In this listener response episode, Professor Julian Wamble returns to Nymphadora Tonks to engage the CMT community on the most compelling reactions to the original episode. Listeners weigh in on four major themes: whether Tonks embodies the Hufflepuff ideal, what the Hogwarts Express scene reveals about how the text treats her competence and grief, the Lupin relationship as a case study in identity erosion and the "I can fix him" dynamic, and the deeply divided question of whether Tonks was a good mother.The episode closes with Prof. Wamble reconsidering his original argument about heroism and professional duty are mutually exclusive. The case that emerges reframes not just how we read her death, but how we read her life.

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