Harry's Height /Cho's a midget?

[serenadust]

No: HPFGUIDX 36862

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Ms Lizard Gizzard <lizgiz1980 at y...> wrote:
 
> 
> I know Harry's probably not big for his age, owing to
> the Dursley's treatment of him, but do you really
> think he's that short?  Most of the 13 year olds I
> know are in the 5' to 5'6" range.  


My 11 year old son is in the 50% range for his age and is almost 
exactly 5' tall.  In the beginning of CofS it states, "Harry, 
thought still rather small and skinny for his age, had grown a few 
inches over the last year." (Chapter 1, CofS).  So my assumption is 
that if 5' is average for an 11 year old boy, then Harry would be in 
the range of 5'3" for a "rather small" 13 year old (since boys in 
the 11 to 13 y.o. range seem to do quite a bit of growing).  What 
has always seemed very wierd to me was that in Chapter 13 of the 
same book Cho Chang is described as being shorter than Harry by 
about a head.  Most girls are close to their eventual adult height 
by the age of 14 (she's a year older than Harry, right?).  I'm 
mortified to admit that I measured my 13 year old daughter's head 
(didn't tell her why, of course, since she already has her doubts 
about my sanity), and it's about 8 1/2 inches long.  This would 
indicate to me that Cho is only about 4 1/2' tall!  Since she's a 
seeker I would expect that she would be relatively small, but 
wouldn't this make her almost freakishly short?  I wonder if JKR 
thought this through.

Jo Serenadust, feeling kind of stupid even bringing this up, but 
wanting to know if anyone else has thought about this