The Trio and the nature of love

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 10959

Marvin:"Reading [the original post] reminded me of the Lord of the 
Rings and the friendship that forms between the members of the 
Fellowship, especially Samwise and Frodo.  By the end of the story 
they've gone through so much that their inhibitions sort of fall away, 
and their friendship and mutual encouragement is expressed in a 
language of love that's simultaneously homely and sublime; it's 
difficult not to cry when I read those passages."

Exactly, and thank you. Me too.

Marvin:"People who go to war together do develop intense emotional, 
sometimes even physical, bonds; and yet these bonds rarely transform 
after the war into domestic arrangements."

Well, yes, but that's often because these companions are the same 
gender. There's been plenty enough war marriages when the biology was 
right.

Marvin:"They are made possible in part because while the war goes on 
everyone involved is denied the choice to live as they see fit, and so 
they make do as best they can."

I agree, but the Trio's relationship began before the Second Voldemort 
War, which has only just begun, and so has roots beyond the conflict.

Marvin:"The buddies will likely get together to reminisce as years go 
by, but  they aren't likely to spend the rest of their lives seeking 
one another out.  I think that once the "war" ends, if everybody 
survives, our trio will find themselves gradually turning into very 
different people, as we all do, becoming more unique and more 
ourselves. "

That could happen. Again, though, they have a history before the War, 
and a bond deeper than the war; but will the war experience blot that 
out?

"Periscope down!  Awooga!  Dive, Uboat Noship, dive!"

The lonely noshippers grab stanchions and pipes as the vessel shakes 
like a dog's toy under a merciless barrage of the dreaded H/H depth 
charges.."Vill der H/H destroyers nefer be zatisfied?" cries a 
frightened young sailor. "How can ve expect mercy from zem?" his 
companion replied. "Zay sent dat poor innocent Chinny to zat SS 
unterfuehrer Draco. Zay vill stop at nuzink, I tell you, nuzink!!"