[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 21, The Eye of the Snake

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 104204

> > 8. Why oh why does the kiss take place off stage? How could JKR *do*
> > this to me?
>---------
>I think part of it is so that we the readers have very little emotional 
>attachment to the
>Cho/Harry relationship.  I don't buy that a description of a mere kiss is 
>too
>scandelous for the likes of Bloosmsbury literature.  If falls in love and 
>has that mind
>blowing kiss we all wish for, make no mistake, we'll be there for it 
>because that will
>actually be something we're supposed to care about and attach ourselves to.

I think that the reason it takes place off stage is the one given by Harry 
during Snape's occlumency lesson: It's private.  No one but the participants 
thereof know the exact details.  Notice that the description of the tea shop 
where Harry and Cho go on Valentine's Day is far from complimentary -- it 
reminds me of Lockhart's Valentine's Day decorations -- and the person 
(Roger Davies?) who *is* on stage, audibly kissing his girlfriend at the 
next table, just looks tacky.  And also like Lockhart, the relationship 
between Harry and Cho isn't real and doesn't bear close inspection.


Janet Anderson

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