Snape as Neville's teacher / JKR's sexy men roll call

[colebiancardi]

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> > colebiancardi:
> >
> > I am not sure what the argument is anymore on the life-debt, and I
> > have been reading this thread!!
> 
> random832 wrote:
> The argument is over whether, on the one hand, Snape's "debt" to
> James, described in this passage, is a real _life-debt_, "magic at its
> deepest, its most impenetrable", or if it's just his own sense of
> obligation.
> 
> The fact that that language was never used to describe it seems a
> point against it being a life-debt in that sense, but using the term
> "debt" at all seems to reinforce it, especially among the sort of
> reader who wouldn't believe snape would ever do anything good for
> Harry or James unless forced to.


colebiancardi now:

ok.  Got it.  I don't have my books handy, but I had thought Snape's
debt to James had been referred to as a "life-debt" in the same sense
as Peter's debt to Harry - the magical one.  However, regardless if it
is or isn't, Snape owes no such life debt to Harry in a magical sense,
and therefore, Snape did it because he wanted to.  Doesn't matter to
me what his reasons where (so he could go back & hate James in peace),
he still does it and is not forced to do so.   

colebiancardi