Tonks- Real Auror?

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No: HPFGUIDX 69739

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
wrote:
> 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.


I think (I'm not staring at the book right now) that McGonagall said 
that no one's been taken on in 3 years- as in no one has begun Auror 
training straight out of hogwarts in 3 years. Maybe that clears 
somethings up, or I could be completly wrong.

-Casey