Tonks está provavelmente agonizando sobre seu relacionamento com Lupin provavelmente procurando por notícias sobre Lupin e sua missão perigosa (que Dumbledore atribuiu a Lupin).
Half-Blood Prince chapter A Very Frosty Christmas
“Tonks’s Patronus has changed its form,” he told him. “Snape said so anyway. I didn’t know that could happen. Why would your Patronus change?”
Lupin took his time chewing his turkey and swallowing before saying slowly, “Sometimes . . . a great shock . . . an emotional upheaval . . .”
“It looked big, and it had four legs,” said Harry, struck by a sud- den thought and lowering his voice. “Hey . . . it couldn’t be — ?”
Half-Blood Prince chapter A Very Frosty Christmas
“I’ve been living among my fellows, my equals,” said Lupin. “Werewolves,” he added, at Harry’s look of incomprehension. “Nearly all of them are on Voldemort’s side. Dumbledore wanted a spy and here I was . . . ready-made.”
Half-Blood Prince chapter A sluggish Memory
“Not great,” said Harry, and he told her all about Lupin’s mission among the werewolves and the difficulties he was facing. “Have you heard of this Fenrir Greyback?”
Half-blood Prince ch. The Unknowable room
“The Prophet’s often behind the times,” said Tonks, who didn’t seem to be listening to him. “You haven’t had any letters from anyone in the Order recently?”
“No one from the Order writes to me anymore,” said Harry, “not since Sirius —”
He saw that her eyes had filled with tears.
Half-Blood Prince chapter The Phoenix Lament
And the meaning of Tonks’s Patronus and her mouse-colored hair, and the reason she had come running to find Dumbledore when she had heard a rumor someone had been attacked by Greyback, all suddenly became clear to Harry; it had not been Sirius that Tonks had fallen in love with after all.
Olhando para o mapa do 7º andar, há muitos corredores. Se ela viesse do escritório de Dumbledore e seguisse na direção da Grifinória, então ela estaria indo pelo corredor até os grifinórios.
Ela pode estar indo para a sala comunal da Grifinória na esperança de procurar qualquer um dos Weasley com cartas da Ordem e esperançosamente um pedaço de notícias adicionais sobre Lupin.