Snape didn't make the Unbreakable Vow

[bercygirl2]

No: HPFGUIDX 161657

 
> Potioncat:
> Now, this is the first new thing I've send about Snape since HBP 
came 
> out. Can you give us some Book/chapter quotes for this?

Sure, but there's a ton of them, so I'll only mention the references 
in Sorceror's Stone here. (hardcover American edition)

P. 140
"Cheer up," said Ron. "Snape's always taking points off Fred and 
George. Can I come and meet Hagrid with you?"
The next paragraph starts, "At five to three they left the castle."

P. 174
"They crept along the next corridor after Snape's fading footsteps."
In the next sentence, Ron points "at the end of a passage to the 
left."
(Throughout ALL the books, nobody ever does anything to Snape's 
right. It's always the left.)

P. 178
"It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets."
The next paragraph is:
"Hermione left."

P. 182
"Perhaps Snape had left the book in there?"

P. 183
"Harry left, before Snape could take any more points from Gryffindor."

P. 190
"Snape was in the middle of the stands opposite them."

P. 195
"When they had left the dungeons at the end of Potions."

P. 197
"..and they left Hagrid looking disgruntled
"
In the next paragraph-
"Because how else were they going to find out what Snape was trying 
to steal?"

P. 198
"Harry left the library."
Next paragraph- "They couldn't risk Snape hearing what they were up 
to."

P. 207
"Snape replied, "The Restricted Section?"
Upon which Harry notices that "a door stood ajar to his left"

P. 217
"Snape's sudden, sinister desire to be a Quidditch referee."
(sinister means left)

P. 224
"Snape spat bitterly on the ground."
Next paragraph-"Harry left the locker room."

P. 246
"Snape had just left the room."

P. 275
"Looks like a harp," said Ron. "Snape must have left it there."

P. 283
"Do you want to stop Snape or not?"
In the next paragraph-"Harry moved three spaces to the left."

There's a really interesting sentence about Karkaroff on page 278, in 
GoF, during the scene where Karkaroff and Madame Maxime argue with 
Dumbledore about Harry becoming the fourth Triwizard champion.(And 
Snape happens to be present) "His hands gave him away, they had 
balled themselves into fists."

There is another bit in GoF that ties into the left-hand bits. On 
page 459,Harry goes to the prefects' bathroom to work out the clue in 
the egg. Outside the bathroom is the statue of Boris the 
Bewildered, "a lost-looking wizard with his gloves on the wrong 
hands." 

I'm positive that Snape's hands gave him away during the Unbreakable 
Vow. :)

I don't have PoA handy right now, so I can't cite a page number. When 
Harry runs away from Privet Drive, he stops the Knight Bus by 
sticking out his wand hand and this is referenced twice by Stan 
Shunpike. The implication he makes is that sticking out the other 
hand would not have made the bus stop, only the wand hand would do it.
If only the wand hand would cause the bus to stop, I'm certain only 
the wand hand would count for something as important as the Vow.

"Wand hand" is referenced multiple times in HBP as well....

-Donna