Stubby Boardman is Regulus Black

[barbara_mbowen]

No: HPFGUIDX 76400



> <Barbara_Bowen wrote:
> > I noticed that Regulus Black, Sirius' kid brother
> and murdered 
> > DE, had a date of death "fifteen years previously"
> (p.112). And 
> > Stubby Boardman "retired from public life after
> being struck in 
> > the ear by a turnip...nearly fifteen years ago"
> (p192).
> 
> acoteucla wrote: 

Good catch! I don't know if it's been discussed
> before, but I 
> personally like this theory.

Buttercup:

Possibly...that's why his candle light dinner date
thought Stubby was Sirius. They're brothers and they
look alike. 

If Stubby isn't Regulus, I still think he'll come into
play in one or both of the last two books. Why else
would Sirius have mentioned him to Harry? Harry will
probably meet Regulus, who may look like Sirius, and
get all excited thinking it's his godfather, only to
be disappointed again.

Me again:

Yes!  I think so too.  On further musing, I think Regulus was 
ALWAYS Stubby Boardman, because all he wanted was to be a 
rock'n'roll star.  Mama Black would NOT have approved, so he 
hid it from his family, and joined the DE to please his impossible 
Mom.  He was aboutu as good a rock singer as he was a DE, 
though, if the turnip thrown at him is any indication.  But, like 
Sirius, he's drop dead handsome (ahem), so he has lots of 
candlelight dinners with lots of addled fans.

If he shows up in Books 6/7, I think he will be a kind of comic 
relief -- an anti-Serius--or unserious--kind of character:  the ne'er 
do well kid brother.  He will, however, look a lot like Sirius 
anyway...giving Harry some turns.  Harry may even feel some 
responsibility for Reg, and this may help pull him out of his funk.  
Also, it would be interesting to see how Crookshanks, who 
adored Sirius, reacts to Reg.  Will he stare at him insolently, with 
a half-eaten garden snake protruding from his mouth?

Oh, what fun.  

Marmelade Mom