Unbreakable Vows
Jan. 23rd, 2007 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lesyeuxvertsAm recovering from my weekend of utter laziness and unproductivity, and have even started to write again. Cleaning the apartment and reading papers falls much, much lower on the list of things-to-do at the moment. *g* Am working on the ![[insanejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
thematic_hp story, with the ![[insanejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/ij-community.gif)
hp_tarot story to follow ... or vice versa, it doesn't matter much really.
Anyhow. I have a question, and it's probably a dumb question (although hopefully not as random and strange as the guy who asked about metastasis during the microbiology seminar about biofilms), but I'm too sleepy to figure it out myself and I figure one of y'all might know, because you guys are great. *hugs*
So. If a person - say, for example, Severus - happened to swear two Unbreakable Vows that were in direct contradiction with one another - say, for example, to kill Albus and to save Albus's life - what would happen? Would Severus die no matter what he did? Or would it not be an issue because the first Vow that he swore would take precedence and not permit him to swear the second Vow? How would the first Vow know what the second Vow was about - I mean, it's not exactly sentient, is it? Or is it?
thematic_hp story, with the hp_tarot story to follow ... or vice versa, it doesn't matter much really.Anyhow. I have a question, and it's probably a dumb question (although hopefully not as random and strange as the guy who asked about metastasis during the microbiology seminar about biofilms), but I'm too sleepy to figure it out myself and I figure one of y'all might know, because you guys are great. *hugs*
So. If a person - say, for example, Severus - happened to swear two Unbreakable Vows that were in direct contradiction with one another - say, for example, to kill Albus and to save Albus's life - what would happen? Would Severus die no matter what he did? Or would it not be an issue because the first Vow that he swore would take precedence and not permit him to swear the second Vow? How would the first Vow know what the second Vow was about - I mean, it's not exactly sentient, is it? Or is it?
