What really happened on the tower.

[eggplant107]

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"colebiancardi" <muellem at ...> wrote: 

> I don't think Snape is as trusted with
> Voldemort as he states he is

Snape never said he was Voldemort's most trusted aid, Narcissa said
it, and Bellatrix who didn't like Snape one bit would have certainly
challenged that remark if she thought it untrue but she said nothing. 

> Why did he made the UV?  Many people
> have addressed that – my  short version
> (as I have commented on it a lot in the past)
> is that he needed to protect Draco. 

That doesn't explain why it was necessary to vow to kill Dumbledore to
protect Draco. Narcissa and Bellatrix were not Snape's boss, when they
demanded he make that vow he could have told them to soak their head.
If Voldemort didn't demand he make such a vow (and he may have) how
could they? And if Snape was a good guy why didn't he tell Dumbledore
about that vow? He thought Snape was only pretending to have made the
vow but we readers know better.

I have heard hundreds of theories trying to explain why Snape made
that vow but only one holds water: Snape was only vowing to do what he
had every intention of doing anyway, and in fact may have only been
repeating a vow he'd already made to Voldemort.  

> How did Snape's "murder" of DD
> help the good guys?  

Why the quotation marks?

> Well, it prevented several more people from 
> dying, such as Harry, such as Draco,
> such as the OotP. 

If Snape is a good guy then he is a royal idiot for making that vow,
otherwise he could have surprised the Death Eaters and turned his wand
on them rather than on Dumbledore.


In another post Ken Hutchinson, a Tolkien fan and son of Clogknee,
chief of the Bustalator people who come from across the Onrobonob
river beyond the Dyphlesator mountains on the planes of Diplet in the
land of Fustalator near the forest of Sphincter which in the elfin
tongue is called Whogivesadamn wrote: 
, he wrote
, ah 
 oh dear, I
seem to have lost my thread, what were we talking about? 

And now for no particular reason I'm going to sing a long and
pointless song in a language I know you don't understand because I
just made it up. Hey, where are you going? Come back, you'll miss my
song! 

Eggplant