Krum taking a 'mudblood' to Yuleball

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 152290

> Joe: 
> He might be a good guy but that whole 17/18 year old international 
> quidditch star asking a 14/15 year old girl out strikes me as more 
> than a little creepy.
>
zgirnius:
Hermione has a September birthday, so make that 15.

It does not strike me as particularly odd. I remember quite distinctly 
one of my classmates freshman year in high school getting asked to the 
Senior Prom by a star of the high school football (the US kind) team. 
(Unlike Hermione, she trumpeted her good fortune far and wide, or I 
would never have known, as only seniors and their dates attend the 
Prom.)

Yes, we could imagine that Krum would prefer a supermodel or some such 
equivalent in the WW, but he's stuck at Hogwarts for the year, so 
schoolgirls are his only available option. He is still in school 
himself.