Fleur/Viktor discussion

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 4743

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Kaitlin " <ReinaKata02 at y...> wrote:
> Fleur Delacour
> French for "Flower of the court."  A student at the Beauxbatons 
> Academy in France.  Obviously seventeen or older.  The guys are 
crazy 
> for her because, as we later find out, she's part veela.  We 
discover 
> that her grandmother was a veela, and that one of her hairs makes 
up 
> the magical core of Fleur's wand (9 ½ inches, inflexible, rosewood).
> She comes to Hogwarts to participate in the Triwizard Tournament 
and 
> gets selected as school champion for Beauxbatons.  She's very good 
at 
> charms.
> Fleur starts out not being too impressed with Harry, but in the end 
> she is very grateful to him for having saved her sister's life in 
the 
> second task.  
> I personally was unimpressed by Fleur (perhaps it is because I am a 
> female?).  She had some trouble in the competition.  I would have 
> been happier if Fleur was at least a threat to the others, but she 
> remained in fourth place for nearly the whole thing.

I would have been happier if she had shown up better, too, but
I was impressed that she was grateful to Harry and Ron for rescuing 
her sister and not defensive. 


> My favorite scene with Fleur is at the Yule Ball, when she is with 
> Roger Davies of Ravenclaw.  Roger, like every other guy who tried 
to 
> ask Fleur to the ball, is going absolutely gaga over her.  It's 
like 
> he's under a spell:  "Roger Davies was watching her talk with a 
very 
> dazed look on his face, and he kept missing his mouth with his 
fork.  
> Harry had the impression that Davies was too busy staring at Fleur 
to 
> take in a word she was saying" (418).
> Anyways, in the end, Fleur thanks Harry for having saved her 
sister's 
> life and tells him and Ron that she wants to come back and "
get a 
> job `ere, to improve my Eenglish" (724).  Ron's excited, Hermione's 
> really not.

That's strange. Why would Hermione care -- Harry is not interested in
Fleur and everyone knows that Hermione is not interested in Ron, 



> So that's it with Fleur.  There wasn't really a whole lot about 
her, 
> but I think we'll definitely see her again.
> 
> Viktor Krum
> A student of the Durmstrang Institute in Bulgaria.  The star seeker 
> for the Bulgarian National Quiddich team.  He catches the snitch at 
> the World Cup final to
lose the game for Bulgaria.  I still don't 
get 
> it.  As I said before, he's like Durmstrang's Harry Potter—the 
> miraculous Quiddich seeker and the Headmaster's favorite boy.  
> However, he is very impressed by Harry's flying.
> (An aside:  Does anyone ever wonder why, when speaking to each 
other, 
> the people from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang speak English?  Yes, I 
> know, if she put it in French or Bulgarian we wouldn't understand 
it, 
> but still
it's the whole concept that bugs me.)
> Viktor comes to Hogwarts to participate in the Triwizard 
> Championship.   No big surprise when he is selected.  The girls, 
who 
> were crazy about him before, are even crazier about him now.  They 
> follow him around, trying to get his autograph.  Surprisingly, Ron 
is 
> also one of his adoring fans.  However, Viktor stuns them all by 
> falling in love with Hermione and taking her to the Yule Ball.  It 
is 
> because of him that we learn how to really pronounce her name:  Her-
> MY-oh-nee.  
> He is the biggest competition for Cedric and Harry.  However, I do 
> not really understand what is going on in the end
does someone use 
> Imperious Curse on him to get him to put the Cruciatus Curse on 
> others?  I got a little confused in the explanation.

The fake Moody/B. Crouch, Jr. put the Imperius curse on Viktor, and 
compelled him to put the Cruciatus curse on Cedric Diggory. 

I'm thinking..hmmm...why didn't Crouch just put the Cruciatus curse
directly on Diggory? Then I'm back to my theory expressed in prior 
posts -- that Voldemort wanted the whole magical world watching --
hence the whole buildup at the TriWizard tournament, so that
everyone would know how he had hoodwinked AB and defeated HP.