Fleur's Intelligence

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No: HPFGUIDX 13222

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer <pennylin at s...> 
wrote:
<snip>

> I don't think it's necessary to be a "Hermione" to be school 
champion.
> None of the 4 seem to be on that level of academic achievement.
> Dumbledore says that the Tasks were designed to test "their magical
> prowess -- their daring -- their powers of deduction -- and, of 
course,
> their ability to cope with danger."  Of the above, really only 
powers of
> deduction requires mental agility.  Magical prowess could be just 
innate
> ability after all.  Anyway .. bottom line is that I'm not convinced 
at
> this point that Fleur is necessarily intelligent *just because* she 
was
> selected as the Beaux Batons Champion.
> 

Yes, but I wasn't arguing that it meant that she was intelligent, I 
just said it argued against her being stupid. She could be simply 
mediocre mentally, while being above average in some other way. But 
what are the grounds for assuming Fleur's stupidity? (Refresh me, I 
haven't been looking at all the threads)

As for selection, it depends how much other factors play in the 
process. And plus there's the question of how intelligent someone 
must be to be considered "intelligent." But I'd argue that Mme Maxime 
chose Fleur because Fleur was above the rest of the students in some 
way, and would probably not want someone stupid to be the champion. 
So not stupid doesn't necessarily mean intelligent, and vice versa. 

Charmian