Thank you for explaining this theory about Tonks so much better than I could have! I'd heard a variant of it before and vastly prefer it to the simply unrequited love explanation. Because yeah, it's silly.
I've sometimes wondered why Jo seemed to take power away from almost every one of her female characters in HBP. Tonks we've talked about. Hermione.... well, she seemed like a different person to me. She didn't care about S.P.E.W. anymore, she didn't listen to or help Harry, and she went psycho-jealous about Ron and Lavender. Ginny was given a lot of Hermione's former intelligence, but she only really served as the object of Harry's chest monster and then his girlfriend. The two members of the Order of the Phoenix who died before the book started were both female, one of whom was a potential candidate for Minister of Magic (or at least a highly placed figure in the Ministry). Luna and Professor McGonagall were about the same, but McGonagall may not even be allowed to be the headmistress in DH because they may close the school. Even Luna was kept out of the final fight right away when she and Hermione were duped by Snape's deception.
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Date: 2007-03-14 01:34 am (UTC)I've sometimes wondered why Jo seemed to take power away from almost every one of her female characters in HBP. Tonks we've talked about. Hermione.... well, she seemed like a different person to me. She didn't care about S.P.E.W. anymore, she didn't listen to or help Harry, and she went psycho-jealous about Ron and Lavender. Ginny was given a lot of Hermione's former intelligence, but she only really served as the object of Harry's chest monster and then his girlfriend. The two members of the Order of the Phoenix who died before the book started were both female, one of whom was a potential candidate for Minister of Magic (or at least a highly placed figure in the Ministry). Luna and Professor McGonagall were about the same, but McGonagall may not even be allowed to be the headmistress in DH because they may close the school. Even Luna was kept out of the final fight right away when she and Hermione were duped by Snape's deception.