Debt - Problem

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 82916

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "miss_america_03" <
miss_america_03 at y...> wrote:
> I specifically remember that Wormtail is in debt to Harry, and 
> in every book that I've read since then I always wonder how/when 
> that will play out. I hope she doesn't forget that she put that in 
> and just leaves her readers wondering forever..!
> 
> 
> "miss_america_03"

That's not the only debt, Harry saved Ginny's life in CoS.  No, it's not as 
"merciful" a granting of life to create the debt, but Harry surely risked his own 
life and but for Fawkes' tears, they'd both be dead and cold.  It's a debt much 
in the same way as Snape's debt to Harry's father.  Which, by the way, 
probably just wasn't about the whole Whomping Willow thing.  I, and others 
here, have theorized that Snape was the eavesdropped for the original 
hearing of the prophecy and I might also guess that FAILING to save 
someone's life or causing their death, may make one feel a life debt.  So I 
might imagine that Snape somehow let that info out and feels/is responsible 
for James and Lily's deaths by way of leaking hte prophecy--two more life 
debts on top of the Whomping Willow--three.  So far, Snape only saved Harry 
once (that we know of)--in Phil Stone with the jinxed broom.  

By my count, that leaves Harry with two definate life debts and more than 
likely four:
1.  Ginny
2.  Wormtail
3.  Snape (loss of James's life)
4.  Snape (loss of Lily's life)

Are there any more I forgot?

Arya