JKR site update WOMBAT part 2 - RESULTS- Question ab...

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 159451

Sherrie wrote:
> IIRC, there are no male veela (wila, in Slavic myth, vilia in
Celtic).
> There are also no female centaurs in mythology (STAR TREK
convention costumes notwithstanding). Both mythological races
reproduced by breeding with humans of the, erm, appropriate gender.
(Though in some myths, the "Willies" are spirits of young girls who
die before their wedding day - cf. Giselle).

Carol responds:
But if that's the case, how could Fleur be *part* Veela? If her
"grandmuzzer" was a Veela who married a human man, then she and her
mother would (and little Gabrielle) also be full-blood Veelas.
Mythology notwithstanding, I think that in JKR's world, there must be
male Veela, though perhaps they're very rare and consequently, most
Veela don't marry. Or--not that this solution would appear in JKR's
books--maybe they practice polyandry, sharing a husband because to do
otherwise would mean the end of the species. Alternatively, maybe both
the Veela and the Centaurs have some form of asexual reproduction, as
the Dementors do.

Carol, finding the idea of a union between a centaur and a human woman
repugnant and wondering why the offspring wouldn't be three-quarters
human rather than one-half