Canon Veelas WAS Re: More thoughts on the Elder Wand subplot - Owner?

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 187530

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
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> > Magpie:
> > It doesn't necessarily mean they have personalities like humans do. People often refer to machines as being tempermental. I assumed Ollivander just means that he doesn't find Veela hair to be reliable enough as a wand core. (I also get a subtle, unfortunate sexist connotation.)
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> Alla:
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> Hm, why? I certainly do not remember, but is it specified in the canon definition of veela that only female veelas exist? I strongly suspect that I got it from bad fanfiction that male veelas exist too, but I am not sure one way or another.
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> I mean I know we only see female veelas, but it does not necessarily mean that only females exist?
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> Thanks.
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kamion:
just wondering when the female spirit is called a Veela ( first declension noun in Latin) should the male version of it then be called
Veelus or Veelo?