How did Sirius lure Severus into the Willow? (was: James the Berk?)

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 105831

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> Small correction: it's DD who suggests that Snape's 'life debt' 
might
> be a factor in the way he feels about James. 

Mel:
Actually he doesn't even do that. He only explains that such actions 
create a bond between the people involved. Life-debt is never 
mentioned anywhere in canon that I can remember. 

The misreading of "bond" as "debt" is illlustrated by Snape's own 
reaction to Harry reminding him of the same rescue. 



Kneasy: 
> Snape never mentions a 'life debt', might never even consider it 
> applicable, since it was one of James's friends that put him in 
danger 
> of his life anyway.


There you go. Even if there is such a concept, wouldn't it be null 
and void if the saving you was the very same (or once closely 
involved with) placing you in peril in the first place?

Kneasy:
 > I see Sevvy as a vengeful type - he'd want his pound of flesh, to 
see
> his enemies humiliated. Somehow DD put the blocks on it.


Mel:
Again!

> I'd love to know how and I'd love to know why Snape still trusts 
him.

Mel:
This is one of the main points I want answered before the end of the 
series. 

Melpomene