[the_old_crowd] Re: HBP Spoilers - Tonks

[Catherine Coleman]

--- pippin_999 <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

> 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?


Yes - and to reiterate this point in the context of Tonks, as Dumbledore says when discussing
Merope:  "Of course, it is also possible that her unrequited love and the attendant despair sapped
her of her powers;  that can happen."

I'm no longer sure, after reading the scene in which she rescues Harry from the scene, that her
unrequited love for Lupin made her less lacking in purpose though.  Less clumsy yes, due to loss
of exuberance, but not lackadaisical:  "Now she seemed older and much more serious and
purposeful."

Catherine, having odd thoughts about Tonks and Philip Pullman, which are not forming properly


		
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