Fleur & the Weasley Women/ Love potions

[career advisor]

No: HPFGUIDX 152395


 "ericoppen" oppen at mycns.net
    Date: Wed May 17, 2006 10:30am(PDT) 
Subject: Fleur and the Weasley women

<While I agree that Fleur Delacour could have been a lot more polite 
<when we saw her _chez_ Weasley, I think there'd have been a lot of 
<friction even if she was as sweet as could be and the second coming of 
<Melanie Wilkes (from _Gone with the Wind._)

<Molly Weasley is used to being _the_ Alpha Female in that little pack, 
<and does not care much for competition.  And Fleur, being part-veela, 
<can't help but make guys go slightly gaga, which had to irritate Molly 
<(and Ginny).

<I shouldn't be a bit surprised to find out that part-veela women often 
<have a lot of trouble getting along with "normal" magical women, 
<merely because their "attraction" creates a great deal of resentment 
<among the more normal witches.  They'd see it as unfair competition, 
<and would resent the part-veela no matter what she did. 

I think we have to similar threads running here. What we know from cannon 
is that for the effect of the Veela on men seems very similar to that of a 
love potion in that most men lose their reason.

So why does Ms. Weasley not want Bill to rush into marriage? Deductive reasoning
from the similarities in cannon leaves me to suspect that she is afraid that her oldest son is being 
"hoodwinked" into marriage, just like someone who had been love potioned. This is a perfectly 
reasonable fear for any mother to have. I'm sure many mothers whose son's have married models have 
had similar qualms. Very beautiful women in the real world often cause men lose their minds 
(as do handsome men for women.) 

They Weasley's really didn't know Fleur yet, as her stay at the burrow is apparently the only
time they have had an extended time with her. She was basically a stranger. Her vanity only would 
encourage them on the idea that she might be intentionally influencing Bill in order to get the 
prize she wants (whatever that is- they could even worry deep down that she is a tool of Voldermort. 

Of course, the truth is her vanity is mostly justified. She is very beautiful, apparently one of the 
best students in here year at that french  'charm' school I can't spell and as Harry rightly says she
was a tri-wizard champion.

I read the whole Fleur at the burrow scene as hilarious juxtaposition (?)of a cultured city girl and 
a country bumpkin family. Most city girls would find the burrow incredibly dull as does Fleur. Also she keep trying to impress her soon-to be
in laws and family and every step of the way she says the wrong thing. 

It is in he final scene in the infirmary that the Weasleys see her true colors because her 
devotion to Bill shows two things.

1) She is not using him and is truly in love with him, because otherwise if she were just using 
him for whatever purpose his newly hideous looks would have def. made those plans useless.
2) They show that she deep down has the same values as them. Which we know as soon as she says 
"All these scars show is zat my husband is brave." (HBP pg. 623 Scholastic edition)

Is basically Fleur's battle cry as a Weasley! I'm looking forward to a battle at the wedding in book 7 
(maybe over Auntie Murial Goblin made Tiara (the tiara of Ravenclaw?) because I suspect Fleur's 'evil beauty' may be 
turned by JKR into a hilarious asset for the forces of good. I can imagine a few dozen death eaters becoming 
incapable of anything when they see her in her wedding dress. Allowing for an easy round-up by the OOP and DA, Aurors etc.
Anyway, that my two cent prediction for what it is worth.

DA Jones 
   
 


			
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