"Life-Debt" Gripe

[Fred Waldrop]

No: HPFGUIDX 59362

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 ~Phyllis:

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..."


Hello all, Fred Waldrop here:

There is another quote I remembered, (page 427, PoA US)
"Pettigrew owes his life to you. You have sent Voldemort a deputy who 
is in your debt... When one wizard saves another wizards life, it 
creates a certian bond between them... and I'm much mistaken if 
Voldemort wants his servant in the debt to Harry Potter."

Fred