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[dfrankis at dial.pipex.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20541

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., meboriqua at a... wrote:
Maybe we 
> could say that JKR is portraying beautiful people as only human.  
> Fleur may be a lot of things, but, IMO, she's no Barbie doll.
> 
> --jenny from ravenclaw*****************************

IMO, a great many of the HP characters start off as stereotypes and 
then move out from that position.  It's a Harry POV thing.  The 
Unfair Teacher, the Wicked Uncle and Aunt (OK we haven't seen much 
movement there yet, but the diet is the thin end of the wedge).  
Dumbledore is no longer Santa Claus at the end of POA.  Fleur starts 
to show her vulnerability after the second task, and we look back at 
her earlier haughtiness and realise the vulnerability was there all 
along.  I hope we see more of her.

Incidentally Hermione's Mary-Sue-ism (expression not known this side 
of the pond) could also be a Harry POV thing.

David,
just ploughing the clods in the dell