Depression ... in OotP - Cho

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 110733

Pippin wrote :
" Cho seems to be doing okay by the end. When she passes Harry in the
train corridor, she blushes instead of bursting into tears. She's
started a new relationship with Michael Corner, and she's stuck by
Marietta, which I have to admire, even though I don't admire Marietta
herself very much."

Del replies :
I understand why Marrietta did what she did, and I can't really blame
her : the girl was stuck between two diametrically opposed loyalties.
I think JKR had fun with us once again on that one : she kept us
focused on Zacharias Smith as the potential traitor, when Marrietta
was just as likely, if not even more. After all, she did *not* want to
come and to enter the DA, that was very obvious right from the
beginning. If we'd known her mom was working for the Ministry, we
would probably have realised she was the one set up to betray.

As for Cho, I guess you're right and she's finally getting better by
the end of the year. I wonder how much Marrietta's betrayal counted in
that recovery ? After all, Cho was forced to reconsider many of her
own choices, and to decide where she was going. The fact that she both
stuck by Marrietta and kept going to the DA seems to indicate that
she'd managed to reach some new balance in her life, unlike when she
forced her best friend to follow the boy she fancied (and with whom
she should never have gone out with under the circumstances she was
in, but that's another story).

Del