Timeline for How does the Unbreakable Vow reconcile contradictions/paradoxes?
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| Oct 8, 2017 at 22:58 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | “I swear to break this vow without dying” — I wonder what would happen there… | |
| Oct 8, 2017 at 14:21 | answer | added | sh4dow | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 16:53 | answer | added | Mell_O_Drama | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 23:01 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 22:27 | history | reopened |
John O Valorum Micah Slytherincess Stan |
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| Mar 25, 2014 at 21:34 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | The quote at the top of harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Unbreakable_Vow suggests it's quite possible to break an unbreakable vow, it just means that you will die when you break it (which is presumably already satisfied if you die and the act of dying causes the vow to be broken). I think this avoids any paradoxes in the situations you mentioned, although it doesn't tell us whether you can make a vow with poltergeists/dementors. | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 21:32 | comment | added | Valorum | Much improved now. You have my reopen. | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 21:25 | history | edited | John O | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Edited to make reopenable, two subquestions unviable. If he wants to ask those separately, ok with me.
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| Mar 25, 2014 at 20:48 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Mar 25, 2014 at 20:32 | history | edited | Slytherincess | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2014 at 20:24 | history | closed |
Valorum Stan The Fallen Monty129 John O |
Needs more focus | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 20:24 | comment | added | Slytherincess | Welcome to SFF.se :) Your questions are really interesting -- I wish I could answer them, but they are not answered by the books or by J.K. Rowling (AFAIK). Therefore, any answer(s) would be speculation. Like I said before, they are cool questions, though. | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 19:52 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 25, 2014 at 19:48 | comment | added | Valorum | @stan - Agreed. Not only are most of these almost certainly unanswerable, the simple fact is that asking 7 questions is just plain greedy. | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 19:47 | comment | added | Stan | Welcome to the site. Lots of questions here. Suggest you edit to a single question (or at least closely related ones - i.e possible to swear a UV with [list of beings]) and submit additional questions for the others. As it stands, VTCing as too broad. | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 19:42 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 25, 2014 at 19:25 | history | asked | user24308 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |