Why DD trusts Snape?

[RhianynTheCat at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 133079

Has anyone else wondered if the reason DD trusts Snape so unshakably is  
because Severus has taken an Unbreakable Vow to him?  
 
In playing w/ this idea I thought at first that the vow might have been,  
from the very beginning, to help DD in his eventual death ... and I think DD  
will somehow, in some form, come back, but his returning somehow hinges on Snape  
being the one to kill himm.  DD was significantly insistent that Severus,  
not Madam Pomfrey be the one that Harry went to for help.
 
Then I began to wonder if the vow could have been that Snape was to protect  
Harry.  I've always wondered why it was Snape muttering the counter-spell  way 
back w/ that jinxed broomstick.  And it might explain part of Severus'  
virulent animosity toward Harry.  While he took the vow in his desire to  work 
against Voldemort, it must be horrendously galling that the object of the  vow be 
the son of his hated school rival.
 
Just wondering if anyone else had been thinking along these lines.
 


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