Cho/Cedric (was: Fav scenes / Cho [was] Ginny's "bond")

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ms_petra_pan" <ms_petra_pan at y...> wrote:
> --- "uncmark" <uncmark at y...> wrote:
> > Cho has never faced Dark Magic and I don't think she 
> > wants a boyfriend who would be on the front lines of a magical 
> > war. 
> 
> That's quite an assertion - care to elaborate?
 
At the risk of intrusively replying to a question being asked of 
someone else: All one has to consider is Cho's reaction at the 
leaving feast in Goblet of Fire.  Her boyfriend is the first 
casuality since the return of Voldemort and she is clearly 
heartbroken.  While it may be assuming a lot to say she doesn't want 
to be in this position again, it's really not too much of a leap.  
She probably thought she would either be celebrating with a Cedric 
Diggory who won the tournament or commiserating with a Cedric who 
lost--not mourning his death.  She's only about sixteen or 
seventeen.  She grew up in a time when Voldemort wasn't a threat, so 
for her boyfriend's death to be connected to Voldemort is likely 
quite a shock.  

We have no really detailed information about her, but her family was 
not named when the previous victims of Voldemort were listed (like 
Susan Bones' family, for instance).  We have no evidence of prior 
contact between the Chang family and dark magic (she could be Muggle-
born for all we know).  There's no reason to believe she has any 
experience with this or wants it.  She comes off as having led a 
rather sheltered life for some reason (I don't know--maybe that's 
just me).  And while she seems to be a competant Quidditch player 
and she's obviously smart since she's in Ravenclaw, it's still not 
quite the same as having the courage of a Gryffindor.  

The interesting thing about the house stereotypes is that Cedric 
truly seemed to be the best person for the job and probably should 
have won the tournament (if Harry hadn't been thrown in as a wild 
card).  As a hard-working Hufflepuff he worked out how to get his 
egg from the dragon using neither the Conjunctivitis Curse nor 
flying on a broom; he successfully used the bubble-head charm to 
rescue Cho in the lake and he did well in the maze, even keeping on 
after suffering through the Cruciatus Curse.  I think he should get 
a huge number of points for dogged determination.  And think of it--
since Ron and Hermione were helping Harry a bit, don't you think 
that Cho the Ravenclaw might have been helping her boyfriend?  In 
addition to mourning him, she might also have been thinking about 
all of the hard work they'd both put into helping him win the 
tournament, and how he finally succeeded, only to die right after.  
Cedric's Pyrrhic victory is obviously no comfort to her now.  It 
seems highly unlikely she'd want to go through anything remotely 
similar to this again if she could manage to avoid it.

--Barb

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