[HPforGrownups] Re: If Fleur had married Harry.

[Shelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 192332

On 3/8/2013 3:43 PM, Geoff wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "corey" <coverton1982 at ...> wrote:
> :
> Corey
>> Does anyone wonder what might have happened if Fleur had married
>> Harry? I don't know, it was just something I was thinking about.
>> Since it's been a while since anyone's posted here...
> Geoff:
> I doubt if that has entered anybody's thinking until now. Fleur
> often gave an impression of thinking herself superior and she
> certainly had a poor view of him in early interactions:
>
> 'Fleur frowned. "But evidently zair 'as been a mistake," she said
> contemptuously to Bagman. "'E cannot . 'E is too young."
>
> and...
>
> "Madame Maxine!" said Fleur at once, striding over to her Headmistress.
> "Zey are saying zat zis little boy is to compete also!"'
> (GOF "The Four Champions" p. 241 UK edition)
>
> Not a resounding declaration of confidence - or love - methinks.

But this scene is premature....consider Harry as he saves Gabriella from 
the lake, and then she thinks Harry risked winning the competition to 
save her sister. Her attitude changes from hauty to seeing Harry in a 
new light. To me, this could have been the start of a very deep 
infatuation on her part of Harry. Harry, all throughout the competition 
proves he is anything but a "little boy". First impressions can be very 
wrong, and I think Fleur realizes she made a mistake in judging him too 
soon. I thought, when I read the books, that Harry and Fleur could get 
together, but Harry is really down to earth and would want a wife that 
was the same, so he and Ginny made much more sense. But yes, I did see 
Harry with Fleur at one point in the series. It would have been just 
another reason Ron would have been jealous of Harry.

Shelley