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Cho Chang (born 1979) is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series. She is a Ravenclaw student and a year older than Harry. She is described as being a short, very pretty girl with long, black hair. She appears to be very popular as she always seems to be followed by a large group of friends. Cho plays Seeker for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, and her favourite professional Quidditch team is the Tutshill Tornadoes. Her name seems to imply East Asian descent, very likely Chinese, Korean, Thai or Vietnamese.

Cho was played by Katie Leung in the fourth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Cho is Harry's first crush and romantic interest, although things don't work out between them.

Harry first meets Cho in his third year during a Gryffindor-Ravenclaw Quidditch match, in which they play Seeker against each other. He notices that she is a "very pretty girl," which makes his stomach "feel funny," but other than exchanging a few looks during the game, the two of them do not interact.

During Harry's fourth year , 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.

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 at all. The first time she comes by, 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's there, she defends Harry to a suspicious Argus Filch, and Harry feels pretty good about it. When invited, Cho (who brings along her fellow Ravenclaw friend, Marietta Edgecombe) joins Dumbledore's Army, against the advice of her parents who wish for 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 DA student, however, she has her ups and downs. At first she gets nervous and messes up her spells when 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, and on St. Valentine's Day they go on a date in the all-wizard village of Hogsmeade, but Cho's increasing emotional instability over the death of Cedric, her unfounded jealousy over Harry's friendship with Hermione Granger, and Harry's overall inexperience with girls sours the experience.

When Marietta betrays the DA, she is afflicted by the hex performed by Hermione on the piece of parchment, signed earlier by all members of the DA. The hex makes purple pimples spell "SNEAK" across her forehead and they prove to be impossible to remove. When Harry scorns Marietta for the betrayal and Cho defends her, irate at what she considers Hermione's "dirty trick", Harry and Cho's relationship cools considerably.

After the death of Sirius Black, Harry realises that his feelings for Cho have ended. At the end of Harry's fifth year, Ginny Weasley reveals that Cho is dating her 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."

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