[the_old_crowd] Re: Tonks again

[silmariel]

I've been wondering not about the person who could have done it, but in Tonks 
herself. I mean, we have been looking at her in terms of an order member (so 
that she can enter Hogwarts) and someone who is near Harry, but I think she 
would still be a target even without the order, or Harry, just by having that 
oh so very rare skill.

It's the same case as Slughorn, Ollivander, Bones, Vance. Those wizards that 
can harm you if they work for the other side, and her innate skill qualifies, 
IMO, not as of vital importance but enought to put her on the list of 
jobs-to-do-if-possible.

I don't doubt something funny is going with Tonks, no idea who could be behind 
her, but somehow I doubt it's polijuiced Cissi or Bella, Cissi may have 
motives but I can't imagine Voldemort giving her orders to go and infiltrate, 
nor her interfering with someone who has been targeted (it's not as messing 
with a no-one), and Bella, well, I doubt she can act. Not that I will enter 
in the discussion, I just wanted to point she is target material.

Pippin:
> My vote would be
> ESE!Lupin and Imperius!Tonks.  

>That would account for Tonks's unwonted agility (Neville lost his
>clumsiness  when Fake!Moody put him under Imperius), her odd 
>behavior, and the strange look in her eyes. I believe she was being 
>used as a messenger between Draco and Bella or whoever was 
>running Draco. That's why she was outside the RoR.

>  Of course if ESE!Lupin  knows this then he abandoned  another shred
> of decency when he agreed to a relationship with her.

Oh well. The relationship could be well stablished by the time he was given 
orders or he heard she was a target, and he might have thought Imperio is 
better than dead or cruciod into madness, but it gives a new light to the 
whole 'I don't deserve you' speech, certainly.

If he is ESE, he shouldn't have started a relationship at all, not if he cared 
about that person. What could he expect? But then, I can see Lupin falling in 
such a trap.

I feel they are doomed ...

Silmariel