Snape didn't make the Unbreakable Vow

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 161646

bercygirl2 wrote:
>
> All the debate about whether Snape knew what Narcissa was going to
ask him to do, whether the third request caught him off guard,
> etc.....it's all moot. It doesn't matter what Narcissa requested of
> him, or if Snape knew through Legilimency what she was up to, is
> irrelevant.
> The Vow was invalid.
> JKR specifically tells us that Snape and Narcissa "grasped right
hands" (HBP p. 36) and makes sure we notice that Snape's hand twitches.
> That twitch is not random - it is there so we look carefully at this
> scene. Think of all the debate this scene has caused, with one side
> saying it proves that Snape is really Voldemort's right-hand man,
and others claiming it proves that Snape is Dumbledore's right-hand man.
> Snape isn't ANYONE'S right-hand man.
> He is left-handed. Go back and re-read all the books and notice how
> the words "left" and "opposite side" are constantly juxtaposed with
> Snape's name.
> The Vow was not made with his wand hand.
> Ergo, it was never made at all.


Carol responds:
Aren't you taking your point for granted here (not to mention nixing a
topic that many of the rest of us find fruitful and intriguing)?

Even if the words "left" and "opposite side" (for which you haven't
provided the context) do indicate that Snape is left-handed, where is
the evidence that a vow in the WW must be taken with the wand hand?

In the RW, the custom is to shake right hands regardless of which hand
you write (or fight) with. When you take an oath in court, you raise
your right hand regardless of whether you're right or left-handed.

Not only was the right hand assumed to be the weapon hand, the left
hand was considered "sinister" or "gauche." the "right" hand is the
"correct" hand, at least as far as these customs are concerned. (No
offense to anyone who's been discriminated against for being
left-handed. At least teachers have stopped forcing lefties to write
right-handed!)

I'd need more evidence that Snape is left-handed and any evidence at
all before I considered this idea to have anything like the weight you
assign to it. (Also, it's not quite clear what this argument has to do
with Snape's being anyone's right-hand man. I think he's DD's but
appears to be Voldemort's. Are you suggesting that being left-handed
makes him OFH! (Out For Himself?)

Carol, who thinks that the twitch indicates Snape's realization that
he's trapped, perhaps irretrievably, by the UV (which I also see as
the manifestation of the DADA curse and/or the instrument through
which it operates)