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Cho Chang
Harry Potter character
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999; book) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005; film)
Last appearance	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007; book) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011; film)
Created by	J. K. Rowling
Portrayed by	Katie Leung
House	Ravenclaw
In-universe information
Significant other	Harry Potter (ex-boyfriend) Cedric Diggory (ex-boyfriend) Michael Corner (ex-boyfriend) Roger Davies (ex-boyfriend)

Cho Chang is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series. She is a Ravenclaw student and a year above Harry. She is described as being a short, very pretty girl with long, shiny dark hair. She's very popular as she always seems to be followed by a large group of girl friends. She is Harry's first crush, first kiss, first girlfriend, and first break-up. Cho plays Seeker for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, and her favorite professional Quidditch team is the Tutshill Tornadoes. Cho's Patronus is also revealed to be a swan. In the films the character speaks with a Scottish accent.

She first appeared in the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, when the Gryffindor team played the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, but did not become as prominent a character until the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, as Harry's first crush. She was famous for being Harry's first kiss in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and as his first girlfriend. In the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Cho helped defend Hogwarts when Voldemort and his Death Eaters besiege the school. Cho was played by Katie Leung in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.

In the books

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry first meets Cho in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, during his third year (her fourth year) during a Gryffindor-Ravenclaw Quidditch match, in which Cho and Harry are playing Seeker against each other. He notices she is very pretty and she makes his stomach "feel funny". The only other notable interaction between them in this book is when Cho wishes Harry good luck before the Quidditch match against Slytherin and Harry goes bright red.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

During Harry's fourth year, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, his crush on Cho develops further. They exchange greetings at the Quidditch World Cup, and he later works up his courage and asks her to be his date to the Yule Ball. However, Cedric Diggory, one of the other champions of the Triwizard Tournament, has already asked Cho out, and the two of them end up dating until Cedric is murdered by Peter Pettigrew (on Lord Voldemort's orders) at the end of the book. Nonetheless, Cho is still kind to Harry—for example, she refuses to wear one of Draco Malfoy's "Support Cedric Diggory/Potter Stinks" badges, a fact for which Harry is grateful.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, at the beginning of Harry's fifth year, Cho surprises him by seeking him out several times and attempting to have a conversation. Unfortunately, for Harry, these encounters do not go well. The first time, she finds him covered with Stinksap that was accidentally let off by Neville Longbottom's mimbulus mimbletonia, and the second time she tries to talk with Harry, she ends up arguing with Ron Weasley about Quidditch teams. On the third try, when she happens to enter the Owlery while Harry is there, she defends Harry from a suspicious Argus Filch. Harry, however, is grateful to learn of Cho's support for his story. While many of the students at Hogwarts and those in the vast wizarding community do not believe Harry's story about Voldemort coming back to life, Cho is one of the first students who believed her former boyfriend Cedric Diggory was murdered by Wormtail (and not by Harry), and that Voldemort revived back to life.

When invited by Hermione Granger to join Dumbledore's Army, Cho (who makes her fellow Ravenclaw friend, Marietta Edgecombe, go along) goes against the advice of her parents who wish her to remain on Dolores Umbridge's good side. Cho joins because she is determined to fight against Voldemort after what happened to Cedric in the previous year. As a D.A. student, however, she has her ups and downs. At first she gets nervous and performs her spells poorly whenever Harry is nearby; later though, she is able to conjure a corporeal Patronus in the shape of a swan.

Cho initiates a kiss with Harry under some mistletoe shortly before Christmas after a D.A. session, and on Valentine's Day they go on a date in the wizarding village of Hogsmeade, but Cho's grief over Cedric's death, her ill-founded jealousy over Harry's friendship with Hermione (who, ironically, tries to advise Harry on how to handle girls), and Harry's overall inexperience with girls sours the experience.

When Marietta betrays the D.A. to Umbridge, she is afflicted by the hex performed by Hermione on the piece of parchment, signed earlier by all members of the D.A. The hex makes purple pustules spell "SNEAK" across her face and they cannot be removed. When Harry scorns Marietta for the betrayal and Cho, who is confused by the events, defends her, irate at what she considers Hermione's "dirty trick", Harry and Cho's relationship goes downhill. In the film, the storyline of Marietta's betrayal and the hexed parchment is dropped, instead having Cho herself betraying the D.A. This causes Harry to dump her, despite her multiple attempts to apologize. Cho is later revealed to have been under the influence of the truth potion Veritaserum while interrogated by Umbridge.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince/Deathly Hallows

Cho made a cameo appearance in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Harry caught a glimpse of her during the ride to Hogwarts on the Hogwarts Express but she hid back in her compartment with Marietta. Harry later mentioned in a conversation with Ron that the two of them just "fell apart."

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Cho demonstrated her loyalty when she was seen entering the Room of Requirement (which was transformed into a safe refuge for D.A. members), saying that she got the message that Harry had returned to Hogwarts and that the D.A. was preparing to rebel against Voldemort's control over Hogwarts. Harry and Cho appeared on amicable and friendly terms. She shared with Harry the little information known about Ravenclaw's diadem (which is actually a Horcrux of Voldemort), and offered to take Harry to the Ravenclaw common room to look for clues, but Ginny suggested that Luna take him up instead. With other D.A. members, she fought at the Battle of Hogwarts against intruding Death Eaters and Voldemort's forces.

Name in translations

In Chinese translations of the Harry Potter novels, Cho's given name is 秋, "Autumn", pronounced "qiū" ("chiou") in Mandarin and "chāu" ("chow") in Cantonese.

In the Traditional Chinese versions, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, Cho's name is written as "張秋" ("Chang" first), since Eastern Asian names are written with the family name first, followed by given names. In the Mainland Chinese version the name is written as "秋·张" ("Chang" last), the middle dot is normally applied to transcribe non-Chinese names, where it is used to separate the given names, coming first, from the surname, coming last.

In Korean, Cho Chang would be written (Chang, Cho "챙초" or even "장조" as last name Chang usually refers to Korean last name 장 (Jang/Chang)). However, her name was translated as (Cho Chang "초챙").

References

Category:Harry Potter characters Category:Fictional members of secret societies Category:Literary characters introduced in 1999 Category:Teenage characters in film Category:Teenage characters in literature Category:Fictional female sportspeople Category:Fictional Scottish people Category:Fictional witches