[HPforGrownups] Deaths in OotP

[Lark Austin-Black]

No: HPFGUIDX 70743

Message: 8
   Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:21:47 -0500
   From: "Kelly Grosskreutz" <ivanova at idcnet.com>
Subject: Deaths in OotP

And finally, here is the final part of this list
examining the deaths 
of the
Potterverse.  Entire list is archived at
http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova/writings.htm.  Please
feel free to email 
me
with comments on this or any part if you don't want to
post it to the 
list.

THE DEATHS OF HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE
PHOENIX

REGULUS BLACK - This is one death of which I am
suspicious. Here's the 
quote
from Sirius himself, "No, he was murdered by
Voldemort. Or on 
Voldemort's
orders, more likely, I doubt Regulus was ever
important enough to be 
killed
by Voldemort in person. From what I found out after he
died, he got in 
so
far, then panicked about what he was being asked to do
and tried to 
back
out. Well, you don't just hand in your resignation to
Voldemort. It's a
lifetime of service or death." (OotP p. 112 U.S.
edition)

First of all, this is a second-hand account. As with
Wilkes, Sirius 
didn't
see the death, didn't cause the death, and never saw
the body. Unlike
Wilkes, though, we don't even know Sirius's source for
the information. 
Who
told Sirius? If Voldemort didn't kill Regulus, who
did? What happened 
to his
body? Was it returned to his parents? Could Regulus be
the third Death
Eater? Although, if he was, it would contradict
Sirius's story of 
Regulus
wanting out of the Death Eaters, since it sounds like
Voldemort's third
Death Eater was faithful. Is there more to the Regulus
story than we 
(and
Sirius) have been told?

I say there are too many unanswered questions
surrounding this death, 
and
speculate that we might not have seen the last of
Regulus Black. Or, if 
we
have, we will find out more about how he died and who
killed him (could 
it
have been Snape?).

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I just want to point out that nobody ever said that
Sirius did *not* see his brother's body--despite how
much he hated his family, I can still see him going to
his brother's funeral...I mean, if he died before
Sirius was sent to Azkaban (which is likely, as being
in prison, unless it is about other prisoners, it is
harder to get information)...

~LA-B

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