maintains a distinct dislike for Harry during
times of relative peace, but any time Harry's life is in danger, he
attempts a rescue (and I include the end of PoA in the latter
category; that Snape was mistaken is irrelevant).  All in all, Snape
seems to have much more important reasons to save Harry than some
childhood life-debt.  That Dumbledore didn't go into detail about
Snape's role in the fight against Voldemort in Harry's first year
seems perfectly normal, especially considering that by Harry's fourth
year, he still does not know Snape's full role.
-Corinth>>>


If Snape was working for Dumbledore in SS, then I'm really confused as to
why he didn't tell Dumbledore that Quirrelmort was after the stone. and if
he did tell Dumbledore, why wasn't Quirrelmort "removed" from his teaching
position and punished/inprisoned/killed? I understand that Dumbledore gave
Harry the choice of facing Quirrelmort, but was that worth the chance that
Quirrelmort would get the stone and achieve immortallity? Unless the stone
was a fake, and the real one is still out there, but everyone is ignoring it
now since it they all think it's destroyed. Hmmmm.....


Marc










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