Why DD trusts Snape?

[fanofminerva]

No: HPFGUIDX 133106

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, RhianynTheCat at a... wrote:
> 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.
>  
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

The Unbreakable Vow requires a third party, and so far no one has 
hinted that they understand why DD trusts Snape so much.  Of course, 
this alone does not negate the hypothesis.  A third part could have 
been there and (1) is a very good at keeping secrets or (2) has not 
been introduced.  However, in JKR's interview with Mugglenet and 
Leaky Cauldren, she stated that the cast of characters has been 
introduced, with only a minor character or two to be added in book 7.

Julie