Albus Potter, Classmates and Elves

Ch 41 Awkward Conversations

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Wednesday, Harry and Ginny took Albus and Cleo over to New Shell Cottage to talk to Fleur about the problems that Cleo's manifestation of maternal goodness and desire had caused, and could cause in the future. Harry explained some of the fallout over what Cleo seemed to do at the attack. "We are struggling with how to deal with this," Harry explained. "Veela are known for projecting sexuality, and although this is different, we thought you might have some insights into it."

"Beauty in humans is partly a matter of symmetry," Fleur observed. "If your right and left sides are close to the same you are usually considered pretty. Being sexually attractive is a little more complex. It helps if you are pretty, but having a feminine hip to waist ratio is more important. Cleo, you have a great hip to waist ratio."

"I'm fat," Cleo grumbled.

"You are bigger than most of the girls your age, but you are not fat. You just have a more mature body shape!" Fleur emphasized. "Girls who are too thin have a harder time becoming pregnant, but being just a little heavy, not fat but your weight, makes it easy to become pregnant and have babies. In many societies your weight would be considered ideal, because you are the right shape, curvy top, thinner in the middle, and especially curvy on the bottom, to become pregnant. Besides, you project femininity."

"So do Veela," Harry observed.

"Veela have always had a curvy shape," Fleur agreed, "and very symmetrical figures. We have also normally projected pride in our feminine appearance. The Veela smile, the sexy way we move our bodies showing that we are female, have as much to do with being sexy as our figures in the abstract. When the ideal body shape has been thin and androgynous we have been heavier and obviously female, and in the middle ages when the ideal body shape was Rubenesque, quite heavy, much heavier than Cleo, we were thinner than was fashionable at the time."

"But young Mrs. Malfoy says I have a huge nose and fat lips and weird ears and nasty thick unruly hair," Cleo complained.

"Mrs. Malfoy hates herself and makes her hatred known by taking what she hates about herself out on you. I'll bet her lips are thin, her hair is falling out, all probably because she has an eating disorder," Fleur insisted. "Besides, thick lips are considered sexy by many Some women even take treatments to thicken their lips, mostly Muggle women. I know women who would love to have your thick hair. You do have an unusual face, but so what? I think it gives you character, and it IS NOT UGLY."

"What we are trying to find out, and trying to control, is why Cleo projects the need to mate and have children," Harry emphasized, getting the conversation back to where it needed to go. "At least one of our Auror couples called her a Fertility Goddess. That's rather scary."

"What is wrong with having children?" Cleo wondered. "That is what female bodies are for. Rose explained it all, with plenty of drawings. We let our husband add his contribution, by making wonderful sexy love, and it joins with part of us, and a NEW PERSON grows inside us," at this Cleo had the biggest smile, and her hands went down to her belly, to where a baby would grow, "and then we have a baby born, and we feed it with our own bodies," and she put her hands up to her breasts, "and that is what our bodies are MADE FOR."

Cleo put her hands on her hips, wiggled in a particularly sexy way, and proclaimed, "I don't feel pretty, but I always feel FEMININE, and it is just who I am."

Fleur looked at Ginny. "How does Cleo make you feel, Ginny?"

"That I am glad that I had a fourth child. I'm not really ready to give up my Quidditch column, but when I see Cleo I can also see having another child," Ginny admitted with a sigh.