the third DE

[ilojika]

No: HPFGUIDX 78610

Hi

I´m sorry if this has been discussed before but:

In GoF, at the cementery, LV talks about three dead DE who "died at 
his service". We know the names of two of them from Sirius, they are 
Rosier and Wilkes. Rosier is also mentioned during Karkaroff´s trial. 
But, who is the third one? I mean, why did JKR bother telling us the 
names of two of them and not the last one´s?

The nameless one might have been Regulus Black. But it´s strange that 
LV said that he died at his service because it was quite the 
contrary.  Possible explanations:

1 - LV doesn´t want his DE to know that leaving him means death. The 
only ones who know the reasons of Regulus´s death are LV and the DE 
that killed him. The others think that he died at LV´s service.

2 - Regulus was a true DE and died at LV´s service. After all, Sirius 
had left home and he couldn´t know what was on his brother´s mind. 
Possibly Regulus wasn´t talking to him at all, even if they met at 
school. Sirius isn´t 100% certain of the identity of his brother´s 
murderer. He just guesses. And if my brother had been a DE,  I would 
have preferred to think of him as a "good" DE.

3 - On the other hand, the third dead DE might have not been Regulus. 
LV referred to someone else, whose identity can be (or not) important 
to the story later on. 
I´m thinking about the Perseus Evans theory and so on. 

Anyway, I think there´s something here.

Ilojika