Lupin and Tonks characterization in HD --- Was: Initial critique of DH

[wickywackywoo2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 172966

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pattiemgsybb" <mac_tire at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Yes, yes, yes. And that really bugged me because I think Lupin is 
one
> of her best creations -- the gentle werewolf trying to make his way
> through a world that, by and large, doesn't want him. 

The whole Lupin/Tonks romance left me cold, and neither of them was a 
favourite character of mine.  But I didn't like the way JKR treated 
them in this book.

It seemed to me that she'd gone to some trouble to create 
this "daring" couple, breaking all sorts of taboos to be together.  
As you say, Lupin wasn't wanted by the wizarding world, and Tonks 
volunteered for the same trouble.  They were a living, breathing 
problem to the society around them.  

And then...she kills them.  BOTH.  It seemed a peculiarly antiseptic 
way of dealing with the conundrum she'd set up.  


Wanda