Andromeda (Re: Three Black sisters on a tree)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 106747

Neri:
> My last question for today is: Is Andromeda still around? Sirius 
> says: "Andromeda WAS my favorite cousin" but that's just because 
he 
> didn't see her for so many years. Tonks OTOH says in Ch. 3: "My 
mum's 
> got this knack of getting stuff to fit itself in neatly — she even 
> GETS the socks to fold themselves — but I've never mastered how 
she 
> DOES it". It thus seems that we might have some reunion of the 
three 
> Black sisters before the end.

Jen: I DO think Andromeda is still around, since Tonks speaks of her 
in the present-tense. I always took Sirius' quote to mean Andromeda 
was his favorite cousin in childhood, but they haven't seen each 
other in adulthood, thus the past tense reference.

It seems a little late in the game to introduce a major character 
like Tonks, and indirectly Andromeda, if they don't hold some key to 
either the past or the future. 

Andromeda may even prove to be the most important character of the 
two, the one who holds the information about Lily's past. Even if 
she was a bit older than Lily, the two could have been friends and 
worked together prior to Lily's death. In fact, since Andromeda was 
older and married to a Muggle-born, she & Lily would have much in 
common.

And personally, Tonks seems a bit of a red herring to me. I think 
her importance is to give Harry information about Metamorphagi & 
Aurors, and to introduce Andromeda. Tonks will continue to be 
involved in the plot, and will use her Metamophagus skills at some 
crucial moment, but she's not going to turn out to be other than she 
appears. 

Or maybe I'm way off here. :)

Jen Reese