Lupin and Tonks - What about the baby?

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 173356

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "leggrachel" <psych12 at ...> 
> 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.
>

va32h:

Except that Tonks never, not once, not one single time, says a single 
word about "the cause". From the minute she arrives at Hogwarts, she 
asks one thing only "Where's Remus?"

Lupin himself tells Harry, in the Forest, that he is happy to have 
tried to make the world a better place for his son, but Tonks NEVER 
verbally expressed interest in the safety of anyone but Remus Lupin. 

And speaking of James and Lily, when Voldemort came calling, what did 
James say? NOT - "chuck Harry out the window and come help me fight". 
He said "Take Harry and run." James wanted Lily to take the baby and 
run for it, he *didn't* want her to die fighting for the cause. When 
Lupin first arrives at Hogwarts he is without Tonks, suggesting that he 
didn't want her to fight either. 

Once my husband was missing for about a week - his convoy was attacked 
in Baghdad, and he and several others managed to flee to safety, but he 
was out of communication for several days. It was the most terrifying 
week of my life. But never once did I consider abandoning my children 
to go look for him. And if I had, I'm sure my husband would have been 
mortified that I had done such a foolish, selfish thing. 

And I am certainly not going to feel badly over thinking badly about a 
fictional character. It's not as if my saying that Tonks was an unfit 
mother is actually going to hurt the feelings of her fictional son. 

va32h