Lupin and Tonks - What about the baby?

[leggrachel]

No: HPFGUIDX 173350

> >>Ronnie:
>> <snip>
>> Tonks defending "the cause" is not contrasted to defending her son. On the contrary: defending your cause is momentarily identical to defending your loved ones. It's a "fight of flight" situation, and for the sake of your children, as Remus says, you have to go out there and fight the enemy. Tonks goes out because her beloved husband  is in danger, but also because she is a Lioness Auror, who is going out after the vultures inorder to defend her cub (unlike LV, I'm using this word with deep sympathy). << <snip>


Rachel writes:
I agree with Ronnie! You have to look at the situation from their
perspective. Remus and Tonks weren't running out for each other, they
were fighting for everything about their world that they believe in.
You have to understand, under Voldemort's rule, their child likely
wouldn't have lived long. The DE's made it clear that children of
'undesirables' were equally undesirable. The final battle was all or
nothing, and I think that Remus and Tonks knew that when they chose to
fight.

As a side note, JKR once said that she molded Voldemort after Hitler,
so you can easily imagine that this was truly an extreme case. Any
parent would probably choose to die so that their child can live,
including Lily and James, and Remus and Tonks.