Fleur Delacour & Half Blood Prince

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 121811


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, fuzzlebub85 at a... wrote:
> 
> 
> Tonks wrote:
> If Fleur de la cour means "flower of the court", is she a connection
>  to the prince? Court has to do with royality. I don't know if there
>  is any other meaning for the word. In England is means Court of the
>  King doesn't it? What do the rest of you think??
>  
> 
> Kaylee here:
>  Excellent idea, Tonks! We know Fleur has a sister, but what if 
> she also has a brother? It would be an interesting idea, don't you
think? And 
> what with all the wedding threads zooming around, if it's
Bill/Fleur, Fleur's 
> brother will just HAVE to be there, won't he?
> 
> Sorry that this is all speculation...*digs for canon* There's one
part in GOF 
> somewhere...the Weighing of the Wands, don't have my book on
me...she's part 
> Veela, (her grandmother was one) so is she a half-blood? Perhaps her
brother, 
> or even her father, is a prince, maybe it's her father who has the
Veela blood 
> in him? He could be the half-blood prince, possibly? Quotes from the
chapter, 
> anyone?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kaylee, hoping this post makes it past the List Elves very much

"Half-blood" means half wizard and half-muggle or half-pureblood and
half-muggleborn, like Harry, who has two wizard and two Muggle
grandparents just as Seamus or Tom Riddle does. Someone like Hagrid,
on the other hand, is (forgive the term, I know it's not PC) a "half
breed," since one parent is a wizard and the other is a member of
another species (I forget whether the MoM classifies giants as
creatures or beings). Veelas, too, are somewhere between a creature
and a being since they can turn into birds (they remind me of
Harpies), but they aren't in FBWTF so they must be classified as
beings. Still, though, I think Fleur's mother (who must be half-Veela
since Fleur is one quarter and her "grandmuzzer" is a Veela) would be
considered a "half-breed." Where that leaves Fleur, I'm not sure, but
certainly not a Half-blood as JKR has defined the term.

I've already asked about the parentage of Veelas in a post responding
to a message which for some reason was not threaded to this one. Good
old Yahoo.

Carol