Sibling rivarly, shipping and the rest of us...

[Amy_kuras at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 8587

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Ebony " <ebonyink at h...> wrote:
> Sorry to respond so late... due to technical difficulties (read:  
> Ameritech being *idiotic*--the Michiganders on list will know 
> why), my home Internet connection won't be restored until on or 
> before Tuesday at  7 p.m.  So until then, I'm relegated to my 
> school server (which doesn't allow Hotmail or AOL access) and 
> the rinky-dink computer lab in my building.
> 
> Anyway, re: ships and birth order... I think I proposed something 
> like this a few weeks ago.  I'm the oldest child and grandchild in 
> my generation--there was a 10 year gap between my birth and 
> that of my youngest aunt.  My real life personality is a cross 
> between Percy's and Hermione's... my younger sisters and 
> cousins (there's 17 going on 18 of us) are all Rons, Greds and 
> Forges, and Ginnys.  
> 
> And of course I'm firmly H/H.  ;)
> 
> --Ebony



Yes, you've gotta love Ameritech....
I was very much like Hermione as a kid...bossy, thought I was smarter than everyone, didn't fit in that well, and stood up for the underdog! I also had bushy brown 
hair :-). (still brown, but it's de-bushed).

I also was much like Percy, and it was because when other kids would make fun of me I would adopt the air of superiority and attachment to rules as a protective 
measure. Now as a grownup when I have realized the rule breakers have all the fun, I still sometimes fall ino that mindset. I think it's also a way for him to differentiate 
himself--Bill and Charlie are the Golden Children, Fred and George are the jokesters, Ginny is the girl and Ron is the one who's friends with the famous Harry Potter.  
BY putting on airs of extreme intelligence (I don't think he's really that smart, either, at least not common-sense smart) he can stand out. I also do think there's an age 
gap--in my husband's family, where there's a big one and a pretty significant gap between the oldest three kids and the youngest two, his next-oldest brother acts very 
much like an oldest child, as does Percy. 


I do love Ron, maybe because my husband (who is the youngest of five boys, there is no Ginny in his family) is sort of like him. I really want Ron to make Head 
Boy!!

And I agree with the person that said they don't find any of the characters sexy--I mean, they're kids, and I just don't see them as "sexy." Maybe later, but not at the 
stage the books are at now.