Harry Potter is Anti-Woman

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 181027

> > Magpie:
> <snip>
> > I actually must disagree with all the "Tonks is a great auror"
> > defenses because I've never seen her be a great auror. I've
> > seen her be a woman who leaves her post and loses her powers
> > because her primary focus in the books is her man and not her
> > job--which doesn't make me condemn her since some people are
> > more focused one way than another, but she had a long time to
> > impress me with her auror skills and instead gave the consistent
> > impression that this wasn't her strong point. She's mostly
> > linked to Merope Gaunt.

Yolanda
> 
> I disagree with your disagreement. Tonks is one of the "new"
> members inducted into the Order. DD or Moody must have thought
> well of her abilities to trust her. Neither of them, wouldn't
> have selected someone to stand beside them or other Order members
> in life or death situations if they didn't think she was up to
> the task.

Magpie:
I didn't disagree that she *was* an auror, I disagreed that I ever 
saw her doing anything to show she was a particularly good auror. 
You're not describing that here, you're saying that she must have 
been a good one or else she wouldn't have been there, but I didn't 
see any of it. This is exactly my point--yeah, I can "tell" myself 
that it's hard to become an auror and if she's in the Order maybe 
she's supposed to be good at it, but when it comes to showing her 
doing things in canon she doesn't stand out in that regard. She's far 
more known for pining after Lupin and losing her powers and getting 
left by Lupin. The barrel must be pretty empty if we're scraping the 
bottom to come up with checking an empty train and finding Harry 
stuck there into impressive auror action. 

-m