Harry Potter is Anti-Woman

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No: HPFGUIDX 181028

> 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.


I admit checking the train would make common sense, however if I
remember correctly, she found an invisible boy pretty fast. Either
she cast a spell or she knows how to search a train long enough to
carry all of Hogwarts quickly. Remember, in JKR's mind, there are
1000 students at Hogwarts. That's a lot of compartments.

So, Tonks knows a spell that can find people who are concealed or
she used her "auror skills" to search a train quickly. I think that
counts as skill either way.  It may not be a heroic battle against
Bellatrix, but it is validation of her as an auror.

Yolanda