Snape's "saving" of Harry--was Re: Hard time for Snape?

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> Julie says:
> That is what I meant. Snape could have allowed Harry to be killed 
by 
> Quirrell. And that's not the opportunity Snape let pass. 

Alla:

I am not so sure about that. As Sherry said - Dumbledore tells Harry 
exactly why Snape saved him - because he consideres himself indebted 
to James, right?

Well, I most definitely assumed that it meant that Snape is an 
honorable man ( honestly, despite me hating his teaching tactics, I 
did think that  he has a sense of honor prior to OOP).

But we still do not know precisely how life debt works, don't we?

What if Snape indeed will be hit by magic somehow and badly, if he 
does not pay off his debt?

After all, someone who breaks unbrekable vow dies, why can't it be 
that someone who has a life debt to another person will also suffer, 
if the debt is not fulfilled, or at least attempted to be fulfilled?




> Julie says:
<snip>
> And this is my biggest problem with ESE!Snape. Why has he bothered 
to 
> hide his *true* colors so many times when it wasn't necessary at 
all? 
> Why help Harry in SS/PS, or in OotP, when he could have sat back 
and 
> let events take their course? And why take Sirius and Harry back to 
> Hogwarts on stretchers in POA? He could have just left them there, 
or-
> -especially in the case of his hated enemy Sirius--delivered a 
quick, 
> fatal spell and been done with it.

Alla:

Oh, Julie, whatever problems I may have with ESE!Snape, taking Sirius 
and Harry back to the castle on stretchers is the  very last of 
them :-)

The way I read Snape is that whether he is good, evil or out for 
himself he wants recognition, fame, etc and what is the better way to 
get recognition than to deliver Azkaban escapee to the Ministyr and 
gleefully watch how he can be "lawfully" kissed by Dementors.

The extrabonus would be to watch poor Remus being kissed of course 
AND to show Dumbledore  that he WAS wrong after all to hire Remus 
because Snape told him so.

Going back to saving Harry, I am actually quite open to OFH!Snape, 
who was still picking and choosing sides in PS/SS and started 
resenting Dumbledore badly after POA, when Dumbledore basically made 
him the object of public humiliation ( in Snape view, IMO).



JMO,

Alla.