Top 5 Wednesday: Friendships

Dear Reader,

Welcome to this week's Top 5 Wednesday, where I list my Top 5 whatever-the-topic-is-for-this-week. 

This brilliant idea was the brain child Lainey from gingerreadslainey on youtube, though I first came across it on The Readables. The series is fun and easy to write/watch, and is open to all who want to participate. If you, dear reader, want to know more or want to join in the fun, this is the link for the goodreads group. 

This week's theme is fictional Friendships. So without further ado:

5) At number 5 we have Albert and Joey (the horse) from War Horse by Michael Morpusgo. Over the years, I have read plenty of books that contain a strong bond between stead and rider, e.g. Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater and The Horse and His Boy by C.S.Lewis; even in the novel I'm currently working on, the only friend of my main character, Sharon, is her mare Honey. But their is something about the length that Albert and Joey go to, the tragedies and horrors they encounter, on finding their way back to each other; which I find so moving and which puts their friendship (as opposed to all the others) in my Top 5.    

4) Next come Sherlock Holmes and John Watson from the amazing books by Sir Arthus Conan Doyle. Granted I was never really interested in this phenomenon until I watched BBC's Sherlock when it first came on TV. But since then I've read 3 of the 6 A.C. Doyle books and I now completely understand why Sherlock and Watson have become such an iconic friendship; one name cannot be mentioned without the other. 

3) In third place, I have my favourite trio: Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, children of the brilliant J.K.Rowling. They have the most exciting adventures and the most heartwarming character development. Sure they've had their ups and downs, but it's their love for each other, their friendship, that sets Harry apart from Voldemort. From the moment when they first met on the Hogwarts Express to the Battle of Hogwarts, their's is a friendship to concur all evil and be passed on from generation to generation. (There is another beloved trio: Percy, Annabeth and Grover, from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & The Olympians, but they just haven't had as much impact in my life as Harry, Ron and Harmione.)

  

2) Second on my list is the friendship of Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas from Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. They don't go on lift-altering or world-saving adventures. They don't battle evil forces or catch deadly killers. They're friendship is subtle but still strong. They have most realistic friendship in this list. Their personalities and opinions differ greatly and they fight; but in the end they both come out stronger and closer to each other. In a way, I love Lizzie and Charlotte so much because their friendship greatly resembles my own friendship with my best friend Codename: Pixie. I am the quiet, unremarkable pragmatist while she come from a large family full of sisters, is overt, passionate and won't settle for anything less than true love.

1) And finally, my favourite friendship of all time is Will Herondale and Jem Carstairs from Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices Trilogy. They are two halves of a whole, one soul in two bodies. But, no matter what I say about these two, I cannot possibly explain Will & Jem. Dear Reader, to truly understand why these two have the most amazing friendship of all time, you will just have to read the books.   

In the comments section, tell me about you top 5 favourite friendships.

Until the next tag, the next blog, take care and keep reading.
Nida