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The HMS STFU - What's Love Got to Do With It? Everything!
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| Do the other kinds of love have flaws and pitfalls like romantic love's?
Also, I'm reminded of the manga Monster, which starred a surgeon who also had a "saving-people thing," and contrasted him with a villain who basically had a "destroying-people thing." (This guy was a handsome, charismatic orphan, like another young villain we know, but he was also a self-made orphan, and he didn't just kill -- he would make fifty people kill each other without lifting a finger himself, or get a recovering alcoholic to go back on the bottle just before shoving him off a roof. And there was more than one occasion when he faced someone with a gun and just smiled and pointed to his forehead.) | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| Hmm. Point taken. I think a better way of saying what I was trying to say is that for the purposes of understanding why shipping isn't the central key to Harry Potter is that romantic love can, in principle, be between any two (or more, as squicky as that may seem to some) people be they good guys or bad guys (JKR did write these books as a children's series, at least nominally).
It takes a different kind of love to be effective against someone who has consciously rejected the common bonds of humanity, such as against Voldemort.
Does that help? | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
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