Snape saving Harry (was: Re: An odd musing about Harry's attitude - )

[eloise_herisson]

No: HPFGUIDX 53961

Finwitch:

<> And besides, I find it questionable whether 
> Snape *did* save Harry's life in the first place. Hermione broke 
both 
> Quirrell's and Snape's eye-contact with the fire-spell, thus 
putting 
> an END to the jinxes. If anyone saved Harry's life, it was Hermione 
> far more than Snape with his uneffective counter-jinxes. And, 
falling 
> off his broomstick might not have killed Harry, just injure is arm -
 
> as happened when he *did* fall off in CoS.

Snape's counter-curses weren't ineffective - they were what kept 
Harry on his broom. It was certainly Hermione's unintentional 
breaking of Quirrel's eye-contact that finally put an end to the 
jinx, but if Snape *hadn't* done what he did, I think we can be 
certain that Harry *would* have fallen - and probably from a great 
height.

I think you may be conflating two or more events in your next comment.
In CoS, Harry's arm was broken by the Rogue Bludger, not a fall from 
his broom. Neville, OTOH, did break his wrist when he fell from his 
broom in PS/SS.

The time that Harry *did* fall of his broom was during the 
Gryffindor/Hufflepuff game in PoA (Grim Defeat)after the Demetors 
invaded the pitch. He survived unscathed because Dumbledore used 
magic to slow his descent to the ground. What would have happened to 
him if Dumbledore hadn't done this, we don't know. Certainly other 
members of the Quidditch team thought he'd been killed as it was.

~Eloise
Convinced that if Quirrell *had* got Harry off his broom, Snape would 
have used the same spell to give Harry a soft landing.