Snape, the unbreakable vow and an unwelcome revelation

[Joe]

No: HPFGUIDX 165915

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "juleyjubes" <juleyjubes at ...> 
wrote:
>
> I, like many others on here, have been re-reading the books from 
> number one and am currently reading the COS.  However, I skipped 
> ahead this evening because I wanted to check something in HBP.
> 
> I have just re-read from the Lightning-Struck Tower and there is 
> something in there that I don't think I had ever noticed before.  
> 
> I have read many posts on here and I know most of you tend to 
either 
> be for or against Snape and I have always been one of those who has 
> thought he is definitely DDM.  However, on page 549 of the UK hard 
> back version of HBP I have just read,
> 
> Draco, "He hasn't been doing your orders, he promised my mother -"
> 
> Dumbledore, "Of course that is what he would tell you, Draco, but -"
> 
> I now have a feeling of dread as we know he did make a promise with 
> Draco's mother!  Can Dumbledore really have got it wrong....?
> 

Joe:
There is a theory that Snape is left handed (many references in the 
books lend credence to that) and that one must use his or her wand 
hand to make the unbreakable oath (not stated—just a guess). Snape 
used his right had to make the oath. Perhaps that was a way out of 
it. Just a theory.