Regulus/Sirius at school

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 80768

-- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lziner" <lziner at y...> wrote:
> After reading post #807803 about Regulus Black, it mentioned that 
> Sirius and Regulus may have been at Hogwarts together.  I can only 
> wonder how- they "got on " at school.  If Sirius was the height of 
> cool (along with James), where was little bro Regulus in the 
pecking 
> order?  OR is it possible he went to another school - Drumstrang - 
> perhaps?
> 
> Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this.
> Lziner

Comment from CW:

I thought the post 807803 was thought-provoking too. Your comment, 
Lziner, also made me wonder about Barty Crouch Jr. He seemed to be in 
his early 30s when he is revealed at the end of GoF, and therefore 
about the right age to have been at school with Regulus and Snape 
(?). (BTW, I wonder what house he could have been in ? Surely not 
Slytherin, his father would have died of shame. Perhaps Ravenclaw, 
since he got a lot of OWLS and NEWTS apparently.)

I have always thought the pensieve scenes showing the young Crouch 
being committed to Azkaban to be slightly at odds with the mad nutter 
that he becomes in GoF. The hysterical panic of the teenage boy seems 
rather genuine, and has always made me wonder if he did, in fact, get 
caught up in something that he initially wanted to back out of, in 
the same way as possibly Regulus and Snape did. 

Even DD seems unsure as to whether he was really involved in the 
torturing of the Longbottoms. It seems he only became permanently 
twisted and evil subsequently, because his father sent him to jail, 
and then kept him under Imperius for so long. He went back to Voldie 
mainly to spite his father perhaps.

Although the torture incident occurred after the fall of Voldie, and 
the change of heart for both Regulas & Snape was before the fall, 
nevertheless, the teenage Crouch Jr could have been part of the young 
acolyte group who lost faith in Voldie for some reason, but didn't 
know how to get out safely, and then found himself caught up in 
subsequent events. It would explain his behaviour when caught much 
better.