OOP: Tonks

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 65341

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SnapesSlytherin at a... wrote:
> Was anyone else as annoyed by Tonks as I was?  She's a horrific 
Auror 
> (well...that might be a little harsh...she's a klutz and an Auror 
can't be knocking 
> things over all the time!).  I think that the Metamorphamagus (is 
that spelled 
> right?) thing is kinda lame.  It seems very Mary Sue-ish to 
me.  "Oh look!  I 
> can turn into whoever I want!  Be careful!  I could be anyone!"  It 
might just 
> be me...
> 


I liked her when we first met her, if for no other reason than she 
seems keenly interested in Moody's concerns about not putting a wand 
in one's back pocket because of the potential danger to one's 
buttocks.  
 - "Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"
 - "Wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on?"

It cracked me up.  But, then I found her character tedious.  Yes, 
she's clumsy and she's a Metamorphmagus. JKR seemed to want to hammer 
that message home. Maybe this will be of utmost importance in later 
books, but after a while, it made Tonks too cartoonish.

Her character was never developed any further.  Clumsy, makes pig 
noses. But, on the other hand, she was a minor character, so there 
was no need at this point to give her the same depth as some of the 
other characters.  Maybe she'll be back and we'll see more layers to 
her.  

Marianne