Fleur Delacour

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Harry Potter character
Image:FleurDelacour HP&GoF5.jpg Clémence Poésy as Fleur Delacour in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Fleur Delacour
Gender	Female
Hair Colour	Silvery-blonde
Eye Colour	Deep blue
School	Beauxbatons
Parentage	Quarter-Veela
Allegiance	{{{allegiance|Unknown}}}}}}
Film Portrayer	Clémence Poésy
First Appearance	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Fleur Delacour is a fictional character from the Harry Potter series of books. She first appeared in the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and later appeared in the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and will almost certainly appear in the Unnamed seventh book.

Her stunningly beautiful looks are in stark contrast to her often arrogant and snooty attitude; indeed, her mannerisms so infuriate some of the Weasleys that an in-joke among the younger members of the Weasley family and their friends (mostly Ginny Weasley and Hermione Granger, who, naturally, would be less fond of a particularly beautiful and snobbish girl) is to refer to Fleur as 'Phlegm'.

Her name comes from the French phrase fleur de la cour, meaning "flower of the court" or, according to J. K. Rowling, "noblewoman." This also appears to be a reference to Fleur's great beauty.

In the fourth film Fleur was played by Clémence Poésy.

Background

Fleur is from France. Her grandmother was a veela, making Fleur one quarter veela. She is approximately three years Harry's senior, which would place her birth around 1977. She has a sister Gabrielle Delacour, roughly ten years younger.

Fleur's wand is nine and a half inches, inflexible, made of rosewood and contains one of her grandmother's veela hairs. She is capable of speaking fluent English, albeit with a strong French accent.

Fleur is not completely human. Due to the heritage of her Veela grandmother, many boys are immediately awestruck when they see her, and she is able to temporarily make herself almost irresistible to the opposite sex. Though this can play to great advantage, it might also put her in danger of Voldemort and his Death Eaters, as they have a strong prejudice against non-purebloods (wizards who are not exclusively descended from old wizarding families) and muggles.

Image:Gofpromo-fleur01.jpg Fleur studied magic in Beauxbatons, though she was one of the competitors in the Triwizard Tournament in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on her last year and spent most of it at Hogwarts. She often complained about Hogwarts, and spoke out against the idea of Harry becoming the fourth champion, insisting that he was too young, the only central character to voice such objections.

Fleur has a little sister named Gabrielle Delacour who was about eight as of Goblet of Fire. It was Fleur's job to rescue her during the second task of the Triwizard Tournament, but she failed. Harry chose to rescue Gabrielle as well as a friend (not that the girl was likely to have been in actual danger) and Fleur, badly shaken by the event, became much warmer to him and to Hogwarts in general afterwards.

Fleur came in last in the Triwizard Tournament, but as it was heavily manipulated by Voldemort (through Barty Crouch Jr.), it will probably never be known how good a champion she was. At the end of the book, she told Harry that after leaving school she would try to return to England to obtain a job and thereby improve her English skills.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix it is briefly mentioned that Fleur has taken employment in Gringotts Bank, and that Bill Weasley is "helping her to eemprove 'er Eenglish''". This "tutoring" eventully leads to a romantic relationship (as Fred snickers, Bill gives Fleur lots of "private lessons").

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Fleur and Bill are revealed to have become engaged to be married. Bill brings Fleur to The Burrow for a few days so that she can get to know his family. Bill's mother, Mrs. Weasley dislikes Fleur and cannot understand how Bill fell in love with Fleur because, as near as she can tell, Fleur is spoiled, shallow, and narcissistic. Fleur doesn't really give her future mother-in-law much reason to think she is otherwise. Instead of Fleur, it initially appears that Mrs. Weasley wanted Bill to fall in love with Nymphadora Tonks (later it is revealed that Nymphadora is in love with Remus Lupin).

Ron, however, does not dislike her - which is understandable, as in The Goblet of Fire, Ron was one of the boys who were most affected by Fleur's Veela charm. (Harry, on the other hand, is among a small handful of males who do not feel an overpowering attraction to Fleur, although he was pleased when she kissed him on the cheek.) It is also revealed that Gabrielle is raving about Harry, which does not necessarily mean anything but that the little girl is starstruck.

Fleur gains significant ground in the opinion of Mrs Weasley after her fiancé suffers disfiguring injuries in the Battle of Hogwarts. Upon hearing Mrs. Weasley assume that the wedding is off, Fleur takes offense at the suggestion that Bill would no longer want to marry her or vice versa because of his facial scars. Fleur's rather bizarre understanding of Mrs. Weasley's statement gives us a new insight into her character: the idea that she would no longer be attracted to Bill is so alien to her that she fails even to recognize Molly's suggestion for what it is. In fact, she takes pride in his wounds as living proof of his valor (and adds that she does not care what he looks like, as she is good looking enough for them both). The relation between the Weasley family and Fleur seems to immediately warm up after this incident.

Fleur and Bill are expected to be married near the beginning of the seventh Harry Potter book; the sixth book specifically says Harry will attend their wedding before beginning his mission to kill Voldemort. Fleur wants Bill's sister Ginny and her sister Gabrielle to be bridesmaids, and a now-friendly Mrs Weasley offers to obtain a beautiful tiara from an elderly relative for Fleur to wear for the wedding.de:Fleur Delacour es:Fleur Delacour fr:Fleur Delacour it:Fleur Delacour ja:フラー・デラクール no:Fleur Delacour pl:Fleur Delacour pt:Fleur Delacour sv:Fleur Delacour