Harry and Cho

[ariadnemajic]

No: HPFGUIDX 75480

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "susanbones2003" <rdas at f...> 
wrote:
This may be antithetical to the rigorous shipping that goes on around 
> here, but I am wondering if Harry is going to have a chance to be 
> normal enough to have a girlfriend. After all, at the end of OOP, 
> he's just been told (as far as he understands) it's either him or 
> LV.  That's changed him. He's a universe away from the kinds of 
> things teenagers concern themselves with. I surely hope he has a 
> chance to pursue a normal life but I wouldn't be surprised if 
romance got overshadowed in the final two books. Jennifer


I'm wondering about the same thing. At the end of OOTP when Harry 
sees Cho again and Hermione tells him Cho is seeing someone 
else, "Harry was surprised to find that this information did not hurt 
at all.  Wanting to impress Cho seemed to belong to a past that was 
no longer quite connected with him.  So much of what he wanted before 
Sirius's death felt that way these days..."

Maybe he's having a grief reaction, or maybe it's really sinking in 
that his life is going to be about many other things besides a 
girlfriend. This may tie into why so many of the members of OOTP are 
single--fighting dark wizards doesn't leave much time for romance, or 
maybe they had romances at one time, but these relationships were 
destroyed by Voldemort and the DE's. The atmosphere of death and 
destruction they bring makes it very risky to love and risk putting 
your family in danger.

I do think Ginny is going to play a key role in his life, if not as 
his romantic partner, then as one of his strategic partners in 
battle. 
Ariadne