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Ron arrives tomorrow. Hurrah! I've been missing him ever since we left the Institute. (As well as missing the Institute, or the sense that I was doing something worthwhile there; I've had a longer holiday than is really healthy for me.)
Am hoping all will go well. In recent years the situation has been Harry-and-me or Ron-and-me, not the three of us together; and I think the strain is showing, on all of our friendships. The silly bickering that Harry and I have been going through due to this journal, etc., is largely a symptom of the fact that, after a few years with much of the North Sea between us, we'd begun to grow a little apart; but that's true of Harry and Ron as well. It was good for Ron, I think, not to be in Harry's shadow (or Fred's or Percy's or Bill's, etc.) I'm not at all sure it was good for Harry, though; and I'm afraid I'll end up in some strange place in the middle, trying to please everyone, and failing miserably.
Am hoping all will go well. In recent years the situation has been Harry-and-me or Ron-and-me, not the three of us together; and I think the strain is showing, on all of our friendships. The silly bickering that Harry and I have been going through due to this journal, etc., is largely a symptom of the fact that, after a few years with much of the North Sea between us, we'd begun to grow a little apart; but that's true of Harry and Ron as well. It was good for Ron, I think, not to be in Harry's shadow (or Fred's or Percy's or Bill's, etc.) I'm not at all sure it was good for Harry, though; and I'm afraid I'll end up in some strange place in the middle, trying to please everyone, and failing miserably.