SHIP: Harry/Cho/Apology

[linlou43]

No: HPFGUIDX 69534

  stormbringer43 wrote:

> Also, Cho's defense of Marietta seemed to be as a peacemaker, but 
> tinged with the insecure jealousy towards Hermione - and Harry 
> treated Cho very badly for this.  I am hoping the Harry will learn 
to 
> apologize by book six.

    
    I didn't read the passage in the same way you did. 
      
   an abreviated version ,pg 637 American edition:


 (Cho) "No, it was only...Well, I just wanted to say... Harry, I 
never dreamed Marietta would tell..."
  
      "Yeah, well," said Harry moodily. He did feel Cho might have 
chosen her friends a bit more carefully. It was small consolation 
that the last he had heard, Marietta was still up in the hospital 
wing and Madam Pomfrey had not been able to make the slightest 
improvement to her pimples.

      Up to this point Cho IS acting the peacemaker. Also, to 
Harry's credit, he has kept his thoughts on what he thinks about the 
situation to himself at this point. Then Cho makes a mistake.

      "She's a lovely person really," said Cho. She just made a 
mistake-"

       
       It's not an apology anymore, it's an excuse, and as the 
conversation becomes an argument, Cho makes more and more excuses. 
If Cho had just said I'm sorry and left it at that, that would have 
been being the peacemaker, but once she started making excuses, 
there was no hope of salvaging the conversation. It 
was a mutual argument. They were both right and they were both 
wrong. They're both somewhat messed up kids in this book. I Think 
Cho partially blamed herself for what happened because she brought 
Marietta into the group and was trying to rationalize it to herself 
as well as Harry. At the same time, she truely did not understand 
Harry's POV and that just made the situation worse. IMO, it was 
pretty symbolic of their entire relationship in OOP.


    -linlou