life debt to harry

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 42513

Honeyduke wrote:
> I was thinking, if a life debt can be as abstract as to carry on to 
someone 
> son when the reciever dies... then couldnt it be as abstarct to 
include all 
> the petrified students and ginny in life debt to harry?  And Snape 
was going 
> to kill Black and lupin in the shack (sort of) so arent they now in 
debt to 
> harry???

Well, for a one thing, Lupin saved Harry in the train. So well, I'd 
say they're even-- though I'm not entirely sure it was Harry who 
knocked Snape out...

Sirius-- well, being the ONE bright thing in Harry's life 
(particularly in Book#4 when Harry&Ron aren't talking) just might 
have saved Harry's life from non-Dementor-caused depression...

And what comes to all other kids Harry's saved indirectly-- well, we 
might include nearly all of WW since Harry got rid of Voldemort! But 
I think it's more personal than that.

I also figure that if the debt is unpaid when the reciever dies then 
whatever the reciever was trying to do (in James' case, fighting 
Voldemort and keeping Harry safe) becomes a binding duty to the one 
who's indebted. It might be that Snape tried to repay his debt by 
warning Dumbledore that night - and felt it when James Potter died. 
That was perhaps Snape's turning point - before Voldemort's fall.

-- Finwitch