What does Snape owe Harry?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 96780

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "slytherin_jenn":
 
> Is it any instance where someone saves someone's life whether on 
> purpose or not. By the same logic one could say that Harry owes 
> Lucius Malfoy a life debt since he didn't allow Bellatrix to kill 
him 
> while he was holding the prophecy. I wonder also if there are 
varying 
> degrees of life debts? For example if someone really goes out of 
> their way to save someone would that life debt be greater than 
> someone who accidentally saved someone's life? 
> Sorry for the shameless Snape support :P
> jenn

Finwitch:


I think that a certain death if not for the saviour is required.
          
James was NOT in on the 'trick'. He did save Snape's life - (and I'm 
pretty sure it was because he couldn't let anyone DIE, rather than 
thinking of Sirius/Remus getting expelled for it... I think Lily 
began to like him better after that, though!) - at the risk of his 
own acc. AD (then again, James Potter was animagus, which AD didin't 
know, but there WAS a risk of people finding out about Prongs as he 
was saving Snape...)

(Btw, I don't think it works if you put someone in danger in order to 
save them - as Snape tries to claim James did...)

-- Finwitch