[HPforGrownups] Re: Meaning of Cho's name + Ginny/Harry/Cho - a long way to go...

[Maria Gromova]

No: HPFGUIDX 61323

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.

I like this idea! In a medieval Vietnamese romance the names of the
heroine - Chang and of the hero - Tiu form the Vietnamese transcription of
the name Chuang Chou - Chang Tiu. And the heroine is a princess of magic
butterflies! The hero observes the coincidence and remembers the story of
Chuang Chou and the butterfly. The heroine is hard to attain (but he gets
her in the end).
Maria.