Relationship with Dragons: prompt
To Be A Dragonrider
Next stop — Pern
I was that kid.
I bawled right out loud whenever anyone played/sang/alluded to Puff The Magic Dragon. Little Jackie Paper was one of the first Humans I remember holding in contempt. This didn’t end when I was a child — my ex-husband would play that damn song for our kids — and I would still cry, my heart breaking wide open in empathy for Puff.
As a teenager, thanks to My Person, I discovered The Dragonriders Of Pern. I read and re-read those stories every bit as often as I visited Middle Earth. As an accomplished equestrian — dragon-riding just seemed like the next logical step.
As a lost and lonely kid grieving the death of her mother, bonding forever with a strong, protective Dragon sounded like a most excellent idea. Someone to receive all the love I held in my heart that had no place else to go. A forever someone.
Perhaps soul-bonding with a Dragon from Pern was a long shot? However — thanks to a little known private boarding school named Hogwarts — I was then introduced to the option of working with Dragons as close as Romania! Charlie Weasley seemed to be making go of that career choice. And the wizarding world seemed to suffer less from glass ceilings and gender bias. I decided to keep that option open.
