[HPforGrownups] Re: Cho

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 50259

In a message dated 21/01/2003 16:11:21 Eastern Standard Time, 
kethlenda at yahoo.com writes:


> And a girl who is polite to Harry as she turns him 
> down.  She has a sort of independence and dignity that I like; 
> many teenage girls are much more swayed by the crowd than 
> she is.   
> 

I always thought there was a lot to see in Cho during this particular scene 
in the book. I felt as though she would have accepted Harry's offer were it 
not that she was promised to Cedric for the Yule Ball. I got the sense that 
she knew and had some sense of empathy for the position Harry was in, and she 
dealt with it in a kind and gentle way. Teenage girls aren't always as sweet 
as she was, and there was a certain level of discomfort that I chalked up to 
not wanting to hurt Harry's feelings as she was aware of how hard it must be 
to ask a girl out, much less an older girl.

-Snuffles
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]