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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 is certain to appear in the seventh and final book.

Fleur is from France, though she is capable of speaking fluent English, albeit with a strong French accent. 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. Her stunningly beautiful looks start off in stark contrast to her often arrogant and snoody 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.

Fleur's wand is nine and a half inches, inflexible, made of rosewood and contains one of her grandmother's veela hairs.

Clémence Poésy plays Fleur in the fourth film.

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 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, Bill gives Fleur lots of "private lessons").

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'', Fleur and Bill are revealed to have gotten engaged to be married. Bill brings Fleur to The Burrow for a few days so that she can get to know his family. This is towards the end of the summer holidays, and Hermione and Harry are also staying with the Weasleys. 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, 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).

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