Draco, the UV, and the First Time (was: re: Trial of Severus Snape - UV)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 141579

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jessicabathurst" <ragingjess at h...> wrote:

> Ironically, if Snape has been tasked to protect Draco (and in the 
> Dumbledore way of things, he means Draco's soul as well as his 
> body), he would only have to kill Dumbledore if that task succeeded -
>  if Draco gave up the idea that he could be a murderer.
> 
> Yours, 
> Jessica
> 
> (who wonders: if Snape is Jewish, does the Kol Nidrei absolve him of 
> an Unbreakable Vow?  How would that work, theologically?)


Pippin:
I suppose it would protect him from the spiritual consequences of
breaking a vow, but not, alas, the material ones. But, to wrench this
issue firmly back on topic,  having spent  an entire day pleading for 
forgiveness and meditating on the Prophet Jonah who had to ask  
the sailors to throw him into the sea, I suddenly
wonder if Dumbledore was pleading for forgiveness too.

Could he have been asking Snape to forgive him for putting him in 
an impossible position by refusing to let Snape withdraw? Snape had
only vowed to protect Draco to the best of his ability; if Dumbledore 
had sacked Snape and banished him from the school, he wouldn't 
have had to carry out the third part of the vow either.

Pippin