Can Tonks change gender?

In the Harry Potter books, Metamorphmagi are people with the innate ability to change their own shape at will. Tonks is the main example of a Metamorphmagus, and she is shown changing the shape of her nose, the colour and shape of her hair, and once even taking the form of an entirely different old lady.
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Can Metamorphmagus change their gender?

Unlike Animagi, Metamorphmagi could take a wide variety of forms, changing gender and age, potentially looking like anyone at all, or even just changing a part of their appearance, such as the colour of their hair or shape of their noses.
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What can Tonks change into?

Metamorphmagus: Unlike most other wizards and witches, Tonks possessed the ability to change her physical appearance at will, without the need for a potion or a spell to assist. With simply a thought, she was capable of changing her facial features, nose shape, the colour of her hair and eyes, or even her entire form.
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Why can Tonks change her appearance?

However, Tonks shown that she simply concentrated slightly to change her appearance, so it may be simply what the Metamorphmagi wanted to change into. It is unknown if Metamorphmagi must register with the Ministry of Magic like Animagi must, as Metamorphmagi did not choose to become what they are, while Animagi did.
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Is Tonks a Metamorphmagus?

Nymphadora Tonks, who we first meet in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is a Metamorphmagus. She tells Harry that the ability helped her greatly in the Concealment and Disguise in her Auror training.
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Can Tonks turn into a man?

My interpretation of canon is that a Metamorphmagus can change their human appearance. So, yes, Tonks can change her appearance to look like an old lady or Mundungus Fletcher or Aunt Petunia or Dumbledore. But she cannot change her appearance to look like Griphook, Dobby, Firenze, Peeves, or the Weasley clock.
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Can you be a Muggle-born Metamorphmagus?

Absolutely! The only thing you need in order to be born a metamorphmagus is to be a witch or wizard i.e. have a functioning magical gene. Tonks and her son Teddy are both Half-Bloods. Their Muggle/Muggle-born ancestry did not make any difference.
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What does it mean when Tonks hair is purple?

In the book, Tonks is introduced as having "short spiky hair that was a violent shade of violet." But, as a Metamorphmagus, she can change her hair color and her appearance at will. In fact, when she goes up to help Harry pack his things, she decides purple isn't her color and switches her hair to a bubble-gum pink.
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Can a Metamorphmagus become a werewolf?

Thus Metamorphmagi Werewolves get the powerful emotions of the transformed werewolf state, and the self-control granted by their Metamorphmagi skills, allowing them to freely transform as they see fit.
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What does Remus call Tonks?

'And this is Nymphadora –' '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 surname only,' finished Lupin. 'So would you if your fool of a mother had called you Nymphadora,' muttered Tonks.
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Did Tonks love Sirius?

Tonks makes an idle remark regarding Sirius ('He's still handsome, isn't he, even after Azkaban? '), and Lupin assumes that she has fallen for Sirius and says: "He always got the women." In both these instances, there is no mention of Tonks being in love with Sirius as inappropriate or something out of the norm.
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Is Nymphadora Tonks Hufflepuff?

Hogwarts years 1984-1991

Tonks began her first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1984 and was sorted into Hufflepuff House at the Sorting ceremony.
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Can you be born an Animagus?

An Animagus (pl. Animagi) is a witch or wizard who can morph him- or herself into an animal at will. It is a learned, rather than hereditary skill, unlike those of a Metamorphmagus. Information on Animagi is taught to Hogwarts students during their third year Transfiguration class.
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Can Metamorphmagus change eye color?

Fandom. Can Metamorphmagi change their eye color? I always treated it as obvious that "yes , they can" but my friend pointed it out to me and now it won't leave my mind: Tonks is said to change her hair color constantly but her eyes are always described as "dark".
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Is Harry an Animagus?

James's Animagus form was that of a stag, which earned him his nickname, Prongs. Strikingly, Harry's Patronus was a stag and his mother Lily's was a doe, a female deer, showing that the family's characters were in harmony and formed part of the same animal group.
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Why is Teddy Lupin not a werewolf?

According to J.K. Rowling's Pottermore entry on Remus, his Patronus was a normal wolf, not a werewolf, due to their non-threatening and family-orientated nature. However, since Lupin hated all things wolf, he shied away from casting corporeal Patronuses, instead opting to produce non-corporeal ones.
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How old was Tonks and Lupin?

Not that it matters, they really are the ultimate power couple! She's 23 when introduced. There's a 13 year age gap between her and Lupin.
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How old is Nymphadora Tonks in Order of the Phoenix?

As a case in point, let us take Tonks. She is quite young, having just completed her Auror training; she would be about seven years older than Harry, making her about 22 to Harry's 15 when they meet at the beginning of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
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Is Nymphadora Tonks related to Draco?

The Malfoys are related to the Black family through Narcissa (a first cousin of Sirius Black, Harry's godfather), which makes Draco a nephew of both Bellatrix Lestrange and Andromeda Tonks. Draco is also Nymphadora Tonks' first cousin through their mothers.
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Can a Squib have a magical child?

On a rare occasion, non-magical parents (muggles) can produce magical offspring, called muggle-borns. In even rarer cases, some magical parents could have children incapable of magic, known as squibs. Squibs can interact with the magical world, which implies that they have slightly more magical ability than muggles.
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Can magical parents have non-magical children?

A Squib, also known as a wizard-born, was a non-magical person who was born to at least one magical parent. Squibs were, in essence, "wizard-born Muggles".
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Can a Squib learn magic?

Squibs have been known to try and teach themselves magic

As it turns out, Filch is a Squib, and has been partaking in a 'Kwikspell' course: a set of magical lessons for wizarding beginners.
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Is Tonks non binary?

Like millions of other Harry Potter fans who dared to project ourselves into the books, I was ultimately disappointed: By the end of the series, Tonks was a married, fully binary woman, softer and gentler, letting her husband feminize her as “Dora” — a name she'd previously hated.
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How do you pronounce Metamorphmagus?

  1. Phonetic spelling of metamorphmagus. meta-mor-phma-gus. meta-morph-ma-gus.
  2. Meanings for metamorphmagus. It is an ability to change into another person by a witch or wizard. The ability to change your appearance (usually witches or wzards). ...
  3. Synonyms for metamorphmagus. ShapeShifter.
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