Calling Tonks Nymphadora, and Snape's button pushing in general

[minluko]

No: HPFGUIDX 152122

> Pippin:

> I think JKR considers Ginny's method of dealing with unrequited love 
> far better than Tonks's. It was when Ginny was pining for Harry and 
> feeling depressed and unworthy that she became vulnerable to Riddle.


Just a little comment: it is difficult to compare Tonks' and Ginny's
"methods of dealing", because the situations are so different. Ginny
probably felt, as you put it, unworthy, but Tonks doesn't. She knows
that Lupin loves her as well, but rejects her "for some stupid, noble
reason" (Ginny's words, by the way). It's him who feels unworthy!
There is just no way to deal with this Ginny's way. What is Tonks
supposed to do, ask out Kingsley Shacklebolt to make Lupin jealous?
He'll just think that she got over him, and that's definitely not what
she wants. For Ginny, Harry's love was something hypothetical. She
hoped, but she knew there is a chance that it would never happen, so
for her it was easier to move on. For Tonks it must be so much more
frustrating, because she knows that all she hopes for could happen
right now, but she is unable to get through Lupin's "noble reasons".

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