Unbreakable Vow (was Snape on the Tower)

[puduhepa98 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 162568

>Debbie:
>Snape appears to be in a bind at Spinner's End only  because he had been
(ostensibly) working for Dumbledore. Though Cissy  entrapped Snape into
making the vow, it was the right move at that time.  Every double agent
knows he may be backed into a corner someday despite his  best efforts to
prevent it, and it is not always a *mistake* when that  happens.
 
>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.

>Jen: The  Unbreakable Vow was lame to me. <snip> 
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: 

Nikkalmati:
 
I am much more with Julie and Debbie here and I believe in DDM!Snape.   I 
have said before, and I stick with it, that SS did not have a clue what  Draco's 
task was before he took the vow.  (No one else seems willing to  jump on the 
bandwagon, however).  SS wanted and needed to know that  information and 
promising to protect Draco was a small price to pay.  Of  course, we know that the 
protective mother went a little over the top in  ensuring Draco's life by 
trapping SS into a vow he did not intend and did not  understand at the time.  I 
have seen many people speculate that SS knew  Draco's task at Spinner's End, but 
I have never seen any support for it.   You  would have to assume he is 
telling the truth to the Black sisters  when it appears he is lying through his 
teeth throughout the scene (unless he is  ESE) and you have to assume that LV 
trusts him with his plan, which is also  doubtful when you note PP is sent to spy 
on SS and that Bella is astonished that  LV would tell SS.  Surely she know 
the relative position of the members of  the inner circle.
 
There is a question as to when DD and SS figured out exactly what SS  
promised to do.  It must have become clear by the time Katie Bell was  cursed.  They 
then had to decide what to do about it.  They hoped that  SS would be able to 
get close to Draco and thwart him, but we know why that  didn't work out.  The 
alternate plan must have been, if worse came to  worse, to kill DD rather 
than let SS die or let Draco kill him.
 
Nikkalmati


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