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

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 140884

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eriphila" <eriphila at y...> 
wrote:

> 
> 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.

Not a bad idea.  I did think it was particularly strange that all of 
these people, none of whom really trust each other, shared a drink 
that was prepared by Wormtail, the least trustworthy of all.  
Obviously they have never studied with Made-Eye Moody.

Allie