Clip Cupids wings - Please!

[B Arrowsmith]

No: HPFGUIDX 68448

Stay me with flagons; comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.

O.K. so I'm am embittered old cynic. No doubt with a heart of stone and 
ossified emotions. Good. It needs a few like this around here to cut 
through the rosy glow and the the planned blizzards of confetti and 
happy ever afters.

SHIPS to the left of me, SHIPS to the right of me. An armada of wishful 
thinking.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Maybe it's because I don't watch TV  Soaps. 
Trying to second guess romantic entanglements has all the fascination 
of juggling with soot. It's messy and ultimately futile.

I can understand that dissecting entanglements that have already been 
consummated, as it were, are fair game, even when discussing fictional 
16 year olds. But spending good drinking time speculating on, 
disagreeing about, confidently predicting, true love for 16 year olds 
is a bit odd, to put it mildly.

Most of us have read or seen the interviews and chats that JKR has 
participated in. How many questions has she fielded about love 
interest? Damn few, if any. So is this an affliction that only strikes 
when adult HP fans gather together and reach a critical population 
density? Like lemmings struck with the urge for a day at the beach?

I can just about remember when I was that age - it was horrible. The 
uncertainty, the ineptitude, the raging hormones. Of course,  when you  
are that age you think that you  are the first person since the 
beginning of time to experience these emotions. That this is IT. Then 
after two weeks it miraculously gets transferred to some-one you'd 
never noticed before. At no  time did the concept of permanence enter 
the thought processes, only if it would last until the party next week.

That sort of merry-go-round is like a parrot repeating words. Sounds 
all right , but the parrot doesn't have a clue what it's doing.

Come on, give the kids some room. They'll have to learn the hard way, 
just like we did.

Kneasy