two people who are under no obligation whatsoever to save the other person's life
It's also two people who stop themselves from being an accessory to murder, and not allowing murder to go on in front of your very eyes if you can stop it seems like the basic obligation of any human being to me. So James stops Remus from killing Snape, Harry prevents Peter being killed in the Shack, and Snape prevents Harry from falling to his death when Quirrelmort hexes his broom. All three seem to me simply what any decent person would do, and if a debt is owed for one surely it should also be owed for the other.
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Date: 2004-11-17 10:48 am (UTC)It's also two people who stop themselves from being an accessory to murder, and not allowing murder to go on in front of your very eyes if you can stop it seems like the basic obligation of any human being to me. So James stops Remus from killing Snape, Harry prevents Peter being killed in the Shack, and Snape prevents Harry from falling to his death when Quirrelmort hexes his broom. All three seem to me simply what any decent person would do, and if a debt is owed for one surely it should also be owed for the other.