[HPforGrownups] Re: Marietta and the DA.

[ReturnOfTheMutt at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 122197

 
In a message dated 1/10/2005 6:28:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
delwynmarch at yahoo.com writes:

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.


You're question had nothing to do with what Egg said.  s/he wasn't  comparing 
the WW war to the cold war, s/he was saying that nobody has ever found  a way 
to prevent betrayal, the cold war being an example of a time when  preventing 
betraying was really important but it still wasn't possible.   The parallel 
had to do with people being able to peg trators, not the type of  war.


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