OOP: Tonks

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No: HPFGUIDX 65349

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:
> --- 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

She did not annoy me that much, maybe because she was one of the 
youngest characters still around, that is she was younger then anyone 
else outside of those in Hogwarts and the Weasley children that we 
have been introduced too, and I sort of saw her either as a sister 
type figure for Harry or, and this might be lack of sleep once again, 
sort of flirting with him by her attempt to help him pack, make it 
neat, showing off her abilities, and other such ways. As I said that 
might be that I am tired, but I sort of thought at times she was 
flirting with Harry. Am I just over-tired or did anyone else see this 
as an outside possibility?