Order Of the Phoenix Quotes
Not all quotes are said by Tonks, a few on here just have a mention of her.
"Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder, "it's Tonks."
"Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surnmae only," finished Lupin.
"So would you if your fool of a mother had called you
Nymphadora," muttered Tonks.
-- Chapter 3: The Advance Guard
"Very
clean, aren't they, these Muggles?" said the witch called Tonks, who was looking around the kitchen with great interest. "My dad's Muggle-born and he's a right old slob. I suppose it varies, just as it does with wizards?"
-- Chapter 3: The Advance Guard
And with a nasty squelching sound, much like a plunger being pulled from a sink, he popped out his eye.
"Mad-Eye, you do know that's disgusting don't you?" said Tonks conversationally.
-- Chapter 3: The Advance Guard
"You're an Auror?" said Harry, impressed. Being a Dark-wizard-catcher was the only career he'd ever considered after Hogwarts.
"Yeah," said Tonks, looking proud. "Kingsley is as well, he's a bit higher up than me though. I only qualified a year ago. nearly failed on Stealth and Tracking. I'm dead clumsy, did you hear me break that plate when we arrived downstairs?"
"Can you learn how to be a Metamorphmagus?" Harry asked her, straightening up, completely forgetting about packing.
Tonks chuckled.
"Bet you wouldn't mind hiding that scar sometimes, eh?" Her eyes found the lighting-shaped scar on Harry's forehead.
"No, I wouldn't mind," Harry mumbled, turning away. He did not like people staring at his scar.
"Well, you'll have to learn the hard way I'm afraid," said Tonks. "Metamorphmagi are really rare, they're born, not made. Most wizards need to use a wand, or potions, to change their appearance. But we've got to get going, Harry, we're supposed to be packing," she added guiltily, looking around at all the mess on the floor.
"Oh - yeah," said Harry, grabbing a few more books.
"Don't be stupid, it'll be much quicker if I pack!" cried Tonks, waving her wand in a long, sweeping movement over the floor.
Books, clothes, telescope and scales all soared into the air and flew pell-mell into the trunk. "It's not very neat," said Tonks, walking over to the trunk and looking down at the jumble inside. "My mum's got this knack of getting stuff to fit itself in neatly - she even gets the socks to fold themselves - but I've never mastered how she does it - it's a kind of flick -" she flicked her wand hopefully.
One of Harry's socks gave a feeble sort of wiggle and flopped back on top of the mess in the trunk.
"Ah, well," said Tonks, slamming the trunk's lid shut, "at least it's all in. That could do with a bit of cleaning too." She pointed her wand at Hedwig's cage. "Scourgify." A few feathers and droppings vanished. "Well, that's a
bit better - I've never quite got the hang of these householdy sort of spells. Right, got everything? Cauldron? Broom? Wow! A
Firebolt!" Her eyes widened as they fell on the broomstick in Harrys right hand. It was his pride and joy, a gift from Sirius, an international-standard broomstick.
"And I'm still riding a Comet Two Sixty," said Tonks enviously. "Ah well ... wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? OK, let's go.
Locomotor trunk."
-- Chapter 3: The Advance Guard
They soared right to avoid passing directly over the glittering spider's web of lights below.
"Bear southeast and keep climbing, there's some low cloud ahead we can lose ourselves in!" called Moody.
"We're not going through clouds!" shouted Tonks angrily, "we'll get soaked, Mad-Eye!"
-- Chapter 3: The Advance Guard
"We ought to double back for
a bit, just to make sure we're not being followed!" Moody shouted.
"ARE YOU MAD, MAD-EYE?" Tonks screamed from the front. "We're all frozen to out brooms! If we keep going off-course we're not going to get there until next week! Besides, we're nearly there now!"
"Time to start the descent!" came Lupin's voice. "Follow Tonks, Harry!"
Harry followed Tonks into a dive.
-- Chapter 3: The Advance Guard
Turning to Fred and George, she said, "It's a no go with the Extendable Ears, she's gone and put an Imperturbable Charm on the kitchen door."
"How d'you know?" said George, looking crestfallen.
"Tonks told me how to find out," said Ginny. "You just chuck stuff at the door and if it can't make contact, the door's been Imperturbed. I've been flicking Dungbombs at it from the top of the stairs and they just soar away from it, so there's no way the Extendable Ears will be able to get under the gap."
-- Chapter 4: Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place
As they passed the row of house-elf heads on the wall, they saw Lupin, Mrs. Weasley and Tonks at the front door, magically sealing its many locks and bolts behind those who had just left.
"We're eating down in the kitchen," Mrs. Weasley whispered, meeting them at the bottom of the stairs. "Harry, dear, if you'll just tiptoe across the hall it's thought this door here -"
CRASH.
"
Tonks!" cried Mrs. Weasley in exasperation, turning to look behind her.
"I'm sorry!" wailed Tonks, who was lying flat on the floor. "It's that stupid umbrella stand, that's the second time I've tripped over -"
But the rest of her words were drowned by a horrible, ear-splitting, blood-curdling screech.
-- Chapter 4: Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place
"And if you want dinner before midnight, I'll need a hand," Mrs. Weasley said to the room at large. "No, you can stay where you are, Harry dear, you've had a long journey."
"What can I do, Molly?" said Tonks enthusiastically, bounding forwards.
Mrs. Weasley hesitated, looking apprehensive. "Er - no, it's alright Tonks, you have a rest too, you've done enough today."
No, no, I want to help!" said Tonks brightly, knocking over a chair as she hurried towards the dresser, from which Ginny was collecting cutlery.
-- Chapter 5: The Order of the Phoenix
Opposite Harry, Tonks was entertaining Hermione and Ginny by transforming her nose between mouthfuls. Screwing up her eyes each time with the same pained expression she had worn back in Harry's bedroom, her nose swelled to a beak-like protuberance that resembled Snape's, shrank to the size of a button mushroom and then sprouted a great deal of hair from each nostril. Apparently this was a regular mealtime entertainment, because Hermione and Ginny were soon requesting their favorite noses.
"Do that one like a pig snout, Tonks."
Tonks obliged, and Harry, looking up, had the fleeting impression that a female Dudley was grinning at him from across the table.
-- Chapter 5: The Order of the Phoenix
"Well, the main thing is to try and convince as many people as possible that You-Know-Who has really returned, to put them on their guard," said Bill. "It's proving tricky, though."
"Why?"
"Because of the Ministry's attitude," said Tonks. "You saw Cornelius Fudge after You-Know-Who came back, Harry. Well, he hasn't shifted his position at all. He's absolutely refusing to believe it's happened."
-- Chapter 5: The Order of the Phoenix
"We've managed to convince a couple of people, though," said Mrs. Weasley. "Tonks here, for one - she's too young to have been in the Order of the Phoenix last time, and having Aurors on our side is a huge advantage - Kingsley Shacklebolt's been a real asset, too; he's in charge of the hunt for Sirius, so he's been feeding the Ministry information that Sirius is in Tibet."
-- Chapter 5: The Order of the Phoenix
"I see Tonks isn't on here. Maybe that's why Kreacher won't take orders from her - he's supposed to do whatever anyone in the family asks him-"
"You and Tonks are related?" Harry asked, surprised.
"Oh, yeah, her mother Andromeda was my favourite cousin," said Sirius, examining the tapestry closely. "No, Andromeda's not on here either, look-" He pointed to another small round burn mark between two names, Bellatrix and Narcissa.
-- Chapter 6: The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black
"I was never a prefect myself," said Tonks brightly from behind Harry as everybody moved towards the table to help themselves to food. Her hair was tomato red and waist-length today; she looked like Ginny's older sister. "My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities."
"Like what?" said Ginny, who was choosing a baked potato.
"Like the ability to behave myself," said Tonks.
-- Chapter 9: The Woes of Mrs. Weasley
"It's been great meeting all of you," said Tonks, hugging Hermione and Ginny."
"We'll see you soon, I expect."
A warning shistle sounded; the students still on the platform started hurrying on to the train.
-- Chapter 10: Luna Lovegood
When Tonks and Mad-Eye turned up to escort them across London, they greeted them gleefully, laughing at the bowler hat Mad-Eye was wearing at an angle to conceal his magical eye and assuring him, truthfully, that Tonks, whose hair was short and bright pink again, would attract far less attention on the Underground.
Tonks was very interested in Harry's vision of the attack on Mr. Weasley, something Harry was not remotely interested in discussing.
"There isn't any
Seer blood in your family, is there?" she enquired curiously, as they sat side by side on a train rattling towards the heart of the city.
"No," said Harry, thinking of Professor Trelawney and feeling insulted.
"No," said Tonks musingly, "no, I suppose it's not really prophecy you're doing, is it? I mean, you're not seeing the future, you're seeing the present ... it's odd, isn't it? Useful, though ..."
-- Chapter 22: St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
"Right," said Tonks, beckoning them towards a window displaying nothing but a particularly ugly female dummy. It's false eyelashes were hanging off and it was modelling a green nylong pinafore dress. "Everybody ready?"
They nodded, clustering around her. Moody gave Harry another shove between the shoulder blades to urge him forward and Tonks leaned close to the glass looking up at the very ugly dummy, her breath steaming up the glass. "Wotcher," she said, "we're here to see Arthur Weasley."
-- Chapter 22: St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
The flesh-coloured strings wriggled like long skinny worms and snaked under the door. At first, Harry could hear nothing, then he jumped as he heard Tonks whispering as clearly as though she were standing right beside him.
"... they searched the whole area but couldn't find the snake anywhere. It just seems to have vanished after it attacked you, Arthur ... but You-Know-Who can't have expected a snake to get in, can he?"
-- Chapter 22: St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
"Come on, the quicker we get on the bus the better," said Tonks, and Harry thought there was nervousness in the glance she threw around the square. Lupin flung out his right arm.
BANG.
A violently purple, triple-decker bus had appeared out of thin air in front of them, narrowly avoiding the nearest lamppost, which jumped backwards out of its way.
A thin, pimply, jug-eared youth in a purple uniform leapt down on to the pavement and said, "Welcome to the -"
"Yes, yes, we know, thank you," said Tonks swiftly. "On, on, get on -" And she shoved Harry forwards towards the stpes, past the conductor, who goggled at Harry as he passed.
"Ere - it's 'Any -!"
"If you shout his name I will curse you into oblivion," muttered Tonks menacingly, now shunting Ginny and Hermione forwards.
-- Chapter 24: Occlumeny
Lupin and Tonks helped them off the bus with their luggage, then got off to say goodbye. Harry glanced up at the three decks of the Knight Bus and saw all the passengers staring down at them, noses flat against the windows.
"You'll be safe once you're in the grounds," said Tonks, casting a careful eye around at the deserted road. "Have a good term, OK?"
"Look after yourselves," said Lupin, shaking hands all round and reaching Harry last. "And listen ..." he lowered his voice while the rest of them exchanged last-minute goodbyes with Tonks, "Harry, I know you don't like Snape, but he is a superb Occlumens and we all - Sirius included - want you to learn to protect yourself, so work hard, alright?"
-- Chapter 24: Occlumeny
Then, high above them, two more doors burst open and five more people sprinted into the room: Sirius, Lupin, Moody, Tonks and Kingsley.
Malfoy turned, and raised his wand, but Tonks had already sent a Stunning Spell right at him.
-- Chapter 35: Beyond the Veil
"Nice one!" shouted Sirius, forcing Harry's head down as a pair of Stunning Spells flew towards them. "Now I want you to get out of -"
They both ducked again; a jet of green light had narrowly missed Sirius. Across the room Harry saw Tonks fall from halfway up the stone steps, her limp form toppling from stone seat to stone seat and Bellatrix, triumphant, running back towards the fray.
-- Chapter 35: Beyond the Veil
"Madam Pomfrey is patching everybody up," said Dumbledore. "Nymphadora Tonks may need to spend a little time in St. Mungo's, but it seems she will make a full recovery."
Harry contented himself with nodding at the carpet, which was growing lighter as the sky otside grew paler.
-- Chapter 37: The Lost Prophecy
There was Mad-Eye Moody, looking quite as sinister with his bowler hat pulled low over his magical eye as he would have done without it, his gnarled hands clutching as long staff, his body wrapped in a voluminous travelling cloak. Tonks stood just behind him, her bright bubble-gum pink hair gleaming in the sunlight filtering through the dirty glass of the station ceiling, wearing heavily patched jeans and a bright puple T-shirt bearing the legend
The Weird Sisters. Next to Tonks was Lupin, his face pale, his hair greying, a long and threadbare overcoat covering a shabby jumper and trousers. At the front of the group stood Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, dressed in their Muggle best, and Fred and George, who were both wearing brand-new jackets in some lurid green, scaly material.
-- Chapter 38: The Second War Begins
"Anyway, that's not the point," interjected Tonks, whose pink hair seemed to offend Aunt Petunia more than all the rest put together, for she closed her eyes rather than look at her. "The point is, if we find out you've been horrible to Harry -"
"- And make no mistake, we'll hear about it," added Lupin pleasantly.
"Yes," said Mr. Weasley, "even if you won't let Harry use the fellytone -"
"
Telephone," whispered Hermione.
"- Yeah if we get any hint that Potter's been mistreated in any way, you'll have us to answer to," said Moody.
Uncle Vernon swelled ominously. His sense of outrage seemed to outweigh even his fear of this bunch of oddballs.
--
Chapter 38: The Second War Begins
