Is Tonks clumsy or not?

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Ginny343 wrote:
> But what happened with her(Tonks) being clumsy?  I felt that was a 
> major part of her character development in OoP and I don't remember 
> seeing any clumsiness in HBP.  I can't imagine this as an oversight, 
> surely JKR's editors would have noticed.  It must be intentional.   
> Any ideas on what is going on with this?  Or did I just miss the    
> clumsy parts?


CH3ed:
I first thought after reading HBP that Tonks' clumsiness in OotP might 
have been a sign that she was nervous around Lupin (she didn't knock 
anything over when she went with the others (without Lupin) to visit 
Arthur at St. Mungo's). But then I remembered that Tonks told Harry 
when they first met that she had been so clumsy she almost fail on 
stealth and tracking during her auror exams, and she hadn't met Lupin 
then (assuming, of course, since she wasn't with the original OotP). 

So I guess her depression has an unexpectedly good side-effect in 
making her a lot less clumsy than normal. Guess we'll see in Book 7 
whether it returns now that she is happy again. 

CH3ed :O)