How has HBP effected your favorite characters?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 134530

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tammy" <elsyee_h at y...> wrote:
 In general, how did HBP effect who your favorite characters were 
and how? (feel free to add your least favorites as well!)

Tonks:
My most favorite character as most everyone here knows, the one I 
love with all of my heart and soul
 the one that I would die for
  
is DD.  So I am very depressed.  Can't even drive down the street 
without thinking about it and bursting into tears.  (Another 
obsessed HP fan.) 

And since JKR's interview and her saying that this was the last 
Quidditch match, well that makes me even more depressed if that is 
possible. That means that the school will close.  I found comfort in 
knowing that whatever happened Hogwarts was always there.  DD was 
always there.  I don't know how I will go on. (sob, sob.) 

I do like the fact that Tonks got her man!  That brings me some 
comfort.  I like Lupin.  He is a kind, loving man.  And I always did 
like older men. ;-)  So I approve of this match.  I liked the scene 
where Arthur is talking to Lupin.  I liked that a lot.

There were parts early on where I was really mad at Harry.  I found 
myself talking to him like "Harry, you fool!!  All these people 
risking their life for you and what do you do!  First chance you 
get, you sneak off to Knockturn Alley of all places!  Have you 
learned nothing?!!" 

And then when he gets this theory of Draco being a DE, I said  "oh 
Harry, for god sakes, just *when* I ask you, have you *ever* been 
right about any of these things!!  And here you go again!!"

But he was OK later.  It was a bit odd that he didn't process his 
grief over Sirius more, but we really didn't have time for that and 
he *dealt* with it by projecting all the blame onto Snape.  So at 
least that gave us an explanation instead of just leaving it hanging.

I like Snape even more, as odd as that might seem.  You have to 
admire the man whatever side he is on.  He is very intelligent, can 
worm his way out of almost anything, and can take control of any 
situation.  Like others here have said Snape is a man of honor. He 
followed through on the vow and if he did have a *deal* with DD to 
kill him if things went very wrong and his cover would be blow, well 
he did the hard thing and did it well. (I think that he is still 
DD's man.  If DD said Snape is OK, I will take DD's word for it.)  I 
liked the second chapter and seeing the sisters and Snape as human 
beings.  The bad guys are just like the rest of us.  They love their 
family and children, they have a drink with friends, etc.  The only 
difference is as JKR would say is the choices that they make.

I think also that because Snape was able to do the AK and do it 
quickly and right, that he has done it before.  So those who say 
that DD would not have wanted Snape to become a killer, I think that 
he has already killed in the past.  He was not an innocent *pure* 
soul to be saved from an act that he has not done before, as Draco 
was.  Snape does add much depth and twist to the plot.  He is a very 
rich character. 

I still like all my other favorites:  Molly and Arthur, Hagrid, McG, 
Luna.  I did not like Fleur before, but that scene in the hospital 
was great.  She is a good woman after all.  I thought that she was 
just a vain airhead, but not anymore.  She is OK.

I have never cared for Draco, but it will be interesting to see how 
he turns out in the end.

And as to "shipping", I have never cared about that, but I got `um 
all right even so.  (Remember I said that Ginny and Harry would have 
to be together because in the CS they represent Adam and Eve in the 
tomb and that before the end they have to be together as the new 
Adam and the new Eve.)  

Tonks_op