OoP / SHIP HP's Relationship

[fordy_the_hobbit]

No: HPFGUIDX 63197

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "J B" <metallicblue63 at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Peter Shea <bebche2 at y...>

> 
> 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.
> 
> ---------
> 
> hello everyone, my name's john, i'm new.  peter: i couldn't agree 
more, i 
> was actually looking through the emails for one dealing with cho 
and this 
> issue.  harry, as a 15 year old, is understandably not very in 
touch wiith 
> his emotions, but it seems unbelievable that he could just drop cho 
as he 
> has done.  i'm worried that JK may have ceased allowing cho "to 
write 
> herself" and has forcefully poisoned her character to make room for 
a 
> relationship with ginny.  i was expecting that harry and cho would 
build on 
> their mutual connection to cedric, but now it seems neither will 
deal with 
> their lingering pain from GoF.  responses welcome.
> 

Hi im new as well, new to being much of a potter fan as well; I read 
the books and liked them, but im really into it at the moment having 
just read OOP.

Yeah, since I read GoF I'd been waiting desperately to see what 
happened with Harry and Cho, and to start off with thought everything 
looked good; I was pretty annoyed/upset when she just walked off 
(like Harry probably!) but the worst part is the few lines at the end 
where Harry says he's not going to try and get back together with her 
at the end.
(I think much of my reason for liking this part of the story is 
because I seem to empathize with Harry in a lot of ways; (only over 
attention within school, not wider fame though) but particularly with 
regards his romance; I think im trying to live my rather non-existent 
social life through Harry, which is why i was so annoyed when they 
broke up. Rambling on, is this a clever way to catch teenagers' 
attention as well as children and adults; come to think of it thats 
probably what drew me to this book more than to others.)

(After that rather random bit..)

Obviously Harry must have been (more than!) slightly annoyed with 
Cho's tell-tale friend, but the last thing she says to him (? read 
OOP very quickly, not sure about everything) is that she had been 
crying over Harry being brave enough to speak out against the 
Ministry. Surely this shows she still fancies him. I agree with john; 
I think Harry and Cho would do well at supporting each other 
emotionally; what Cho seems to need (and says she needs) is someone 
to talk over Cedric's death and her psychological condition after it 
with, and conversely Cho could help Harry get away from the misery 
and loneliness he seems to have mid year in several of the books.

Peter, 14