CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 13: Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 189978



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff" <geoffbannister123 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nikkalmati" <puduhepa98@> wrote:
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> > > > > 4. Do you think that Cho is just using her flying ability to distract 
> > > > > Harry or do you think she might be using her womanly wiles to 
> > > > > affect him in other ways?
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> Nikkalmati:
> > >  > Why do guys always think that?  Just because Harry feels something when he meets her doesn't mean she even knows about it.  The only thing she did intentionally here was to try to knock him off his broom.
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> Geoff:
> > > I knew *someone* would interpret my question that way! I spent time
> > > trying to work out the best way of wording my question.
>  
> > > I got the impression that Cho was trying very quietly to catch Harry's eye.
> > > She smiles at Harry but then, after the near-collision on the brooms, she 
> > > appeared to me to be exhibiting a mixture of mischief and coquettishness
> > > when she grins at him.
>  
> > > I don't agree with you that she was intentionally trying to knock Harry off 
> > > the broom. After Harry's accident in the previous match that would have 
> > > been thoughtless and unkind. I think she was trying to unsight him.
> 
> Nikkalmati
> > "womanly wiles" strikes me as a loaded term.  Cho is apparently a very pretty girl.  She is also in another House and a year older.  It's hard if you can't even smile pleasantly upon meeting someone new without being accused of manipulation.
> 
> Geoff:
> I tried to think of a different term but I think that she was interested in
> meeting Harry because of his fame and I did suspect a possible bit of 
> flirting.
> 
Nikkalmati
Well, just say she was flirting.  Womanly wiles implies somethin underhanded and insincere.

Nikkalmati
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> Nikkalmati:
> > As for knocking him off his broom, Quiddach is a very rough sport and that would be standard behavior in a match. 
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> Geoff:
> Quidditch may be a rough sport but knocking off brooms would make it 
> downright lethal. Harry only avoided serious injury in the Hufflepuff match
> because Dumbledore intervened to bring him down gently - even some of 
> the spectators had feared that he might have been killed.
>
Nikkalmati

Harry was nearly killed because he was unconscious from the effect of the Dementors.  Most times a wizard would be able to seve himself from a fall.

Nikkalmati