Victor Krum

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No: HPFGUIDX 98928

justcarol wrote:
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Carol, who thinks there must be male Veelas and female leprechauns,
but that both are very rare, like female dwarves in LOTR ("It's the
beards.")

Neri (sitting at home with a nasty allergy and finding solace in 
pestering the HPFG group):

Speaking as a biologist, the elegant solution to your problem above 
seems quite clear: leprechauns and veelas are the males and females 
of the same, highly di-morphic species. Once per 17 years (say) in 
the spring they both meet for a mating season on a remote island in 
the arctic ocean. Pregnancy is only 3 months or so, after which the 
leprechauns take the male babies with them to Ireland and the Veelas 
take the female babies to eastern Europe. Both leprechauns and veelas 
seem to be rather embarrassed of their other sex since they keep this 
as a dark secret. This explains the enmity between them in the QWC 
and also why the leprechauns are immune to the veela charm. I guess 
they are only susceptible to it during the mating season when the sex 
hormones peek. In contrast, Veela sexual drive is apparently active 
all the time, so between mating seasons they vent it by tempting 
humans.

Neri (groping for the kleenex)