Spinners End and Dumbledore

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No: HPFGUIDX 138202

"Kathy" <ladypensieve at y...> wrote:
> For some reason I keep thinking of the fact that in Chapter 2 Snape 
> makes an unbreakable vow, yet in Chapter 3 we have Dumbledore with a 
> withered wing, so to speak...


What struck me about your observation is that we keep hearing
Dumbledore saying he "trusts Severus completely" and offers no
explanation. What if the explanation is that Severus had made an UV
with Dumbledore to be in D's service and offer his protection to D?

Then, when Snape makes an UV in Chapter 2, it appears that it is to
kill D, whether or not Snape knows it at the time. I wonder if D's
whithered hand is evidence that an UV CAN be broken -- or rather
destroyed -- if the vow maker makes an opposite vow with another
person, in this case Narcissa?

Ellen