Can A Life Debt Be Engineered? (some MD)

[finwitch <finwitch@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51974

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999 <foxmoth at q...>" 
<foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> James and planned the Prank to bring it about. This would at 
> least explain why Sirius didn't think about the danger to Lupin.  
> But if Sirius intended all along for James to pull Snape back, 
> would a life debt still exist?  Or would Sirius's intention that 
> Snape be saved so obviate the danger that no genuine life-debt 
> would be created? 

Snape believes that they did plan it together, but that James changed 
his mind at the last moment...

I myself think that the incident wasn't planned against Snape at all. 
What I think happened was that Snape overheard two persons (Sirius & 
James) discuss how to get past the Whomping Willow. This happened 
when Sirius was 16 - late 5th year I suppose, only just learned 
animagi, planning to surprise Lupin... (supposedly Sirius had just 
seen Lupin go under James' invisibility cloak or something...)

This would mean: No one needed to tell James anything.

-- Finwitch