Definitely Miranda, though I suspect I'd end up going the way of Sandra Grigson within a term. I have an awful tendency to make Tim-like pointed remarks myself (though I'm much better at not doing it now than I was when I was fourteen) and I suspect if we became friends it'd just turn into a long-running duel and she'd win.
I don't think Tim dislikes Nicola - though I may be wrong about this - so much as that she doesn't think Nicola gives Lawrie her due, which of course is an absolutely outrageous inversion of the truth from Nicola's point of view, and also that she has a slightly Cromwell-like tendency to want her friends to stay in the very well defined place she lays out for them.
Though, I've been trying to think of things Nicola does that get on the wrong side of Tim's wanting her friends to always be there waiting for her when she deigns to pay attention to them (paraphrase - copy of Autumn Term isn't to hand) and so far have come up with Guides and sports, both of which Lawrie does too, so maybe that theory doesn't hold up.
Perhaps it's that Lawrie's willing to be part of a unit called Tim-and-Lawrie, being used to Nicola-and-Lawrie, whereas Nicola wants it to be Nicola-and-Tim if at all, thank you very much.
I definitely think that Tim believes in 'my friend the genius' implicitly, and sees things - not so much 'me and Lawrie against the world', that's too antagonistic, but she does seem to be utterly unaffected by most of the things that annoy the rest of the world about Lawrie, and I think possibly that's because she feels obscurely proud of them.
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I don't think Tim dislikes Nicola - though I may be wrong about this - so much as that she doesn't think Nicola gives Lawrie her due, which of course is an absolutely outrageous inversion of the truth from Nicola's point of view, and also that she has a slightly Cromwell-like tendency to want her friends to stay in the very well defined place she lays out for them.
Though, I've been trying to think of things Nicola does that get on the wrong side of Tim's wanting her friends to always be there waiting for her when she deigns to pay attention to them (paraphrase - copy of Autumn Term isn't to hand) and so far have come up with Guides and sports, both of which Lawrie does too, so maybe that theory doesn't hold up.
Perhaps it's that Lawrie's willing to be part of a unit called Tim-and-Lawrie, being used to Nicola-and-Lawrie, whereas Nicola wants it to be Nicola-and-Tim if at all, thank you very much.
I definitely think that Tim believes in 'my friend the genius' implicitly, and sees things - not so much 'me and Lawrie against the world', that's too antagonistic, but she does seem to be utterly unaffected by most of the things that annoy the rest of the world about Lawrie, and I think possibly that's because she feels obscurely proud of them.