What really happened on the tower.

[eggplant107]

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"juli17ptf" <juli17 at ...> wrote:

> The text also makes it unclear if 
> Harry or someone else shouted
> "Petrificus Totalis!" when Fenrir
> was at Harry's throat.

It sure wasn't unclear to me! Of course Harry did it, or do you think
some mystery man did it and Harry was so incurious he never wondered
who had saved his life?

> It was Snape who stopped the Crucio one
> of the Death Eaters threw at Harry. 

Harry was vastly outnumbered and hit in the back, one on one Harry
would have made mince meat of every single one of those Death Eaters,
except for Snape.

> And nothing changes the fact that if 
> the UV works immediately on the wizard
> who deliberately breaks it, Snape wouldn't
> be able to take down one Death Eater,
> let alone four of them plus Fenrir. 

There is absolutely positively 100% no way you can use the unbreakable
vow as an excuse for Snape's despicable actions. Snape could have
refused but he decided to make that vow, and that makes him either a
monster or an imbecile. A monster would be more interesting. 

> when he was confronted with the unexpected
> third part of the vow, decided to do what 
> most spies do. Take a huge risk 

If you're right then Snape falls from his lofty perch of being a
brilliant but evil enigma to a Forest Gump style idiot. 

Eggplant