[HPforGrownups] Re: Sibling rivarly, shipping and the rest of us...

Fri Jan 5 15:56:08 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 8573

zsenya at yahoo.com wrote:

> I am from a middle-sized family - three girls.  I am pretty sure of
> one reason why I love the Weasleys so much - all the boys! Jealousy! I
> would have given ANYTHING to have older brothers growing up.

Damn, I wish I'd known you then...you could have had mine. Cheap.

> I had this image in my head that all older brothers would be Richie
> Cunninghams

And that's exactly where the Richie Cunninghams live, in the imagination.
Real older brothers sing "Amazing Grace" loudly in the back seat, windows
down, while you're driving for the first time, make you walk on the other
side of the street on the way home from school so no one will know you're
with them, lie under your bed when you're little and reach up and grab
you, so that you have a lifelong fear of underbed monsters even as a
supposedly rational adult....shall I continue? I love them to death, but
Richie Cunnigham they ain't.

--Amanda, getting all the mileage she can out of past traumas now that
they feel guilty about it....