Snape's Patronus

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90725

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, mainecoon at w... wrote:
> Kneasy:
> > I bet he's got at least one.
> > 
> > He'll have danced a little jig the day James died, don't you think?
> 
> I absolutly don't agree with you here. Maybe he could have danced
and been very
> happy when James died, but we have to remeber that James once saved
Snape from
> Lupin as a werewolf.
> 
> Would anyone feel happy when a person who saved you from the death
die? I don't
> think so - even not if you hate the person that much! and I dare say
that Snape
> and Potter hated each other :-)
> 
> I actually think Snape feels very bad because he wasn't able to save
Potter too.

Carol:
I think (hope) that Kneasy was half-joking in his response. In any
case, I think James's death would have made Snape very *un*happy--not
because he liked James (he hated him) but because he owed James a life
debt that he had tried to fulfill (IMO) by informing Dumbledore of
LV's plans to kill the Potters. So he not only failed to save them
after risking his life by betraying Voldemort, he was stuck with an
unfulfilled life debt (which I think he's now trying to fulfill by
transferring the debt to Harry). OTOH, the apparent fall of Voldemort
would, indeed, have been cause for celebration. But Snape, young as he
was then, would have been wise enough not to celebrate it publicly
with DEs still roaming the WW. 

Carol, who wants to know what the consequences of an unfulfilled life
debt might be