[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry/Cho is wrong

[Ebony Elizabeth Thomas]

No: HPFGUIDX 20940

Barbara wrote:

>I won't even dignify the racist and homophobic comments on this topic
>with a real retort...

Neither will I.  I wish I had waited to respond to the initial post 
myself--I thought we were going to actually begin an intelligent ship debate 
that had nothing to do with R/H or H/H for a change.  ;-)

>I think the only real problem with a Harry/Cho relationship (not
>race, not age) is the fact that he simply saw her from afar and was
>smitten.

What's wrong with that?  Ginny saw Harry from afar and was smitten--yet 
people defend her crush all the time.

>He knows nothing about her, her personality, her likes and
>dislikes, what kind of student she is, nothing.  JKR doesn't even
>report them having a conversation of more than 30 seconds' duration
>before he asked her to the Yule Ball.  He might as well have a crush
>on a picture of a model in a magazine.

Well, let them spend a Saturday together in Hogsmeade in some future book 
just so they can find out how compatible they really are.  Just because 
they're wrong for one another doesn't mean they shouldn't date at all... in 
fact, I'm all for "try it and see if you like it" in lots of situations.  
(This is why at this point I don't mind seeing R/H happen in canon.)

An easy "first" talking point for Harry and Cho might be Quidditch.  Another 
could be flying in general--Heidi Tandy's recent chapter of "A Surfeit of 
Curses" (read it, it's really very good) mentions a Hogwarts racetrack.  
Another could be brooms.  They're both well-known students... perhaps Cho 
feels as trapped in her popularity as Harry feels in his fame.

We as readers might get to know Cho and learn she has plenty of substance.  
I do think it's more likely that JKR will develop Ginny for this purpose 
instead of Cho, and Cedric could be a major issue, but still, we don't know. 
  I'd hesitate a bit before I dismissed her.


>Even if they ever "date" in the canon books, I don't see it going
>anywhere, and once again, Harry would have to worry about the Forces
>of Evil targetting her...He's just too nice to want that to happen.

I totally agree.  My money's on canon R/H, and canon Harry-No Ship.  The 
former I'll reserve comment on.  The latter just plain makes sense.

--EBony AKA AngieJ


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