AgileTonks/Tonks is Tonks

[guzuguzu]

No: HPFGUIDX 141736

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady" wrote:
 
> Tonks in OoP can't walk down the hall without tripping over the
> troll's-leg umbrella stand, but in HBP she can jump off a moving
> train and land standing up on her feet.

Well, yes and no. I reread the passages in OoP where Tonks appears, 
and actually, she is "agile" more often than she is clumsy. She does 
nothing clumsy as an escort to King's Cross Station, nor the entire 
trip to visit Mr. Weasley at the hospital, nor on the Knight Bus, 
nor the battle at the Ministry. She is not a walking calamity. I 
could even argue that while jumping off the train, she would have 
been extra careful and focused, so she wouldn't have injured herself 
or Harry. And anyway, we hear from Fleur that she has been knocking 
things over recently. 

My opinion is that it's pointless to count the instances of 
Tonks "not being herself" in HBP, because we have several characters 
*repeatedly* comment throughout the book that Tonks is not acting or 
looking like her normal self. That's a given fact. The clues that 
the readers are supposed to be searching for are for why that is, 
and the answer turns out to be Lupin (and there are definitely clues 
that point to that answer). I haven't seen any clues that point to 
Narcissa (or anyone else) impersonating Tonks, or having her under 
control. I do believe that JKR's intention was to have the short 
description of pink-haired Tonks holding Lupin's hand at the funeral 
to be the happy ending to the "Tonks mystery subplot". I can't see 
what her motivation would be for her to have that turn out to be a 
big plot twist. 

guz