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"And what do you mean by zat." said Fleur suddenly and loudly. "What do you mean, ' he was going to be married.'" Mrs. Weasley raised her tear-stained face, looking startled. "Well -only that-" "You theenk Bill will not wish to marry me anymore." demanded Fleur. "You theenk, because of these bites, he will not love me." "No, that's not what I -" "Because 'e will!" said Fleur, drawing herself up to her full height and throwing back her long mane of silver hair. "It would take more zan a werewolf to stop Bill loving me!" "Well, yes, I'm sure," said Mrs. Weasley, "but I thought perhaps - given how - how he -" "You thought I would not weesh to marry him. Or per'aps, you hoped." said Fleur, her nostrils flaring. "What do I care how he looks. I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! And I shall do zat!" she added fiercely, pushing Mrs. Weasley aside and snatching the ointment from her.
Mrs. Weasley fell back against her husband and watched Fleur mopping up Bill's wounds with a most curious expression upon her face. Nobody said anything; Harry did not dare move. Like everybody else, he was waiting for the explosion.
"Our Great-Auntie Muriel," said Mrs. Weasley after a long pause, "has a very beautiful tiara - goblin-made - which I am sure I could persuade her to lend you for the wedding.
She is very fond of Bill, you know, and it would look lovely with your hair." "Thank you," said Fleur stiffly. "I am sure zat will be lovely." And then, Harry did not quite see how it happened, both , women were crying and hugging each other. Completely bewildered, wondering whether the world had gone mad, he turned around: Ron looked as stunned as he felt and Ginny and Hermione were exchanging startled looks.
"You see!" said a strained voice. Tonks was glaring at Lupin. "She still wants to marry him, even though he's been bitten! She doesn't care! "It's different," said Lupin, barely moving his lips and looking suddenly tense. "Bill will not be a full werewolf. The cases are completely -" "But I don't care either, I don't care!" said Tonks, seizing the front of Lupin's robes and shaking them. "I've told you a million times. . . ." And the meaning of Tonks's Patronus and her mouse-colored hair, and the reason she had come running to find Dumbledore when she had heard a rumor someone had been attacked by Greyback, all suddenly became clear to Harry; it had not been Sinus that Tonks had fallen in love with after all.
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