SHIP: Harry and Cho

[Enrique Saúl González]

No: HPFGUIDX 75665

From: "feetmadeofclay" <feetmadeofclay at yahoo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 6:28 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: Harry and Cho

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> I don't ask that Harry be a saint only that he behave as he
> would like to be treated. That he understand and accept that Cho is a
> girl with feelings.  His choice to see her as nothing at all, is his
> own.
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> If she seems to good to be true, then perhaps we should all consider
> if Harry is also a charicature of teenage behaviour.
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> Harry isn't irredeemable, but his mistakes are his own.  The way he
> treated Cho is a great mistake.  He treated her horribly.
--

    You're right in saying Harry made mistakes. Hopefully he will learn from
them. However, I don't think these mistakes are reflections of an uncaring
personality. I think he simply didn't know better.

    I think it is quite clear that Harry acts mostly by instinct when it
comes to Cho. He has absolutely no romantic experience or knowledge. He has
no way of knowing how a relationship is supposed to work. Look at all the
ways a teenager has of learning about love/romance/sex and you'll see Harry
has had none. He hasn't had access to movies or TV at the Dursley's or in
Hogwarts. I don't
think he reads romantic novels. There is no sex ed at Hogwarts that we know
of. He has never touched the topic with any of his parental figures. The
only close enough friends he has to discuss this with are Hermione (ruled
out because she's a member of the opposite sex) and Ron.
    Ron, while far from a ladies' man, certainly seems to know a good deal
more about romance than Harry. Yet if they had ever discussed the topic, I
think there would be some hint of it in the books. Then again, with Ron
struggling with his own feelings for Hermione, I doubt he'd break the topic
to Harry.
    So Jo's picture of teenage romance may be unrealistic, but we don't have
another orphaned wizard teenager who faces death on a regular basis to make
a comparison with, so I wouldn't reject Jo's take in the case so quickly.


    On a different yet related topic, I'd like to point out that while Cho's
change in personality might be justified, I believe it could have been more
subtle or shown more gradually. It would have made it more believable and
better
written. Now, we may never be sure of what was Cho's true self before
Cedric's death or if she was truly attracted to Harry instead of just
chasing him for his connection to Cedric.

    -- Nintendo
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