Fact: Every woman is "easy" when you're extremely good-looking.

 

Oh, and I noticed you said Cedric was one of the best looking guys in school. You wanna fuck him, don't you Blaise?

And this is Harry Potter, no need for looks when you has magicz!:awesome

 

Lulz, no. I've been parsing through GoF for my own fic, so I've got it half memorized. Ron condemns Hermione's support of Diggory as champion because he thinks that she thinks he's good-looking, while Seamus outright calls him "pretty-boy Diggory."

So eat shit.

Pansy Parkinson, Millicent Bulstrode, Eloise Midgen, and post-DA Marietta Edgecombe respectfully disagree

 

magic =/= miracle. D:

 

Cho's the Ravenclaw seeker, so she'd be a school celebrity if showboats didn't keep doing crazy shit like fighting Voldemort or stabbing a giant fuck-off snake to death. So she's top of the school pecking order, and most of us can probably remember what a huge fucking deal school politics is when you're in the middle of it. That, and Cedric and Cho are both seekers, so they've got a fairly important common interest and they're both part of the same tier of the pecking order.

Football players date cheerleaders, Quidditch players date Quidditch players.

 

That makes Blaise's argument more than yours- what halfway decent wizard with the skilz is going to seduce a dog rather than the school hottie of preference?

Either Ced chose Cho for her comeliness, or Cho is regularly using essence of dryad to make her seem attractive to the strong-willed boys like Ced and Harry. I'd think Hermione would have made comment about the mis-matched pairing if Ced and Cho were like Riddle Sr. and Merope.

Hermione encouraged Harry's interest in Cho in year 5; even if she was just sisterly in intent, she wouldn't hook him up with a beast. She advised Ginny to look elsewhere, after all.

 

Because they're both soulless sparkling beasts?:awesome

 

Nooo, I meant that there were some things magic couldn't fix, i.e. the fuglys Blaise mentioned Nothing to do with Cho.

 

Ah, I get it. Of course, the whole argument has been trumped by Custer's keen insight (tho I don't recall Cho sparkling...)

 

Hmm. Well, according to Twilight, vampires sparkle. Vampires have no soul. Asians have no soul. Cho is Asian. Therefore, Cho sparkles.
QED

 

Well, Cho is Asian, and previous proofs give us the fact that that means she's soulless. Soulless creatures sparkle, as Edward Cullen has demonstrated quite resoundingly. Therefore, Cho sparkles.

Alternatively, Cho is a 'ho that wears glitter, and thus sparkles.

Edit: Ninja'd while I went to make a sandwich. Well done Schro.

 

From what I've seen, schools in England don't really demonstrate the same levels of hierarchical order than schools in America seem to. We don't have the jock stereotype, and I've never seen sports have much of an impact on social standing or upon who dates who, other than having a bearing on people getting to know each other.

Coincidentally, the very existence of 'cheerleaders' blows my mind. I can't think of a more useless thing to practice. I mean, what? Cheering? Just why?

 

I've always wondered - does hierarchical order of students exist in a normal American schools or it's just movie/tv shows thing?

 

It's been a said a million bajillion times, but:

Wizarding England =/= muggle England

Schooling in Wizarding England obviously means more, as which house you were in determines how society will see you. Quidditch in Wizarding England obviously means more than athletics in muggle England, since they built a stadium to house 100,000 wizards for a single match.

Ballet and gymnastics: both just as useless, yet also physically demanding enough that I wouldn't knock it.

 

Because all the male teenagers and perv teachers get to watch the hottest girls in the school do gymnastics in outfits that are exceptions to the skirt length rules.

It's a tv thing. Or at least it is where I live. It's not in my school or any of my friend's. My school doesn't even have any cliques. Everybody just hangs out with everybody.

But I would agree that it would most likely exist in Hogwarts. Like what blaise said they are separated and categorized as soon as they arrive at the school.

 

Wizarding schools, however, are entirely based on muggle schools. Rowling was hardly going to write about an American system (or a radically different system in general, I mean) when that wasn't what she was used to.

I think fanfiction overplays the importance of houses on how others see each other - we use the same system in plenty of schools, and in both I've been to with house distinctions it's essentially just a method of organisation. There's a slight group mentality of 'house vs. house' during group sports - because that's how the points system works. It's the same in Hogwarts but apart from the competitive spirit (which would be fostered by sharing dormitories and by being grouped by aspects of character) and the fact that they're probably slow to make friends outside of their house, it really wouldn't have that much impact on how they actually perceive each other beyond generalisations and poking fun at each other.

Perhaps I'm just being overly resistant to the fanfiction cliché of the Slytherins being an evil snake pit, though. It's always irritated me that it is played up to such an extent.

 

Thought we were talking about the one above her. My bad.

I agree, she's hot as fuck, no matter the eye color.

 

The competition for the Quidditch Cup, the pureblood supremacists that are pretty much in control of Slytherin, the House Cup, the fairly blatant favoritism shown by Snape and the arguable favoritism shown by McGonagall and Dumbledore... all these things widen the rifts between the houses and breed an us vs them mentality, especially between Gryffindor and Slytherin. You can especially see this going on during the Triwizard Tournament, with Hufflepuff and Gryffindors siding with their respective champions as a bloc, Slytherin with Hufflepuff to spite Gryffindor in general and Harry in particular, and Ravenclaw edging slightly towards Hufflepuff.

So people that wave the flag for their particular house gain a measure of popularity and respect. Harry was made a pariah several times when he lost massive points and became a temporary hero when he gained them. Winning the Quidditch Cup was cause for a major party, featuring smuggled-in contraband.

So yeah, even if the pecking order isn't as solid as you'd see in American TV shows, there's always ones whenever there's a group of teenagers. And Cho, considering she's at very least a halfblood, the Seeker for the Ravenclaw team since her fourth year, and apparently fairly popular judging by the way she traveled with a pack, would be near or at the top of it. Hence why her scoring a date to the Ball with the prefect/Quidditch Captain/seeker/Champion Cedric isn't all that surprising, and also isn't necessarily an indication of her being particularly beautiful.

 

False, because:

There will always been some sort of pecking order when it comes to teenagers, but real life doesn't even matter in this case.

Fanon exaggeration is one thing, but it doesn't mean that blatant House rivalries don't exist during and after Hogwarts - because that's canon. It isn't a matter of an American vs. European/English school experience - house rivalries were portrayed, in the book, as important to the majority of British wizards, period. Whether or not you personally like the existence of House rivalries, or whether or not you think it's logical, is about as valid as an argument about Harry's name actually being Harold.