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

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"justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...> wrote:


> 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. 

Three points:

1) The ring of trust is not a law of nature, it is just a rule of 
thumb you can use if you don't have anything better, like first hand 
experience of Snape.

2) The longer the chain the less certain I would be of their 
honesty. If the chain were very long I would only be comfortable if 
there were several independent chains all extolling their honesty.

3) Dumbledore is just not a very good judge of character. Yes 
Dumbledore trusts Snape but he admits he was wrong about the man at 
least once; and it wouldn't be the first time he placed too much 
trust in somebody. He must have trusted Quirrell, Lockheart, and the 
fake Moody too or he wouldn't have hired them. 

Eggplant