Why is Tonks clumbsy?

[restlesspoetry]

No: HPFGUIDX 111660

lawless:
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Men and women have different centers of balance.  If you suddenly 
turned a man into a woman, he would, theoretically, have to get used 
to the lower center of balance, and vice-versa.  Perhaps the reason 
for her clumbsiness is:
A) She's "really" a he and has a hard time adjusting to the female 
center of balance.
or
B) She is a she, but spends a majority of her time as a he, so that 
when she finally becomes a female again, she has an extremely hard 
time getting used to it, again.

karyn:
Hm. It's a really interesting point, but I *do* doubt that she's the 
half-blood prince. I'm sure her ability to transform will have a 
point in the coming books, as will her clumsiness, but a shift of 
gender doesn't have to equal clumsiness. I don't believe that you 
balance much differently according to gender. True, if you transform 
from a tiny skinny little guy to a big overweight woman, you have 
different balance. But it would be different still if you stayed in 
your gender but changed body type.
As for her being called by her last name: so would I if I was named 
Nymphadora! 

--Karyn... who knows this will come back and bite her in the ass, but 
says it anyway. :P