LID!Snape rides again (was: High Noon for OFH!Snape)

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 149866

Pippin:
> I think the bond is created when a wizard saves another's life by
> exposing himself to the same danger. There's no bond between Harry and
> Ginny, then,  because Harry wasn't in danger of having his life force
> sucked away. Ditto for Snape saving Harry from the broomstick
> hex. But James did expose himself to the werewolf, and Harry did
> face the wands that were about to kill Peter. I think JKR was evasive
> because she doesn't want us to think about whether
> Harry's life was in real danger from Sirius and Lupin. Not yet.

zgirnius:
My first reaction was, cool! Great explanation of why Ginny has no 
lifedebt. Followed shortly by...but wait! Sirius and Lupin would not 
have killed Harry, so this way Peter would not have a life-debt. (Silly 
me. <bg> Of course you don't see it this way). 

On further consideration, the problem I have with this is that if you 
are right, both about Lupin and about the Life Debt, why would 
Dumbledore tell Harry he has a life debt? Presumably, Dumbledore knows 
how a life debt comes into existence. In order to believe Peter now 
owes one under your theory, Dumbledore would have to believe that Harry 
was exposing himelf to the same danger as Peter faced, which would mean 
Dumbledore believed either Lupin, or Sirius, or both, would kill Harry. 
I see no evidence for this view, and perhaps a little against. (Rather 
annoying of old Dumbledore to pooh-pooh Snape's suspicions about Lupin 
if he himself knows them to be true...)