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Unbreakable Vow
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Two wizards joining their hands, and a third person, designated as a "Bonder", placing the tip of their wand onto their hands |
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Thick tongue of fire winds around the linked hands |
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- Harry: "...what does it mean?"
- Ron: "Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow..."
- Harry: "I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily enough."
- — Harry Potter and Ron Weasley in 1996[src]
An Unbreakable Vow is a magical incantation in which one wizard makes an oath to another. If the person who accepts the conditions of the Unbreakable Vow breaks them, they die. The spell involves the two wizards joining their hands, and a third person, designated as a "Bonder", placing the tip of their wand onto their hands, upon which one person gives the other person one or more terms of the Vow, which the other person then agrees to. Upon assent with each clause of an Unbreakable Vow, a thick tongue of fire winds around the linked hands.
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Added by Macguyver1980sEdit
In either 1985 or 1986, Fred and George Weasley tried to get their five-year-old brother Ron to make an Unbreakable Vow. They were poised to do so, with their wands out and about to cast the spell, but their father found out what they were doing and stopped them. Ron described it as the only time Arthur Weasley was as angry as his wife, and said that he did something that left Fred's left buttock never feeling the same way again. Ron and George weren't hurt.
1990sEdit
In 1996, Severus Snape made an Unbreakable Vow to Narcissa Malfoy, with Bellatrix Lestrange, Narcissa's sister, serving as their Bonder. Snape vowed to watch over and protect Narcissa's son Draco from harm as he attempted to fulfill the Dark Lord's wishes. If necessary, Snape vowed to carry out the deed the Dark Lord had ordered Draco to perform: to kill Albus Dumbledore. Snape fulfilled his vow by killing Dumbledore during the Battle of the Astronomy Tower (secretly at the fatally-injured Dumbledore's request, in the course of Snape's duties as a double-agent in the Death Eaters ranks).
