HBP Spoilers - Tonks

[pippin_999]

Red
Herring
Is
My
Favorite
Fish
Red
Herring
Is
My
Favorite
Fish

Kneasy: 
> Firstly - commiserations to Richard. One can never have so many  
> friends and acquaintances that one can afford to lose any.

Pippin:
Ditto. Wish there was something we could do.

Kneasy:
> I'm a bit surprised at the posts members have put up regarding
Tonks.
> Where is the steely eyed suspicion, the rampant  paranoia normally
to   be expected from HP analysers? From what I've read on the board  
 (again forgive me if I've misread or misunderstood what's been
said,   but these past few days have been a bit frantic to say the
least,  
 much more than HBP and The Open to contend with) fans seem to be  
pussy-footing around somewhat.


> 
> Ever the fool willing to rush in where angels fear to tread, I'll  
> come out and say it; if it don't walk like a duck and don't quack  
> like a duck, then it ain't a duck.

Pippin:
Just to be contrarian, I think it is a duck. We've been told before
that despair drains a wizard of his powers. And it could be that 
Tonks's clumsiness is a side effect of her metamorph ability. 
Think about it, if your body is protean,  constantly rearranging i
tself, how can balance ever become instinctive?

As for the shift in patronus, I don't think unique means unchangeable.
My license plate is unique to my car, but it can be issued a different
one. That no one else could conjure Tonks's patronus doesn't mean 
that it would always have to stay the same. It might foreshadow a 
change in Harry's patronus; a symbol of his truly becoming a man, 
something that represents the best of Harry, not James.

Pippin