Let's talk about Lupin/SHIP Lupin/Tonks

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 146091

kchuplis:
> My guess is too that the difference 
> between Tonks at the end of OoTP and HBP is that Sirius' sudden death 
> was probably the kicker to Tonks to "declare herself" to Lupin.


Montavilla:

Just to add to this:  Tonks was also dealing with having gone through her first big fight (at 
the MoM) as an auror and having been seriously injured.  I imagine that might have shaken 
Lupin up as well.

We're also viewing Tonks and Lupin through Harry's PoV in these books--which limits how 
much we're ever going to see of the relationship.  I'll confess I didn't catch any hint of 
Lupin/Tonks in OotP.  I didn't see the hospital scene coming, but I didn't find it horribly 
out of character.  

On the whole, I was glad to see Tonks finally do something to justify having her in the 
books at all.  Throughout OotP, she just seemed to be a collection of odd character traits 
(clumsy, good at making faces, says "Wotcher" all the time) in search of a storyline.