Life debts (Was: Pettigrew's life debt)

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 125692


 > Carol:
>
> I think that a life debt may not result from the routine, ...
> business of healers and so forth. 

Valky:
I concur. Life debts are more specific in some way than just the act 
of saving a life.

Carol:
> Certainly both altruism and risk apply in Harry's saving Ginny. So 
if life debts operate as they seem to me to do, she certainly owes 
him one. But I'm less sure about Mr. Weasley. Harry wasn't in 
physical danger. Would the risk of being thought mad count?
> 
> Thoughts, anyone?
> 

Valky:
Yes actually I have a thought.
The only thing that truly sets apart Harrys saving of Peter from his 
saving of Ginny and Arthur, Gabrielle, Sirius etc etcetera and on, 
is that Ginny and Arthur have never wronged Harry.

Peter OTOH is guilty of a serious crime against Harry and yet Harry 
chose to save him. I would like to go out on a limb and say that the 
life debt might have come from Harry being able to forgive Peter but 
canon so far kind of contradicts that. (Not totally so I could hang 
on to a flimsy hope if I tried...) 

However the fact that Peter was guilty of a crime against Harry, 
murder of him and his family no less, is the stand out (and quite 
probably ONLY) difference between this and other saving a life 
events, so it would be a crime to rule it out as the basis of a life 
debt.. ;D

Valky