[HPforGrownups] Tonks

[dracojadon at yahoo.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 171790


> Kris:
> The character of Tonks is very different in HBP than she is in OoTP.
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> is it really Tonks?
>
> I'm starting to think that she might be one of the ones who is
> helping Draco (they are cousins, afterall).  I know she's an auror -
> but is it possible that she's (or someone disguised as her) is
> working the inside of the Order for LV?

Jadon:
My theory is that she's working, much as Draco is, on a secret  
project which is draining her of all energy. I hadn't previously  
considered that it could be the _same_ project - I do have one piece  
of evidence against that idea, though: would Draco be confiding in  
_Moaning Myrtle_ if he had Tonks, who was not only working with him,  
but having the same feelings about it? Possibly she is spying on him/ 
working against him (why?)/helping him without him knowing (but we  
already have Snape in the role of unwanted helper). I think it's more  
likely it's a separate project; even that she's being blackmailed  
into working for LV through a family connection, or suspects that  
what she's been being asked to do is not entirely for the best (but  
feeling she has no choice she does it anyway), and it's this that's  
making her miserable.

She definitely seems to be more in the category of overworked/morally  
torn than lovesick.

She's not under Imperius - she's changed and worried, not blissfully  
unconcerned and on the surface unchanged. Some other enchantment of  
compulsion? I wouldn't put it past her to feel that whatever she's  
doing is her problem, to be solved without worrying anyone else, and  
to be done on top of her normal OotP duties - very Harryish, but she  
actually goes through with it.

I think she _is_ Tonks because, amongst other reasons, her presence  
at Hogwarts is suspicious. A DE would disguise himself as a student/ 
teacher/suit of armour/Mrs Norris. A slightly OFH Order member, OTOH,  
might disguise himself as another Order member (and so I present my  
grand theory that Tonks is Dumbledore in disguise).

Only ... why does Tonks's hair return to pink at the end of the book?  
What else has happened, other than Lupin, presumably, reconsidering?

Jadon