fictional friends

I've been listening to my favorite books lately: The Dark is Rising Sequnce. I've read them every summer for as long as I can remember. I first read the series in fifth grade, thanks to my need to be different from everyone else. We received the assignment to write a report about our favorite book and author.

I had originally chosen Madeleine L'Engle, and the Wrinkle in Time books. Then I learned that Jon Harris, too, had chosen her.

This would not do!

I don't know if I had already read these books, or my teacher, Ms. Cooper, suggested the books...maybe my parents? Either way, I fell in love. I can still remember drawing our original book covers, and including all the six signs that Will the Sign-Seeker did find, and choosing which color of prismacolor pencils best represented the different materials.

As I sit here, listening to The Grey King, think how many of my best friends are fictional characters. I read an overall positive review, but the said that it was too bad that the Drew children were so dated! I really couldn't think of any specific instance that dated them, excepting the technology is from the 1970's. In fact, I had earlier been thinking how it would be great to be friends with Jane - well, with all of the Six. I do believe we would get along.

Others from my favorite fiction that I would be friends with would be:
Jane Bennett
Mr. Bingley
Charlotte Lucas
Faramir
Eomir
Edmund
maybe Lucy, Peter Pevensie
Jill Pole
Eustace Scrubb
Tirian
Nelly Dean
Captain Hastings

Probably friends, but not BFF:
Elizabeth Bennett
Mr. Darcy
Esther Summerson
any Elf
Aragorn
Frodo
Susan Pevensie
Catherine Linton
Poirot

Not so sure:
Lydia Bennett
Heathcliff
Caradog Pritchard

If it weren't so late, maybe I'd analyze how, most of the BFFs are not the main characters, but it is late, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep....