UVs (was: Re: On the trivial and the profound.

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 165739

Magpie:
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> Plus I guess to me Snape doesn't seem to be being forced here. His hand 
> twitches, indicating a reaction to the surprise clause. ...
>  
> Vow is a Vow. A sacred promise. 

Finwitch:

Indeed it is. As I read somewhere - "Were you to draw a circle around
me, on the ground and I gave you my word not to step outside it, that
word would held me surely if locks and ropes could not. That is
honor." -- or something alike. It came to my mind first with Sirius,
who DID escape Azcaban, but ended up held in the house he had left at
16...

And, a sacred oath is more than a word of honor. Of course, as
Unbreakable Vow is clearly magical, I'd say that makes it impossible
to break. Death would occur if you found yourself bound by conflicting
Vows, both as unbreakable. This is a magical Vow. You cannot break it,
even by suicide. Death, I think, would occur if you were bound by
conflicting Vows.

(Any of you having read Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time-series, think of
the Aes Sedai Oath Rod. At least I think it's somewhat similar).

I wonder what oath the twins wanted Ron to take that day... Did they
manage to get one or two clauses in before Arthur spotted them? One
that i.e. prevented Ron to make a move when the twins were testing
their products on First-Years? And another preventing him to tell that
to anyone, enabling him only to say 'they wanted - dad spotted us'?

Though, the twins weren't exactly breaking any rules there - which is
why none but Hermione was about to do anything...

Finwitch