Unbrekable Vow as shared hallucination? WAS: Re: OFH! Snape again.

[eriphila]

No: HPFGUIDX 140803


Betsy Hp:
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> And finally, why does a Snape who is so willing and able to flip 
> sides at a moment's notice, tie himself down with the Unbreakable 
> Vow?  I'm not sure where the Vow fits into an OFH! read on Snape's 
> character.
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I noticed something in rereading that chapter.  Snape, the POTIONS 
MASTER, has his visitors join him in a drink.  To make sure they all 
drink he toasts the Dark Lord, and everyone drains their glasses, 
except Wormtail, who is sent away but listens at doors.  Could the vow 
then be a shared hallucination?  We see shortly thereafter that F&G are 
selling daydreams-in-a-box.  I wonder if Wormtail will return to say it 
never happened.

Eriphila.