Life-debt

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No: HPFGUIDX 145337

The life-debt is something which comes up again and again when
discussing Snape or Peter (side-note, why is it not Severus and
Pettigrew? Is it because that does not type as fast?, or because Snape
is just not a man you call by his first name uninvited :)?

In the first book, there is no hint that there is actually anything
magical about saving someone's life. In PoA Dumbledore uses the words
magic at its most deep (or something like that, books lies upstairs)
and tells Harry that LV will not like it to have a servant who is in
Harry's debt. But nowhere is there any explanation what kind of magic
is at work here. Actually I don't think there is any magic at all. I
think what Dumbledore talks about is more like "the power the Dark
Lords knows not." Not magic, but the very real, very profound powers
of any human. Conscience, decency, obligation. 

Any thoughts? 

Gerry