Unbreakable Vows

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 165587

> Bart:
> <snip> Since Snape is no fool, then he should know that he has
agreed to finish the job in killing Dumbledore. Which means that it
was his intent, at the time of makng the vow, to kill Dumbledore.
Therefore, assuming that JKR is "playing fair" with the reader, the
ONLY explanation that fits DDM!Snape is that Dumbledore was only being
kept temporarily alive (once again, the major clue is the unhealable
arm). Note there was no time constraint, and it is not necessary to
kill a man who has already been killed (unless you're a passenger on
the Orient Express, that is). 


Neri:
I think you need to make up your mind whether Dumbledore was
"temporarily alive" or "already been killed". These are not a same
thing at all, you know. Killing a man who has yet one month to live
(or a day or an hour) is still murder. I don't see JKR justifying
murder in her books because the victim was just temporarily alive. We
are all just temporarily alive.

So are you saying DDM!Snape made the Vow because he thought Dumbledore
would die anyway before there will be need to kill him, but when the
moment had finally arrived, it turned out that Dumbledore was not
quite dead yet, so Snape had to help him a bit along his way?

Sounds like lots of loopholes to me, and they're not required at all
other than to get DDM!Snape out of the mess that JKR has put him in to
begin with. I sincerely hope she can end the series and solve the
Snape mystery in a more convincing way.

Neri