Bill's injury (Re: The Problems with the DH movie)

[Carol]

Carol earlier:
> > No, I'm pretty sure it's the magic of the tiara. After all, it's Goblin-made and Griphook seems to covet it (though not as much as he does the Sword of Gryffindor), and if Goblin-made armor possesses "special properties" (DH Am. ed. 298), it makes sense that the tiara would, too Here's the passage from the wedding:
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> > There are two possible readings: either Fleur has turned on the Veela Charm, which is causing the glow and the beautification, or it's the tiara. But when Fleur turns on the Veela Charm, as when she's trying to get Cedric to ask her to the Yule Ball and Ron idiotically asks her instead, *she's* the one being beautified. And happy though she is with Bill, her beauty never extends to him on any other occasion, and much as she loves him, his scars are visible when they're together. 
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> Magpie:
> I think the point is that she's so happy on her wedding day that she's showering beauty on others. It's a sweet metaphor for her happiness as a bride using Veela magic as an excuse, imo, not a subtle example of goblin magic. The Ravenclaw tiara isn't known for doing anything magical, just being a Horcrux and being owned. 
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> I think the tiara's just a nice little detail and Aunt Muriel's line is just a character moment. She's taking credit for Fleur's beauty and responding as if Hermione's naturally impressed by the part of the outfit she provided rather than Fleur herself. I think you were mystified because you wouldn't expect somebody to be that self-centered.:-)
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> -m
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Carol responds:
Ah, well. I read it differently. She seems to me to be literally giving off a silver radiance and literally beautifying everybody, including the horribly injured Bill, who (again literally) looks as if he'd never encountered Fenrir Greyback--unscarred and handsome--as no amount of happiness could make him. And there's really no reason for Auntie Muriel's comment regarding the tiara to appear at that specific moment if its magic isn't responsible.

My reading has nothing to do with my being "mystified" by Auntie Muriel's being so self-centered. I was mystified about her reference to the tiara, not her personality, until I put two and two together--to my own satisfaction. I did and do think that JKR's hint about the tiara was a bit too subtle and might be overlooked by a number of readers, just as I overlooked it the first time around.

As I said before, Fleur has been happy all this time but has never given off a *silvery* glow that beautified everybody else, and when she turns on the Veela charm, it enhances only her own already considerable attractiveness to men and boys.

Carol, noting that the tiara was important enough to be foreshadowed in HBP, which is why I paid attention to it (that and the Ravenclaw diadem, which no one in the books except Luna remotely connects with the tiara)