[HPforGrownups] Fleur Delacour And Bill Weasely

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 59453

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Louis Badalament wrote:

> Before we begin, let me refresh all your memories with this little 
> quote from Goblet of Fire;
> 
> "Fleur Delacour, Harry noticed, was eyeing Bill with great interest 
> over her mother's shoulder.  Harry could tell she had no objection 
> whatsoever to long hair or earrings with fangs on them."  
> 
> So... what to make of this 'great interest' of Fleur's.  Love At 
> First Sight?  Cursory Intrigue?  Flavor Of The Week?  Do you think 
> we can look forward to Fleur 'turning on the old charm' for the 
> eldest Weasely brother?  

I think Fleur thinks Bill is hot, really hot, but in that scene I think
it's primarily a physical attraction, along with a little intrigue.  She
has only just met him and hasn't had an opportunity to interact with him,
so there is no basis (yet) for a deeper love.  

However, I fully expect to see Fleur again in some capacity since she said
she was trying to a job "here" (Hogwarts? Hogsmeade? Scotland? Anywhere in
the UK?), and if she runs into Bill again I expect she'll try to use the
Veela charm to catch his interest.  Whether it will work is another
question.  Harry and Cedric didn't seem to be affected by her, although
Ron and Roger Davies were.  It also remains to be seen whether Bill would
have any interest in her without the Veela effect.  She must be a smart
girl to have been chosen as the Beauxbatons champion and she's certainly
beautiful, but there is a significant age difference between them and we
have no idea if their personalities are at all compatible.

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"