deathtocapslock | Redressing our Injustice to Albus Dumbledore (Reply)

All of us who have blamed Albus for reneging on his promise to Severus to protect Lily in exchange for Severus’s “Anything” must own ourselves to have grossly wronged the man.

He never made any such promise.

Severus begged him, “Hide them all, then….Keep her—them—safe. Please.”

“And what will you give me in return, Severus?”

He never technically agreed to do it, see? Just acknowledged the entreaty and asked for Snape’s best offer.

No, “I will. But what will you give me in return?”

Not even, “If I do, what will you give me in return?”

So he didn’t fail to keep his word.

Any more than he later actually said that he would be protecting The-Boy-Who-Must-Die-At-The-Right-Moment.

“Make sure it [Lily’s death] was not in vain. Help me protect Lily’s son.”

See? Twinkles didn’t actually commit to anything himself. If Snape chose to believe Albus was planning to protect rather than abuse and sacrifice the child, that was Snape’s interpretation.

So all of us who ever criticized Twinkles on the grounds that he’d failed to keep his promises to Severus to protect Lily, and later Harry, can just take it back.