The Trio and the nature of love

[moongirlk at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 11010

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:

> 
> In my heart of hearts I'd like to see Harry get everthing: love a 
> mate, love of his friends, love of a family. But in my head of 
heads I 
> doubt it.  

Yes, I agree.  I do have a realistic side that knows that I'm not 
very likely to get what I want.  I know it's far-fetched and sappy.  
Many other of my sides don't really think that should factor into 
what I want, though, so there you are.

Harry will lose a lot; he will lose friends; he may lose 
> too much to bond with a mate, at least in canon. Family of some 
kind 
> will still be there. That makes me a no-shipper on that level. I 
have 
> my doubts if he'll have PTSD in the clinical, diagnostic sense, but 
> Harry's going to be beat up pretty bad and he is going to pay a 
heavy 
> price.

Yeah, there's little Harry will not have endured by the time this is 
all over - I don't know anything about PTSD really, but I'd say it's 
going to be a hard time.  Whatever happens, if he *does* end up with 
someone, I hope it's someone patient and supportive (y'know, like 
Ginny!), and I hope he's able to retain the close bonds he has formed 
with friends, mentors and surrogate family.

kimberly