Forced to be good? was: Re: How will Snape come back?

[chrusotoxos]

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Ok, so this seems a cock-and-bull theory even as I'm writing it down, but it would still fit 
to some extent (as everything, it seems): what if the reason DD trusts Snape is that Snape 
is forced to be on the Order's side?

I'm not suggesting an UV, but rather a life's debt. James saved his life, so maybe Snape is 
physically uable to kill Harry, or to stand aside while someone is hurting him. Look at PS, 
for exemple: it wouldn't have been so difficult to slow down Harry's fall, as DD does in 
PoA, but Snape - who at this point of the story, as he admits in HBP, even thinks that Harry 
may be a new LV - feels compelled to stop him from falling. He doesn't oppose Quirrell, 
though, even if, as they were sitting close, he must have known what he was doing. Maybe 
he secretly approves what he's doing - only in relation to Harry, mind, not in the whole PS 
business - but he *cannot* see Harry hurt. So here we have a canon Bastard!Snape, lured 
by DA, who can even - as he claims - cause Vance's death but who cannot hurt Harry. And 
hasn't DD mentioned , and Ron too, that life debts in wizard society are really strong 
magic? Seems right the thing she'd do, mention something in Book 3 which actually is the 
solution to everythig...as she did for LV not dying after AK rebound...

chrus