Tonks becomes an Auror
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"I got top marks in Concealment and Disguise during Auror training without any study at all, it was great. 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?"
-- Nymphadora Tonks (OP3)
Tonks completes her three years of training and qualifies as an Auror. As a Metamorphmagus, she excelled at Concealment and Disguise training, but she noted that her natural clumsiness made Stealth difficult (OP3).
Timeline Notes
In August of 1995, Tonks tells Harry that she only qualified a year ago, which would be 1994. Auror training takes three years after seven years at Hogwarts, so we can extrapolate back to determine her birth year.
Certainty Inferred from canon
Location in Canon OP3: The Advance Guard
Type of Event Wizarding world
Nymphadora Tonks
OP29: Careers Advice
OP3: The Advance Guard
Nymphadora Tonks leaves Hogwarts and starts training as an Auror
Aurors
The path to becoming an Auror is not an easy one. McGonagall warns Harry of this when he expresses his desire to become an Auror:
"You'd need top grades for that," said Professor McGonagall, extracting a small, dark leaflet from under the mass on her desk and opening it. "They ask for a minimum of five NEWTs, and nothing under 'Exceeds Expectations' grade, I see. Then you would be required to undergo a stringent series of character and aptitude tests at the Auror office. It's a difficult career path, Potter, they only take the best. In fact, I don't think anybody has been taken on in the last three years." (OP29)
If true, it would mean that Tonks was the most recent Auror recruit when she meets Harry.
McGonagall goes on to describe the requirements:
"Well, you'll need to demonstrate the ability to react well to pressure and so forth," said Professor McGonagall, "perseverance and dedication, because Auror training takes a further three years, not to mention very high skills in practical Defence. It will mean a lot more study even after you've left school, so unless you're prepared to -"
Tonks is a very talented person indeed, despite her lack of the ability to "behave herself," as she put it.
Tags: careers jobs
Editor: Steve VanderArk
October 31st, 1993 : Sirius breaks into Hogwarts to find Peter Pettigrew
November 8th, 1993 : Quidditch match: Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff (1993)
November, 1993 : Harry spends the rest of the weekend in the Hospital Wing after his Nimbus 2000 is destroyed
November, 1993 : Quidditch match: Ravenclaw vs. Hufflepuff (1993)
December 18th, 1993 : End-of-Term trip to Hogsmeade
December 18th, 1993 : Fred and George give Harry the Marauder's Map
December 18th, 1993 : Fudge, Flitwick, McGonagall, and Madam Rosmerta discuss Sirius Black at the Three Broomsticks
December 25th, 1993 : Harry receives a Firebolt
1994 : Tonks becomes an Auror
1994 : Quidditch match: Gorodok Gargoyles vs. Toyohashi Tengu (1994)
January 6th, 1994 : Lupin begins teaching Harry to cast the Patronus Charm
January, 1994 : Quidditch match: Slytherin vs. Ravenclaw (1994)
February 6th, 1994 : Sirius Black sneaks into Gryffindor Tower in search of Pettigrew
February 11th, 1994 : Buckbeak's Hearing in London
February, 1994 : Quidditch match: Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw (1994)
May, 1994 : Quidditch match: Gryffindor vs. Slytherin (1994)
June 6th, 1994 : Harry and Hermione travel the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack
Order of the Phoenix Chapter 3