Is Tonks Irish?

[Hannah]

No: HPFGUIDX 127438


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sabrina" <bree4378 at y...> wrote:
> 
> I was just wondering, does anyone know or remember any reference in 
> OOTP that Tonks is Irish?  I was listening to the audio book of OOTP, 
> and the narrator was doing her voice in an Irish accent.  So, I was 
> wondering if anything like that was ever mentioned.  Also do you 
think 
> there is any way she is related with Seamus? 

Hannah:  
There isn't any reference in the books to her being Irish.  I don't 
think there are any Irish connections on the Black side of the family, 
they all seem to be very aristocratic English types.  And her father 
was a Muggle-born, so a connection to Seamus is very unlikely.  His Dad 
was a Muggle (possible distant connection there, though Seamus' comment 
in PS suggests his father didn't know about magic before his mother 
revealed she was a witch), and as his mother was a witch she can't have 
been related to Ted Tonks.  

Therefore I think it's very unlikely that Tonks and Seamus are 
related.  She may be Irish, I suppose, on her Dad's side.  Or perhaps 
they moved to Ireland when escaping Voldemort and the Blacks.  That 
could account for her having an Irish accent.  But really I think it's 
down to interpretation on the part of the narrator.  Tonks' lines in 
OotP don't sound like they're meant to be in an Irish accent, and no 
one has commented on it.  

Hannah