Victor Krum

[khilari2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 98410

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <snow15145 at y...> 
wrote:
> Could Victor Krum be a  male Veela and are Veela part bird?
> 
> At the quidditch world cup when the Veela were angry, Harry said 
> that "their faces were elongating into sharp, cruel-beaked bird 
> heads, and long, scaly wings were bursting from their 
shoulders"(GOF 
> pg. 111). Harry had described Krum as looking "
thin, dark, and 
> sallow-skinned, with a large curved nose and thick black eyebrows. 
He 
> looked like an overgrown bird of prey" (GOF pg.105), also when Krum 
> did the Wronski Feint Harry describes Krum as though he was not 
using 
> a broomstick at all; he moved so easily through the air that he 
> looked unsupported and weightless (GOF pg. 109). Could Krum be a 
> Veela or is he a half-breed of some kind with bird-like looks and 
> capabilities? 
> 
> The Veela when angry look like a bird and Krum also looks like a 
bird 
> and is described as flying like a bird i.e. weightless and 
> unsupported. Could Krum be a male version of a Veela? Can he 
actually 
> fly without a broom? How could this be of use in later books? In 
the 
> most recent chat, JKR said that we would see Krum again although 
not 
> soon. Any ideas? 
> 
> Snow-aka Kathy King

I'm afraid I'm going to take this opportunity to theorise on veela 
reproduction since I did wonder about the fact that there appear to 
be no male veela.
According to myth veela are all female, they breed by seducing human 
men and the offspring are always female and always veela. This 
doesn't fit with Fleur being part veela, although JKR's veela do 
appear to be all female. So, my theory is that any female child born 
to a veela and a human would be a full veela whereas a male child of 
a veela and a human would be considered half veela and any child of a 
half veela, male or female, would be considered a quarter veela.
This means full veela are only female, half veela are only male and 
quarter veela can be either male or female.

Just a theory.

Khilari.