ESE, DDM, OFH, or Grey? (WAS: DDM!Snape the definition)

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 162580


> Betsy Hp:
> Ah, the Peter Pettigrew issue.  This is the big large stinky rat 
> doing the back swim in the LiD theory's chardonnay.  Because if the 
> Life-Debt is sooo incredibly strong it makes Snape risk himself for 
> people he despises, if the Life-Debt is such an unbreakable bit of 
> magic it leads Dumbledore to decide he can now trust that evil 
> Professor Snape *completely*... then how the *hell* did Peter 
> Pettigrew get away with the graveyard scene at the end of GoF?!?
> 

Neri:
First, Peter is certainly affected by the Life Debt. In GoF Ch. 1 he
risks Voldemort's wrath, trying to convince him not to use Harry for
the plot.

Secondly, when Peter stabs Harry in the graveyard, it is not at all
certain that he's doing Harry a disservice. The Gleam of Triumph in
Dumbledore's Eyes when he hears about it suggests otherwise. Whatever
The Gleam means exactly, we are probably going to discover some new
interesting details about the graveyard scene in Book 7.

Thirdly, Harry was extremely lucky to get away from all the DEs in the
graveyard. They all missed him when he ran between the gravestones. I
won't be surprised to find in Book 7 that they were Confounded from
behind.

But most of all, I suspect that Snape's Life Debt is an upgraded
version, relative to the one Peter has. This is because Snape is
already on his second chance from the Life Debt. Snape originally owed
his Debt to James, and James was killed because of information that
Snape had passed to Voldemort. So some procedure of transferring the
Debt from James to Harry must have took place, and I imagine this
procedure would not be simple matter at all, when talking about such
deep and impenetrable magic. I'd estimate that Snape's Debt acquired
considerable interest when it was passed to Harry. 

Neri