Heroes and Not - What should Snape Have Done?.

[eggplant107]

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"Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:

> But what can he do, he's commited 
> to the unexpected and unwelcome third Vow?

If Snape is as smart and cunning as I always thought he was I don't
see why that vow would be so unexpected to him. If Snape is really a
good guy I don't see why he couldn't say "The Dark Lord himself has
not ordered me to take such a vow, so how can you? You are not my boss!"

You are asking us to believe that Snape, a super sophisticated secret
agent who has managed to stay alive and fool Voldemort for 14 years
could nevertheless be so incredibly brain dead dumb as to agree to
make a series of unbreakable vows with a known enemy. I don't buy it.

And even if he had made such a colossal blunder he could have tried to
make up for it that night in the Astronomy Tower, he could have
violated his vow and attack the other Death Eaters; he was far more
powerful than any one of them, and he had the element of surprise too.
And then he could have done the only honorable thing a man who made a
stupid and evil unbreakable vow could do, he could have died. 

Eggplant