Tonks - How Old is She?

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No: HPFGUIDX 70321

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "starry765" <starry765 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
 
> bboy_mn:
> 
> There is another Tonks thread that has been going for days, trying 
to
> figure out how, per McGonagall, there can be no Auror selected from
> Hogwarts for three years, yet Tonks is an Auror.
> 
> That was answered twice early in that thread. It take 3 years to
> become and Auror, and Tonks has been an Auror for 1 years; 1 + 3 = 
4.
> Tonks was selected into the Auror's program 4 years ago. So, no
> conflict with McGonagall's statement.
> 
> So how old is Tonk?
> 
> Graduates from Howarts at age 17, 3 years Auror training, and 1 year
> on the job; (17+3+1=21). Conclusion; she is about 21 years old. A 
fair
> assumption, is that Lupin is in the range of 35 to 37 years old. 
> 
> I don't see love and marraige for Tonks and Remus, but I could see a
> deep loving relationship between them; a loving 
friendship/relationship.

I don't see them as a couple, either.  I see Remus as more uncle-ish 
in his interactions with Tonks.  

> On another note, I did like someone's idea that Tonks becomes the 
next
> DADA teacher. But I really really seriously really don't think Snape
> would like that. Some oddball wet behind the ears kids given the job
> over him. That would be going to far. I have been predicting that
> Snape would either become DADA teacher, or he would start giving 
Harry
> DADA lessons which would eventually lead to a modest reconciling
> between them. But now after reading the 5th book, I'm not as strong 
on
> that idea. Which is odd because, not that they've run out of DADA
> teacher, it would seem that Snape is the only person who wants the
> job, and is genuinely qualified to do it.

Oh, I'm sure Dumbledore will find some odd character hanging around a 
dark alleyway off of Diagon Alley... But, speaking of Snape as DADA 
teacher.  We know that Dumbledore didn't want to give him that 
position 14 years ago when he first started teaching at Hogwarts.  
However, at this point, certainly one would think that exposure to 
teaching about the Dark Arts would not send Snape into some sort of 
DE regression.  He certainly seems more capable that some of the 
people who have taught this course.  Why hasn't Dumbledore appointed 
him DADA teacher over the last say three or four years?  Is it 
because Snape is really good at Potions, and finding a good Potions 
teacher is even harder than finding a good DADA teacher?  That 
strikes me as a stretch...

> On another 'another note'; some people have said they were 
disapointed
> with book 5. My response to that is, after reading book 5 how badly 
do
> you want to read book 6. Did book 5 leave you desperate to know what
> happens next? 

Absolutely.  Although there were things I disliked about OoP, I'm 
hoping that those issues will be cleared up in the last two books. 

If so, then I would say the book succeeded
> spectacularly. Personally, I'm on the verge of hysterics, I'm so
> desperate to find out what happens next. I don't know how I'll 
survive
>  another year, or heaven forbid two, waiting for the book.

Well, then heaven forfend we have to wait three years. If that 
happens, call me and I'll send you ice packs and chamomile tea! ;-)

Marianne