[HPforGrownups] Unbreakable vows

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No: HPFGUIDX 133560

In a message dated 7/20/2005 10:21:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
xirene101 at cs.com writes:

"wapp13"  wrote:

>Regarding this theory on an unbreakable vow between Snape  and 
>Dumbledore - then there must be a third person who knows about  
>Snape's role since the unbreakable vow between Snape and Narcissa had  
>to have a witness - Bellatrix.  Therefore someone must have  performed 
>that task if Snape and Dumbledore made an unbreakable vow.  Who is 
>the witness??

Sue wrote:
It would seem obvious that  it would be an member of the Order. At the end of 
GOF, DD calls in Sirius and  Snape and speaks with them both; could that 
conversation have had something to  do with it?  

My other thought is that it was/is McGonagall (she  *is* DD's Deputy HM, and 
a fellow Head of a  House.)

Sue





Brief Chronicles now:
I don't feel it is McG, since she herself seemed ready to accept Snape had  
betrayed them. I also don't think it would have been Sirius, as that's not 
going  to do us much good in clearing Snape in the future (unless there's a 
portrait  that can talk to us... which makes me wonder again what exactly IS the  
difference between a portrait and a living person, beside the fact that a living 
 person can move around and a portrait can't). I do believe Snape has made 
the  Vow before (see chapter 2, when he instructs Bellatrix on how to perform it 
 properly), and I imagine it was most likely with Dumbledore. But my guess is 
 that the Bonder is currently alive, and not one of the people we saw at the 
end  of the book. Didn't JKR say in a recent interview ... rats, I can't find 
it  right now... that we haven't yet met one of the Order members properly?
 
Brief Chronicles


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