1. Oh yes. And that also hits hard, because her first eight years were during the war. The wizarding community was sliding back to the fears and tensions she knew as a child. That's spooky.
2. YES. Oh yes. Absolutely and completely. I know Tonks in my head most definitely blames himself for not being good enough to stop Bellatrix and instead got pwned.
3. And she's a responsible witch, and takes on a herself to do a lot. - ... it's interesting how her skills don't get damaged - she can apparate, which is presumably hard, and do all her Auror and Order work all right... but it's her inborn ability that's lost. Stress? Hell yeah.
4. In my view, it was cooked up during OotP because it didn't just happen out of the blue - but it wasn't spoken about till the very end, probably past the Battle at the Department of Mysteries. And then with both of them grieving, it wasn't a conversation that was intended to be that, it just... went that way. FAR that way. But - Remus is a very private person, whatever he was feeling, he'd not be easy to let on. Tonks isn't - but she's very strong on empathy, and she knows that... something like that might discomfit somebody like Remus, hard.
and, my addition.
5. Extreme worry FOR Remus. Physically and emotionally. Obviously he's on dangerous missions; but also, he's LOST his last friend - over a year, she's had the opportunity to observe what Sirius and Remus mean to each other - whatever their relationship precisely, it was deep. And then Remus is taken away from the few people who will feel for him, and thrust out to being alone, separate, just as he's been in the years before PoA. She may be terribly upset at his rejecting her. But I think she was at least as upset because of how terribly alone he is. At least in my head, that's the way she is.
And also, I don't think she lost her abilities as a 'snap, he said no and they are gone'. It took a while; it took many no's, and it was gradual. And it had its consequences.
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Re: Personally?
Date: 2008-03-01 06:56 am (UTC)1. Oh yes. And that also hits hard, because her first eight years were during the war. The wizarding community was sliding back to the fears and tensions she knew as a child. That's spooky.
2. YES. Oh yes. Absolutely and completely. I know Tonks in my head most definitely blames himself for not being good enough to stop Bellatrix and instead got pwned.
3. And she's a responsible witch, and takes on a herself to do a lot. - ... it's interesting how her skills don't get damaged - she can apparate, which is presumably hard, and do all her Auror and Order work all right... but it's her inborn ability that's lost. Stress? Hell yeah.
4. In my view, it was cooked up during OotP because it didn't just happen out of the blue - but it wasn't spoken about till the very end, probably past the Battle at the Department of Mysteries. And then with both of them grieving, it wasn't a conversation that was intended to be that, it just... went that way. FAR that way. But - Remus is a very private person, whatever he was feeling, he'd not be easy to let on. Tonks isn't - but she's very strong on empathy, and she knows that... something like that might discomfit somebody like Remus, hard.
and, my addition.
5. Extreme worry FOR Remus. Physically and emotionally. Obviously he's on dangerous missions; but also, he's LOST his last friend - over a year, she's had the opportunity to observe what Sirius and Remus mean to each other - whatever their relationship precisely, it was deep. And then Remus is taken away from the few people who will feel for him, and thrust out to being alone, separate, just as he's been in the years before PoA.
She may be terribly upset at his rejecting her. But I think she was at least as upset because of how terribly alone he is. At least in my head, that's the way she is.
And also, I don't think she lost her abilities as a 'snap, he said no and they are gone'. It took a while; it took many no's, and it was gradual. And it had its consequences.