DDM!Snape & the UV

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 149822

Pippin:
> > how do we know that Dumbledore is 
> > a better warrior than Snape? 

Eggplant: 
> Even if it were true that Snape was a more powerful warrior than
> Dumbledore I don't see the relevance. But it's not true. Voldemort,
> the most powerful dark wizard in a thousand years feared only one man
> and his name wasn't Snape. 

Pippin:
I don't see the relevance of Voldemort's fears. Was he afraid of Lily? Harry??
Phoenix tears??? 

You were the one who said that Dumbledore would never kill off his
mightiest warrior. Suppose that warrior is Snape, and he's going to die
unless Dumbledore dies first -- that *is* what the vow amounts to. 

The vow as Narcissa gives it has loopholes. It was far safer to take it
than to refuse, given that Narcissa would then have no way to save
her son except to appeal to Voldemort herself. If Voldemort worded
the vow, it would have been done more carefully -- he seems to have 
a better grasp of logic than most wizards, skewed though it is by his 
peculiar reality.

Pippin