Ship Thought--Bill & Fleur?

[fiondavhar]

No: HPFGUIDX 99889

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lady Macbeth" 
<LadyMacbeth at u...> wrote:
> Sherry  said :
> 
> I sort of thought we were supposed to think they were an item by 
the brief
> mention of them in OOTP.  I can't remember the exact quote now, but 
I
> certainly got the idea they might be dating.  Well, at least that 
Bill would
> like to be dating her.
> 
> 
> Lady Macbeth replied:
> 
> Yes, by all estimations they're an item.  They are indeed both 
working in
> Gringotts main office, presumably so that Bill (and possibly 
Fleur?) can be
> closer to Dumbledore and do work for the Order of the Phoenix.
> 
> It was mentioned that Bill is "teaching Fleur English", but I can't 
find my
> book offhand (I just recently moved, and it's still packed away).
> 
> I like to be mean and be of the opinion that Molly really does 
believe
> that's all that's happening between the two of them, but that's 
just me.
> The canon doesn't say definitively one way or another.
> 
> -Lady Macbeth
> 
 
Bonny here:

Here is the quote from OotP:

"Is Bill here?' he asked. 'I thought he was working in Egypt?'
'He applied for a desk job so he could come home and work for the 
Order,' said Fred. 'He says he misses the tombs, but,' he 
smirked, 'there are compensations.'
'What d'you mean?'
'Remember old Fleur Delacour?' said George. 'She's got a job at 
Gringotts to eemprove 'er Eeenglish -'
'And Bill's been giving her a lot of private lessons,' sniggered 
Fred."

That quote coupled with the part in GoF, when Harry gets to see the 
Weasleys as family and Fleur is mentioned to be checking Bill out 
suggests to me that they are at least "seeing one another" even if 
they are not technically an item.

Bonny