Challenge #139
Nope. Never have done really. I'm not saying I don't have mates, Dean, Seamus, and Neville and to name few. But making them wasn't easy, nor is keeping them. Growing up the other boys in the neighbor hood always seemed to assume that I didn't need friends, so prolific is my family and so many are my siblings and cousins that looking from the outside it would be hard to tell that any of us were in need of a friendship that our siblings couldn't provide.
For some that was true. Bill and Charley, only two years apart, were best mates as kids and even now nearly ten years after leaving school Bill numbers Charlie amongst his closest friends and Charlie compares his other friendships with his first and strongest bond. Percy, the prat, never needed anyone else. He had his books and his own secrets. Mum was his best friend till the day he turned his back on our family. The twins were best mates from the womb and no one is ever going to be a part of that no matter how hard they try. Ginny my closest sibling should have been my natural friend but as the youngest and the only girl she has always gotten more notice, more attention from the rest than anyone else which thanks in no small part to my own jealousy has always made us less close than we could have been. Because of her own natural proclivities she's always been closest to Da; his special friend and companion. Daddy's little witch.
Until school I was a more solitary child than the size of my family and my own personality makes likely; not quiet but without much of notice to say to someone else. Not lonely but lonesome. Enter Harry and Hermione.
Harry and me, clicked from the start, fear and awe (on both sides) made us natural companions and later the sheer size of what he faced, what we faced together, cemented the bond. Hermione took longer to warm up to. I called her some awful names at first and have done so again since (and she back at me) but the bond Harry and I share has a third piece that is Hermione. Harry may be my best friend but she is my closest, the one I can confide in when there isn't anyone else to listen.
It used to bother me, that I didn't seem to make friends the way the others did, I didn't know why then but I've figured it out. I was waiting for Harry and Hermione to show up and make my circle complete.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Muse: Ron Weasley
Word Count: 439