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

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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).


Alla:

Hey, Carol! I think Eggplant was talking about the people UNKNOWN to 
the leaders of the resistance, whose roles are supposedly played by 
Harry, Ron and Hermione.

Snape is VERY well known to him, therefore Harry has no need to rely 
on somebody else's judgment of him and can form his own (OK, maybe 
he needs to know more facts, before he can form complete judgment of 
Snape, just as we all would love to know that :o))

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

Alla,
who trusts Dumbledore in everything except his trust of Snape and 
who does trust Snape  and does not trust Snape at the same time. :o)
Makes sense? :o)