RL-HP breaking up with NT-GW

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 178570

"k12listmomma" wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/178550>:

<< Catlady wrote: << there's no more reason why LV would want to
kidnap and torture Remus's girl than any other Phoenix. >>
I strongly disagree with that last line, because canon contradicts it. 
Reread that first chapter. Lord Voldemort talked about pruning family
trees, did he not? Thus, he did indeed target Tonks and Lupin
specifically, because Tonks was related to the Malfoys and to
Bellatrix. Tonks says it again in that scene where the Death Eaters
went after all the fake Harrys- Bellatrix went for her specifically to
kill her. >>

I accept your correction. You are right that Tonks *was* specifically
targeted. I was thinking 'Remus's girl' when I should have been
thinking 'Bellatrix's niece'.

In my mind, she was in more danger from BELLATRIX than her colleagues
were, rather than more danger from VOLDEMORT, because Voldemort
delegated that task to Bellatrix. In my mind, Voldemort didn't really
care about the Black family tree or werewolves, he just gave Bellatrix
an assignment that would keep her busy AND AWAY FROM HIM for a while.

<< It is reasonable to assume that Snape might have spilled to this
couple that they were in immediate danger from LV to be murdered, but
if they didn't know if before Bella went after Tonks, certainly they
knew it then. >>

But part of my point remains. Harry somehow thought that if he broke
up with Ginny, Voldemort wouldn't find out that Harry cared about
Ginny, so that Ginny wouldn't be a target because of Harry. 

But once Tonks was pregnant with Lupin's child, there's no way that
Lupin breaking up with her would protect her from Bellatrix/Voldemort.
Her half-werewolf child would still be related to Bellatrix even if
the werewolf were dead and even if the marriage were annulled. Lupin
deserting her wouldn't remove the reasons (she married a werewolf,
she's going to bear a half-werewolf child) that make her Bellatrix's
target. 

Whether Lupin sincerely thought he would do the world more good by
joining the Horcrux (or was it Hallows?) hunt than by living with his
wife, or he craved active adventure (unlikely! in my view), or he had
an exaggerated case of the normal fear of being unable to live up to
the responsibility of parenthood, or he was just TIRED of hanging
around with Tonks and her boring or annoying conversation, he couldn't
have reasonably thought that Bellatrix would stop hunting Tonks just
because Lupin was elsewhere.