Did Snape pay his life debt in PS/SS? WAS: Re: DDM!Snape clue

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> La Gatta Lucianese:
> 
> I thought Snape paid back his life-debt to James when he saved 
Harry 
> from Quirrellmort in SS/PS. How many times does he have to bail 
Harry 
> out to satisfy the debt?
> 
> If Snape did pay off the debt all the way back in SS/PS, and in 
HBP 
> he's *still* bailing Harry out at least once and maybe twice, 
> shouldn't that tell us something about where Snape stands vis-a-
vis 
> Voldemort and Harry?
>


Alla:

Well, no I don't think he did fulfill his life-debt in PS/SS. He 
TRIED and that makes a huge difference, but Hermione was the one who 
put the final nail into the operation, albeit unconsciously.

Too bad we don't know how life-debt works precisely, but it makes 
total sense to me even if Snape completely loyal to Dumbledore, he 
would want to pay his life debt alone, play the hero without 
anybody's help, so I speculate that even if the events of PS/SS 
would allow Snape to consider debt fulfilled, Snape himself would 
not think that the debt is fulfilled.

Here is Steve's post where he postulates quite nicely why the debt 
was not fulfilled.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/145515

It takes you in the middle of the thread about Neri's wonderful LID!
Snape, which explains exactly where Snape who did not pay his life 
debt yet stands. :-)

Alla