I was browsing FF.Net the other day and I saw this summary.

After the DoM, Harry finds blocked powers, new abilities, and a sudden need to marry Tonks.

Now, I don't know how many people were around when the OOTP AU's were coming out after GOF, but to me, this summary sounds almost exactely like the H/G's that were around back then. Is this what Harry/Tonks is falling to? In a year, maybe even a matter of months, will Harry/Tonks reach the sapiness/crapiness level of Harry/Ginny?

 

I've always hated Honks. It's always 'Oh, Harry's grieving about Sirius so Tonks decided out of nowhere that she wants to comfort him even though she's almost double his age and their interaction in canon has been minimal'.

So, in short, I wouldn't care anyway.

 

I have had my own issues with the Honks idea as well, however if the author possesses just a modicum of competance or originality, then the fic seldom has the same issues that a HG fic will have if written by an author of equal quality.

Basically think of it this way -- the longer a pairing is around and the more people adhere to it -- the more likely it is that some utter shit will get written. Sad, but true.

 

There used to be a few great and mostly decent fics in the Honks shipping. Now, however, the H/G-ers are invading the ship.

 

Master Slytherin, Tonks is maybe about 5 years older than Harry not double his age.

 

I thought Tonks was in her seventh year when Harry was a first year?

I'm neutral towards the ship, really. Stories with Tonks saying "Wotcher, Harry!" almost every sentence is annoying as hell. And most fics nowadays with Honks as a pairing is either mediocre or just plain shit.

 

Yeah Tonks according to canon is about 6-7 years older than Harry. And about 13-14 years younger than Remus. Part of why people squicking over the age difference in HONKS and thumping their canon bibles like a missionary bug me.

Most all HONKS are post-OotP, so Harry's 16 at least and Tonks is 22-23. Which to me is only objectionable if you're a bitter 15 year old redheaded bint.

But truthfully, HBP completely ruined and killed everything interesting, fun, and likable about Tonks' character. Her cheerfulness, her joy in standing out (like every other wannabe teenage punk dying their hair and wearing band shirts), her attempts to make those around her smile. She appeared to make a great positive influence, without being hindered by the usual crap being a teenager entails, including the whining, jealous, harpiness found in most all other students. She was a capable witch, an auror, not a threat to the sort of special powerful wizard Harry *should* be, but not helpless either. Certainly not a scared, needy, schoolchild.

And then HBP turns her into this empty soul-less shell of being incapable of even using her unique talent. A complete depressing, useless uninteresting character, pining for the old, poor werewolf. And completely killing every fun interesting part of her character.

Not to mention killing the imagination of many post-OotP interpretations of Tonks character too. So instead, she's just another typical girl. Pretty much the least interesting thing ever. Right up there with Ginny and Hermione. And Cho. Luna still has her individuality, but she's becoming more of a punchline still.

 

Not to mention fantasies of what Tonks REALLY looks like -_-

 

i actually glanced at the story with that summary.
it was one of those "in order to get the black fortune away from malfoy you must marry into the black family" so it wasnt like he just woke up one day and said "i gotta marry tonks" like it is in some harryginny fics and shit.
but still the whole cliche of keeping the black fortune away from malfoy through marrying tonks isnt that great either.

 

Yes any good Tonks' character had has been destroyed after HBP. So I don't really care what happens to Honks anyways. Most fics floating out there usually deal with Harry who insists that tonks be "herself" when with him and a sob story from tonks about how all guys she met till now only wanted to "use" her....blah...blah...blah...

Even then her unique power has a lot of scope so if someone actually manages to write a good story I will probably read it.

 

There used to be some good Honks fics (i still recall with some fondness Changing Faces), but, really, more recent Honks fics are really bad. We just wonder why it's Tonk and not some random OC girls instead-it would be better. It's like this recent needs of Naruto/Harem lately... It's not the ship that makes a story original :/

 

Master Slytherin, didn't you WRITE a Honks story? Anyways, its not my favorite pairing, but IMO its all right. That is, until the H/G fans get a hold of it and turn it into trash...

 

No, no I didn't.

 

Link, MS killed Tonks. HBP isn't cannon for me. Tonks is still useable. But its just getting harder to find good fic is all.

 

You know, I was jsut thinking, how long is it going to be before some fan-girl reads one of these "you must marry tonks to save the Black fortune from Malfoy" and decides, "ooooh, lets make Sevvy-pooh a pure-blood who's like Sirius's favourite cousin or something, and then have Harry marry him to save the fortune, because we all know Sevvy-pooh is just a poor misunderstood man who needs some TLC". I really dread to think of that sort of fic.

 

* cough* http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2810256/1/ I found this by typing in "harry has to marry snape" at fanfiction.net its already been done

 

Harry/Tonks is actually my favorite pairing, and has been for a good 3 years now. So it's very discouraging to me to see every other Honks fic be either A.) A Harry/Ginny fangirl gone Honks or B.) Some 14 year old fanboy who wants Harry to get laid by and older girl, and a metamorphagus one at that.

Sadly due to my need to read Honks i have had to endure about every Honks fic on FF.net, good and bad just in hopes that it might turn out alright. They usually dont.... Luckily iv'e held out for so long i dont remember the pioneer storys of Honks very much so im doing some re-reading.

One thing that gets me about the "Marry Tonks for the fortune". Her whole side of the family was blasted off the family tree. Youd think that even though it doesnt say in cannon that they were legally disowned. Any rational person would do it. Second, even if they werent legaly disowned the next male heir would be Ted Tonks wouldnt it? I dont see the difference between Harry using Tonks to become the heir and Ted useing Andromeda to become the heir. Both are in the family by marriage.

I also have a very hard time believing that women are incapable of recieving the family fortune, especially when all direct male heirs are dead. If that the way it really worked then if some rich womens husband dies then she doesnt get any money, everything of HERS and his gets shipped off to the next male heir of the family. Yeah right. The wizarding worlds mindset is behind, but not THAT far behind.

 

Hey I'm 15

But yeah Honks is one of my favorite ships and it is very depressing to watch it all going to hell and not be able to do anything about it.

Curse those uncreative bastards!

 

Guh! *downs a shot of Bleepka* Ah... that's better. Bleepka is brain-bleach and vodka.