[HPforGrownups] Cho Chang isn't Japanese!

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 58872

In a message dated 5/29/2003 3:40:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
L.Kelly at uq.net.au writes:

> Personally I think her name makes her most likely Chinese, it doesn't 
> sound very Korean to me (though I must admit I know very little about 
> Korean, so maybe it is?) Her surname however sounds very Chinese. (I'm 
> assuming Chang is her surname because most Chinese and Japanese people 
> I've met here - Australia - give their name in western order when living 
> here

According to what I've been able to discover online, Chang is one of the most 
common surnames in China.  "Cho", however, is Japanese, meaning "butterfly".

I'd always thought that Cho or her family had come originally from Hong Kong, 
which still belonged to Britain then.

Sherrie


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