Faith and Edge (was Neville and the Bangers)

[moongirlk]

No: HPFGUIDX 35966

Cindy conspired: 
> > Now that Kimberly and her Faith, *they're* definitely squeamish.  
> > Something needs to be done about them, don't ya think?
> 
Elkins replied with a sigh:
> Faith lacks Edge.  She definitely lacks Edge.  But I'm afraid that 
> she *does* have the author on her side, so she probably outranks 
us.  

Wait!  Faith doesn't lack Edge!  Honest!  She's a little squeamish 
about torturing children, sure, but she's got Edge.  In fact, she's a 
tiny bit sadistic herself.  You should have seen the twisted smile 
she was wearing when she was picking on the Memory Charms and stuff.  
And right now she's smiling twistedly again because she just told me 
that she suspects the whole reason I want to buy into a theory or two 
is because I'm a wimp, and that if we all had any real Edge, we'd be 
able to bask lazily in the glow of suspense instead of running around 
like busy bees trying to fill in all the gaps.  Of course I told her 
she's wrong, that we like Edge, and Cindy captains the Big Bang 
destroyer.  I told her about all of Elkins' clandestine missions and 
everything, and she just shook her head and smiled.  Twistedly.

Apparently Faith loves suspense.  She loves the pins and needles of 
waiting for new Bangs; she's the little voice in the back of my head 
that wants JKR to take her time.  She wants to draw it all out as 
long as possible so she can wallow in suspense.  "Relax," she keeps 
saying from the recliner in my spare room, "JKR will tell us when the 
time comes, and then after, when she's done telling us all she's got 
to tell, anything she leaves out is *ours* to toy with at our 
leisure."

She makes a big distinction between Edge and Bangs.  She says the 
truly Edgy are a Bang in a Bottle themselves, so they don't need any 
added Bangs (the ones that are already there are plenty, and they 
know there are always more to come).  The Edgiest, according to 
Faith, prefer the slow burn to flash-fires.  She even quoted Snape at 
me - said I probably couldn't understand the beauty of the softly 
simmering character.  Faith's got Edge.  She's got Edge *and* canon, 
and now that she's gotten out of my head, she's getting a little 
pushy about it.  

kimberly
wondering if Marina would be willing to trade George for Faith for 
the weekend.