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I especially agree with you on reason #2. Harry was the last person (well, aside from Pettigrew) to see Cedric alive, so she probably figured he'd understand and maybe want to talk about it with her.

I think she liked Harry too, at least somewhat... she obviously had liked Cedric a lot, but she did get upset when Harry wanted to go off to meet Hermione, and I don't think she would've gotten that upset about it if either 1) she didn't like Harry or 2) Harry was meeting Ron or Neville or another boy. She was probably jealous, or else she'd have just planned to meet him somewhere later to talk about Cedric some more. And didn't she initiate the thing with the mistletoe?

I think she was probably more confused than anything. She liked Cedric, but she also liked Harry. Harry was with Cedric when Cedric died, so seeing Harry reminded her of Cedric.

And that's my 2 cents on the whole thing. smile

Maybe she also liked the attention. She had gotten it from Cedric, but he was gone, so she turned to the most likely new source: Harry. Mentioning Roger Davies might have been a way to get him jealous. It would also explain why she had gotten so upset when he went off to meet Hermione. Or maybe I'm just looking at it the wrong way. *shrugs*

I think she mentioned Roger Davies to make Harry jealous. Harry wasn't acting the way she expected, and she thought she needed to "encourage" him. The big difference between the two situations is that she DIDN'T go out with Roger Davies, whereas Harry DID go to meet Hermione.

Cho always treated Harry nicely, and she seemed genuinely sad that she had to refuse his invitation to the Yule Ball in GoF. I think she had some feelings for Harry that were increased by her need to talk to someone about Cedric.

I don't think Cho is an attention whore. If she were doing it for the attention, even if that was only one reason of many, she would've been doing other things for attention. She seemed rather soft-spoken--she didn't go out of her way to attract attention.

She seems like she needed a companion (which she probably did), and she saw the companionship she craved in Harry.

I don't think that was how Cho viewed the situation. She thought that they were going to spend the day in Hogsmeade as a couple, not as a group. Not only that, but she might have even thought Harry was suggesting he date both her and Hermione. Even if she understood that Hermione was just a friend, she still had every right to be offended. Harry was being daft. When you take a girl out on a date, you don't tell her during the date that you're going to meet your friends in just a few minutes. From her perspective, he should have told her ahead of time.

People write her up as selling sex for money? Where do they get these ideas?

A lot of people thought Harry was dating Hermione. It was in the Rita Skeeter articles from GoF. Also, it's quite common for people to assume that if a man and a woman are good friends, there must be something more going on. Since Harry is the most famous of the Golden Trio, it would be natural for those Hogwarts students who do not have much interaction with the Trio to think that Harry was dating Hermione and ignore Ron completely.