AgileTonks/Tonks is Tonks

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No: HPFGUIDX 141746

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "guzuguzu" <guzuguzu at y...> 
wrote:
>
> --- 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.


guz:
> 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. 

Marianne:

I just wanted to add a bit of canon regarding Tonks' lack of 
agility.  She describes herself to Harry in "The Advance Guard" in 
OoP:

"I got top marks in Concealment and Disguise during Auror 
training...Nearly failed on Stealth and Tracking.  I'm dead clumsy, 
did you hear me break that plate when we arrived downstairs?"  

I agree this does not make her a walking calamity, but it 
establishes that she is not the most graceful of our cast of 
characters. However, she does seem to be able to keep it together 
when she is on active Auror duty.

Marianne