The Unbreakable Vow: John 21:15-19

[M.Clifford]

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Hi everyone. This is a bit of a left field punt I considered the UV
and how it might or might not have played out in HBP. One scenario
which is popular here reminded me of something so I searched it out.
It's a quote from the bible that when translated into greek takes on
special kind of meaning. 

Just to be clear I am only intending to highlight the passage, and the
mystery of its greek translation which is fascinating compared to HBP.
I am not trying to espouse that Snape and Narcissa are a metaphor for
these two people from the bible.

Jesus: "Do you agape me?"
Peter: "You can perceive (whid) I philia (am bonded) to you."
Jesus: "Do you agape me?"
Peter: "You can perceive (whid) I philia (am bonded) to you."
Jesus: "Are you philia (bonded) to me?
Peter: "You can perceive (whid) everything, so you know (gnosis) that
I philia (am bonded) to you."

This is some of the passage of John 21:15-19 translated using Greek.
As you can see on the third time the question is asked it has changed
from unconditional Love to Bonding (conditional) Love.
This echoes the Unbreakable Vow. The first two requests from Narcissa
are something we wuld be aware that Snape would do anyway - Watch over
Draco and Protect him from Harm. Narcissa's last request is the
bonding request, and again it is like the passage from John translated
in Greek the request is no longer do you Agape me but are you Philia
(bonded) to me. 

It is possible that the mystery of the Unbreakable Vow might be
somewhat derived from this ancient play on words. If so then, we have
two options as to ho to read Snapes final answer.

We can read this as:
You *can* percieve everything so that it tells you I am bonded with you.

or:

*You* can perceive *everything* so you should know anyway that I am
bonded with you.

But when has Snape ever let anyone perceive *everything*. I'll go with
the first answer.

Valky
Remembering, Cedric Diggory