Harry's Height /Cho's a midget?

[gideoner4]

No: HPFGUIDX 36883




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



Oh I had thought of that the moment I read that part in PoA. And 
imagine the mental picture I had when Cedric--a tall guy--went out 
with Cho. Probably Cho just reached Cedric's armpit, becasue we all 
know Cedric was taller than Harry, and Cho is smaller than Harry by a 
head.

But I guess that since Cedric was 16, he could have been about 5'10" 
to six feet or so. I think Harry is about 5'4". A head measures more 
or less 8 inches, but since Harry just made an estimate, 6 inches is 
acceptable. That makes Cho 4'10". At 4'10", that's an acceptable 
height for Cho without her being a midget. After all she's just 14 
and Asian girl tend to be petite. I should know. I'm an Asian, 21 
years of age, and I stand 5'4 1/2" and I'm already considered of 
medium height in my country. :)At 14 I stood at 5 feet, and some of 
my friends were smaller than me at that age.

But if Cho's 4'10" and Cedric was 5'10", that makes about one-foot 
difference. Oh well. 

*Lexan, who has too much free time so that she computes fictional 
character's heights. :)