[HPforGrownups] A few more thoughts on Patronus change

[Isis 227]

No: HPFGUIDX 135679

On 7/30/05, Inge <Elvishooked at hotmail.com> wrote:
>  I've posted on this subject before - fooling around a bit with the 
>  wishful idea that the real Tonks is absent in HBP and that someone 
>  else was disguised as the Tonks we met in the book.
>  
>  Snape was mocking *Tonks* over her *new weak* Patronus. 
>  I don't think so. Snape was mocking whomever was disguised as 
> Tonks - and Snape knew who that person was.
>  
>  So - who was it? Or am I just on the very wrong track here?


A little more evidence to support your point-- JKR has said (in the
TLC/Mugglenet interview-- unfortunately, I don't remember which part)
that the romance between Tonks and Lupin was a red herring (she used
those words).  She didn't explain, and she wasn't asked to.  I could
guess that could be as simple as disguising what everyone assumed to
be her being upset with Sirius' death, but perhaps there is something
more that we have yet to learn... we do know that Patronuses are
important, we just don't know how important...

-Isis