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Foreign. Welcome to Critical Magic Theory, where we deconstruct the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Because loving something doesn't mean we can't be critical of it. I'm Professor Julianne Womble. Etje d'. Oui. We are going to be talking about Fleur Delacour. I had a whole bit in the beginning where I was going to be talking in French and doing the whole opening in French, but I'm too much of a perfectionist and I couldn't get it down. And I was like, I got to get this episode done, done. So you don't get to hear that. And you know what? You're welcome because it would have been very funny. But I'm not going to embarrass myself any more than I already do for you all. That's absurdity. That's insane. And don't even ask me to do it. Yes, I took a year of French in high school, so I'm basically an expert. But no, I'm not going to give you that level of expertise. More than what I already provide in terms of my expertise on Harry Potter. You're asking for too much, friends. It's too much. It's too much. It's too much. I can't give that to you, y'. All. We are going to be talking about Fleur. I'm so excited. This is our first, like, full survey episode that we've done in, like, in age, like 12 weeks, three months. Not even to mention the housing episodes. Anyways, we're back and I had to remind myself how to do these episodes. I was like, I'm supposed to do all of this in one singular episode. Who does that? Turns out I do. I did. We did together. And so we will do it again. It will come back to us. I'm really excited to talk about Fleur because again, she's one of these characters that we meet in Goblet of Fire and then she kind of crops back up here and there. And then we have her make more of an appearance in Deathly Hallows, where we get to kind of see who she's become since the Triwizard Tournament. We get to experience her as a girlfriend in. What is that? Half Blood Prince. And then we get to see her as a bride. And then we get to experience her post wedding at Shell Cottage, where she is taking care of Ollivander and Griphook. And so we do get quite a bit of her. And not to mention the fact that we get to see her at the very beginning of Deathly Hallows even before the wedding, where she is pretending to be Harry, which is a kind of harrowing situation. And so there's a lot for us to discuss, despite the fact that we don't spend so much time with her. And also, she's one of the more kind of, like, maligned characters in the text. And I think that there's a lot for us to unpack with that because I think that there are lots of justifications and reasons that many of you brought to bear in your survey responses that we're gonna be able to talk about and really get into. And I'm excited to do that because I think that we learn a lot about the author based on the way that Fleur is presented to us. We learned a lot about ourselves. This is not a Hermione episode, but we will be talking about Hermione quite a bit in this episode. And so get ready and get excited, because, frankly, I am. Have you ever wondered whether Fleur is actually arrogant, or if we've just been taught to read her that way, or whether she actually has control over her Villa Allure, or if it's just men and boys being, well, men and boys, or why it seems that both men and women are so willing to hold Fleur responsible for things that are so well out of her control? Y', all, we are getting into all of it today, but first, you know what we have to do. I'm singing slow so that you can get ready for the bop. It's a little croon. Because the bop is coming soon. Hashtag bars. I'm a lyricist. I don't know what this is, but I couldn't resist. Anyway, the bop is coming. It's the French joie de vivre that I can't quite shake right now. And so a vocal is what you got, but a bop is what you're gonna get in three, in two, in one. Let's bop. You know, I hope that you danced. And, yes, I was going to say that in French, but then I said, they're getting greedy. They're getting greedy, and if you give them an inch, they'll go 18 miles. And next thing you know, they're going to want whole episodes in different languages. And you can't offer that to them. You can't give that to them. So I have to really curtail your expectations of my linguistic prowess. And so you got it in English. But one thing's for certain, two things are for sure. I hope that you enjoy the bop. We're back to a regular bop. No birthday bop. No beard bop. No bop bop. Just a therapeutic bop. And honestly, that's okay. Welcome back everyone. Welcome back to those of you who are catching up. Welcome back to those of you who may be listening for the first time. Welcome back to those of you who are our a one day ones. I am so glad that we are here together and I am so grateful that we have this moment to talk about Fleur de la Core. 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It's not a whole new world. It's just where the merch store is. Anyways, this is a vocal episode. I think the French are known for their singing and so that's. I'm feeling inspired. Anyways, the next episode is going to be on Nymphador Tonks. So I know I have a lot to say, many things. So as always, the survey will drop on Thursday on Patreon for everyone. But you can also find the link in my bio on my socials, roffw on TikTok and profjw@prof.jw on Instagram. You can also go to criticalmagictheory.com and hit survey and you will be able to get it. And if you are also have. If you sign up for the listserv, which you can do on the website, you will also get that as well. Everyone who's not on Patreon will probably get it either Friday or Saturday. So if you want to get in there first and get your thoughts down if you want to get it out of the way. I know that some of us really are either we're. There are two kinds of people when it comes to these surveys. It's either wait till the last moment or get in there, get the thoughts out immediately before things get hectic and crazy and then you forget and then you get mad at me because you're like, why didn't you tell me? I Tried and I try, but I can only do but so much friends. So if the survey, if you want to get there first, join us on Patreon for free. And you can get it on Thursday, otherwise you'll get it on Friday like everyone else. And that's cool. And I am getting better at giving us, like, you know, last call. So I'm excited to see what we have to say about Tonks. But before we get to Tonks, we've got to talk about Fleur de la Cour. I'm really getting this French accent down, so you're welcome. Let's get into Fleur. When I had to think of a favorite moment for Fleur, I had a couple. But then the one that I settled on is one that we've talked about quite a bit in other moments. And it's a moment that is kind of a big moment for her character. I think it's supposed to kind of close out this arc of kind of the presuppositions that we have about who she is as a character. And it's the moment after the kind of preliminary battle at Hogwarts where Draco has let the Death Eaters in, and they kind of are wreaking havoc on the castle, and everyone is fighting and Bill is attacked by Greyback, and Molly Weasley is in the infirmary, the hospital wing, lamenting over Bill and, you know, this horrible visage that stands before her after he's been kind of mauled by Greyback. And she alludes to the fact that she believes that Fleur no longer wants to be with him anymore. And Fleur says something to the effect of, why would you say that I'm beautiful enough for the both of us? And I love this moment because it's a moment. And then Molly gets very emotional and she jumps up and she's like, oh, my gosh. And everyone's crying and. And in this moment, we're supposed to be like, oh, wow. Like, Fleur is really, you know, she's not who we thought she was. And there's a lot to be said about kind of what we're made to believe about who she is as a person and why this moment exists the way that it does. But I love this moment because it's a moment where it's not even to say, like, I. It's like, obviously the surface level of, like, I'm beautiful. And, you know, we don't need to worry about his looks because I've got mine. But it's also this idea of, no, this isn't why I'm with this person. Like, I'm not with Bill because of his looks. Like, I can be beautiful. But, like, there's more to our relationship than this kind of surface level belief that you all had about who we were and who I was to him and why I was with him. And so none of this matters. And it also is a moment because when she takes the sponge away from Molly and starts to kind of, you know, tend to his wounds, and it's a moment, I think that Fleur actually gives herself permission to be the partner that she probably has been in private. But out of deference for Molly and the family, she was kind of pulling back from this. But in this moment, she's like, I actually need to assert myself here. And I don't love this assertion manifest in terms of, like, I'm just super hot. And so, like, even though he's not as hot anymore, like, I'll be as hot for him. And so I interpret this moment less as this very shallow moment, but as a moment of saying, no, no, no, no, no. Like, my love for this man goes so far beyond what he looks like and some into a deeper understanding of who we are, and that doesn't get messed up like, that part of our relationship is not torn asunder. If anything, I love him more because of what led him. And I just love that because, I mean, yes, I'm kind of adding a little bit, I think, or reading between the lines. I'm certainly taking on more than I think we were supposed to be given from J.K. rowling as it pertains to this. But I think this moment is. It's such a beautiful moment because what people expected from her isn't what she gave them. But I also think that there's a way that her saying, I don't need him to be beautiful, which is basically what she's saying, Like, I don't need him to be beautiful. I'm beautiful. And we are beautiful in a way that goes beyond what he looks like. And that is so amazing. And we get to see kind of the way that she still cares for him at the beginning of Deathly Hallows in the Seven Potters, chapter, right? And I don't know. I think that when we meet Fleur, we're really invited to see her such a specific way and all the way through Half Blood Prince until this moment. And I think this moment is supposed to be a moment where we're supposed to see her in a better light. But I don't know about you all, and we'll talk about this throughout the episode. I personally think that Fleur was done dirty most of the time, and so I can't wait to dive into that. But I love this moment because I think it really does show that despite the superficial language, the intentionality behind it was much deeper and I think much more intentional than we often give her credit for. When asked what word best describes Fleur, the top three were loyal, confident, and French. And I really love this because loyal was by far and away the most frequently used word here. And I think, you know, one of the things that I recognized a lot in what you all were writing in your responses was that we, many of us, I won't say all of us, but many of us experience Fleur differently now as adults, knowing what we know about the author, knowing what we know about ourselves. And so we recognize something very different in Fleur that I think invites us to see a lot of her behavior in a way that is so drastically different than the way that the characters in the books tend to view what she does. I think the moment that I think really invokes a lot of loyalty for me is not only just the one that I talked about in my favorite moment with Fleur, but also the moment with the seven Potters. Because here's the thing, y', all, the gag is, is that she, like, you volunteered to do this, like Mundungus Fletcher, you know, problematic, a problem. However, simultaneously, concurrently, and he's not wrong, y' all want me to fly up there and potentially run into Voldiva, who's trying to kill this kid. We hope that that doesn't happen. But just in case, we're going to do this very elaborate plan, right? And Fleur is like, count me in. Like, hello, that's crazy. And we're gonna talk about a little bit more about what that means. However, I think it is really, really, really important for us to know, right? Like, that's not only just loyalty to, like, the cause, it's loyalty to Harry, right? And we know that she is so appreciative of Harry, and she never quite forgets what Harry did for Gabrielle in the second task. And she. It really is meaningful and it matters to her that he did this. And I think that in her mind, she spends so many moments kind of trying to figure out ways to help him in the same way that he helped her. And there's something really beautiful about that. And I wonder, and this is a question that I'm actually interested in, we can talk about in the post episode chat what house do you think Fleur would be in? Right. Like, obviously, she's at Beauxbaton, so maybe the kind of structuring of how they group their students is different. But if she was a student at Hogwarts, what house do you think she would be in? Okay, sound off on that. I also love the word confident here because I think that is definitely a newer facet for many of us, I imagine, because we're not invited to see her as confident. Right. We're invited to see her as arrogant, as cocky, as problematic and. And rude. Right. But I think, and this is the beautiful thing about time and maturation, is that we grow into an understanding of how much the patriarchy hates confident women. And since so many of the characters that we meet in these books that many of us have some sort of connection with are the byproducts of an internalized misogyny, many of us viewed a lot of what Fleur was bringing to bear in a not so positive light. I don't think we were calling it confidence when we were younger. Right. I think we understood it as this kind of unwarranted, undeserved arrogance because she was pretty. And maybe many of us thought that it was a pretty privilege, and perhaps in some parts it was. But there's a lot to unpack in terms of how we understand her confidence and the way that it's not only perceived and portrayed, but internalized by the people around her and how they understand who she is based on that. And so I think that that's really interesting. And I. And I also think that that is connected, Vin, to the last word French, which I think one of the things that I've. I've. I've learned a lot as I have kind of spent more time in the Harry Potter fandom universe, is a lot of people kind of defending the criticisms leveraged against Fleur on the grounds of the kind of France, UK binary. Right. The sense of, like, this is who the French are, and a lot of kind of preconceived and maybe like, experience understandings of the French, and the fact that many of us believe that these things kind of seeped into the books because J.K. rowling is obviously from the United Kingdom. And so, like, what does that then mean for the way that we're meant to understand her? And is that what then we use as our understanding of her what we are now calling confidence being misconstrued, or maybe not misconstrued, just construed as arrogance? Right. And how much of her national identity plays a part in that. And I think it's all there. Right. And there's this kind of really interesting alchemy that makes up our understanding of who Fleur is because of the kind of preconceived ideas, the expectations that we have for women and girls, and also the women and girls that we have spent more time with than Fleur and how they operate and the way that we use them as kind of our baseline for our understanding of what good femininity looks like. And I think in so doing, we are much more likely and willing to see other women and girls through the lens of the characters who we like and maybe identify with in some capacity and thus come up with more negative understandings of who these other women and girls are, particularly those who embody a more feminine gendered performance. We're going to talk about that more and more. So don't you worry. In fact, let's just buckle up for this arithmancy lesson. For this arithmency Lesson, we had 315 responses for the first question. Is Fleur Delacour a good person? About 89% of us said yes, 1% of us said no, and 10% of us, give or take, said don't know. Someone wrote, already I've seen responses that say Fleur is mean, is a mean girl. I wonder if we take her perspective paired with our own lived experience, would we view it the same way? She is a person who is getting followed and hit on relentlessly by the boys and males wherever she goes. No one is coming up to help her. So being quote unquote mean is one of the few tactics or skills she has to deter unwanted advances to simply move through the world. Another person wrote, fleur is a good person. She is not always the nicest to people around her, but she keeps it real. Fleur has a moral compass and self awareness. She is loyal and caring and truly loves the people close to her. And someone else writes, I feel that Fleur is a wonderful example of a strong woman in the HP series. She was unashamedly herself every time we met her. And now it's my turn. Is Fleur a good person? Yes. Yes, she is. Because here's the thing, if I was Fleur and to the earlier point made, all of these people are kind of throwing themselves at me. Like I think we are actively meant to believe that she enjoys it and that she kind of eats it up, right? But many of us. I'm not saying I'm Fleur de la Cor, okay? I'm not Saying that people are throwing themselves at me. Um, but attention is a lot. And especially if it so happens that because what we don't know, and I'm gonna say this many times, we don't actually know how her Vela ancestry operates. If this is something that she turns on, if it's something that just happens because like she is part Vela. Either way, the amount of attention that she gets because of how she looks and has to be exhausting and there's just simply not enough that you can like do or deal with to make that feel acceptable. And she somehow is like managing. And I actually am so interested in. And for those of you who wrote that she's not nice to people, can you find that in the text for me? And I mean that sincerely, like, not as a, like it's not even there type thing, but legitimately. I want to hear from you all in the post episode chat about this because we get a lot of this perspective, but I'm not actually convinced by this. I know that there are a couple of like snide remarks about how she doesn't like the Hogwarts Castle because it's basically not Beauxbaton. And you know, she's kind of very proud of her school and she gives voice to that pride. And, um, she gives voice to the fact that the food is heavier than she would like and she's not gonna be able to fit into her dress robes. But most of that stuff is kind of just said out loud. I have, I don't remember, I don't recall moments where she is pointedly mean to other people. And I'm interested in, in those moments because I'm wondering if they can shine a new light for us on who Fleur is. And I would love to talk about that in the Prof. Response episode. So if you are one of these people, please, please, please, like share moments that you're thinking about. And if you really want to get nerdy with it, give us a passage, tell us a book and a chapter. Because I'm interested in that. Because by my estimation, Fleur is a student from another school who has been come to this other place that is so drastically different from everything that she knows culturally in terms of the surroundings and is kind of being forced to navigate it in a way that is so drastically different than the characters who we are experiencing watching her. Right. Because Ron and Hermione and Harry, they're at Hogwarts, they're at home. Right. And it's a very weird experience to be away from your home and what you know, and be expected to kind of, like, act normal. And. And so it's also not clear to me whether or not these kind of the perceptions that we have of Fleur are born out of, like, just poorly conceived prejudgments. And then we spend more time with her and it just feels like she's someone who is very, very sweet. And one of my favorite moments that I didn't talk about, but I think is also, like, such a testament to who Fleur is, is when her parents come for the wedding. And everyone is expecting them to be these, like, pompous, terrible people for reasons that I don't understand, but they're not. They're gorgeous, generous, kind people who are helping out and getting their hands dirty and trying to make the borough as safe as possible and as beautiful as possible for the wedding. And Mr. Delacour is running around talking about how everything is Shamont. And I think that, like, you don't. You are not two people who are like that and your kid isn't that. You know what I mean? Like, it seems very unlikely that her parents are that generous and that Fleur somehow is not. Because if. Especially because If Fleur is 1/4 vila, then that means her mom is 1/2. And so. Or maybe it's her dad. I don't know. I think it's her mom, though. I think the text invites us to believe that it's her mother. But anyways, I think that, like, Fleur is a good person. I think that there are just a lot of things that are presented to us from the perspective of many of our faves that would make us think that she's not. But I also think that she's kind of like a stranger in a school. And so it's kind of hard. I can't imagine what that would be like. Even if you are with your friends, everything, you know, is weird. Also, they're, like, living out in, like, the carriages, I think, that can't be comfortable. I don't care how big those carriages are. Like, I used to have a dorm room with, like, you know, a bathroom that was mine. And now I'm in here with these other people. Like, no, I think. I think asking for whatever picture of kindness that we expected from her might be a bridge too far. And what's more, and I'm going to say this a couple times in the episode too, so this. Let this be time. Number one, we do not see our faves, one Hermione Jean Granger, operating with the kind of kindness that it seems like we are expecting from Fleur Delacour. And that's all I'll say on that. The next question is, is Fleur de la Cour a good wife? About 92% of us said yes. Seven or 7% of us said no. And 7% of us said don't know. Someone wrote, fleur is a good wife. She supports Bill in everything. She is locked in through traumatic injury and war. Fleur also makes an effort to get to prioritize Bill's family and to get to know them. I mean, I would never move in with my in laws who clearly hated me. Someone else wrote, the moment where Bill is attacked and she doesn't walk away is treated as if that is heroic, when in reality it's just a sign of a solid partner. Another person wrote, she not only proved everyone wrong about her supposedly only liking him for his looks, but she went toe to toe with Molly, defending herself and sticking by her man's side. It's my turn. Here's the thing. As far as I'm concerned, Fleur Delacour is a ride or die. And she literally got on the back of a thestral. So she was riding and she could have died, right? Like, and here's the other thing, and no one is having this conversation. And maybe this isn't the space to have it. You know what? We'll hold off on it. We'll hold off on it. I'm being a tease. I don't apologize. We're gonna get to it in a bit. But as far as her being a good partner, a good spouse, a good wife to Bill, I'm like, she literally got on the back of that thestral and also then turned around and opened her house, her home, like, she's still a newlywed when the whole thing with Shell Cottage is going on. And she takes care of Ron, she takes care of Ollivander, she takes care of Griphook, there's a way in which she is, like, such a generous, giving person of not only her time and her energy, but, like, her space. And she is with Bill as he undergoes any and all of the fallout from what happens with Grayback. There's a lot of stuff that, like, happens there. And what's more, as brought up by one of the comments, you know, it's more than just your navigation of your partner. It's also the fact that, yeah, she literally is living at the borough so that she can, you know, get to know Molly and get to know Jenny and is successfully navigating the snide Comments. Lest we forget, Molly Weasley is literally still trying to hook Bill up with Tonks while he's dating Fleur. Because she's like, well, I think it would just be better. Like, I cannot imagine the snide comments that were made in Fleur's direction while being at the Borough. Because one thing about Molly, she's gonna speak her mind, but she's gonna do it in a way that it. If you missed it, you missed it. And that's dedication. Because she'd had one time to say something slick to me and, well, let's just say it wouldn't be the Vila charm coming out. Remember that time when they started throwing them fireballs? Well, perhaps. I think that we can't underestimate how clear her affection for Bill is in these moments where many of us would probably be less inclined to navigate. You know, Ginny, who also was not very adept at hiding her disdain for Fleur. And so I think that there's a way that we have to understand, you know, what she was up against. And it wasn't coming from any of the boys. It was coming from Molly, and it was coming from Jenny within the familial unit. And I think that that matters because, again, it just throws the moment in the hospital wing into much sharper relief when you realize that how dedicated she's been to trying to make this work and make sure that she can be a member of the family. And that is like the social kind of familial side. Not even talking about the fact that she enters into a war that is honestly, like. It seems to be something that's just kind of the UK vibes from what we know. Right. Like, I'm sure that Voldiva had her mind, his mind set on world domination. But, like, most of what we are experiencing is happening within the magical world and Fleur is in it. She's on the back of that thestral. She took on Harry's appearance. She could have been killed. And she did it because, yes, her loyalty for Harry, but also, like, Bill is in it, and it's definitely giving much more of, like, a partnership than I think we're actually used to seeing in a lot of the relationships that we see in Harry Potter, which tend to be much more patriarchally driven. I made up that word, but it sounds good. We're going with it. And much more traditional in their structure. Right. Like, we see, like, you know, Arthur was there, but Molly wasn't there. Right. Tonks and Lupin are obviously there together, which we can Talk about Tonks in the next episode. And we will. But there's a way that, you know, in the sea of marriages that we get to experience in the text, Fleur and Bill are probably among the more progressive in terms of the equality that exists between the two of them. And I don't know, there's something about that that just feels amazing. And I think part of it is that's because Fleur is like, no, we are in this together. And that moment in the hospital wing is a moment that kind of solidifies that idea. But we see it throughout the rest of the times that we get to meet her later on in the series. And so I think she is a good wife. There's no reason for us to believe that she isn't. Um, she is welcoming to a family that is not as welcoming to her as they could have been. She is welcoming to creatures and, And. And, you know, wand makers who have been kidnapped by Death Eater. I mean, like, they are actively engaging in behavior that is kind of inviting danger to their doorstep. And yet she's doing it no problem. And with Bill, like, they are in partnership with one another, and I think that that's really beautiful. And again, like, just adds a level of depth to the way that we understand who Fleur is and what she actually believes and what she's. Is Fleur Delacour a good sister? About 91% of us said yes, about 1% of us said no, and about 8% of us said, don't know. Someone wrote, fleur is a good sister. She tried to claw her way back to the lake to save Gabrielle. That is evidence enough. Another person wrote, all of this is evident during the second task of the Triwizard Tournament. She fought so hard to save her sister, and even if she failed the task, she knows that she failed and did not try to blame anyone else. Another person wrote, they also seem to have a genuinely loving relationship. It's my turn, y'. All. Yes. And in more than just, you know, what she was willing to do for. To get Gabrielle back. I'm gonna go back to what I said before about how appreciative she is of what Harry did for her and going back and getting Gabrielle, even though she was not his to save. And I think that there's something really fascinating about that level of appreciation because it shows just how much she legitimately cares about her sister. And obviously, like, they took her for a reason. And I think that that is. I mean, obviously, she's the thing that she cares about the most. Who's there. Right. Which already shows a really meaningful relationship between the two of them. But again, like, every time she saw Harry after that, she always kind of had such a soft spot for him because of what he did there. And I think that, you know, one of the words that was used to describe her was loyalty. And I think that that really matters here. And I feel like. I can't imagine the anguish that you feel when you think your sister's gonna die. Because even though it was like, no, no, Harry, don't be stupid. Like, obviously, they're not gonna let anyone die. And I'm like, hello. Like, Sirius Black broke into the school a couple years ago. Like, I don't know what rumors are circulating around these other schools about what's going down in Hogwarts. Harry literally killed a teacher in the first year. A primordial snake was literally on the verge of killing multiple students if not for, like, reflections and luck. So, yeah, you take my sister down here at Hogwarts and I'm. I'm shook. I'm scared. And I think that one thing that I feel is true for Fleur, both as a sister and as a wife and just as a person in general, is that, like, when she loves, it strikes me that she loves hard. And so I think that there's a way that, you know, her sister Gabrielle seems to just be obsessed with her. And I don't think that that's the Vila charm. You hear what I'm saying? I think that that's a genuine affection that they have for one another. And so I do think it is very beautiful that we get to see their relationship play out, even just a little bit. And. And so, yeah, I think that Fleur is a good sister. I think that's kind of undeniable not only in just the way that she reacts to Gabrielle and Gabrielle being saved by Harry, but also the way that Gabrielle reacts to Fleur. Right. And I think the fact that she was the thing that they took also tells us a story. Because let's not forget. Let's not forget that for Viktor Krum, they took Hermione. Okay? Like, so they could have taken Roger Davies. Honestly. So the fact that it was her sister tells us a story here. And I think that that's something that's worth remembering and taking into account. Is Fleur de Liqueur, a good Triwizard champion? Oof. This is chaos. About 58% of us said yes. About 24% of us said no. And about 18% of us said don't. No. Someone wrote she must be capable and a skilled wizard to be chosen to compete. However, her every accomplishment is foreshadowed by her appearance and heritage. Someone else wrote to me, she's a great Triwizard champion. She is dedicated and determined, and she also displays great sportsmanship and fairness. When Harry saves Gabrielle, another person wrote, she did well with the dragon, failed the second task and was taken out by an imperious crumb in the third. The others were failing too. It's my turn, and I have a lot to say because I think this is the one that pisses me off the most. But let me stop singing so I can tell you why. Here's the thing. Fleur was done. Dirty justice for Fleur, the Beauxbaton Triwizard champion, Because. What do you mean your skirt fell on? Caught on fire. Hmm? What do you mean by that? Caught on your skirt, jkr, you will pay for your crimes. Because why couldn't she be in a sensible pantsuit? Huh? What are we talking about here? Like, it is absurd to me that she was chosen like that. That Madame Maxine, who is not wanting to be embarrassed. She's not gonna just let anyone who's just, you know, some, you know, Beauxbaton, you know, person show up and make a fool of the school hashtag bars. So Fleur is. Is competent. And we know this, right? Even if we don't necessarily see it in the Triwizard Tournament, we know she is. Why? Because she got herself together on that thestral on the. On the thing with Bill, turned herself into Harry and survived. Hello. Like, we hear from literally everyone else who was doing that, how insane of a feat it was to stay on whatever mode of transportation they were on and fight the Death Eaters who were fighting to kill them, Mind you, now everyone on those thestrals and the motorbike and the brooms and whatever the hell else they had, all of those people were, like, unaware of the fact that there were Death Eaters literally waiting in the wings for them. And she got up there and still fought and survived and lived to tell the tale. Competent. Competent. So we know she has a skill set. It wasn't put on good display during the Triwizard Tournament. I'm not blaming her for that. From what I understand, the Grindelos themselves. Oh. Because I brought this up and I posted this piece, this. This particular question on Instagram to try and kind of encourage people to fill out the survey, and somebody wrote, well, if she didn't get past the second task, she couldn't have been that. That Good. I'm gonna stop you right there. Okay. Harry barely made it past the grindelos. Barely made it past some marbled, like, mumbled words and like. And what's more is that he barely made it out. And he had already gotten Ron and Gabrielle right when the grindy loves come for him. So he had already completed the task. At this point, they are just annoying. I can't imagine being terrified knowing how much time you have and then going down and encountering the Grindelos, not knowing what you're gonna see. Because all you think. You think the only task is to have to deal with the. Is to get the captives. She don't know nothing about this black Lake. No, like, she has no idea. She doesn't even know there's a giant squid in there. She's never been in it. So we are in uncharted territory, right? Admittedly, sure. Like, but I mean, we know that the. That Harry learned about Grindelos because Lupin teaches them. So he has some. For some. Some knowledge. I don't think we can assume a level of uniformity and knowledge that's been created across all of these different institutions. And from what I'm understanding, this is what the girls are saying in the comments. Grindelos are unique to the uk, so why would she know about them? All I'm saying is we know she's capable. We know that she's good. And then she falls prey to an imperious crumb because Faux Moody is out here trying to pull the puppet strings to make sure that Harry gets to the cup. That's not her fault. Like, we never really got to see her shine, and I am livid about it. You couldn't have given her one. She had to lose both. Get out of here. Like, absurdity of the highest order. Don't even get me started on this, because it is honestly so annoying to me that the one girl in the entire thing. We got three dudes and one girl, and she. Her skirt caught on fire, and then she couldn't finish the second task, and then one of these numb skulls had the audacity to get imperious and then attacked her. Get me out of here. Exit game. Like, this is ridiculous. Anyways. Justice for Fleur. I think she's a great triwizard champion who got dealt a bad hand because of an author and a problematic teacher who's running amok, making things go wrong for her. I think if the circumstances had been different, she probably would have been great, because if anything, what we were able to say, see, is that in the first task she did great, but she had a wardrobe malfunction that none of the other contestants could have had because none of them were wearing skirts. Come on. What an absurd. You know what? We have other questions to get to. I'm not even going to just keep going. I got to stop moving on. Is Fleur de liqueur a good half blood? About 45% of us said yes, about 5% of us said no, and about 50% of us said don't. No chaos. Someone wrote, I wonder if folks truly hate Fleur only because she's beautiful or if some of the root of it is in their anti creature hatred. People in the wizarding world and fandom are assuming Fleur has full capacity over her Vela powers. But what if she doesn't? Another person wrote, looking both sides of the argument, she is actively involved with the fight against Voldemort. It would be interesting to know if 1 if her 1 4th creature inheritance made her face any difficulties in her life. And I'm sad it was not discussed at all. Another person wrote, it feels like the one drop rule is in place here. If you're not, if you are a one drop creature, your danger to wizards is assumed to be at 100%. When we talk about the one drop rule, for those of you who are not in the American context, one of the things that existed and still exists to a certain degree within the American racial context is that during the time of American enslavement, if you had one drop of black blood, you were considered black and it didn't matter what you like, what that percentage was. And so there are many Supreme Court cases where we're dealing with people who are like 1 32nd black. And what's true is that this also exists in the magical world, right? Like when we look at the half, when we look at half bloods, right? If you have one drop of Muggle blood in your lineage, you are half blood, right? And many people get annoyed with that, right? Because they're like, well, why can't you just be a pure blood if both your parents are half blood and they're both magical? And it's because it's a supremacist system. And so in the same way that we see it kind of used racially in the American context and I think in other parts of the world as well. But it's the same thing in the magical world, right? Like it's used as a means to create a level of exclusivity about what it means to be pure. Blood in the same way that it was used to make it be exclusive about what it meant to be white. And simply looking white or being magical is not enough. And so it's interesting to think about what this means. But as always, we need to think about this through the lens of the two paradigms that we put forth at the beginning of this particular section of the podcast. So the first one is what does it mean to be a good half blood? It's someone who bridges the world between the non magical and magical worlds. Now, Fleur, we actually don't know whether or not she is half blood, pure blood. We do know that she's part creature, 1/4. And what's interesting is that upon learning that, it becomes kind of her calling card. The moment Harry hears it, he's like, yes, okay, this explains literally everything about everything that we've seen. We don't know anything else about her like how she was brought up or we just know that she's part Vela. And that's all we seemingly need to know. And it's also fascinating because when we think about the way that she's treated, I'm not, I don't know how many people know she's part Vela because she can pass in the same way that in fact, in a greater way than the way that Hagrid was able to pass or even Madame Maxime. Right. She's just beautiful. And Harry only finds out because her grandmother's hair is in her wand. And so it's interesting that many of us think that the way she's being treated is the byproduct of her being Parvila, but we really don't, we don't know if they know that. But I do think that, you know, and it's also not clear how. I mean, Fleur is clearly not ashamed of being part Vela. And I'm wondering if that's because the. I wonder about the extent to which some of the biases towards creatures is really contingent on the kind of creature. Right. Giants are seen as dangerous Vela or not. And in a patriarchal system like you, being attractive is not seen as a dangerous thing. Even if you can turn into a fire throwing, like, harpy thing if you get angry, which don't even get me started on that. But I think that there's a way in which, like, it's possible that they don't necessarily see her as being dangerous enough to warrant the kind of prejudice that we would expect, say, for a Hagrid. Right. I don't think all creatures are created equal in the minds of magical people. And I think the fact that Vela can be humanoid until they are angry and also serve the purposes of entertaining men, which obviously we see at the Quidditch World Cup, I think that the way they're categorized and understood is very distinct. And I do not think that it's gonna have the same outcome or the same backlash as say, a giant would. And so I think that even if people do know, I'm not convinced, at least structurally, that it's gonna have the same effect. Now, we can imagine interpersonally it would be problematic because. And we do see that people are very kind of dubious of what is being the. What is the product of manipulation and what is the product of kind of true sentimentality. And I think that some of that might come from the fact that they think that she is kind of, you know, as Harry puts it, turning on the old charm. But it's also not clear to me how. Whether everybody knows. Cause it never comes up. Right. Like it doesn't come up in the conversation with the Weasleys. Harry recognizes it, but it's, it's so, it's, it's. I don't know, like, let's have that conversation in the post episode chat as well, right? Like, do you think that they know or is it possible that people just resent her because she's gorgeous? Which, hey, like that is a thing that is also true. Lavender brown. Right. Where people just get annoyed with pretty people. And there are lots of reasons why that might be the case. I'm not gonna be a pretty defender, but maybe I am. I think that a lot of what we're experiencing has very little to do with her being Vela and more so to do with people being insecure. But as for her being a half blood, which is what this question is about, I think that, you know, Fleur is the beneficiary of a lot of things and there's a way in which she is just living her life as a non. As a one fourth, as a three fourths wizard, a three fourths magical person. And because she has the ability to pass the way that she does, I think it's a little bit easier for her to kind of shunt some of the biases and judgments that might come along because people can't really clock it. And also, even if they can, I don't. The way that we understand the magical world and the kind of internalized patriarchy and all of these things, I don't think that they would see her as a threat. And so as a result, she's not trying to bridge worlds. She's living her life. She's not. I mean, is she upholding pure blood supremacy? She's fighting against Voldemort, but she's also not necessarily fighting against the system. And part of it is because, I mean part of it is she can also. She can pass. She's probably benefiting from some of it as well. And so that's interesting. This is a question that always gets me and I'm interested to see what you all think. Let's circle back and close the loop in the post episode chat about this. And I can't wait. Our last question is, is Fleur Delacour a hero? About 52% of us said yes. About 20% of us said no. And about 28% of us said don't know. Someone wrote Fleur is unfortunately not a hero. She is stuck in a supporting role at the end of the war. Her character being reduced to a housewife with almost zero lines is criminal. Another person wrote, she could have fled England and hidden away in France, but instead she stayed and fought. Fleur is a hero and a queen. You know, I think about the definition that I use for all the characters and I have to keep that same energy y' all got on me about it when we talked about State. So I got to keep that same energy. And I think that if we think about the fact that as the last passage said, Fleur could have left and didn't. I think again we spend a lot of time talking about her on the back of that thestral. But I'm always so shook that she came because girl, you've barely known Harry, everybody else, except for Mundungus, everybody else, huh? Had known him for a considerably longer and understood his role in the magical world, right? Like understood why it was important that he got out. Fleur met this kid, what like two and a half years before this and still was up there fighting for her life with her man. Dedication, heroism, if for nothing else, right? Like even if she didn't fight in the Battle of Hogwarts, she was part of the 1st Battalion that had to get Harry out. Like she was on the front lines, the front of the front lines fighting against Voldemort and like all of the Death Eaters, right? Like with a small group of people, 14 people, 15 people. Like the 14, right? Because it's two is seven Harrys and seven protectors. Like that's wild. That's heroism. Because I would have told Belle baby Mon cher, I'll see you later. Like, come back home because. What do you mean? I barely know this man. Huh? I don't know anything about Voldemort. He actually. One of the first years. He didn't actually come to Hogwarts. He killed my friend. That's bad. But also my friend, really. Was I friends with Cedric? Not really. I wanted to go on a. I wanted him to take me to the ball. But like, the idea that she was willing to do that when she didn't have to, even outside of everything else. And again, she opened up her home, one of the last mainstays of a safe house for Order members. Anything could have gone wrong, right? Like, the deputies could have come knocking at their door. She was there. She nursed back a goblin, right? She nursed back Ollivander. There's a way in which, like, those types of things also cannot be undersold. Because again, sis could have gone. She could have left and been like, I'll catch me when it's over. Harry, I wish you well. Thank you for what you did for my sister, but I gotta go. Au revoir. See you later, like. And she didn't do that. And what's more, and I think that this is also something that we have to kind of grapple with as well is like, we talked about it. I talked about it a little bit. I think it was in the episode that I did for Mother's Day on Molly and Narcissa. But like, all of these people who are, you know, having their partners and their children and their family members sacrifice themselves for the cause, like, that is a level of heroism that I think we don't give enough credit to. Like, in addition to all of the fighting, I don't think we see her in the battle of Hogwarts. But there's a world in which, like, she let Bill go. Even I think, was Bill. Cause Bill fought in the. Did he fought in the. You'll tell me, I know you will. You'll tell me whether or not he did. But even still, like, the anguish that you must have experienced, we know that Jenny gives voice to it when she explains why she can't go back home and wait or why she won't wait in the Room of Requirement while her whole family is down there. And this is Fleur's family down too. And that is a terrifying thing. And so all of that to say, yeah, I think Fleur is undeniably a hero. I think you. You could have stopped me when she got on the thestral and I would have said hero, hero, because what do you mean? A child that I have known for a little bit of time. Yeah, he saved my sister. And that's all fine, well and good. I gave him a kiss on the cheek. Why is that not enough? It is unbelievable that she was willing to be a part of that particular undertaking. Even if she didn't know that it was going to be as dangerous as it was, she still participated in it and survived. And what's more is she didn't get back on the ground and say, babe, we're done. Let's go home. She's kept her house open for the kind of people who had been tortured and abused by the Death Eaters. Hero. Hero. That's it, Sam. We've now reached the point in the episode where I am going to reflect. And there's a moment in Goblet of Fire that I want us to sit with for a second. Just picture it. Ron stumbles into the Gryffindor common room. Jenny with him, holding him up as a support system. And everyone is shook. What has happened? What has transpired? And he tells us, us, because we're all in it, right? Like we're living in the moment where Fly's on the wall. He tells us he's asked Fleur Delacour to the Yule Ball. Oh, my Lord. Everyone is shook. Everyone. No one is ready. Everyone's like, what the hell do you mean? You ask Fleur Delcourt to the Yule Ball. And he's like, I don't know what happened. I'm walking by. She was talking to Cedric Diggory and all of a sudden I just turned around and I asked her. This moment is a moment that is crazy because everyone's like, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that. Ron is way out of his league in doing this, right? And Harry, in his response, as Ron's like, I don't know what came over me. Harry goes, she's part Vela. And as you were walking by, she probably turned on the old charm for Diggory and you got hit with it. Just. Just sit with that for a second, Okay? What exactly did Fleur do here? I don't know. Do you know? Because we don't know. We never see it. We're never told. Ron embarrasses himself and somehow that becomes evidence that it's Fleur's fault. Now we know what it looks like when Vila turn it on, when they turn on the charm. Cause we see it at the Quidditch World Cup. They were Dancing. And that's when they made a fool of the players. That's when Harry and Ron and Fred and George were ready to jump over the banister. That was when we got to see the referee start doing his own little jig dance situation. Right? There was an intentionality in what the Villa were doing. There was a visible physical performance that the text describes to us in detail. Fleur, who is only 1/4 villa. Put another way, Fleur, who is 3/4 magical person, is simply having a qual. A conversation. She's not dancing. Her appearance doesn't change. We never see her do anything remotely similar to what the mascots did during that match. But Ron loses his composure and Harry's explanation is it's her fault. It's not that Ron is 14 and has poor impulse control or that he just made a choice. She did something. Even though we have no evidence, Harry has been around Fleur this whole time. He's seen her in the weighing of the wands. He's experienced her time and time again, and not once was he ever affected by whatever charm she may or may not have turned on. And in that moment, she's just standing there. We don't even know if she can turn it on. Is it just her being? Is it just who she is? We don't know. But in that moment, her existence is treated as the action. And Harry's explanation isn't presented to us as unreliable. The narrative doesn't at all question it. We don't get Hermione or Ginny rolling their eyes at his logic. We don't get a correction at all. The idea that Fleur turned on the charm just hangs there, completely unchallenged and accepted as true. That's how ideology works. It doesn't announce itself. It just becomes conventional wisdom, common sense. And the thing is that she gets blamed for so much without doing anything. She's blamed for her performance as a Triwizard champion. She's blamed for the attention she receives. She's blamed for the reactions of men. She's blamed for the resentment of women. And all of this blame circulates around her without her even doing anything. She's never scheming, she's not manipulating. We don't see her plotting or performing any kind of calculated situation whatsoever at all. We simply see her existing and the world responding to her existence as if it in and of itself is provocation. None of it has anything to do with her. There's a way in which Fleur is being punished for being beautiful, as though her beauty in and of itself is a moral failing, as though it's a choice that she made, as though it is something that she owes other and apologies for. There is a parallel punishment for her being part Vela again, not because of anything she does with that inheritance, but because of what others assume it means. Her grandmother, being Vila, is treated as though it's her fault. The effects of Vela ancestry are treated as though they are intentional. The reactions of the men are treated as though they are her responsibility. And this is where, I think things really begin to reveal themselves. Fleur is discussed by characters in the text and by readers, as if she is doing something to attract that attention, as if she's deploying her beauty strategically or weaponizing her presence. When we actually look at what the books are giving us, we don't get any evidence of this. She speaks with confidence, she holds herself with certainty, and she doesn't apologize for who she is. And that's it, that's all. But somehow that becomes enough to construct an entire narrative about her character. The condemnation of Fleur does not come from one direction. It comes from men who are attracted to her and resent their own reactions. It comes from women who are upset that men are attracted to her. Fleur becomes the shared site onto which everyone deposits their discomfort and insecurity and frustration. And none of it, none of it, has anything to do with her. And because, like we are watching Fleur and everything that we experience is just us watching, the patriarchy operate in real time, like this is systemic, we are conditioned by these books to understand femininity in very specific ways. Certain forms of femininity are rewarded. Warmth without threat and beauty without confidence and attractiveness, and that is softened by humility and beauty that is unrecognized and intelligence that doesn't care about beauty at all, and other forms are punished. Confidence without apology, beauty without deference. Femininity that refuses to make itself smaller for the comfort of others. Fleur, as we learn, falls squarely into that punished category. She is beautiful and confident and feminine and self assured. She doesn't contort herself to make others feel comfortable. And that alchemy is treated as dangerous. And there's a deeply, deeply, deeply patriarchal logic at work here, one that tells us that if a woman's presence affects the way that men behave, then it's her fault. This is the same logic that undergirds dress codes, the same logic that tells girls they are distracting, the same logic that insists women must manage the male gaze rather than question why it's so freely imposed. The male gaze, though, is not solely enforced by men. One of the most unsettling things about the treatment of Fleur in this text is, is that the strongest enforcers of patriarchal discipline in her story are women and girls. It's Hermione, it's Jenny, it's Molly. Women who look at Fleur and without much provocation decide they know exactly who she is and what she's about. Who project vanity, shallowness and manipulation onto her without any evidence. Women who read her confidence as arrogance and her beauty as a moral deficiency. And the problem with that is we adopt that lens too. Maybe not now that we've lived a little. But think about when you first read these books and you got to that chapter in Harry Potter and the Half Blood excess of Flim. Think about what we experienced from Hermione throughout most of Goblet of Fire as it pertains not just to Fleur but to all the girls from Beauxbaton. And here's the thing about Hermione, and this is not a Hermione episode. But many of us, many of us see ourselves as Hermione. We understand her. We trust her interiority. And because of that, we unconsciously take on some of Hermione's very, very, very problematic gendered views. The teachers we tend to prefer are the teachers Hermione prefers. The women and girls we tend to like or dislike are the ones that Hermione likes or dislikes. And through Hermione's lens, we are taught to see Fleur as suspect not because of anything Fleur does, but because Hermione reads her that way. And if Hermione is, as J.K. rowling has said, her self insert, then adopting Hermione's lens wholesale means inheriting Rowling's unresolved assumptions about women and femininity. Our discomfort with Fleur isn't accidental. It is conditioned. It is curated. It is reinforced through narrative alignment. It isn't until Fleur explicitly refuses that narrative, until she says, in no uncertain terms, I'm not the person that you think I am, that everyone around her begins to reconsider. And even then, that reconsideration comes with conditions. It comes when Fleur is willing to stay with the man who has been disfigured. It comes when she is willing to sacrifice the version of herself they imagined, when she proves that she can be selfless in a way they recognize as legitimate. And even in that moment, there is a subtle policing of her femininity. She says, I am beautiful enough for the both of us. And its plate is charming, but it's also its confirmation that vanity is never far from the surface. And this raises a harder question. What would Fleur have had to do to be believed without needing to suffer first? I think the answer is nothing. There is no version of Fleur that would have been acceptable because the problem was never her behavior. The problem was that she refused to apologize for making people feel a certain way about her existence. And this is also where I think we have to go back to our conversation about Lavender Brown, because I don't think that Fleur is the first girl in the series to be punished for what she does. One of the central issues with Lavender Brown was never that she was cruel or malicious. It simply was. And many of you said this in your surveys about Lavender. She wasn't Hermione. Lavender was punished because she was, in Hermione's way. She was emotional in a way that Hermione was not. She's romantic in a way that Hermione disdains. She occupies space loudly and visibly. And again through Hermione's lens, this is not a Hermione episode. We are taught to see her as frivolous, excessive and unworthy of empathy. And don't get me wrong, Hermione has so many admirable qualities. Her intelligence, resourcefulness, the moral clarity, the loyalty. But one of her least examined traits is the way that she treats other women and girls. And I think that what is terrifying about this is that because of all of these admirable qualities, many of them that we either see in ourself or want for ourselves, leads us to see Hermione as infallible. Many of you, so many of you have said, I support Hermione's rights and her wrongs. And I generally laugh at that because I think it's just very funny. But the issue with that is that when you support her wrongs, they become our wrongs. And we assert those things in the real world against the Fleurs of the world. Because here's the thing. Pretty privilege exists. And attractiveness can confer all kinds of advantages for women. Conventional attractiveness operates within patriarchal constraints. But here's the other thing. We have so many men in these books who do all the things that we accuse Fleur of doing. Manipulating Tom Riddle. Anybody ever heard of him? Right. Harry has a level of attractiveness that may not be attached to his physicality, but is attached to a celebrity. And he is also lauded. It's necessary. It's for the greater good. Cedric Diggory is our Most kind of innocuous form of attractiveness, right? He's good looking, he's smart, he's kind, he's all the things. Maybe he's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline. But at the end of the day, all of these characters, Harry, Tom, Tommy, Riddes, Cedric, we do not punish them for these things. They are not looked up, down upon. They are not assumed to be doing the things that some of them were actually doing. So that when we look at Fleur Delacour, I think she's a case study of how femininity is policed and how blame is displaced and how easily we are taught to participate in all of that displacement and the policing. Especially when it comes from characters that we either want to believe, believe we are, or trust. And so the question that this episode, I think, ultimately asks isn't who is Fleur Delacour really? It's who are we taught to believe she was? And what's more, why were we so willing to believe it? And I think the answer is because we are taught that girls who refuse to shrink are dangerous. And we are taught that in this book by a girl that we trust. Fleur Delacour didn't need our approval. She never asked for it. The tragedy isn't that we misread her. I think the tragedy is that we thought we had the right to judge her in the first place. This has been another episode of Critical Magic Theory. 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