Marietta, Magical Contracts, and that Damned Gleam of Triumph.

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 155683

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amiabledorsai" 
<amiabledorsai at ...> wrote:
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> 
> Magical obligations seem to play a big part in the HP books—from 
the life debts that Snape and Peter owe, to the Unbreakable Vow, to 
the magical contract that forced Harry's participation in the Tri-
Wizard Tournament, the pesky things keep cropping up, usually with 
important consequences.
> 
> Almost as if JKR is trying to tell us something.
> 
> It seems to be pretty easy to acquire a magical obligation, whether
> you want one or not.  Harry never volunteered for the Tri-Wizard, 
and I doubt that either Snape or Pettigrew wanted to incur life 
debts.  (Snip)> 
> I wonder if JKR is holding this back for book 7 because she wants 
to use it to illustrate something about magical obligations that is
> important to the resolution of the story arc.
> 
> Specifically, I wonder if Voldemort owes some sort of magical debt 
to Harry and/or Peter as a result of their flesh and blood being 
used in his resurrection.
> 
> And I wonder what happens if one of them figures out how to call in
> the debt?
> 

Tonks:
Now this is a fantastic idea. I do like it, I do!!  I posed the 
question here once regarding the use of the blood of one that you 
had murdered. LV has his victim's blood in his body. I really wonder 
if that doesn't have some bearing on all of this. Lily's blood, the 
blood of the pure sacrificed one now gives life to LV. There has got 
to be something in this somehow. But I am at a lost...  ??  It must 
be tied to the blood protection that is saving Harry, but how??? 
Maybe factored into the life debit somehow??

Tonks_op