Re: Unbreakable Vow?

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> Troels Forchhammer wrote:
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>> " 'He hasn't been doing /your/ orders, he promised my
>> mother --'
>> 'Of course that is what he would tell you, Draco, but --'
>> [Draco and Dumbledore, HBP-27 'The Lightning-Struck Tower']
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> The passage doesn't tell us anything about Dumbledore's knowledge
> of the Unbreakable Vow. (It doesn't even tell us if Draco is aware
> it's an Unbreakable Vow, rather than a simple promise.) All it
> tells us is that Dumbledore doesn't believe its the *real* reason
> Snape is watching over Malfoy.

The interesting part is the two lines I left in. Here Dumbledore
rejects Draco's claim of a promise by Snape. Whether a normal promise
or an Unbreakable Vow doesn't matter -- if Dumbledore was rejecting
the former, he would, at the same time, reject the latter, much
stronger, promise.

Dumbledore's response means that he (Dumbledore) is certain that any
claims, which Snape has made to Draco of promises to help Draco, are
lies.

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Troels Forchhammer
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