Constellations reveal HBP

[MsTattersall]

In this morning's Dallas Morning News' family/kids section, there was a 
star map of the April constellations and descriptions of the various 
constellations visible. The identity of the HBP leaped out at me when I 
read the description of the constellation Leo. Its principal star is 
REGULUS, which the article pointed out means "little prince." 

The teaser paragraph from HBP we have all read describes someone as 
looking like an "old lion." If Sirius was named for the principal star 
in the constellation Canis Major (Big Dog) (also described in the DMN 
article), and his general aspect, as well as his animagus form, is a 
big dog, can we then assume that the name of his younger brother, 
Regulus, was derived in a similar way from the constellation LEO?

Now a big hint from canon: OotP, p. 111 (US). Sirius says, "Because I 
hated the whole lot of them: my parents, with their pureblood mania, 
convinced that to be a Black made you practically ROYAL [emphasis 
added] ... my idiot brother, soft enough to believe them ..." 

On the following page, Sirius describes how Regulus joined the Death 
Eaters but backed out when he found out what they wanted him to do, and 
that he was killed for it. But was he really? Sirius has only 
secondhand information and doesn't actually know who killed him. 
Everyone thought Peter Pettigrew was dead, too.

I submit that Regulus Black is not only alive, but is the Half-Blood 
Prince; and in book 6 we will discover that the House of Black isn't 
as "toujours pur" as advertised. It also opens up all kinds of tinned 
invertebrates about the disposition of 12 Grimmauld Place and the 
future of the Order.

I also submit that it will be revealed that what the Death Eaters 
wanted him to do was participate in the Godric's Hollow affair, as OotP 
says that he was killed 15 years ago--right about that same time. Which 
means Regulus, when he appears, can sort out a lot of unanswered 
questions.

Probably this theory has already been floated on the main list, but 
this is the report of my epiphany!

Whew. Thanks. Had to get that out. 

Ms. Tattersall