[HPforGrownups] Re: Ginny's Behavior/Ginny Haters

[catherine higgins]

No: HPFGUIDX 152420



festuco <vuurdame at xs4all.nl> wrote:    
Catherine wrote:
>   The Weasley family, or at least some of them, don't like Fleur for
>a variety of reasons, well, actually only two: her looks and her >attitude. 
   
  Festuco:
I don't think they dislike her for her looks, but because she is so utterly and totally vain.

  Catherine again:
   
  Well, that's what I meant by her attitude ;-) But to expand a bit. I think being so beautiful can be very off-putting to a lot of women (myself included, although I'm working on that!) I think right away, before she opens her mouth, we expect a beautiful woman to be vain, egotistical and dumb. It's a steroetype. Unfortunately, Fleur has an excess of vanity and egocentrism, so to a certain extent, she reinforces the sterotype. Had she been *really* nice and made an effort to appear to enjoy herself, and keep her left-handed compliments to herself, she would have overcome the type-casting and would have been more welcome in the house. 
   
  Fleur is probably sick to death of people treating her as nothing more than a "part-Veela". I would need canon, but it seems Fleur is a whole lot nicer to poeple who *aren't* taken in by her Veela charms. Bill seems to act pretty normal around her, as does Harry. It's probably a relief to her that not every guy around her behaves like a total idiot when she's around. She *is* smart, not just beautiful, she just needs to work on her social skills, even more than her "eenglish" 
   
  Catherine

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