Harry/Cho is wrong

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 20958

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., blpurdom at y... wrote:
> I won't even dignify the racist and homophobic comments on this 
topic 
> with a real retort...
> 
> 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.  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.
> 
> OTOH, she seemed like she might have been inclined to accept his 
> invitation were it not for her already having accepted Cedric's.  
But 
> I'm guessing that that was for the same reason that a handful of 
> girls Harry didn't even know asked him out; he is Harry Potter, he 
is 
> one of the school champions, and wouldn't it be cool to go to the 
> ball with HIM and make all your friends jealous?
> 
> 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 agree with you about Harry's infatuation. However, I have a gut 
feeling that Cho and Cedric were a couple before the Yule Ball and 
maybe even before the Second Task. At the very least, there was some 
kind of mutual attraction between them. I think Cho was being 
sensitive to Harry when she declined his invitation.

Milz