Harry's Height /Cho's a midget?

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No: HPFGUIDX 36870

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "serenadust" <jmmears at p...> wrote:
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.

It's always been my understanding that "about a head taller" usually
means that anywhere from the person's top of forehead to top of head
reaches the taller person's chin area.  That's just how I see it.  So,
Cho is still short-ish, but not out of range of possibility (I know a
4'11" 18-yr-old girl...)

-Megan (feeling rather disgruntled towards those small-statured,
abnormally-short people at the moment, as someone who used to be
proportionally short but isn't anymore)