Wand-free magic/Eyes/life-debts

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 46589


Well, for one thing, wizards *have* been using magic without a wand - 
before the wand was invented at least. Most of them didn't have 
enough power/focus to be able to do so without one at the late 
BeforeWand-period(but Mr Ollivander who made the first wands must 
have...). Animagi is also the kind of magic one just must do without 
a wand.
 
And what comes to Harry using wandless magic -- well, *his* magic 
without a wand at least seems to be more focused than Neville's 
*with* a wand. However, wand-free magic Harry's done without his wand 
after entering Hogwarts happened as Harry *lost control* and as Marge 
insulted his mother (and father). I think it's the fact that Harry 
has unpayable life-debt to his mother that triggered that magic...

Eyes:

Well...
'Eyes are the mirror of the soul', Seers (True Seers are rare-- but 
it seems to me that Harry is one, he just doesn't know that yet. He 
did see buckbeak free in the Crystal Ball, after all). 
Also, ever since Book #1 we've known that jinxes require keeping the 
eye-contact. 
As great as wizarding magic is (growing bones back no less), they 
can't fix eyes... Yes, there's definately something about Harry 
having Lily's eyes... (We've seen use of the fact that Harry looks 
extra-ordinarily like his father with the Time-Turner).

Life-debts...
Some are payable, like one Justin F-F to Harry.
Snape's debt was payable but he failed to pay it.
PP's life-debt is also payable-- as well as Ginny's..

Yet, some are unpayable...
Harry's in his mother's debt (and it was unpayable from start because 
it was her death that saved Harry)
And, (was it Justin) who was saved by a *ghost* from the basilisk!

Is there a difference?

Could an unpayable or otherwise unpaid life-debt take over control of 
a wizard's magic in some specific situations? Like that the magic 
*will* act in the creditors defence, no matter what the debtor thinks 
of it. Or perhaps, that at least a life-debt that *was* payable but 
remained unpaid, forms a binding magical contract that requires the 
one owing the debt to devote the rest of his life to do whatever it 
was the creditor was about to do when it happened... So that Snape 
MUST hold Voldemort back just as much as Harry had no choice but to 
do his best to win the tri-wizard-cup.

If anyone can justly accuse someone for not respecting the life-debt -
as Harry did to Snape and Lupin to Harry-- well, I guess that *will* 
make one feel worse than any other chastisement could...
Anyway, I *do* think that life-debt acts as some sort of binding 
magical contract.
 
-- Finwitch