Talk:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 7

Tonks and Lupin?
Lupin seems to not like Tonks in the way she loves him...is she pregnant already with Teddy or was Lupin basically forced into the marriage? Please clear this up for me! ~*CF12*~


 * First off: Teddy was actually born in late March or early April (timeline: Draco was home from Hogwarts when Harry was captured by the Snatchers, so it must have been Easter break; Lupin's appearing at The Burrow was not very long after that). So Tonks would have "caught" nine months previous, in June or July. Not having a precise date for Teddy's birth, we equally don't have a precise date for conception. But based on this, we know that Tonks may or may not have been pregnant, likely did not know if she was, but was certainly trying to be, when we see her at the wedding.


 * Lupin was somewhat railroaded into the marriage, though he was not forced. He simply still feels that it is irresponsible to bring a child, especially the child of a werewolf, into the world when it is such an insecure future he or she would be facing. One gathers that he does not know if his son will be lycanthrope; likely no werewolf has ever married a human before, and so nobody knows if the child will inherit his father's infection. It is his uncertainty about the child's future that is eating at him. He may or may bit know that Tonks is pregnant; her scent will have changed, and if he had transformed since she caught, he will know it.


 * One thing is certain, though: reluctant as Lupin is, he will not have gotten Tonks pregnant until they were married. Lupin is emotionally the most mature of the Marauders, and will behave himself. But it is that same sense of maturity and responsibility that makes him unsure of whether he has done the right thing by giving in to Tonks' importuning and produced a child. Chazz (talk) 07:49, 18 June 2009 (UTC)