Possibilities for Cho-Ship clues?

[greyshi]

No: HPFGUIDX 36006

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Laura Huntley" <huntleyl at m...> wrote:

> Okay, so is their any associated meaning to "Cho" or "Chang" in 
Korean?? (*flinches* there probably is no language called Korean is 
there?  Please excuse my ignorance, you know what I mean -- whatever 
language they speak there)  Perhaps not a direct meaning (The way the 
name Petunia means a certain type of flower), but maybe a indirect 
meaning, they way my own name means something like "crowned 
victoriously in laurel" referring to a pre-medieval custom, or the 
name Smith means blacksmith and the name Granger means (I think?) a 
farmer.

Ok, I have some possibilities here. I know it was mentioned that this 
could be taken to OT-Chatter, but in the discussion of the meaning of 
characters names it would go off inevitably into linguistics and 
large part of JKR's charm (for me)is the fun she has with names. But 
I'll forgo the East Asian linguistic lesson and bring this back to a 
discussion of Cho herself. Everyone's name except Harry's says 
something about the character beyond sounding merely whimsical and 
fun.

There is a language called Korean. And it's just simpler to think of 
Cho that way without any further evidence of her ethnicity or 
convoluted mutations of Chinese theories. If Cho was supposed to be a 
spelling of Chou, that would be mean since that word can mean
ashamed, 
stinky, clown, gloomy. Qiu is not pronounced Cho in any Chinese 
language. It sounds like "chew." The Chinese translations just 
"corrected" her name, figuring Westerners are just ignorant. Kind of 
like the Americans wouldn't know what a Philosopher's Stone is. :P

So here would be the possible meaning of Cho's name. Chang has no 
meaning. It's just a very common last name. However, Cho in Korean
can 
be "lucid, clear" or one that I find very interesting is "first." 
Since JKR's names always give us a clue about the character, maybe 
this  means that she's only Harry's first crush (and won't be his 
last/final love!) IMO, Cho's name means that she and Harry are not 
meant to be!

(Did I just do Ship speculation? I don't know what got into me. I'm 
just a TOURIST!)

Greyshi