Meaning of Cho's name + Ginny/Harry/Cho - a long way to go...

sorenkickaguard s_starr at mac.com
Thu Jun 19 00:32:49 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 60999

Here's a thought from the very edge of a large envelope:

Cho Chang is connected with Chuang Chou/Zhangzi and his famous story
of the Fully-
Realised Person:

"Once Chang Chou dreamt he was a butterly, a butterfly flitting and
fluttering around, 
happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was
Chang Chou. 
Suddenly, he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Chuang
Chou. But he 
didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly,
or a butterfly 
dreaming he was Chuang Chou. Between chuang Chou and a butterfly
there must be 
some distinction! This is called the Transformation of Things."
-- retold by Burton Watson (1964).

JKR is a pretty cluey person and may have Cho Chang representing an
aspect of HP that 
is unattainable, but tangible -- just like the butterfly.

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