Cho (Was: Hermione's Sigh)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hitomi" 
<japanesesearcher at y...> wrote:
> ~ Hitomi, who is highly amused by Ron and Hermione, wrote:
Actually I think it marks how much Hermione approves of Harry
dating Cho, that she would trust Cho to come along to see Rita and
listen to Harry's story. 

Bookworm:
You make an interesting point here that I hadn't picked up on 
before. We are led to think we can't trust Cho because of her 
defense of Marietta, but Hermione trusted her enough to encourage 
Harry, and to meet with Rita - with the potential for "Harry's New 
Girlfriend" headlines.

Considering the way Cho blushed when she saw Harry on the train 
home, she is still interested in him. I wonder if her defense of her 
friend was as strong as it was because she is jealous of Hermione? 
If someone else, say Ron, had jinxed the list would she have reacted 
as defensively?

When OoP first came out, I was upset about Cho's actions.  But there 
is something there that keeps tickling my thoughts.  After building 
up Harry's interest in Cho over 3 books, JKR seemed to dump her 
pretty quickly. Teen romances can start and stop without warning, 
but after they break up rather dramatically, Cho is still aware of 
Harry, even when he didn't pay attention to her on the train. Under 
other circumstances I think Harry would be conscious of Cho's 
presence; the shock of the prophecy and Sirius' death that 
preoccupies him so that he can't think about anything else.  IMHO, 
Cho seeing Michael Corner is a rebound relationship that isn't going 
to work out for long. The Ginny described it, Michael "ran off to 
comfort Cho..." 

On the train, Hermione was more worried about Harry's reaction to 
Cho seeing someone else than she was angry at Cho.  ["I - er - heard 
she's going out with someone else now," said Hermione tentatively.] 
How often is Hermione 'tentative'? Is all the teen angst a diversion 
to make us think Cho is untrustworthy when Hermione was right all 
along?  She may not have the strength of character others have but I 
don't think we should write-off Cho quite so quickly.

Ravenclaw Bookworm