Regulus Black is Stubby Boardman????

[Brooke]

No: HPFGUIDX 76578

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "barbara_mbowen" 
<Barbara_Bowen at h...> wrote:
> Forgive me if this has been discussed before; I read as many 
> posts as I can, but...!
> 
> 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).   Maybe 
> Regulus is in hiding, impersonating Stubby?  Maybe the REAL 
> Stubby was Regulus all along?  Or maybe Stubby died from the 
> turnip in the ear, and Regulus, on the run from Voldemort, 
> knowing he would get no protection from the MoM, took Stubby's 
> identity.  Why hasn't he come out of hiding since?  Well, maybe 
> he likes being Stubby?  Or, maybe he's still scared, both of 
> Voldy's old supporters and the  MoM (big brother Sirius being the 
> most notorious prisoner in  Azkaban probably didn't help...)
> 
> Probably not true, but wouldn't it be fun if Stubby, AKA Regulus 
> Black, turns up in Book Six?
> 
> Marmelade's Mom




Regulus being Stubby Boardman is an interesting theory, but one that 
did not come to my mind.  When Harry mentioned Sirius's name, it was 
Luna who said to him "you mean Stubby Boardman?"  I think it might be 
important to consider the source JKR used to introduce this new clue 
to the story.  Why did SHE mention Stubby?  Does or did Stubby have 
something to do with The Quibbler and/or her father?  My theory is 
that Sirius may have been using the pseudonym Stubby Boardman (same 
initials) in order to be secretive (and we all know that Sirius had 
many things to be secretive about).  I think Sirius may have been 
leading a sort of double life under that name.  The only thing i 
don't like about my theory is that Stubby is now gone as well... I am 
hoping that there was some sort of switching spell involved and it 
was Stubby rather than Sirius that Bellatrix finished off!

Brookeshanks :o)