Draco Scene in Hogsmeade (was: Re: Vengeance)

[finwitch <finwitch@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51803

David:
 
> Ah, but I think we *are* to be bothered, because it is this 
incident 
> that causes Harry to be caught and ultimately be flayed by 
> Lupin's "Your parent's sacrifice" speech.
> 
> I read (past tense) the Hogsmeade visit as Harry being on a knife-
> edge, and the Draco scene as him falling off it.  The fact that it 
> is very funny does not alter this.

I agree that we are to be bothered with Draco Scene- Harry hits the 
bottomline with Draco - it's after that Harry realises that he 
doesn't want Hogsmeade - not that way.

Harry already has his own conscience against it. Secondly, doing 
under invisibility cloak.. is cowardly and unchivalrous way to do it. 
This was the bottom line. Lupin's scolding - well, it did make him 
feel worse than anything. Not that Harry needed Lupin for that - he'd 
met the line he'd not cross.

Symbolically, Harry's lack of name of the permission forces him to 
realise his lack of a guardian (Dementors add to that) -of home. No 
adult for him. Harry hears that Sirius is his godfather in Hogsmeade, 
and that he could have been left to his care instead of Dursleys...
Maybe Harry _was_ in search of Sirius the second time? In search of a 
guardian that'll give him permission?

But the parent's sacrifice.. Lily gave his life for Harry - and 
Lupin's words 'gambling their sacrifice is a poor way to pay them 
back' suggest that Harry had dishonoured the life-debt he owes his 
parents (and especially his mother).

Then we have Harry standing up against Snape, similarly making a 
suggestion that by speaking bad of James Potter Snape dishonours the 
life-debt he owes. That stops Snape just as effectively. Snape tries 
desperately to tell Harry something about what James did. He believes 
James and Sirius plotted the thing (doesn't make it the truth, 
though) - but maybe there was _something else_ Snape just can't tell?
Something about James Potter. Something he's _unable_ to speak out, 
no matter how much he wants to? Something to do with his life-debt?

If James took the Stag-form to save Snape - (thus adding to Snape's 
doubt that he plotted it) - and James used some life-debt spell to 
keep him from telling anything he saw in that corridor to anyone...
(More for Lupin than himself).
I think Snape desperately wanted to tell that to Harry, but could not.
Maybe Harry can do a life-debt spell on Wormtail to help Sirius?
And.. Sirius saved Harry, Ron, Hermione and Snape from Lupin-werewolf 
that night.. doesn't Snape now have a life-debt to Sirius as well?
I pity that Severus - devoting his life to hating those who have 
saved his life...

-- Finwitch