[HPforGrownups] Harry/Cho is wrong

[Michi]

No: HPFGUIDX 20860


--- owl_of_hedwig at yahoo.com wrote:
> Delurking for a mo'
> 
> I don't know if anyone has thought of this, but does
> anyone else feel 
> uncomfortable with Harry having a crush on a Chinese
> person? I mean, 
> it's not like anything good would come out of it.
> And plus she's 
> older, so she might try to use him for whatever
> means. Harry has 
> money, so she might use him for that, or even his
> great wizard powers.  
> I just get a bad feeling with her being chinese and
> being older, it's 
> not a good combo, and probably not something that he
> wants to get 
> into. 

*counts to 10 very, very slowly and lets out a long
breath*

Harry, like any other person/character, has the right
to have a crush on anyone that he so chooses. Cho's
pretty and she's good at Quidditch and so she happens
to be Chinese. And she happens to be older which
really isn't that big of a deal ~ lots of young boys
get crushes on older girls (like older sisters of
their friends, etc.) It's not like there's that much
of an age gap.

But if you're insuinating that *because* Cho is
Chinese that she would use him for his money or his
power, I'd suggest that you please re-evaluate your
thoughts. That's stereotypical and racist and frankly
not nice at all.

> Just my thoughts...anyone else have anything to add
> on that?

My thoughts have been said. There's nothing wrong with
interracial couples, crushes, anything. 

If you posed this question to be inflamatory then
well... please get your head checked. 

If you posed this question as an honest question,
please explain a bit further to avoid insulting
people. I am Asian and by your phrasing I read that
you believe Chinese (and extending, Asians) to be
people that would use someone and that nothing good
can come of an interracial relationship with them, and
was therefore insulted. To put it in polite terms,
it's really not nice to think that way .

Michelle

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