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

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 121504


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 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)

Renee:
As I asked in a previous post: what kind of trust are we talking 
about? Isn't there a difference between trusting a person not to 
betray/fail you and trusting a person's judgement? Take Hagrid - I'd 
trust him, but I wouldn't always trust his judgement, to put it 
mildly. 

Personally, I'm inclined to trust Snape - because Dumbledore trusts 
him *and* because Harry doesn't and I'm not sure I trust Harry's 
judgement. As the POV character he was the one who registered 
Marietta's reluctance (we don't even know if Hermione noticed 
something was not right). If anyone should have intervened before 
she signed the parchment, it was Harry.