Looks - Cho - Wands - Goyle

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No: HPFGUIDX 20492

Flying Ford Anglia wrote:

> Adolescent blood, pus and grease aside (JKR hasn't really
> gone there, so why  should we?),

She hasn't given them magical cures for bad eyesight or dumpiness, but
she HAS given them bubotuber for acne. I imagine the Hogwarts students
are an unusually clear-skinned group of teens.

Vicki Granger wrote:

> Harry seems to only have a crush on Cho
> for her looks and Quidditch abilities.

I think Harry's response is only to her looks, not even to her Quidditch
abilities (he got that lump in his tum BEFORE the match), but I don't
consider Harry's feeling about Cho to be REALLY a crush. Just an
aesthetic admiration: he likes to look at her. But he doesn't show any
interest in daydreaming about kissing her, or her saying "I love you,
Harry". My theory is that Harry's unfortunate childhood (loss of beloved
parents at an early age, followed by abuse from foster parents) left him
remarkably but not totally unscarred: it did leave him with a reluctance
to get emotionally close to anyone. Ron, Hermione, and Sirius got
through that wall of reluctance, but the wall IS still standing and
making him very slow to get into the emotional part of puberty. In my
opinion, Harry doesn't even HAVE a sexual orientation yet!

> She also always has friends around her (couldn't be bothered
> to find the quote) so that seems to  make me think she's 'popular'.
> I hate the 'popular' group *lol*

The' popular' group, until university, was always mean to me, too. But
Cho, as Jenny from Ravenclaw has already pointed out in this thread, is
not shown being mean to anyone. she is shown as being quite nice. Maybe
the reason she's well-liked (by Ravenclaws, bookish people) is because
she's nice! JKR has made me like Cho despite her popularity as well as
making me like Oliver (and Harry!) despite him being a jock.

> I think the Asian thing is a reason Harry likes her,

Considering that what he likes is her looks, and he liked her looks at
first sight, and she is far from the only pretty girl at Hogwarts (Harry
liked looking at her more than at Fleur: "They make them just fine at
Hogwarts"), I think she must have some resemblance to someone he loved
as a baby, or perhaps a teacher who was kind to him in primary school.
"The Asian thing" makes it unlikely that it is Lily or James like whom
she looks.

Ebony wrote:
> What annoys me are several fanfics that I have read in
> which the author has decided to make Angelina white
> on purpose (snip) Imagine the cries of "sacrilege!" there
> would be if one made Hermione out to be biracial, the
> Weasleys Hispanic, or the Malfoys Asian with bleached-platinum hair.

In the first three books, I thought Hermione was a light-colored 'black'
whose parents or grandparents had come to Britain from the Caribbean.

Florence wrote:

> I suspect Charlie did have a hand-me-down wand at first
> (perhaps it belonged to a desceased great uncle or something).
> Why else would he have replaced it other than to get one that
> was a better match for him? OK, so it was looking a bit worn
> (unicorn tail poking out), but to my mind that also suggests that
> it probably wasn't new to him.

You are probably right. However, we don't know how long it takes a wand
to wear out, and we don't know whether it is normal for a people to
stick with one wand for a lifetime. Maybe they normally get a new wand
when they outgrow the old. Maybe they normally get an additional wand
specialized for their profession, while keeping their student wand for
home uses. All we know is that Ollivander, first meeting Harry, referred
to his mother getting her 'first wand'. First?

Milz wrote:
> When I read that Goyle's first name was "Gregory", I began
> playing with the name. "Greg Goyle" is similar to "gargoyle".

Yes, but it would be even more similar if he were Garth Goyle.

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