Tonks is cheap (was: Tonks.....??? What if.....)

[Echa Schneider]

No: HPFGUIDX 69984


On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 07:47 AM, oh have faith wrote:

>
> Mm, it's an interesting ability.  It's got me thinking whether we
> may have actually seen Tonks in the books before, under the guise of
> someone else?
>

I so hope this isn't true. The second I read "Metamorphmagus" I got 
angry. I genuinely hope that Tonk's unusual ability doesn't come into 
play for anything other than humor. I mean, when you can peg a 
character as a probably spy, bad guy, or whatever in the first second 
you meet them, that's just plain lame.

I don't want JKR to be predictable, and I pray she's just throwing this 
out for fun, but introducing an ability in passing, then having it play 
an important part in the story one or two books later has pretty much 
been her m.o. It's just so obvious, though. And since she didn't even 
give us any indication of limits on the ability, she has effectively 
just provided herself with an easy, and in my opinion, cheap, out for 
the next time she can't think of some clever resolution to a mystery.

Metamorphmagi are already more tired to unregistered animagi and 
polyjuice potions combined. Grrr. Arr.

Echa, who's already having nightmares about the thousands of inevitable 
e-mails pouring into my inbox about so-and-so being a metamorphmagus 
and also secretly being some other person. Or whatever.