Sirius' Brother+Potters

[portrait_of_mrs_black]

No: HPFGUIDX 73880

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "fawkes970" <sollecks970 at a...> 
wrote:
> Sirius' brother was killed <...> because LV asked him to do a task 
for him, and he failed to do it. 
> This task could have to do with the Prophecy and that Voldemort 
> wanted Harry to never of been born. LV would of had the Potters 
> killed, and being the ruthless person he is, would have assigned 
> somebody who knew of the Potters to kill them for him. 

How do you know that Regulus knew the Potters? Even though Sirius was 
James' best firend, he hated his family and I don't think that 
Regulus even knew James. He probably knew only that he was Sirius' 
friend but nothing more. And one more thing - Sirius said in OoP that 
he doubts that Regulus was ever an important person th Voldy. If that 
was true how could Voldy ask someone like Regulus to do such an 
important thing? I mean, after hearing the part of the Prophecy, 
killing the Potters was one of his most important goals, right?

So my theory 
> is that he died because he failed to kill the Potters, and 
> consequently, Harry was born. 

If that was true, Voldy would kill him himself, and he didn't. Sirius 
thought Regulus was not that important to be killed by "Lord 
Voldemort" personally - and Sirius was already a member of the Order 
then, so he probably knew things like that, and was right about his 
brother. I still hold to the theory that the story of Regulus Black 
is supposed to be an intro to Percy's future. But that is also just a 
theory, and probably wrong (most of my theories about the events in 
next JKR's books were wrong:).

cheers,
Portrait_of_Mrs_Black