Dumbledore and Snape again

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 138204


zgirnius:

> I don't really understand the distinction here, maybe it is about how
> you think the UV works? Snape *could* refuse to carry out the terms of
> the Vow, it seems, and in so doing would avoid becoming a murderer.
> (Although I think it is a lot to assume that he is not one already, as
> he is a former DE...) 
[...]
> 
> The UV does not take away all of Snape's choices-just at the critical
> juncture, they narrow down to two (kill DD, or die).

houyhnhnm:

The real test for Snape would have come that night if Draco had *not*
succeeded in repairing the cabinet.  When Dumbledore returned to the
castle poisoned, would Snape have risked his own life by trying to
save Dumbledore or would he simply have let Dumbledore die, thereby
rendering the the Vow moot and saving his own neck?  We'll never know
and Snape will never know.  I think that's what the "DON'T CALL ME
COWARD!" breakdown was about.