Does Snape need to be grateful to James? WAS :Draco and Intent:

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Carol:
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I'm saying that Severus has no reason to befriend or even be grateful to James,
who is still his enemy and follows up his "noble" rescue by publicly attacking
and humiliating Severus one on one. Unlike Draco, Severus has little reason to
be grateful. True, his life was saved, or he was prevented from becoming a
werewolf, but not because James cared about *him* in any way or even valued his
life as a fellow human being.<SNIP>


Alla:

But does it matter why James saved him? I mean, to me the fact that James saved
him pretty much means that he valued his life as a fellow human being, even if 
he could care less about Snape as a *person*. He did not have to do it. He
could have just let Snape die.

What I am trying to say is that to me saving somebody's life, for whatever
reasons just goes to show something about the person who saves the life.

So, no I would not say that Snape should have had befriended James. But did he
have any reasons to be grateful? In my opinion - yeah, his life was just saved.
That to me also says plenty about a person, if the person cannot acknowledge
such an act.

If somebody saved my life, I do not care if this person my bitterest enemy, you
bet I would acknowledge the act of such tremendous value to me.


Oh well, as I mentioned before, JKR in my view certainly granted Snape his wish
as I see it, by letting him die as he did.

JMO,

Alla