[quote=Sloth]This [Johann] now must happen, and I will be very disappointed if it doesn't.
Yes, but doesn't Fleur being half(?) Veela prove that they can be found all over Europe rather than their central influence in the East? I myself would prefer to run into them when we hit Germany or Bulgaria or what have you if we run into them at all, I mean, I doubt we'll be running into any Leprechauns outside of Ireland, no?
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Yeah, it really really really does have to happen. :D
With respect to Johann, I'd rather meet them somewhere other than Germany, since he's clearly going to be reasonably central to any arc we have in Germany anyway, so I'd rather sexy French veela to sexy German veela. In ideal Belasco world where Belasco gets everything Belasco wants with respect to Johann's character arc, the veela would be introduced in the short-to-middle distance. I kinda get the feeling that if he were to go on [s]heat[/s] a bit of a rampage, he needs to have spent some time making at least some alliances in the group in order not to simply be abandoned.

There's definitely no Leps outside Ireland, though.

[b]Idea Alert:[/b] (whee whoo whee whoo)

Let me present France as a country with a reasonably right-wing government but a population (workforce) that really really really doesn't like it. Can you smell red riots? Suppose we get caught up in a massive protest that starts to get out of hand? I thought perhaps there could be a yearly wizardy festival (maybe even similar to a music festival!?) at an unplottable magical castle in France, which then becomes the target for a big demonstration. Think riot police. Think disaffected workers. Think carnage. Think chaos. We don't have to stick around to fix it; it can be as simple as turning up, pitching the tents, getting into a spot of bother then fleeing for our lives.