I still dont like Fleur

[guddammit]

No: HPFGUIDX 135052

Shannon  wrote:
 I mean, yes, Fleur was arrogant and kind of awful, but that doesn't 
excuse nasty nicknames and mocking. 



I am using Shannon as just an example of a sentiment the resides in 
a lot of the readers, that Fleur is/ was arrogant and awful. 
However, I'd like to have just a little more proof that just the 
opinions of people who don't like her to begin with. After all, it's 
Ginny and the other females, who I think are rather jealous to begin 
with because of a) veela pheromone-reaction theory (like how they 
make men pools of foolish lust, but women shrews) b) because they 
assume someone very beautiful can ONLY be an idiot and egotisitic.
I get that a lot, having been a professional model as a teenager, 
and also having been girlfriend to a mothercoddled boy, and now 
fiancee to a very italienne/francaise matriarch's favorite son. It 
puts me on the defense a lot, to feel like I have to prove myself. 
But my pride refuses to allow myself to be "humble" to the point of 
ridcule just to make others feel better. 
Fleur doesn't HAVE to want to get to know her in-laws-to-be better. 
She doesn't have to spend her summer with them. She's doing it for 
Bill. And she is being treated like crap when they should be trying 
to get to know each other. And also, I have to say that the English 
are as... "polite and restrained = @@@@-retentive" as the French 
are "blunt to the point of being rude" so, it's hard to get the two 
cultures to mix well. (I am British/ Chinese and currently live in 
France) I think they have their pluses, the two cultures, but they 
will just rub each other the wrong way. I recommend reading _Sixty 
Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong_

But then again... I could be very very wrong in my opinions. I began 
to question Molly's wisdom to emotion when she was limiting Harry in 
OOTP. 

Tygrene