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

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No: HPFGUIDX 29774

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> 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.

I've been listening to book 4 lately, and Draco pines for 
Durmstrang, but laments that his mother didn't want him so far away.