AK Stealing Souls; James' Life Debt To Snape?

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 35772

Laura wrote:

<snip list of shortcomings of AK curse

You know, this whole AK things sounds like a bit of a scam to me.  
If AK is unblockable, then DEs are at risk just as innocent victims 
are.  Indeed, I can imagine James hiding behind a door and hitting 
Voldemort with AK in the back when Voldemort enters the house.  So 
why were the DEs becoming so strong way back when if the Good Guys 
could sneak up on them and AK them, too?

I hope Milz won't mind if I borrow (well, OK, steal) her theory 
about AK.  The idea, which is similar to Laura's creative idea, is 
that Voldemort gains power by using AK to kill people.  In PS/SS, we 
are told that Voldemort kept getting stronger.  So killing Harry 
would have meant immortality and invincibility for Voldemort.  

Which suggests that Harry won't die at the end of Book 7, because 
Harry will kill Voldemort and receive all of the powers of all of 
Voldemort's victims and will be immortal and invincible.

Ah, a nice feel-good ending.

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One more quickie thing.  In PoA, in the Shrieking Shack, Snape 
explodes at Harry thusly:

"Like father, like son, Potter!  I have just saved your neck; you 
should be thanking me on bended knee!  You would have been well 
served if he'd killed you!  You'd have died like your father, too 
arrogant to believe you might be mistaken in Black."

I hope this isn't a dumb question, but are we all agreed that this 
means that Snape saved James Potter's life and Snape is miffed that 
James never appreciated it?  Does it mean that Snape gave James 
information that Black was a spy, but James disregarded it?  Am I 
reading this wrong or something?

Cindy