TBAY/SHIP: 4 Loves on the Big Bang (WAS: Romance on the Big Bang )

[Gail Bohacek]

No: HPFGUIDX 50846


Gail popped aspirin in her mouth, washed them down with a glass of water and 
then buried her head in her hands to wait for the medicine to take affect.  
Theorizing always gave her a headache.  Being a Filking Major at Canon 
College, she wasn't used to exercising those portions of her brain.

The door to the Royal George Bar still hung open.  The violent winds howled 
outside as the rain poured in and a patron who was sitting at a nearby table 
had a hard time closing it.  Only moments before Eileen, disheveled and 
behaving like a madwoman, had run off into the night shouting something 
about SHIPs.

Derannimer leaned over to Cindy and asked, "Eileen's going to be alright, is 
she?"

"Oh sure," Cindy replied, "It's just Elkins' Imperius Curse...she'll get 
over it."

Feeling a bit better, Gail looked up and said, "Y'know, Captain, everybody's 
been talking about these SHIPs, but I'm much more intrigued with this topic 
you brought up before.   About the Four Loves and how they also Bang.  I 
took that Four Loves Workshop at OTChatter, too.  I think you were right 
about Storge."

"You mean about Bangy eros being non-canonical and storge being the best 
Bang?" Cindy asked.

"Parental love, yeah," Gail replied.

"Hey, wait a second..." Derannimer said, raising her finger in protest, but 
Gail interrupted.

"I was thinking, just before Eileen came in here and started ranting, I came 
up with another canonically based situation where one of the Four Loves is 
involved and which also creates a Bang.

"James, Sirius, Lupin and Peter, friends right?  That's fraternal 
love...what's it called in Greek again?"

"Philos," Cindy replied.

"Yeah, Philos," Gail repeated, "And then what happens?  Peter, who James 
trusted enough to make him their Secret Keeper, turns rat-fink and betrays 
them to Voldemort.  And since Peter was their friend, it makes his betrayal 
even worse than if an enemy had done it.  Then Peter messes up his friend 
Sirius by framing him and sending him to Azkaban.  Throughout PoA we are led 
to believe that Sirius is the criminal.  Sirius, who was James' *best* 
friend.  And because they were friends, the crime is much worse, that love 
is betrayed and the wounds cut deeper.  Thus in the end it Bangs even 
louder."

"What about Eros?" Derannimer asked, leaning forward in her chair.

"I don't think that JKR will touch Agape, do you?" Gail said, ignoring her.

"Well, that's a tricky one." Cindy replied, taking a sip from her glass.

"No, wait!" Derannimer leaned forward, "I know what you said, Captain, about 
how Eros isn't canonical, but so far the books have been written from the 
point of view of a 11-14 year old.  The older the Trio get, the more we'll 
see in the way of romance.  So the fact that we have not seen Eros as a 
major motivating factor to this point in canon does not mean that we never 
will!"

"I suppose it's *possible*," Cindy said, shifting her gaze at the window and 
the raging storm outside, "And I guess we'll be finding out sooner or later. 
  But until then I think it's best that we stick with the canon we have.  
What do you say, Gail?"

But Gail's attention had been distracted.  The refrain of a rap song from 
the 90's started to play over and over in her head.  Ooooo...I've never 
filked a rap song before, she thought eagerly.  Ooooo...it could work...how 
did that song go...?  She pulled her Qwik Quotes Quill from out of the folds 
of her robes and started scribbling something down on a cocktail napkin 
sitting on their table.

Cindy's eyes narrowed suspiciously.  "What are you writing there?"

"Oh," Gail said, chuckling to herself, "nothing..."




-Gail B

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