Tonks

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 171832

Lynda wrote:
> 
> A general reply to the earlier posts here. After my second reading,
I decided, given the regularity with which Tonks runs into Harry, that
she's been retained at Hogwarts to watch him. That would be the reason
they meet with so often.

Carol responds:
I agree. I also think that Tonks is hiding under an Invisibility Cloak
since she appears out of nowhere twice (once in front of the RoR, once
in Hogsmeade when Harry is about to strangle Mundungus). I'm guessing
that either Snape or DD has told her about Harry hanging around
outside the RoR, which is how she knows to watch for him there. As for
her excuse about wanting to see Dumbledore, I think it's a half-truth
(like most cover stories in the HP books). She really does want to see
him, and IIRC, the entrance to DD's tower staircase is also on the
seventh floor, but in a completely different corridor. I'm pretty sure
that her fear that Fenrir's latest victim is Lupin is real.

OTOH, if we're looking fo someone who's polyjuiced, why mention Blaise
Zabini lolling against a post in the Three Broomsticks unless he's
really Draco? (Maybe he bribed Blaise to switch identities and take
his detention for him.)

Carol, noting that Tonks's clumsiness in OoP resembles Ginny's in CoS
and wondering if it's a clue that Tonks has a crush on somebody