Cho Chang bio

Name: Cho Chang.

Age: 37 by the end of the 7th book

House: Ravenclaw.

Distinguishing Characteristics: Cho is of Oriental descent, and also spends quite a lot of her time crying. She is a talented Seeker for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team.

Heritage: Unknown.

Family: Unknown.

First Mention: Chapter Thirteen of Prisoner of Azkaban.

General: Cho is a popular, pretty, outgoing girl who is in the year above Harry at Hogwarts. She also holds the distinguished honour of being Harry’s first love, although this particular relationship didn’t work out quite as well as either of them would have liked.

Cho became the Ravenclaw Seeker in her third or fourth year, and Harry first met her at the Gryffindor vs Ravenclaw match in 1994. He was at once struck by how pretty she was and from then on developed a crush on her. At this stage she also seemed to have a soft spot for Harry, although it is doubtful whether she regarded him with the same esteem that he held for her.

As a school champion for the Triwizard Tournament of 1994/95, Harry had to find a partner to attend the 1994 Yule Ball with. He wanted to ask Cho, but found it very difficult due to the fact she was always surrounded by her friends. He managed it in the end, but was disappointed to find out that she had already accepted an invitation from Cedric Diggory. Cho was upset to have to turn Harry down, demonstrating that she still had some feelings for him. Her date with Cedric went well, however, and she became his girlfriend. They remained a couple until his murder by Peter Pettigrew in June 1995.

This obviously hit Cho very hard, and she was still suffering from the grief of this loss on her return to school in September. Her troubled state of mind was not helped by her increasing feelings for Harry, and she quickly changed from being a popular, giggly girl into one who could be found more often than not crying in the toilets. She nevertheless joined Dumbledore’s Army when it was set up, and became an enthusiastic member, learning to master spells she had always struggled with before.
Harry’s opinion of Cho never changed, and by Christmas 1995 she had cast her guilt aside sufficiently to kiss him under the mistletoe (although she was, predictably, crying at the time). A disastrous Valentine’s Day date in Hogsmeade followed. The problems in the relationship were twofold: firstly, Cho could never overcome her jealously of Harry’s relationship with Hermione, and was convinced there was more to it than pure friendship. Secondly, Harry’s lack of experience with girls made him awkward and fumbling, and he singularly failed to reassure her.

Unsurprisingly, after a number of false starts the relationship fizzled out, ending on bad terms when Cho’s friend Marietta Edgecombe betrayed the DA. Cho’s unhappiness was turning more and more to anger by this time, and following a Quidditch defeat to Gryffindor, she threw her broom away before bursting into tears yet again. She has, however, found a new boyfriend in Michael Corner, although her feelings for Harry have not gone away despite their break-up. A reunion seems a little unlikely at the moment, though, given how everything worked out.