Tonks & Lupin - even more important in future books

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No: HPFGUIDX 70387

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "starry765" <starry765 at y...> 
wrote:
 
> No, that's what Fan Fiction is for, Dave. ;)
> 
> People calculate Tonk's age based on when she got out of 
Hogwart's, 
> but it's possible she didn't immediately go into Auror training.  
> Plus, I don't know if she was in school while Harry was there, so 
she 
> must be at least 7 years older than him (which would make her at 
> least 22).  I get the feeling she's older than that, but that's 
just 
> me.
> 
> Regradless, I like both characters.
> 
> -starry765-

I think Tonks is 22.  I don't see how she could be much older.  

Let me explain.  Unless I'm mistaken, it said in PoA that Snape ran 
with Bellatrix.  (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong).  That 
means Bellatrix is probably no more than 2 years older than Snape.  
Wouldn't that make her 39 in OotP.  Tonks's mother, Andromeda, is 
Bellatrix's younger sister. (She was to the right of Bellatrix on 
the family tree.)  That means she can't be more than 38.

That mean that even if Tonks is only 22 (which she has to be to have 
been an Auror a full year at the beginning of OotP), Andromeda would 
have had to left school right after O.W.L.s, then married Ted and 
had Tonks right away.

Anyway, that's why I doubt Tonks is older than 22.

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