Life debts and choices (was :Re: [HPforGrownups] Is Harry really in trouble?)

[cantoramy <cantor@vgernet.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52257

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Treska Cole <treska at c...> 
wrote:
> in GOF ch 32, when Wormtail takes Harry's blood, he says "Blood of 
the
> enemy...forcibly taken".  While Voldemort using Harry's blood to 
revive
> (rejuvenate? resurrect?) himself might create a link between 
himself and
> Harry, I don't know if it would constitute a life debt.  As far as 
I
> remember, the life debts actually mentioned in the book (James 
saving
> Snape, Harry saving Wormtail) were done *voluntarily*.  Would it 
weigh
> as much if someone owes their life to you due to no real action or
> choice on your part -- even against your will?  One of the themes 
of the
> books seems to be about the choices people make.  Harry didn't 
choose to
> help Voldemort.


I agree.  Harry did not choose to help Voldemort.  My question has 
always been about Peter's involvement in the graveyard.  If he had a 
life-debt to Harry, why did he tie him up?  Voldemort was in an 
obviously fragile state, unable to survive alone.  Why didn't Peter 
allow Harry to simply kill Voldemort right there?  Could there have 
been a curse in Peter that prevented him from helping Harry?  For 
that matter, why didn't Peter simply finish the job?  Imperius Curse?


cantoramy