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Cindy, who only beats up men, wrote:
You like Edge; I like Tough.
Actually, I'm beginning to think that what I like is really just a certain type of sensitivity. I prefer the neurotic to the well-adjusted, the sly to the straightforward, the passive-aggressive to the confrontational, the helpers to the heroes, and the sadists to the thugs. I like people who when placed under pressure, neither bend nor Crack, but splinter. That's why I can appreciate all those poor SYCOPHANTS so much, while also enjoying the heroically Edgy. And it's why Tough, for the most part, leaves me cold.
Does Voldemort have Edge?
No. Tom Riddle had Edge. Voldemort has gone over the Edge.
Once you have gone all the way over your Edge, then you can really no longer be said to have it.
Does Snape have Edge?
Yeah, Snape lives on the Edge. Snape's holding onto the Edge with his last two fingernails.
I don't think I get Edge. Edge is harder to evaluate than Tough.
It is, isn't it? I went looking through on-line slang dictionaries in search of a workable definition of Edge. I couldn't find one, although I did learn a number of exciting new ways to describe the act of vomiting.
Kimberley wrote:
Yay! I'm normal!
LOL!
This is surely the only time this phrase has ever been heard on the Internet!
AND I get to enjoy the Shack scene without feeling like a heel. This is great! I love Edge! Ahh, that feels so liberating.
::twisted smile::
I see that you're ready for the intermediate lesson, Grasshopper. Want to learn to read the Graveyard scene in GoF as black comedy? C'mon...You know you want to. Good and evil are only in your mind...
I wrote that the Twins' pranks are usually well-meaning, if sometimes insensitive, but at other times show elements of malice. I cited their constant attacks on Percy's badges as an example of the latter.
Kimberley wrote:
I kinda think that this, like the example you mentioned with Ginny, is not about malice, but about an attempt to "cheer" him up, although in another sense of the word. Percy's wound up tight, and takes everything (including himself) very seriously. . . . I get the impression that the twins' teasing is just an ill-advised attempt at getting him to lighten up. I think Fred and George are trying (in the way that is their specialty) to teach him to laugh at himself.
I certainly agree that this is how they would defend their actions. But I don't think it's accidental that they go after Percy on precisely the same points for which he is always being praised by their mother, or for which they themselves are always being criticized by their mother.
There's genuine hostility there, I'd say. Not, of course, that this precludes love.
It's obvious they love their brother, or they wouldn't bother forcing him to spend Christmas with them, so I don't think the rest of the teasing is malicious.
I agree that they love him. I also think that much of their teasing is malicious.
So basically what I'm saying is that Fred and George are sort of thoughtless, but I think they mean well. Judging from the way they zoom in on Percy's sore points, they do have the insight, so when they grow up enough to realize how they push people's buttons maybe they'll develop the kind of strenght and control that will make them characters with Edge too.
I don't see the Twins ever becoming 'Edgy,' per se. They're too direct and too straightforward, and not sufficiently thoughtful or sensitive. Honestly, I don't think that they way they go after Percy shows a terrific deal of insight. They're not really very subtle at all, are they? Like a pair of human Bludgers, the Twins are.
(Of course, a great deal of what makes Percy such a tempting target in the first place is that it requires absolutely no insight to figure out how to get his goat. ::sigh:: Poor Percy. I always feel for Percy.)
—Elkins
Posted to HPfGU by Elkins on February 22, 2002 1:47 PM
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