The Power of a Life-debt(was Agency in the Shrieking Shack)

[marinafrants <rusalka@ix.netcom.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52253

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Risti <pretty_feet51 at y...>" > 
We do have precedence within the HP series 
> for saving someone's life to have strong *magical* affects.  Lily 
> Potter saved Harry's life by sacrificing her own, and this created 
a 
> protection so heavy around Harry that it was still in affect 
eleven 
> years later.  In the Graveyard scene, we see that because 
Voldemort 
> now has Harry's blood in him, he is able to bypass this protection.

I don't see how Harry's protection could have anything to do with a 
life-debt.  Any debt incurred that night would've been owed by Harry 
to Lily, and would've therefore been geared toward benefitting 
Lily.  Instead, Harry gets the benefits and Lily is dead.  This is 
exactly the reverse of what a life-debt is supposed to achieve.

> 
> IMHO, the life debt magic works along the same way. As Shauna 
said, 
> we don't know exactly what life debts do, but I'd be willing to 
bet 
> that there is some type of magical component to the bond created.

I agree there must  be some magical component involved -- Dumbledore 
has said so.  But I think that the magical effects are extremely 
indirect and unpredictable, and that they don't negate anybody's 
free will.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com