Tonks- Real Auror?

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No: HPFGUIDX 69605

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "R. Penar" <rpenar at g...> wrote:
> I did a search on the archive for this but didn't find anything, 
so 
> my apologies if it's been asked and answered...
> 
> Something that struck me on my very first reading of OoTP (I was 
so 
> darn proud of myself!) was that Tonks passed her Aurors test "last 
> year". Yet when Harry goes to career counseling, McGonagall is 
> telling him how difficult it is to become an Auror and says that 
she 
> doesn't think anyone has passed "in the last three years". Both 
she 
> and Tonks are in the Order, obviously they know each other, so 
> what's the deal? Here are my thoughts:
> 
> Becky, who is VERY VERY excited about Nimbus 2003 in 6 days!

I think Tonks meant that she finished her last test of her Auror 
training a year ago.  That would mean that she had been accepted 4 
years earlier.  That would match McGonagall's statement.

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