Tonks as Sirius in disguise? WAS: Re: CHAPDISC: HBP8, Snape Victorious

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 146590

> Sherry:
> > 3.  Here we see Tonks jump off a moving train.  All through the 
> > last book, OOTP, we are shown how clumsy Tonks is.  ...But here
> > we see her casually leaping off a moving train.  What did you think 
> > of this? We learn later that Tonks has lost her metamorphmagus 
> > ability.  Do you think her ability to change her appearance could 
> > be part of why she is clumsy? Is it possible that she isn't very 
> > well coordinated because of her metamorphing?  Will she be clumsy 
> > again now that she has her ability back at the end of HBP?  Or is 
> > there something more sinister going on here?  Is this really 
> > Tonks?  
> 
> SSSusan:
> These are fascinating questions.  I'd never thought about the 
> possibility that Tonks losing her metamorphmagus ability might *make* 
> her less clumsy and awkward.  But -- okay, confession time -- as I 
> read, I did wonder whether this was indeed Tonks.  In fact, this lack 
> of clumsiness and her gloominess and her changed patronus all made me 
> think... even though I was *never* in SAD DENIAL... that Tonks was 
> somehow actually Sirius!  (Okay, throw rotten tomatoes at me, I can 
> take it -- it was just a thought that flitted into my mind as I read 
> this. :-)) 
> 
Montavilla:

This tickles me no end.  Wouldn't THAT be a twist and half on the hospital scene?  Tonks, 
hugging Lupin fiercely and crying about how Fleur still loves Bill and why can't you love 
me...?  And it's really Sirius!

That way JKR would satisfy the Lupin/Tonks shippers AND Lupin/Sirius shippers at the 
same time!