Friendship and loneliness

[siriusgeologist]

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From: siriusgeologist
Subject: Re: Friendship and loneliness
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Date: 8/18/00 3:57 pm  (ET)

By: delwyn_march
Date: 8/18/00 8:42 am
wrote:

All this to say that, in my opinion, Harry, Ron and Hermione might be good
friends, but not *close* friends. They are together more because they are
the first person they met (Harry and Ron), or because things turned out
that way accidentally (Hermione quite unvoluntarily shared one of Harry
and Ron's nights out of bed, and stayed with them because they didn't
really mind her presence and she didn't find better elsewhere), but they
don't seem to be putting any special efforts in their relationship to
make it grow stronger. It's sad but they just take it for granted and
when something breaks, they just wait for it to mend all by itself.

In a way, I'm looking forward for them to meet more adversity on their
way, since that's the only thing that could make them grow closer (or
break up completely !)

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Good friends...but not Close friends....over the past 4 years they have
gotten past a 3 headed dog and all amnners of tests that could have
killed them or gotten them expelled. gone after a basilisk that kills
with a glance, and gone after a convicted murderer and freed him, again
at the risk of their lives and their school careers. Ron and Hermione
each went willingly into their respective escapades...you don't do that
for a casula friend...you do that for a *best* friend. I see nothing
casual or happenstance about these friendships except how they began, as
most friendships begin this way. They have risked life and limb for one
another. Sure they fight...they are 11, 12, 13, and 14..its the way most
adolescents treat their friends...but just because they fight and take
awhile to get over it does not diminish the closeness of the friendship.

carole