Ron asking Fleur + other question was Re: [HPforGrownups] SHIP: The Yule Brawl--The Problem With Reading R/H in GoF

Mon Jan 20 22:04:25 UTC 2003

No: HPFGUIDX 50196

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Susanne <siskiou at e...> wrote:
> > My daughter also felt sorry for her, because other kids
> disliked her for attracting boys easily.
> She thought it was mean, since Fleur didn't pick her
> heritage and can't turn this "feature" on and off at will
> (or can she, and we missed that?)

LOL!  Oh, that's so cute!

Anyway, I just thought of something.  Doesn't Hermione seem a bit 
like the anti-Fleur to you?  And yet for all their differences, they 
have something in common.

She's attracting boys (Krum, Ron, perhaps even Neville), but it's not 
because of something in her "heritage"... it's because of her own 
personal merits.

So I suppose there's something that unites the two different kinds of 
archetypal girl you see in the story.  Something more to think 
about...

--Eb