Fleur (was Favorite characters)

[jenny from ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 28424

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Cindy C." <cynthiaanncoe at h...> wrote:

> OK, OK!  *backpedaling furiously*  Fleur's *not* incompetent.  She's 
> just not nice, rude, condescending, aloof, lacking in compassion, 
and an ungracious guest.  Her positive traits are, um, she got through  
the tasks without being killed.  Oh, and she's pretty. :-)>

> But where is Fleur's big scene with Harry where she 
> gets to reveal her character?  There really isn't one, other than 
> thanking him for saving her sister. >

Cindy, Cindy, Cindy... It breaks my heart to disagree with you, but 
about Fleur, I do.  I think her attitude is what she uses to protect 
herself.  I'm not saying my heart goes out to really beautiful women, 
but I do think that really beautiful women (and athletes, actors, and 
very wealthy people) have to question why people are interested in 
them.  In a way, Fleur has something in common with Harry - they both 
don't always know why people always want to be around them.

If I was part Veela, I'd be aloof a good deal of the time too.  I 
don't think it would be fun to always have men following me, babbling 
at me and gawking at me every where I went.  I think it would be 
frightening, in fact (I have been followed before; it terrified me).  
Either way, Fleur does get her share of rejection, as Cedric was not 
interested in her (and Harry's interest did not return the feelings to 
him; yet another think Harry and Fleur share).

I think that Fleur changed quite a bit after Harry saved her sister.  
She saw that Harry was a good kid who had no interest in Fleur in more 
than as a person.  One of the many things I love about Harry is that 
he is *not* taken with Fleur.  I also really liked that Fleur never 
cared about Harry's fame (remember when she called him a "little boy" 
after his name came out of the goblet?).

Fleur isn't perfect, and can be downright snotty, but for the most 
part, she does her own thing just like everyone else.

--jenny from ravenclaw *************************