AK Stealing Souls; James' Life Debt To Snape?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 35773

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> 
wrote:
> 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?

  Er...good guys don't whack people from behind. That's what got 
Draco turned into a ferret, remember? 

Cindy gets back to *my* favorite subject:
> 
> 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?
> 
::slaps forehead::
What do you think I've been saying all along? This is the reason 
Snape so vehemently refuses to consider the idea that Sirius 
wasn't the spy. Because  if he *wasn't * the spy, then it could be 
Snape's bad information that got James killed. See? 

Pippin