[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR site update WOMBAT part 2 - RESULTS- Question ab...

[Maria]

No: HPFGUIDX 159460

On 10/11/06, justcarol67 <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sherrie wrote:
>  > IIRC, there are no male veela

>  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.
>

I think that you are assuming here that the outcome of the union
between a veela and a human man can only be another woman, therefore a
veela. Thus, Fleur and Gabrielle could not be half veelas, but full
veelas.

However, I think that veelas could give birth to both male and female
babies, if females they would be full veelas, if male, plain humans
but with some of that beauty and genetics, which could be passed down
to the grandchildren, however diluted.

Do we know anything about Fleur's mother? Maybe I am making my theory
forgetting some fact, but I think it explains the fact that Fleur is
part-veela pretty well.

Maria, coming back after a very long period of lurkdom