[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: SHIP:What Kind of Kiss

[Star Opal]

No: HPFGUIDX 67632

Talisman, who has a naturally lascivious nature, wrote:
>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)

Since this started out as a "wondering how other people took it" thing. I'll 
just say right now that I think Harry is a little too, um, *clumsy* shall we 
say to have gotten far past basic kissing...

So I always thought it went something like, they kissed and Cho broke down 
in tears, and Harry was just rather bewildered and took a slow dazed time 
getting back to the common room.

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

Well it *was* his first real kiss.

>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?

Back to my original interpretation/theory: They kissed, Cho started crying, 
and Harry, not knowing what to do exactly, patted her on the back. *I'd* be 
embarrassed if that's how my first kiss ended up. Patting someone on the 
back like, 'It's okay... pal?' I mean who *pats* someone's back?

Unless it *is* what they're calling it nowadays.

>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.

Cho, the dirty little cradle robber *wiggles eyebrow* (Notice that's a joke, 
please no flames).

Before this book I really didn't think about Cho one way or the other 
(though I did say that Cedric would come between any relationship she had 
with Harry, but did anyone listen?) I didn't like her in this book though 
because I got the feeling that, whether consciously or not, she was using 
Harry as a source for information and rebound guy. Having said that, I want 
to give her the benefit of the doubt that it WAS on a subconscious level and 
that she felt guilty before they got much farther and she broke down in 
tears and ended up crying on Harry's shoulder for about five minutes.

But that's my interpretation

>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.

Maybe I'm just an angsty gal, but I like the idea that even Harry's first 
kiss ended up rather sucky (no pun intended) along with everything else that 
year.

Star Opal
"You see her confidence is tragic
But her intuition magic" - Meet Virginia

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