OOP: Harry's emotional life

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No: HPFGUIDX 66727

A.J. wrote:
> <snip> I was most struck by the case of Cho.  Book 4's 
> description said that Harry 'wants to dream about his crush... and 
> perhaps do more than dream.'  In that book, he is mentioned 
thinking about her several times, imagining showing off, noticing her, 
etc. despite all that's on his mind during the books.
> 
> <snip>  Most of the time I saw no mention of his thinking or dreaming 
about Cho and only those interactions of speaking or doing when he did 
meet with her.  
<snip>
> Are we to assume that Harry is madly dreaming of Cho all the time he's 
not being mindmessedwith by Voldemort, speaking at length to Hermione 
and Ron, studying for O.W.L.s, in detention, or... Despite how busy he 
is, when one is very busy and fancies someone one still manages to 
think of the someone often.  Did they not speak at all except on the 
> dates?  (Other students seem to converse during meals and 
offtime.)  No wonder they feel stilted!  No wonder Cho is jealous of the 
soul time Hermione gets, like Ron, if the trio is together and 
discussing things so much more than a couple.
> 
> I am sorry about Sirius's wasted life, I love Lupin, and I was 
glad for Harry after all the fuss in Book 4 that he was given a chance 
> with Cho, but I was left with the feeling that he wasn't giving 
them enough of his emotional contribution/heart/thoughts/whatever.  
(Yes, I know he is preoccupied and feeling self absorbed, but... it 
seems given that these characters are important to him, yet there were 
not as many words fleshing out this concept to back it up.)
> 
> Or is it all offstage?
 

Ummm...

Personally I'd be annoyed if Harry spent too much time thinking 
about Cho, I never liked the idea of them together to begin with... 
When Harry was thinking about Cho so much, she was out of his reach. 
In this book he finally gets her, so there's no need for JKR to 
write about him constantly dreaming of her. 

Anyway, who sits around spending their every waking moment thinking 
about their loved ones and crush? I know I don't. So why would JKR 
write all that extra stuff, making this book much long than need be? 
It's all implied. 

Every scene, every thought and every emotion that was written in 
this book served a purpose; anything more would just be unnecessary 
fluff. 


"-Maritza"