Cho Chang
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Template:HP character Cho Chang is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of novels. She is a year older than Harry and is described as being very pretty and popular. She plays Seeker for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, and her favorite professional Quidditch team are the Tutshill Tornadoes. Her name seems to imply Eastern Asian descent, possibly Chinese.
Cho will be played by Katie Leung in the fourth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Harry first meets Cho during his third year Template:HP3 when Gryffindor plays Ravenclaw in Quidditch. He notices that she is pretty and makes his stomach do funny things, but otherwise her role in the book is quite minor.
During Harry's fourth year Template:HP4, his crush on Cho develops further. They exchange greetings at the Quidditch World Cup, and he later asks her to the Yule Ball. Unfortunately Cedric Diggory, Hufflepuff's Seeker, asked her first, and she would continue to date Cedric until he was murdered by Peter Pettigrew on Lord Voldemort's orders. She was still nice to Harry, however, and she never wore one of Draco Malfoy's "Support Cedric Diggory/Potter Stinks" badges, a fact for which Harry is grateful.
At the beginning of Harry's fifth year Template:HP5, Cho surprises him by seeking him out several times and attempting to start conversations. Unfortunately for Harry, these encounters do not go well; the first time she comes by, he had just been sprayed with stinksap from one of Neville Longbottom's plants, and the second time she tries to talk with Harry, she ends up arguing with Ron Weasley about Quidditch teams instead. Hermione Granger says that, due to Cedric's death, Cho frequently cries. Cho and her friend, Marietta Edgecombe, join Dumbledore's Army, even though both their parents said to stay on Dolores Umbridge's good side. Cho joined because Harry was teaching and because she was determined to fight against Voldemort after what happened to Cedric. As a DA student, however, she has her ups and downs; she is able to conjure a corporeal patronus in the shape of a swan, but she also gets nervous and botches her expelliarmus spell when Harry comes near her. Harry and Cho share a kiss under some mistletoe shortly before Christmas, and on Valentine's Day they have a date of sorts in the wizard's village of Hogsmeade, but Harry's inability to deal with Cho's continued grief over the death of Diggory, her jealousy of Harry's friendship with Hermione, and his overall inexperience in matters of the heart sour the experience.
When Marietta Edgecombe betrays Dumbledore's Army, she is afflicted by the hex Hermione placed on the parchment each member of Dumbledore's Army signed, leaving the word "sneak" on her forehead. When Harry blames Marietta, Cho defends her, irate at what she considers Hermione's dirty trick; this cools Harry and Cho's relationship considerably.
After the death of Sirius Black, Harry realizes that his feelings for Cho have abated, perhaps because of his changed worldview. At the end of Harry's fifth year, Ginny Weasley reveals that Cho is dating Ginny's ex-boyfriend, Michael Corner. Harry's only reaction is to note that finding out she was now seeing someone else "did not hurt at all." J.K. Rowling implied in a 2004 chat session that the breakup will be permanent, saying, "They [Harry and Cho] were never going to be happy, it was better that it ended early."[1] (http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2004/0304-wbd.htm)
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Cho chang is a letter in the Thai alphabet. cho is the sound of the letter, and chang is the Thai word for "elephant". Cho means "butterfly" in Japanese.ja:チョウ・チャン he:הוגוורטס#.D7.A6.27.D7.95_.D7.A6.27.D7.90.D7.A0.D7.92