Tonks

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No: HPFGUIDX 172197

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, dracojadon at ... wrote:
>
> 
> > Kris:
> > The character of Tonks is very different in HBP than she is in 
OoTP.
> <big snip>
> > 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?

Lyn says:

Hi all, new member delurking here.

*waves at group*

I just got to this point in my pre-DH rereading of HBP last night, 
and 
my gut feeling after reading that chapter again was that Dumbledore 
knew (perhaps before the school year even started, and probably via 
Snape) that Draco had been assigned some evil "task" and that Tonks 
was 
brought in to help keep an eye on him and try to find out what, 
specifically, he was doing to accomplish the goal he'd been set. 
Given 
her talents, any one of the other characters seen lingering outside 
the 
RoR over the course of the story could have been her in disguise, and 
not necessarily always just a Polyjuiced minion of Draco's keeping 
watch for him.

This makes sense to me since Dumbledore appeared unconcerned at 
Harry's "revelation" that Draco was up to no good in general (it 
would 
have been old news to him at that point), but still questioned Draco 
about exactly how he'd managed to get DEs into the school (since none 
of the people who were watching Draco so carefully seemed to have 
realized that the Vanishing Cabinet was involved). Snape, as well, 
knew 
Draco was trying to do something on behalf of Voldemort, but didn't 
seem to know the details of how he was attempting to get it done.

Another thing that struck me about that scene, I think Harry mentions 
something about the latest death or disappearance reported in the 
Daily 
Prophet, and Tonks makes some (I took it as half-sarcastic, half-sad) 
comment about the Prophet not always being up on the latest news or 
somthing to that effect. Very shortly thereafter, when HRH are back 
together, two other students - sisters, I think Hermione says "the 
Montgomery sisters" - walk by and Ron makes a comment about them 
looking unhappy, and Hermione reveals that they've just found out 
their 
little brother has died at St. Mungo's after being fatally bitten by 
a 
werewolf (and IIRC, it was Greyback).

Which made me think back to Tonks' comment about "the latest news" 
and 
how Lupin's assignment has him working underground with the other 
werewolves, trying to convince them not to follow Greyback and 
Voldemort... which must put him in considerably more danger than he'd 
be almost anywhere else. And also there's the fact that some 
werewolves 
going around killing children just for kicks is not going to make 
life 
any easier for Lupin once this is all over, even if Voldy's defeated 
and dead and gone - people already fear werewolves enough, even one 
who 
is harmless as a human and makes every effort to remain harmless when 
he transforms, like Lupin. So that might account for some of her 
downheartedness as well.

Lyn