Viktor(was: Fleur/Viktor discussion

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 4811

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Odile Alburquerque" wrote:

> Ever since the time i started the harry potter series, ever since 
> book 1, i had gotten this feeling that Hermione and Ron could end 
> up with some kind of a fling, since they seem to have all this 
> friction between them. 

It seems to me that, in general, the shippers (the people who are 
advocating that some particular love relation"ship" should happen) 
aren't greatly concerned with "flings", only with who gets married 
until death does them part. And even if Book 7 ended with two 
characters marrying, that wouldn't silence the people who wanted to 
marry those characters off to other people: they'd just predict that 
the marriage would end soon, by divorce or death.

And I, not knowing all the plot twists and surprise revelations of 
Books 5,6, and 7, would like to be a Hermione/Viktor shipper (even if 
Viktor has to wait patiently and loyally until she marries and breaks 
up with Ron). I have previously argued at length my reasons for 
believing that he is a good guy, he really loves her, and that he 
would be a supportive help-meet for her when she struggles with grad 
school, academic politics, MoM politics, etc.

However, JKR gave him that name "Krum", so I expected that he would 
turn out to be crummy and I was surprised and relieved when he turned 
out to be a good guy. But he still has that name (supposed to be 
German for "bent or crooked") and he still has the hunched, duckfoot 
walk that JKR mentioned so often, so there still must be something up 
with him. I expect that JKR will either kill him or reveal that he is 
a bad guy after all in Book 5, which would make him ineligible for 
marriage.