HBP post DH look Chapters 1-2.

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 184284

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
 
> my question is did he take the vow when he already knew that 
> Dumbledore wants him to do him in and accordingly he took the 
> vow solely to protect Malfoy or did he take the vow to find 
> out the plan without being quite sure what's going to happen next?



Somehow it always seemed to me that the action of the first four 
chapters of HBP takes place on the same evening. Of course we can't 
be sure, but it definitely feels this way :-). If this is true, then 
Snape already promised to DD to kill him by the time he took the UV.

Snape gave his promise to DD right after DD was injured by the ring 
curse, but when DD came for Harry in "Will and Won't", he already had 
this injury. This means that Snape and DD's conversation already 
happened some time before that evening. 

It could be the other way around only if the events in Spinner's End 
took place at least a few days earlier than the events in "Will and 
Won't" and "Horace Slughorn", which doesn't seem to be the case, IMO.


zanooda, returning to the preparations for another hurricane ... ;-(.