[spoilers] Harry and Ruth

[Beatriz]

(26-01-2010 10:32 PM)lwhite53 Wrote:  Yes. Ruth loved George, but not enough to marry him, I think. Love is not a mutually exclusive or an either/or emotion, to my mind. Love is expansive and loving more than one person is certainly not an impossibility, especially if love object #1 is not, or no longer, available. I think Ruth needed a loving, caring relationship after she had been forced to leave her old life, and George and Nico offered her that. She had to find a way to move forward and she meshed into their lives well -- they offered a supportive and very safe environment for her. But did she love George in the same all-encompassing, idealized way she loved Harry? I don't believe so.

I couldn't agree more with that, she loved George in a different way she loves Harry.

(26-01-2010 11:00 PM)Tea Lady Wrote:  After reading some fanfic the other day, it made me think of whether Harry actually did try and find Ruth when she left England. I could imagine him doing so and perhaps failing or leaving her be, once he found she was happy and settled. I guess I still find it hard to believe that he let her walk out of his life and he never went back for her. Maybe he did, maybe that will out in future series.

That's something I haven't thought about it... I'd like to think he try to locate her, yes, but once he had discovered it, he will let her live her life. I'm sure he tried at least