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

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 149867

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zgirnius" <zgirnius at ...> 
wrote:
<snip>
> 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...)
>

Just randomly commenting on life-debts...I kind of got the 
impression from the books that life-debts only really occurred when 
the people involved (the saver and the saved) were enemies.

Quick_Silver