"Life-Debt" Gripe

[Phyllis]

No: HPFGUIDX 59331

Felinia Beauclerc wrote:

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

Now me:

This quote from Ch. 17 of PS doesn't put the two words "life" 
and "debt" together, but it's definitely implied:

Dumbledore to Harry: "And then, your father did something Snape could 
never forgive. <snip> He saved his life. <snip> Professor Snape 
couldn't bear being in your father's debt..."

~Phyllis