[HPforGrownups] Re: Bangers, Life Debts (WASBangers and their bangs )

[Jake Storm]

No: HPFGUIDX 35607

Quoth Cindy:
>Ah, this is just perfect!  Jake has dreamed up a fabulous ambush
>compromise that makes perfect sense and, as an added bonus, is
>actually based in canon.

<takes a bow>

>Maybe Dumbledore might believe Snape for no good reason, but Moody
>would have none of it.  In fact, we see in GoF that Moody doesn't
>trust Snape at all, in the Pensieve or 13 years later.  So that gives
>us a really great Big Bang scene in which Snape is weeping, crawling
>on the floor, apologizing, begging to join Dumbledore. Dumbledore is,
>uh, twinkling. But Moody is there, his two normal eyes swiveling
>wildly around in his head, his itchy trigger finger stroking his
>wand, restraining himself from turning Snape into a hedgehog and
>bouncing him around the office.  It is Moody who *demands* DE corpses
>as the price of admission.  Dumbledore is a Tough strong wizard, but
>he goes along with Moody, not wishing to be turned into a hedgehog
>himself.  Nobody, but nobody, is willing to tangle with Alastor Moody.

We don't even have to be this hard on Moody. It doesn't have to be him at 
all. Maybe all Aurors are Tremendous Hardcases, especially at this late date 
in the war against Voldie, which isn't exactly going well. Perhaps they are 
all of a mind to think that Snape is leading them down the garden path, that 
his return to The Light is a bunch of roadapples. There might be plenty of 
Aurors and Hit-Wizards that demand physical proof of his contrition.

Let's see if we can't make this a corollary to the Big Bang theory. How 
about Most Aurors Yen for Huge Enemy Massacre - M.A.Y.H.E.M.

>Oh, yes, that works.  Jake, consider yourself a full-fledged crew
>member in good standing of Big Bang, including an extra-large bunk, a
>sturdy cushioned chair in the mess hall, and an extra-helping of --
>what else? -- bangers.  This just *feels* right -- Jake Storm
>*belongs* with the Big Bangers because he has a really dramatic,
>cool, Big Bang-sounding name and all.
>
>Pardon?  What's that?  Jake never actually declared himself a Big
>Banger? He was just trying to help because he likes bloody ambushes?

Well, technically, I'm only signing on for a short tour. I tend to parasail 
from deck to deck on these ships, mooching for cocktails and nibbles.

And I propose that we put Cupid's Quaffle to the Big Bang test. I'm tempted 
to believe that having her surreptitious snogging with Sirius brought to 
light, combined with the 'realisation' that she's been being used, nay 
*pitied* by Sirius in the first place is enough to turn her from simply a 
nasty-tempered but bookish girl into the Vamp that becomes Dead Sexy Mrs. 
Lestrange.

Cindy again:
>But then again, if there really is something to this Life Debt
>business, then I think a lot of people are living on credit.  Snape
>owes James (PoA).  Pettigrew owes Harry (PoA).  Harry owes Dumbledore
>(PoA in Quiddich).  Hermione owes Harry and Ron (PS/SS Troll).
>Sirius owes Hermione and Harry (PoA Rescue).  Voldemort owes
>Pettigrew (GoF Re-Birthing).  Ginny owes Harry (CoS Chamber).  Harry
>owes the graveyard shadows (GoF).  Real Moody owes Dumbledore (GoF
>Trunk).  Harry owes Dobby (GoF Second Task).

Technically, Sirius doesn't owe Harry and Hermione...they didn't save his 
life, just his mortal soul. Nitpicking? Perhaps.

But this does raise the question: just what qualifies for a Life Debt? If I 
make you late for work by getting in a car wreck with you, and because of it 
you're not at the office when a gas main blows, is that sort of accident 
enough to create the debt? Or do you have to do something daring, like Harry 
for Ginny in CoS or James for Severus in our backstory?

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