Farmer Hagrid, hairy sisters, more pro-Cho, transfiguration musings

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 29762

Heather:"There's a theory which goes that the Delacort ("of the 
Court" suggesting old nobility) family is the French equivalent of 
the Malfoys (which, incidentally, is itself derived from "mal fee," 
or "evil faery" in French)."

The name - at least in the American editions - is "Delacour," perhaps 
rendering Fleur's name as "Flower of the Heart."  Fleur has veela-
like hair, and has an unnaturally powerful influence over human 
males; so we have to believe her about her veela grandmuzzer, non?

Heather:"The Malfoys didn't let Draco go off to Durmstrang, 
suggesting that those "in the know" realize it's not the elite 
bastion of Dark Arts for the New Age that it wants to become."

Perhaps Daddy Lucius didn't want dear Draco going off with that 
traitor Karkaroff, preferring that Draco do what harm he can at 
Hogwarts.