OOP: MWPP and their houses/Tonks' purpose

[ggershman77]

No: HPFGUIDX 64907

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, michelle.pagan at c... wrote:
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Another comment I have, is that I hope Nymphadora Tonks' whole 
purpose wasn't 
> only to inform us that metamorphaguses exist in the Wizarding 
World.  I LOVED 
> OoP but that was one of the things I was disappointed in.  It seems 
like the 
> easy way out, and if some bad guy in Book 6 or 7 turns out to be a 
> metamorphagus (or whatever the word was)  and all the time looked 
like a good 
> guy, I will be upset.  Even if it worked the other way, and 
Dumbledore or 
> James was one and was just looking like someone else this entire 
time I'll be 
> pissed! :)  But otherwise, I couldn't really understand why JKR 
included 
> that....
> 
> 
> -Polaris

I think part of the reason we get Tonks is that, at the end of GoF, 
we were thinking that Arabella Figg was part of the Order.  Then 
either the editors, Warner Bros or JKR thought, "Hmm, we already have 
one old witch character.  We dont need another one.  Let's get some 
character that is young and cool."  And so Tonks was born.

I think part of the metamorphagous-thing was that the overall theme 
of the book was about trust/truth - what you can believe and what you 
cant, and how you know things.  Tonks shows us (similar to how the 
polyjuice potion in CoS showed that you can change your appearence 
but it doesnt change who you are) that there are those whose 
appearence can be decieving, and not represent their true selves.

Greg
http://hpprogs.blogspot.com - Harry Potter Prognostications