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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/5/2014 8:56 AM, Shelley wrote:<br>
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<p>Hermione, I always felt, <br>
would have been like "kissing your sister". She's so full
of herself <br>
anyway, that I really can't see her fully partners with
someone who was <br>
as competitent as Harry. It'd be too much of a
competition. (It'd be a <br>
two first born marriage, for those who have read anything
about Kevin <br>
Lemin and his birth order research- two first borns in a
marriage tend <br>
to butt heads a lot as they are both used to being the
leader and taking <br>
charge, and you can't have both partners in charge at the
same time.) I <br>
am personally in a marriage like that, and it can work
long term (we've <br>
been together 26 years), but it's only because each of us
are too damned <br>
stubborn to quit. There's constant tension that never
really goes away. <br>
You only solve it by each having his/her own demain to be
in charge of.<br>
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Dorothy: I know this isn't reflective of the story, but my husband
and I, both first born, have been married over 50 years, and not
because of continuous tension. As corny as it sounds (this
reflective of a comment in The Sorcerer's Stone), it's because of
love.<br>
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Shelly:<br>
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Ron, in that respect, is a youngest and is used to
constant making <br>
compromises, and so he would be giving in to Hermione a
lot (the <br>
yes-dear type of relationship). I just don't like the idea
that she's <br>
trying to rewrite the book long after it's finished- I
think it's <br>
disrespectful to the readership.<br>
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12px; padding: 15px 0;">Dorothy: Ron's not the youngest in
his family, Ginny is.<br>
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