Cecilia’s Diary

I’m not entirely sure why all of Hogwarts has been given an assignment, but I’m excited!  This is a fascinating subject – the four Triwizard champions are so fascinating to me!

Fleur Isabelle Weasley, as she is known now, was born to the Delacour family around 1977.  Her father was a French wizard; not much is known about him except his appearance.  Her mother, Apolline, was half veela.  Fleur’s veela grandmother was the source of the veela hair contained in her 9 1/2″ rosewood wand. We don’t know much about her before her entry to become and acceptance as a Triwizard Champion in 1994 at the age of 17.   At the competition, she met Bill Weasley, and eventually the two fell in love and married.

Fleur’s heritage is mostly unknown with the exception of her grandmother, who was a veela.  Veela appear to be strikingly beautiful human women until they are irritated or angered, at which point they turn into rather scary looking beasts, with long scaly wings and birdlike heads.  Their song can be dangerous to males, encouraging rash behavior that would likely result in death.

Fleur was the champion for Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, likely located in southeast France.  Its heraldry is thus: vert two wands or in saltire each three mullets or.  (Or something like that, my heraldry is a little dusty)   The school itself is known for being somewhat ethereal compared to Hogwarts or Durmstrang: it is housed in a palace rather than a castle and what little is said about it indicates that from the food, to classes, to celebrations, everything is light and wispy.  It seems to me to be a very feminine, girly school, and so I would most definitely not fit in there.  Actually, if there was a Ravenclaw house at Durmstrang, I’d probably fit in fine, as I tend to be more of a rough and tumble, gruff sort.

I hope that’s good enough for my assignment!  I’d better get back to the “real” work now!