A few more thoughts on Patronus change

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 135756

-Isis said:
>>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...


CathyD now:
JKR did not say (it was part 2 of the interview) that the romance between Tonks and Lupin was a red herring.  What she said was:  " I've used that on Percy and I've used that to a degree on Tonks in this book, as a red herring. But having said that, I disagree inasmuch as mine are very character-driven books, and it's so important, therefore, that we see these characters fall in love, which is a necessary part of life. How did you feel about the romance?"

Throughout most of the book we were let believe Tonks was in love with Sirius, upset about Sirius' death, the change in her patronus, and that perhaps Mrs. Weasley wanted Tonks at the Burrow to come between Bill and Fleur. JKR wanted us to get the idea that something was wrong with Tonks, that she'd been Imperiused or that who we were seeing as Tonks was really someone Polyjuiced to look like Tonks.  That was the red herring in this case, she truly is in love with Lupin.  However, and perhaps JKR doesn't know she did it, back in Order of the Phoenix, whenever we see Tonks being clumsy, tripping over the troll leg, knocking over chairs, breaking the plate at the Dursleys, she's always within about 20 feet of Remus.

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