Snape/Peter and Life-Debts to James/Harry & Sirius/Snape fight

[Chys Sage Lattes]

No: HPFGUIDX 127114


Betsy:
> And the fact that Dumbledore tells Harry that Snape owes 
> James a life-debt (which sounds rather formal)


Chys:

Ok, does Snape serve out this life-debt to Harry now, since he's 
James's son? Is he somehow connected to the kid so he has to help 
him even if he doesn't want to, to fulfil some kind of magical contract? (I'm wondering if that's really the reason why he seems 
to hate him, rather than the simple fact that the kid looks so much 
like his father -Which Harry seems to think is the problem in his 
juvenile way of thinking.- Perhaps he's so angry and jumps the kid 
all the time because of the fact that Harry goes out to get himself 
nearly killed several times a year, when Snape's dutifully spending 
all of his time trying to keep him safe from harm!)

Is this similar scenario going to happen to Peter Pettigrew now, 
because of a life-debt to Harry? (I would think during an important 
confrontation in the future.)

Maybe because of that, Snape and Peter CAN'T hurt Harry, so of course, DD would think Harry were safe from Snape, even if he's not a 'good guy'?

*is confused*

About the Sirius and Snape issue; I think they are both acting 
immaturely. Sirius has his issues, and Snape's probably very stressed, but can't help it when faced with a demon from the past 
(Sirius) whom constantly haunted him, and continued to taunt him 
immaturely even to the current day. Not to say that Snape was 
innocent of that- he was also making remarks of Sirius being the 
one getting the lazy, easy way out, not contributing to the Order 
properly. Maybe it's just stress relief on both of their parts, 
falling back into a habit of shooting each other down.

Chys