Snape thoughts

[Cindy]

No: HPFGUIDX 136828

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Samantha" <samwisep at y...> 
wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> Anyway, when the prediction was made, Snape saw it as an 
opportunity 
> to 
> get James killed.  He told Voldemort, perhaps empathising that 
James 
> had a child.  James and his spawn (Harry) would be wiped from the 
> Earth; 
> lily would be allowed to live.  (Speculation; did Voldemort swear 
an 
> Unbreakable Oath with Snape for that?  Was that why the spell 
bounced 
> back?)
>  
> 
> Now me:
>  I think your idea of VL and Snape taking an unbreakable vow, 
which is 
> why when VL tried to kill Harry/Lily it bounced back on him is,as 
Ron 
> would say, BLOODY BRILLIANT! I think you are 100% right. With all 
you 
> amazing thinkers out there, I won't have to wait until book 7, 
because 
> you'll have the plot all laid out for me long before! LOL
> 
> Snapeo'phile

Now Cindy:

Excellent posts, it really made sense to me at first...and then I 
remembered chatter after the rebirthing scene in GOF:

pg 653 AE

"I miscalculated, my friends, I admit it.  My curse was deflected by 
the woman's foolish sacrifice, and it rebounded upon myself...And 
now, I was tested, and it appeared that one or more of my 
experiments had worked...for I had not been killed, though the curse 
should have done it..."

If Voldemort had made an Unbreakable Vow, wouldn't he blame that 
instead of Lily's sacrifice?  And, there's also the possibility that 
Voldemort's memory was jumbled and he doesn't remember taking the 
vow so he is speculating on how he ended up Spectral!Mort. A really 
good post Chris, but I'm not sure it works with what canon has 
revealed so far.