Ring of trust (Was: Marietta and the DA).

[justcarol67]

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Eggplant wrote:
> 
> If you want to start an underground resistance movement you can't 
> limit it to people you have personally known and trusted for many 
> years because then it would be too small to be effective. You need 
> to use something called the ring of trust. If I trust A and A trusts 
> B then I should trust B. So if Hermione made an error it's that she 
> trusted Cho.  

Carol responds:
Taking this idea in a slightly different direction, Harry trusts
Hermione, right? And Hermione trusts Dumbledore and Dumbledore trusts
Snape. So Harry, by your reasoning, "has" to trust both Dumbledore
and, by extension, Snape. And so do we, if we trust Harry (or Hermione
or Dumbledore).

Carol, who's not sure about your "ring of trust" idea but does trust
Snape (And Dumbledore) despite their fallibility