"Life-Debt" Gripe

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No: HPFGUIDX 59307


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jesta Hijinx" 
> <jestahijinx at h...> wrote:

> > 
> > I see relatively frequent, almost casual references to "life 
> > debts" between characters. 
> > 
> > Yet nowhere does the phrase actually appear in canon that I know 
> > of.  Anyone got a cite they care to share?

> now [Shinesse]
> I've always gone by the quote from DD to Harry at the end of PoA.
> "You have sent Voldermort a deputy who is in your debt...When one 
> wizard saves another wizard's life, it creates a certain bond 
> between them..and I'm much mistaken if Voldermort wants his servant 
> in the debt of Harry Potter." Ch 22. PoA

and now me (PK):

To this I would also add... well, a proper citation if I were actually
home, but I *think* that such a thing was also mentioned with regard
to Snape's feeling obligated to Harry on account of James's having
saved *his* life. It may be, however, that in that context it wasn't
specified as a (presumably magical) bond, allowing the obligation to
be attributed solely or primarily to Snape's personal code. 

PK