Fleur Delacour

'Harry' Potter character
Clemence Poesy 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
Loyalty	Bill Weasley,Order of the Phoenix
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.

Fleur is from France, though she is capable of speaking fluent
English, albeit with a strong accent. She
is approximately three years' Harry's senior, which would place her
birth around 1977. Her stunningly beautiful
looks start off 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."

Clémence Poésy plays Fleur in the fourth
film.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or
ending details follow.

Fleur is partly non-human. Due to the heritage of her Veela grandmother, many boys are immediately
awestruck when they see her, and she's able to temporarily make
herself almost irresistible to the opposite sex. Though this can
play to a great advantage, it can also put her in danger of
Voldemort and his Death
Eaters, as they have a strong prejudice against half-breeds
(people who are only part human) and half-bloods (wizards that have
Muggle
heritage).

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 in Hogwarts. She
often complained about Hogwarts throughout the book, particularly
in relation to the food, while raving about her own school. Fleur
was very outspoken against the idea of 'Harry becoming the fourth champion,
insisting that he was too young, the only one 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 for her (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., a Death
Eater who was impersonating Mad-Eye
Moody) and Ludo Bagman, it will probably never be known how
good a champion she was. At the end of the book, she told' Harry
that following her graduation 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 in OotP, Bill gives Fleur "private lessons").

In 'Harry' Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince, Fleur and Bill are revealed to have
gotten engaged to be married, and she is staying at The
Burrow. Hermione, Ginny, and Mrs.
Weasley all dislike Fleur - Ginny nicknames her "Phlegm". Mrs.
Weasley cannot understand how Bill fell in love with Fleur because,
as near as Mrs. Weasley can tell, Fleur is nothing but a spoiled,
vain, shallow, superficial, self-absorbed, narcissistic snob, and
Fleur herself really doesn't give her future mother-in-law much
reason to think she is otherwise. Instead of Fleur, Mrs. Weasley
wanted Bill to fall in love with Nymphadora Tonks. 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 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.

Fleur gains significant ground with the Weasley family 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. 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.