Private message to Sally Anne
Jun. 6th, 2013 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_daphneHello -
Are you all right, Sally Anne?
You didn't look to be enjoying yourself at the party.I think I saw you I don't mean to pry, but you know how a good hostess needs to look out for her guests.
-Daphs
Are you all right, Sally Anne?
You didn't look to be enjoying yourself at the party.
-Daphs
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Date: 2013-06-06 03:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 03:41 pm (UTC)Maybe not the boys - or they were so busy chumming around they hid it well! I have to say I never really thought I'd see Ron and Draco be friends, but it seems something's changed. Funny how that happens, isn't it?
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Date: 2013-06-06 03:43 pm (UTC)They all seemed to be having a fine time.
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Date: 2013-06-06 03:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 03:48 pm (UTC)You might be right. That they can compartmentalise better. I actually think I'm usually rather good at it, but not so much this week.
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Date: 2013-06-06 04:01 pm (UTC)Ron is a lovely person. He's chivalrous, and kind, and funny, and a good dancer.
That's why he was the perfect one toHe can also be utterly thick. You wouldn't believe how much he tried to needle me at the start of the Revue. Of course, I saw right through it. Boys like him don't know how to let a girl know they fancy her, so they act like idiots instead, joking around or, if they have it especially bad, ignoring her completely.no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 04:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 04:04 pm (UTC)Because I wouldn't think it would be ignoring her.
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Date: 2013-06-06 04:10 pm (UTC)I know it seems silly, but it makes sense, really. People will do almost anything to protect themselves from unbearable hurt. And if they're not really all that fussed about it, they'll take more chances. Like he did with me.
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Date: 2013-06-06 04:19 pm (UTC)What would you suggest the girl do, in that situation? If she's already made her feelings rather clear and doesn't wish to make an utter fool of herself if her feelings are not reciprocated?
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Date: 2013-06-06 04:27 pm (UTC)If the feelings aren't reciprocated, that doesn't make her a fool. It makes him a fool. And it will be his loss, and she can rest easy knowing that she made her feelings perfectly clear and it was he who was too afraid, or too confused, or too whatever, to not reciprocate.
Because in this particular scenario, as an outside witness I can say with confidence that he definitely does have feelings for her.
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Date: 2013-06-06 04:30 pm (UTC)If you say so.
You're probably a better judge at this point than I am.
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Date: 2013-06-06 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 04:40 pm (UTC)I mean unless I'm utterly confused you also fancy him, or you fancied him for a while. I would not ordinarily go for help to a girl who liked the same boy I did because (1) it's tactless and (2) it invites problems and (3) it makes it even more awkward when I am ROOMMATES with that other girl, so...
There is a lot of potential for awkwardness here which I have been trying very hard to avoid, Daphne, by not opening my mouth about it!
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Date: 2013-06-06 04:49 pm (UTC)But the two of you have been friends for ages, and there's a real history between you.
And, well, I want Ron to be happy. And you, too. You're my friends.
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Date: 2013-06-06 05:13 pm (UTC)then
what do you think I should do?
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Date: 2013-06-06 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 05:17 pm (UTC)he was
look hang on, I'm going to talk to you in person about this.