[HPforGrownups] Tonks- Real Auror?

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 69700

R. Penar 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? 

Or maybe McGonagall just forgot about Tonks.  Tonks almost 
certainly went to Hogwarts, and quite possibly was in Gryffindor, 
so McGonagall would have known her even without the Order.  But I 
get the impression that Tonks would not have been McGonagall's 
favorite student.  She just might not have sprunt to McGonagall's 
mind right away.