Life Debts was Why has DD never suggested Snape thank Harry

dungrollin spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 11 23:48:52 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 117651


> Potioncat:
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> Can anyone locate the place where Snape and Harry talk about it?
> 

Dungrollin:

Back from bloody cold Switzerland with my books now...
It's in PoA (probably my all-time favourite scene) in chapter 14, 
Snape's Grudge, after the mud-throwing incident in Hogsmeade.


"I would hate you to run away with a false idea of your father, 
Potter," he [Snape] said, a terrible grin twisting his face. "Have 
you been imagining some act of glorious heroism?  Then let me 
correct you - your saintly father and his friends played a hghly 
amusing joke on me that would have resulted in my death if your 
father hadn't got cold feet at the last moment.  There was nothing 
brave about what he did.  He was saving his own skin as much as 
mine.  Had their joke succeeded, he would have been expelled from 
Hogwarts."


Sorry, couldn't resist quoting a big chunk.  No mention of any 
bond though, magical or otherwise.

Dungrollin
Worrying about Côte d'Ivoire again.







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