Marietta and the DA.

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 121610


Eggplant wrote: 
"Oh yes I see it now, you spotted me in a contradiction, it's
enormous, titanic, colossal, the contradiction would be clear as a
bell even to a blind man, no doubt about it! Yes indeed, in fact it's
so obvious so vast so huge so astronomical that I'll bet you won't
even insult our intelligence by spelling out exactly why it's a
contradiction, but rather you will, as the textbooks say, leave it as
an exercise in logic for the reader."

Del replies:
You're discussing me and my method here, not my opinion.

My problem was : you say that even professionals didn't manage to find
a way to prevent treason during the Cold War, so we shouldn't expect
Hermione to have found one. But by your own admission, you consider
the situation with the DA in OoP to be similar to a hot war such as
WWII. So my question was : why compare Hermione's range of action with
the range of actions of the secret services during the Cold War, when
the 2 situations are not similar according to what you stated earlier?
I would rather expect you to stick with your previous parallels and
discuss Hermione's range of actions compared to that of the different
types of partisans during WWII. Maybe you could make your point just
as easily for all I know, but when you shift from one similitude to
another, it looks, well, dishonest. Especially when you then refuse to
answer my questions and prefer to use sarcasm and ridicule to try and
make me feel bad for even daring to ask those questions in the first
place.

Del