Does Viktor Krum become an important character?

[mommystery2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 118851


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> Del replies :
> Oh !? But... Why ??? I'm not criticising you or anything, I'm just
> very surprised. What makes you dislike Viktor so much ??

Del,

I have no idea why I dislike Krum so much.  He just turned me off 
from the first time he was introduced.  Just a feeling...
 
> Del replies :
> Do you have any canon to back up your suspicions ?
> I personally think that for a Durmstrang and a world celebrity, 
Viktor
> acted very decently in GoF.
> We've seen Draco do lots of nasty stuff, but I can't remember seeing
> Viktor do anything even remotely bad.

No I have no canon for back up, like I said, it's just a gut feeling 
that he's not all good.  He did act somewhat decently in GoF, but I 
still have a problem trusting him.  I just feel he has some ulterior 
motives somewhere.
> 
 
> Del replies :
> But Hermione didn't *help* Viktor ! Quite the opposite in fact, 
since
> she was tied up and away during the whole Second Task. And she 
didn't
> *volunteer* for that part either.
> As for there being someone that Viktor cared more about : well, yes,
> maybe there would be someone in Bulgaria (I doubt he had any close
> friends among the Durmstrang students, since he fairly often hanged
> out on his own in the library). But bringing in Gabrielle from 
France
> (if she was indeed in France at the time) was already quite a 
stretch.
> Bringing in someone from Bulgaria would have been downright
> ridiculous. Especially since it was *very* obvious that Viktor was
> indeed quite taken with Hermione.

But they chose a Hogwarts student for him to rescue.  I find it hard 
to believe that they brought in Fleur's (another character I don't 
like!) sister but couldn't bring in someone Krum has known much 
longer?  This is a magical world after all, and getting a person 
there wouldn't be too much of an effort.  I don't think Fleur's 
sister was there the entire time, but who knows?
> 
 
> Del replies :
> Don't be so hard on him. He's a foreigner remember ? I happen to be 
a
> transplant myself : there are names in this country I have a very 
hard
> time pronouncing, and many people have a hard time pronouncing my
> name. My in-laws even had to invent a more local-sounding variation 
of
> my name, because they just couldn't get it ! There are different
> sounds, different spellings, and so on, and all of those can really
> create barriers.
> Viktor strikes me as not being particularly gifted on a linguistic
> level (well, pretty much all foreigners seem to share in that 
weakness
> in the Potterverse - I mean, Fleur didn't even figure out the use of
> the letter H in English after spending several months at 
Hogwarts !),
> so I would think we could cut him some slack.

My point here is though, most people take time to learn a correct 
pronounciation of someone's name.  And Hermione isn't all that 
difficult to say after a few times.  I know I personally make it a 
point to find out how to pronounce a difficult name, just as I 
appreciate it when people do the same with mine!  LOL

Ces - who thinks she and Del will just have to agree to disagree 
about Viktor Krum!