Private message to Lucius Malfoy

[alt_selwyn]

I'm looking through the lists of students likely coming for the year from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. Are you aware that Beauxbatons is planning to bring a Veela? Or part-Veela, I suppose. No word on whether they have any house-elves in their student body. Or half-trolls. Is this really something we wish to condone?

The student from Britain -- Justin something? -- is rather interesting. Has his mother explained why she relocated to France so abruptly, just as Our Lord was rising to his full power?

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[alt_selwyn]

Also, I'm not quite sure I follow the rationale here. How does the French government's desire for a treaty with the Veela require us to admit a Veela girl as, in effect, a Hogwarts student for a year?

[alt_lucius]

Their desire for maintaining their treaties translates to a need for token acceptance. If the girl - and there's a sister, as well, though she's too young to be considered as a champion - if the girl is acceptable in all other criteria (and Froissart was clear that all her professors believe her to be the favourite), then for the Protectorate to reject her on the basis of an impure bloodline would be tantamount to a signal that we do not value the indigenous continental tribes. Besides, it's not as if her race were anything truly dangerous, or even effective against any of Karkaroff's or ours.

Except, as you say, as a distraction. But the Veela will likely be more of a distraction to the judges than the champions, if you provide any example.

But then you have always been partial to blondes, haven't you?

[alt_selwyn]

I've always been partial to purity.

Beauty never hurt, though.

[alt_selwyn]

And regarding the Veela, it's well-known that they hold particular influence over teenage boys. I think this is more than likely a ploy to distract the other champions at crucial moments.

[alt_lucius]

Well, there's no guarantee the girl has inherited any of her grandmother's abilities. If so, then I suggest you keep Chloe foremost in your thoughts anytime you need to visit the school over the coming year.

However - the counterargument we have already heard from the French delegation is that she need not be a beauty to distract the males who may be competing. Teenaged boys, after all, can be 'distracted' by nearly any female presence, regardless of powers of attraction.

Believe me, I have been round and round the issue already and have little hope of changing the roster now.

[alt_selwyn]

Ah, I see.

Well, if we must, we must.

[alt_lucius]

Anyway, a champion who is distracted at a crucial moment like that deserves to get a hexing.

[alt_selwyn]

Excellent point.