HBP post DH look chapter 5

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> Carol responds:
> IMO, it has nothing to do with grief for sirius at all. That's a red
> herring. We don't see excessive grief (which Harry suffers more than
> once, and Snape suffers before the books begin) affect anyone's
> powers. Only unrequited love (or a refusal to marry the girl you love
> for her own good, which amounts to the same thing) has that effect.
> (Unrequited love has altogether different but equally exaggerated
> effects in Snape's case, but I don't want to go OT.)

Sarah:
No argument with the hair thing being because of Tonks' feelings about
Lupin.  It's obvious since it fixed itself by the time they were
sitting together at the funeral.

I don't get what you're saying about Lupin, though.  Did he ever lose
his powers?  

Actually, I'm not convinced Lupin was really ever all that into Tonks.
 He gave her a 'it's not you, it's me' speech, but it didn't work, and
everyone was on his case about it, so he married her anyway.  Then he
wanted to leave her and go camping in a tent with Harry Potter for a year.

Tonks didn't seem to lose her powers either, apart from just the one.
 I figured it's the nature of Metamorphmagic, being innate and not
learned and all.  I thought it was just kind of a flighty, fluffy
power that's first to waver.

I also agree about something like a normal grieving process not making
people lose their powers.  From an evolutionary standpoint, wizards
just wouldn't have survived this long if that was the case.  Wizards
are attacked, some die, the rest lose their powers and stand
defenseless.  It would never have worked out for them.