Tonks - the deatheater

[Mev532]

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INGE SAID: 
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> In OotP we are introduced to Tonks, the Metamorphmagus. It seemed 
> wrong that she didn't become known later in the books as someone 
who 
> actually *used* her skills as a Metamorphmagus.
> So this idea came to me. What if indeed she does use her skills 
and 
> changes into someone else on a regular basis. Into someone we 
already 
> know but who is no longer of any real importance in the books - at 
> least not to us, the readers.
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> What if Barty Ferm Jr still exists - on special occassions. Tonks 
> could Metamorph into Ferm Jr and take his place at the DE-meetings 
> and get information directly from Voldemort to pass on to the 
Order.
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> Inge

I love the idea of Tonks being some other character without the 
reader knowing it. I like your theory about her transforming into 
Barty Jr, but I do see one thing wrong with it. LV's skill in 
reading minds would make it easy to spot an imposter. Hiding the 
fact that you are lying is one thing, but disguising your mind so 
well that it appears to be someone else's? With her laid back 
attitude and young age it seems unlikely that she would have the 
mastery of Occlumency required to pull this off. 

You never know, but thats my two cents. 

I think, however, that we will find out she has been tailing Harry 
as someone else. The only person I can think she might be, however, 
is Susan bones, the "Hufflepuff girl with a long plait down her back 
whose name Harry did not know"(338, American version OOTP). She says 
Madam Bones is her auntie. Perhaps DD talked ith Madam Bones (who is 
presumably on his side) and she agreed that Tonks could pretend to 
be her niece. This way Tonks could follow the happenings of the DA. 
This theory is not well researched, but I will keep an eye out for 
evidence as I continue rereading the book. 

Anyone have any other thoughts or evidence for or against my or 
Inge's theories?  Thanks.

-Big HP fan Dave