Life Debts was Why has DD never suggested Snape thank Harry

[stbjohn2]

No: HPFGUIDX 117565


Potioncat:

> > I can't find the cannon where I hide my copy of SS/PS, so I can't 
> > quote it. But DD says something along the line of 'having a 
> > strange idea that he owes your father a debt for saving his 
life.' 
> > Harry and almost all of us have taken that bit of conversation 
and 
> > worked out an elaborate idea of how and when Life Debts are 
> > formed.  But I don't think they exist at all. 

Dungrollin:
> 
> I don't have my books with me, either, but the main canon in 
support 
> of the idea is at the end of PoA, when DD's explaining that saving 
> Pettigrew's life wasn't such a bad thing.  He says something along 
> the lines of 'When one wizard saves another wizards life, a certain 
> bond is formed.' And then later 'This is magic at its deepest and 
> most mysterious.' And some stuff about Voldy not being too pleased 
> that one of his servants owes Harry a debt. (Was it 'a debt'? 
> Or 'his life'? Was it 'a certain bond' or 'a deep magical bond'?)
> 
Here's the quote (p427 u.s. pb)
"Pettigrew owes his life to you. You have sent Voldemort a deputy who 
is in your debt ... When one wizard saves another wizard's life, it 
creates a certain bond between them... and I'm much mistaken if 
Voldemort wants his servant in the debt of Harry Potter." (that's DD 
speaking, and elipses are in original.)
Sandy