Spiders and fears

[M. Barnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 22921

I can tell you that if my brother turned my teddy bear into a spider, 
I'd freak too.  But even so, it could be some deep psychological 
trauma that makes ROn so scared of spiders.  I am bold enough to say 
that Ron suffers from arachnaphobia, something I know quite a bit 
about.  And like all phobias, arachnaphobia is an irrational fear of 
spiders.  It is completely irrational.  Ron, like me, probably knows 
that they aren't going to hurt them and he is bigger than they are 
and somewhere in his mind is ok with that.  But because it is an 
irrational fear, he can't control it and ends up curled up in the 
fetal postion on the couch, hyperventilating .. no wait, that's me.  
But seriously, if he has an irrationalf ear, he is kind of embarassed 
about it, so making up a story wouldn't be too far fetched.

And I'm also willing to bet that Ron, assuming he made it out of Book 
7 alive, won't be applying for Survivor 4 because it'll most likely 
be in the Amazon and they have spiders that are as bg as people and 
can probably eat people down there.

Michelle :)  <---who loves her roomie because he kills those nasty 
little 8-legged, boy that's unnatural, buggers for her :)