...an Unbreakable Vow. Of course. That makes sense.
It couldn't have been, 'I will not reveal to anyone that Sirius Black is alive,' though. I expect it has something to do with the Wand Smugglers (though of course Hermione you shouldn't say, I'm not hounding you, just thinking about this).
I've always wondered, with Unbreakable Vows, how close you can get to breaking it without the spell killing you -- I mean, if I swore an Unbreakable Vow not to tell anyone that Daphne fancied Greg (not that she does) but I said, 'Guess who fancies Greg? I'll give you a hint: she's in my dorm. And everyone thinks she fancies someone else. And she's not my best friend. And she's not a complete eejit!' ...would that count? I suppose no one's really inclined to experiment and find out.
I'm glad this didn't come close enough to the secret to hurt you, Hermione. Enough awful things happened last week. More than enough.
I wonder if everyone in the organisation takes an Unbreakable Vow? It's a good idea in some ways because that way if they're captured by MLE they can just blurt out enough of the secret that they fall over dead and then MLE can't find out anything. So long as it's specific enough that they don't break the vow by accident.
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Date: 2011-06-02 02:29 am (UTC)It couldn't have been, 'I will not reveal to anyone that Sirius Black is alive,' though. I expect it has something to do with the Wand Smugglers (though of course Hermione you shouldn't say, I'm not hounding you, just thinking about this).
I've always wondered, with Unbreakable Vows, how close you can get to breaking it without the spell killing you -- I mean, if I swore an Unbreakable Vow not to tell anyone that Daphne fancied Greg (not that she does) but I said, 'Guess who fancies Greg? I'll give you a hint: she's in my dorm. And everyone thinks she fancies someone else. And she's not my best friend. And she's not a complete eejit!' ...would that count? I suppose no one's really inclined to experiment and find out.
I'm glad this didn't come close enough to the secret to hurt you, Hermione. Enough awful things happened last week. More than enough.
I wonder if everyone in the organisation takes an Unbreakable Vow? It's a good idea in some ways because that way if they're captured by MLE they can just blurt out enough of the secret that they fall over dead and then MLE can't find out anything. So long as it's specific enough that they don't break the vow by accident.