[HPforGrownups] Harry and Gabrielle (was JKR and the obvious)

[Kathrin P]

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Del:
Er... Wasn't Gabrielle something like *eight*, in GoF??

Mira: 
You're probably right. I seemed to remember it was
something around ten or eleven, which would make her a
suitable age now. If she was 8, then no way she can
come back as a romantic interest, unless Harry
appreciated her age wrong or a Veela ages at different
speed than normal people. She would have been a good
choice, not a new character but somebody we don't know
very well just yet.

Kathrin:
I assume that discussion started because I voted for her having a 
relationship with Harry in HBP? 

Well, in GoF, Chapter 26 - The Second Task (Bloomsbury paperback, p. 543) it says:
 Ron was tied between Hermione and Cho Chang. There was also a girl who looked no older than eight, whose clouds of silvery hair made Harry feel sure that she was Fleur Delacour's sister.

I am not aware of a passage in the canon that states Gabrielle's age more exactly than in this assumption. eSince I know that I look like 16 under water (several people told me so without knowing each other) despite the fact that all my passports will tell you I was born in 1984 (which leaves me at 21 years so far), I simply thought that this could be the same for Gabrielle. Then she might possibly be 14 by now and the age difference is not so big anymore. This means it is well possible they become a couple sometime soon (in HBP, I hope :) ). 

Also, wouldn't it be nice if Harry and they Weasley family would be 
officially related (I'm simply assuming that Bill getting married to Fleur is a fact, as I really hope this will happen in HBP!)? Well, it has yet to be proven to me that Harry and the Weasley family are not yet related, but with Gabrielle and Harry a couple the proof wouldn't be necessary any longer... 

Maybe I should explain you in a short sentence what I mentioned above: I still believe (and always will) that Molly was a distant relative to James Potter :)

Kathrin (who, by the way, is a new member, a 21 years old student in 
Frankfurt/Main, Germany, and owns all Harry Potter 1-5 in German and English and 1 & 2 in French - you see, I'm an addict)