[HPforGrownups] Re: What turned Snape (Was: JKR site update SPOILERS)

[Jazmyn Concolor]

No: HPFGUIDX 159016



luna_loco wrote:
(snip)
>
> Instead of turned or playing a complicated role, another option is
> that Snape was maneuvered into some type of magical obligation that
> forces certain actions.
> 
> Consider the following:
> 1) Snape had a life-debt to James
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Why does everyone say this? Dumbledore stated that saving another 
wizards life created a 'bond'.. At NO time does he ever say there is s 
'life debt'.. That assumption is purely fan-created.  A bond can be as 
little as just an acknowledgment that the other person saved your life. 
  If doesn't mean you have to DO anything at all about it.  Its not like 
a wizard's oath.  Snape was not obligated to do anything based on James 
saving his life at all.  As we have no definition of any bonds created 
by life-saving other then Dumbledore being happy about Harry sparing 
Wormtail's life, we can not assume there is a 'life-debt'.  Saving 
Wormtail's life certainly never stopped him from taking Harry's blood, 
after all.. nor has Wormtail made any move whatsoever to 'repay' him for 
sparing his life.

I do not accept the 'life-debt' thing as Dumbledore never stating is was 
a life-debt (just fans do), only some undefined 'bond'.

Jazmyn