Hermione must be stopped/Snape's half truths in "Spinner's End"

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 149669

> houyhnhnm:
> 
> I sort of see what you are trying to say--that Snape couldn't have 
> been motivated to take the UV by his fear of Bella because he 
would 
> have known that to be brought down by Bella would violate some 
rule 
> of draumaturgy, thus she couldn't really be a threat.  That seems 
> awfully convoluted to me.

Magpie:
It's not that Snape would know anything about the rule, it's that 
the writer would so she's not going to write that situation. As, to 
make a more obvious example, she would know that Voldemort shouldn't 
be hit by a bus or killed by Dumbledore.  Fiction isn't like real 
life--especially this series isn't--meaning that random things 
happen.  There's nothing random in fiction, only things the author 
has chosen to have happen and have her characters do to make her own 
point. 

>From Snape's pov, it makes sense characterwise.  This is an 
Unbreakable Vow--you're pledging your life to something.  I don't 
think Snape's going to pledge his life to blocking one of many petty 
attempts of Bellatrix LeStrange to make herself Voldemort's 
favorite.  I think it fits with his character as well as dramatic 
good sense to not take a vow like this that lightly--this character 
is no stranger to vows and obligations.  It's not just going off on 
a tangent for the author, it's going off on a tangent for Snape, 
imo.  Perhaps if we were privvy to all of Snape's spy games with the 
DEs this exact scenario would work really well, because the author 
would have created a situation where we knew exactly why Snape had 
to take the vow.  But I think it would be a different story.

-m