OOP: SHIP:What Kind of Kiss

[Talisman]

No: HPFGUIDX 67594

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, elvinprincess99 at a... wrote:
>         I was just wondering, what kind of kiss was 
> it?I mean was it just a peck? An extended peck? A "snog"? French? 
Or did they tumble passionately onto the cushions?  . . .I was 
wondering how other people took it.
> -Elvin 


Naughty Talisman slips behind the statute of Boris the Bewildered 
and scribbles cryptically:
 
O, lovely Room of Requirements.  Harry really should have arranged 
all of his meetings with Cho there.

Nonetheless, I'm here to take a stand for rolling around on the 
cushions.
 
No, gentle reader, it is not just my naturally lacivious nature, 
though I thank you for your observation.

There is some canon to support my position (or is that a cushion?):

1. JK fades to the "amorous action," the next thing we are told is 
that Harry "returned to the common room HALF AN HOUR LATER. . ." 
(457, my emphasis) 

Half an hour of pecking would be brutal.  Half an hour of 
intermittent pecking, snogging, and French kissing? Sure, but why 
would you stand when there are cushions about?  

2. Harry is torn between telling Ron and Hermione about his 
experience and taking his "secret with him to the grave."  (457) 

Again, no peck's going to inspire this reaction, and again, if it's 
a half hour's worth of the rest of it, and there are cushions 
handy . . . 

3. When Hermione asks whether Harry was "nice" to poor crying Cho, 
Harry responds with "an unpleasant heat heat creeping up his 
face, "I sort of --patted her on the back a bit." (460)

Well, we didn't see any "back patting" (is that what they're calling 
it now?) before the fade. And, why falter over the description? Why 
such a hot face? 

Sounds to me like there was a little hand/body movement accompanying 
the lip action.  Yes, the cushions are right there.  Now I ask you, 
would a knowledgable girl like Cho (who is used to going to "kissing 
cafes" and has now advanced on our stupified Harry) just stand there 
trying to keep her balance while all those lovely cushions are on 
hand? 
 
Whatever else I think of Cho, she IS in Ravenclaw.

4. Finally, and less canonically, the Cho/Harry relationship is 
mostly a drag.  Harry has this thwarted crush "for ages," then he 
gets one hot scene before Cho goes psycho and it's all over.

Just from a cost/benefit analysis, I say we give him as good a time 
as the plot will allow.  (No, no. Not THAT good.)

Talisman, who is looking both ways before slipping back into the 
corridor.