Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-76.30.21.29-20140101072259

I know a lot of people have brushed off Ren and Nora's relationship as completely platonic, but after some analysis I've come to a different conclusion. First of all, Ren's symbol is a lotus flower, and his color is green - as if he is the green part of the lotus plant even though the flower is most important to him. Nora's color is pink, and her sweet, bubbly personality is like a pink flower. An author always has a reason for choosing the symbols they do in a work of literature, and in Ren's case I think that Ren's lotus flower symbol functions sort of like a patronus in Harry Potter. Ren's happiest memories are with Nora, so she becomes such an important part of him that she becomes his symbol. Of course, this could still just mean they are very good friends and not necessarily meant to be together. After all, Nora makes it clear that it would be weird if they were together "in that way" - but the thing is, she's clearly embarrassed when she says it. What if it's just a cover-up? If she has feelings for Ren, she's waiting for him to make the first move. Lie Ren is just too shy and quiet to do anything - he's a serious, intellectual type of guy and I doubt he's ever had any sort of relationship. A lot of people still think that childhood friends can't be together because it's too weird. But what about Mary and Collin from the sequel to Secret Garden? What about Fanny Price and Edmund from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park? Heroine and Ron, Harry and Ginny, Lilly and James all knew each other from the age of eleven (and Snape and Lilly were younger when they met and if it weren't for Snape being STUPID they...this is a rant for another place *contains self*). Anyway, childhood friends end up together all the time in literature. What do you think? 