Unbreakable Vow (Re: Snape on the tower (Was: Cohesion)

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 162398

 
Neri wrote:
 
<snip>The Unbreakable Vow that Snape himself had made to
>  begin with. IOW, the plan was for Dumbledore to pay with his life
> for  DDM!Snape's mistake.  

Jen:  The Unbreakable Vow was lame to  me. And Dumbledore the great 
contingency planner always works with what he  gets instead of what he 
wishes could be true.  Once the deed was done  he had a decision to 
make and I think it was Dumbledore's to make as the  chess master he 
is:  Who will be sacrificed should it come to  that?  He's not an 
overly sentimental person when it comes to military  strategy.  
However, if you are implying that by taking the UV it's an  oxymoron 
to say Snape is DDM, now *that* I would agree wholeheartedly  with.  
I'm liking my own Grey!Snape version more and more:  
_http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/142891_ 
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/142891) 
 

Julie:
I don't know that the Unbreakable Vow was Snape's mistake. I think
Dumbledore may consider it his mistake more than Snape's. He is  the 
one who sent Snape to Voldemort at the end of GOF. Presumably he
wanted Snape to get in as deep as possible while gaining as much 
useful information as possible. Snape can't do that without taking  risks,
and Dumbledore knows that very well. Dumbledore may well have told
Snape to jump at any chance to get further information, even if it  leads
down a blind alley. You have to take a big chance to get a big payoff. 
And this is all about the fate of the WW after all.
 
IMO, Snape told Dumbledore about the Unbreakable Vow, and 
Dumbledore blamed himself more than Snape, but mostly he 
probably just accepted it as the price for playing such a risky
game. That price was his life, not Snape's, by his own choice, a
price he was willing to pay because he was as complicit in the
game as Snape. And because he expects the gain will be the
eventual salvation of the WW, of course. 
 
Julie 








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