Metamorphmagus abilities (Re: Let's talk about Lupin - True ...?)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 146171

Tonks_op:
> 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.  

Jen: That's a new idea. I wonder if Tonks is actually able to change 
into an animal like James and Sirius or just to modify her appearance? 
I figured since we haven't seen her change form she isn't capable of 
that unless she is also an animagus. You'd think being a 
metamorphmagus would make learning the animagus transformations much 
easier! But Hermione didn't recognize Tonks as one of the seven 
registered for the century and I think her name would ring a bell for 
Hermione if she'd read it before.

Now I'm wondering if JKR made Tonks a metamorphmagus for other reasons 
besides fun and using it as a red herring for the ship? We know for 
sure Harry doesn't have the ability according to her website. I used 
to think Andromeda, as Sirius' favorite cousin, would play a role in 
future books and might turn out to be a metamorphmagus, too. But 
unless she's currently posing as someone else we've already met it 
doesn't seem likely she's going to suddenly appear now. 

Jen