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[eggplant107]

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puduhepa98 at ... wrote: 

> Certainly it turned out to be a mistake,
> but SS could not have known that at the time. 

If Snape was a good man and if his IQ was larger than his shoe size he
would NEVER make a vow when he didn't even know what he is vowing to
do. Hero or villain I am certain JKR wants her readers to respect
Snape and the above scenario would make that imposable. From
fascinating enigma and brilliant master spy Snape would become a
member of the 3 stooges.  

> he [Snape] had to worry she [Bella] could 
> have betrayed both of them to LV as traitors.
> [
.]He doesn't know if Bella will report her
> to LV, so he stops her. [
] Then he turns
> around and says "I already know" (decision 1)
> Of course he doesn't have a clue. 

Then why wasn't he worried that Bella would tell Voldemort that Snape
knew all about the plan? Wouldn't Voldemort wonder how Snape had found
out if he hadn't told him. And why would Voldemort tell others about
the plan but not his most trusted lieutenant?

> What if by agreeing to make the vow, he had
> agreed to swear to whatever Narcissa proposed?

Then by agreeing to make the vow in the first place Snape has proven
himself to be a man of such incompetence and low intelligence that he
is no longer an interesting character. 

> I don't think he would have sworn if he knew
> Draco was to kill DD. 

That's what makes it all so crazy, according to you Snape agreed to
make an unbreakable vow and he had no idea what he was going to vow to
do. Just try to make a good book with that premise, "dumb" doesn't
begin to describe it!

> It makes zero sense for SS to take a potentially
> dangerous vow to do something he already planned to do.

I don't see why.

> What's the gain for the risk? 

If, as I think likely, Snape had already made the exact same vow to
Voldemort then there was zero risk in repeating it, and there might be
some small gain on getting on the good side of Bella and Narcissa.

> I am confused here. What makes you think 
> DD didn't know? 

Harry told Dumbledore that Snape had said he made an Unbreakable Vow
but it's pretty obvious he didn't believe Snape had really done it.
When Draco brought up the same thing Dumbledore responded: 

"Of course that is what he would tell you, Draco, but"

And there is another reason. Like Snape I also assume Dumbledore had a
IQ larger that his shoe size and a smart man just doesn't pick as his
most trusted aid someone he knows had vowed to be a traitor and to
murder you. As I said before real people just don't do things like that.

Eggplant