Let's talk about Lupin - True Love at Last?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 146168

Lupin and Tonks:

OK, I can't stand it a minute longer.  I don't understand why 
everyone is so down on the idea of Lupin and Tonks. They seem like a 
logical pair to me! 

And I don't think that Lupin is trying to let her down gently. I 
think he is just as much in love with her as she is with him. Tonks 
is not a stupid woman, she would know if a man was in love with her 
or not.

Often when an older man falls in love with a younger woman, he later 
tries to talk himself out of the relationship because he is sure 
that when he is 10 years older she is going to be tired of him and 
want a younger man.  So the fact that Lupin tells Tonks that he is 
too old is just that sort of thing happening added to his state of 
depression and sense of worthlessness in the current (werewolf spy) 
situation.

I think there are plenty of clues that the adult members of the 
Order know that Lupin and Tonks were dating.  Harry does not know 
about it, of course.  But Molly tried to get Tonks to come around 
when Lupin is there.  And Arthur would not have said what he did in 
the Hospital if he had not been aware of the situation beforehand 
and probably had some talks with Lupin about it.  Arthur seems like 
the sort of person that Lupin might talk to about such things. Molly 
might even have suggested that her husband have a little talk with 
Lupin when the two men were together. You can just hear her telling 
Arthur that, now can't you?  Some here have even suggested that 
Snape (who is probably not in the loop on such things) even knew 
because of the type of change in Tonks' patronus.

Now why would they be ideal for each other? Let me count the ways.

Steve said: "Keep in mind that Lupin has been this 'social outcast' 
since he was a young child." 

Let me suggest that being a metamorphmagus might not be the 
most "normal" thing to be in the block where Tonks grew up either. 
So they may have some early childhood events in common here. Tonks 
is one of the few women Lupin could ever be with, because like James 
and Sirius she can transform with him each month.  

They are both members of the Order, here one could say that they 
share the same political ideas. They may have bonded under the 
stress of the war, but that often happens both in real life and in 
the movies. Those marriages work out OK most of the time.

It is clear to me that they not only are both in love with each 
other, but made for each other.

Tonks_op