<Spoiler alert>Shipping Post:HP's Relationship w/Cho Chang

[Grey Wolf]

No: HPFGUIDX 62959

Peter Shea wrote:
> I was rather disappointed about the way things turned out between Harry and Cho Chang. Clearly, Harry needs an emotional outlet in light of the extraordinary psychological/emotional stress that he's under.
>  
> Which was why I found it implausible that Harry would make so little effort to clear up the miscommunications that occurred between him and Cho or that he would feel indifferent when Cho began seeing Michael Corner--even in light of the aftershock of Sirius's death.
>

Harry doesn't know what he did wrong, and certainly doesn't know how to 
fix it (even after Hermione's patient tutorial). It took him forever to 
approach Cho, and the very first date went horribly wrong. Besides, his 
feelings for her have calmed down. All in all, I find it a well 
characteraised first crush and its logical conclussion (without 
mentioning all the problems of their relationship, like Cedric).
 
> And BTW,  just who is this Corner guy!? I'm curious about the sort of fellow who can score with both Ginny weasley and Cho Chang!
> 
> Peter the Couch Elf

I've known such sort of person - good at convincing girls to "give him 
a try" but very shallow/boring/fast/[insert here undesirable 
characteristic] that makes second dates higly unprobable.

BTW, Peter, you should know that "elf", in this list, means a member of 
the moderator team, the people in charge of the list. I don't think 
you're one of them, so you might want to change your handle, so it 
doesn't confuse people (me, for starters).

Ersatz Harry wrote:
> No one yet seems to have commented on the emotions driving Harry's
> rescue of Dudley.  Much though Harry would have reason to be glad of
> Dudley's being soul-sucked, he tries to prevent it.  Is this because
> Harry couldn't stand to see *anyone* Kissed, because it is was his
> now-instinctive desire to drive the Dementors away, or because he has
> some yet-undiscussed ability to forgive Dudley for all the torment
> over the years?
> 
> Ersatz Harry
 
Harry is not his cousin, nor a bad person. He won't allow *anyone* 
become a vegetable, and his cousin, for all his pettyness and 
brutality, doesn't deserve life sentence. It's harder to explain how 
JKR will handle the final Harry/Voldemort showdown, since Harry killing 
Voldemort would off-character at this point, IMO. But we shall see.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf