The Chos and Cedrics of the world (was: Why I'm pro-H/G)

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 10983

Amy:"I'm more a Ginny than a Cho, but I agree--it's unfair to assume 
that  Cho is flighty, shallow, etc. just because she's pretty and 
talented and popular.  She seems really nice from the little we know, 
e.g. when she tells Harry she can't go to the dance with him."

I'm more Ginny that Cho also, but can't figure out where all the 
anti-Cho stuff comes from. It's just an "innocent till proven guilty" 
thing with me.

Amy:"Cedric falls prey to the same stereotype--almost all of the 
Gryffindors dislike him.  He's handsome, popular, a prefect, captain  
of his Quidditch team, and worst of all, of course, beat them at 
Quidditch, ergo he must be a jerk.  But the fact is, the guy's a 
class act--we know that from the first match, when he calls for a 
rematch  because of the Dementors.  Etc. etc.--everything we know 
about him is  good (okay, he doesn't believe Harry didn't put his name 
in the Goblet of Fire, but you can't blame him for that)."

Harry knows it, too. His nose was out of joint, that's all, when he 
called Cedric a 'useless pretty boy' without a brain in his head.  If 
I was 14 I'd say the same thing about the guy who aced me out of the 
date I wanted but didn't have the nerve to ask. They were friends 
before the end.
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> Amy Z
> who can't believe she's sticking up for the Popular Crowd