The Unbreakable Vow

[Donna]

No: HPFGUIDX 133370

If this has been brought up before, I apologize.  This list has been way too
busy for my to keep up.

When I first read the passage where DD drinks from the basin, realizes it is
poison, and asks for Snape, I thought he wanted Snape for a remedy.  Then I
thought DD wanted Snape to keep his vow to kill him.  I am now wondering
what would have happened to Draco and Snape if DD had died from the basin
contents and not from the hand of either Draco or Snape.  If DD had died
from the basin contents (killed indirectly by Voldemort) then Draco and
Snape would have been released from their promises because Voldemort/DD
would have beat them to it.  That wasn't to happen.  Now, since Draco was
unable to fulfill his orders from LV, what is LV going to do to Draco
because of his failure?  If I remember correctly, Draco was under direct
orders from LV while Snape had promised Draco's mother to complete Draco's
job in case Draco could not finish it.  The job was done but not as LV
ordered.  Is LV going to be angry with Snape, not for killing DD, but for
taking it on himself to complete someone else's task without orders from LV
to do so?

Donna whose WAY behind in her post reading. 

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