[HPforGrownups] Re: Tonks in HBP ( spoilers of course!)

[Katherine Coble]

No: HPFGUIDX 133615


On Jul 20, 2005, at 2:12 PM, kjirstem wrote:
>
>  Katherine (message 133279):
>
>  >I really think that the only thing wrong with Tonks was unrequited
>  >love.
>
>  Kjirstem:
>  I do believe that Tonks loves Lupin, I just want to make that clear.
>  But, what I want to know is how do you rationalize her behavior in
>  the two situations I highlighted in my original post (132970) (Tonks
>  in the corridor by the Room of Req't and Tonks during the
>  battle)? 
>  I have trouble reconciling this explanation with her behavior in
>  these two places.
>

K:  In the corridor outside the RoR she was preoccupied because she had 
heard about the werewolf attacks and feared that the worst had happened 
to the man she loved.   In the battle, her focus was split because her 
mind was on Lupin's welfare above all.

Her behaviour in the battle is, I believe, one of the things that 
subconsciously persuades Harry to table his relationship with Ginny.

Each book has had a slightly different genre overlaid on top of the 
story arc:

Book 1:  Children's alternate reality fantasty ala the Chronicles of 
Narnia & Mary Poppins
Book 2: Mystery
Book 3: Children's revenge fantasy
Book 4: Adventure and challenge
Book 5: Political / Espionage
Book 6: Romance
Book 7: (Prediction) Adult Fantasy/Quest

Book 6 uses the different characters to showcase the different kinds of 
love and different stages of love people go through:

Unrequited Love (Ginny for Harry; Harry for Ginny; Tonks for Lupin; 
Merope for Tom Sr.)
Marital Love (Arthur & Molly)
Unconditional Love (Fleur & Bill; Tonks & Lupin; Dumbledore & Harry)
Vainglorious Love (Slughorn & any number of his opportunistic 
connections)
Infatuation (Romelda Vane for Harry; Ron for Romelda Vane while under 
the influence of Potion; Tom Sr. for Merope while under the influence 
of potion)
Empty love (Merope for the bewitched Tom Riddle)
Childish Crush (Ron for Rosmerta)
Erotic Love (Ron & Lavender, Ginny and Dean)
Fulfilled Love (Tonks & Lupin at the end, Harry and Ginny toward the 
end)

Tonks wasn't the same simply because she was completely spread too thin 
by her obsessive worry for Remus.   It happens all the time.


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