Victoire Weasley

*"Our Teddy! Teddy Lupin! Snogging our Victoire! Our cousin! And I asked Teddy what he was doing... and he said he had come to see her off! And then he told me to go away! He was snogging her!"*
— **Albus** on **Victoire'**s blossoming relationship with **Teddy Lupin**
**Victoire Gabrielle Lupin** (née **Weasley**) (born 2 May, 2000) is a part-veela witch and the eldest daughter and child of Bill and Fleur Weasley. She is the older sister of Dominique, Louis, and Camille Weasley.

She attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 2011 to 2018 — at the same time and in the same year as Vulpecula Lestrange — and was sorted into Ravenclaw.

## Biography

### Early Life (2000 - 2011)

Victoire was born on 2nd of May 2000. She was given her name, which means "victory" in French, because her date of birth fell on the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts, in which Harry Potter, the Order of the Phoenix, and allies prevailed against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters.

Victoire has three younger siblings: two sisters, Dominique and Camille, and one brother, Louis. Through her maternal great-grandmother, Victoire is one-eighth Veela. It is possible she lived at Shell Cottage with her family.

### Hogwarts Years (2011 - 2018)

#### Third Year

When Victoire accompanied the rest of her family to the Quidditch World Cup in 2014, presumably she and Teddy Lupin were already in a relationship, as Rita Skeeter wrote of them snogging often. So much, in fact, they had their own section in Rita's article. The two of them sat together during the final match between Bulgaria and Brazil, but seemed more interested in talking than watching the match. Victoire's father finally swapped places with her and directed her attention to the pitch, although she sulked about it. Later, she and Teddy managed to "*find their way back into adjacent seats*".

#### Seventh Year

On 1 September, 2017, Victoire's by-then-graduated boyfriend came to see her off for another year at King's Cross Station. Victoire's cousin, James Potter, saw the couple snogging and interrupted them. When Teddy told him to leave, James returned to tell his family what he had seen, and his younger sister, Lily, expressed her wish that Teddy and Victoire would marry someday, making Teddy an official part of the extended Weasley-Potter clan.

## Physical Appearance

Victoire was described as *"very good-looking,"* which presumably indicates that she took after either her mother, Fleur, or her father, Bill, or both, in appearance. It could also link to her Veela ancestry, which might consequently make her beauty more profound. Rita Skeeter described her as blonde and beautiful.

## Etymology

* **Victoire** means "victory" in French, the native language of her mother Fleur Delacour, probably chosen because she was born on the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts.
* **Gabrielle** is the French feminine form of the Hebrew name *Gabriel*, meaning "man of god".[9] In the bible, Gabriel is the name of a prominent angel.
* **Weasley** comes from the fact that Weasels traditionally tend to be pretty sly and deceitful, but we’d wager this wasn’t supposed to suggest the Weasley family are in any way devious, but rather that the weasel’s bad reputation is undeserved. It’s also no coincidence, of course, that weasels live in a burrow… as do the Weasleys.
* **Lupin** is derived from the Latin word *lupus*, meaning "wolf". Lupin or lupine is also the name of a flower, and the latter is an English adjective meaning "wolflike". This alludes to the lycanthropy in the family.

## Trivia

* She is portrayed by
* Both Victoire and Teddy Lupin have fathers who were attacked by the werewolf Fenrir Greyback.
* Both Victoire and Teddy Lupin have mothers with unique traits related to their physical appearances — Fleur Delacour has Veela blood, and Nymphadora Tonks was a Metamorphmagus.
* Victoire and Teddy are fourth cousins once removed as they are both distant descendants of Phineas Nigellus Black.
* In J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life, when sketching the Weasley Family Tree, Rowling stated that Victoire was so named because she was born on the anniversary of the day the Second Wizarding War ended.
* Victoire is the last character introduced during the Harry Potter series.
* Victoire is likely an homage to Elanor Gamgee from *The Lord of the Rings*, who was born on the anniversary of the downfall of Sauron. Both were noted to be very beautiful.
* Victoire is similar to her aunt, Ginny Weasley, in that both are females, both fell in love and have a relationship with war-orphaned men (Teddy Lupin and Harry Potter, respectively) and both were considered to be extremely beautiful from a young age.