Another Snape Theory

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Romulus:

We know there is *one* DE LV (had) killed because he refused to 
follow orders. What if he ordered Reggie to marry a nice, pureblood, 
female DE (or DE relative) and he was zapped. *This* is why Severus 
turned traitor on his former master, that's the story he told DD. He 
loved Regulus, the only one who loved him back, and he died because 
of that love. Regulus became a DE to make Snape happy and this caused 
his death. No wonder Severus wants revenge against LV and his 
henchmen. All in my opinion, of course.


Lissa:

Funny.  I was actually coming up with a Snape/Regulus theory as well, although it was much darker and less romantic.

What if Snape was the one who killed Regulus?

Sirius claims to hate his family, and probably does for the most part, but he's still very bitter, and very hurt by the entire lack-of-family type thing he's got going.  It's one thing to not agree with your family, or to fight with them- it's another thing to cut them out of your life all together and never speak to them again.  (Are you listening, Percy Weasley?)  And as Kreacher keeps saying that Sirius broke his mother's heart, I suspect it wasn't as easy as Sirius would like us to believe.  (Or would like himself to believe.)

He knows, at least, that Voldemort himself didn't kill Regulus.  Maybe he's heard enough to know that Snape was the one that carried out the orders?  I agree when people say the hatred seems very personal on both sides, and this certainly happened well after they despised each other, but I can see where that would only add fuel to the fire.  

Of course, like so many of my speculations, there's no real evidence for it.  ::sigh::  (Although it gets fun when you toss the Snape-is-an-illegitimate-Black theory into it, doesn't it?)

(Incidentally, off-topic for this thread but not for the list, I don't think Sirius's death was a result of sloppy writing at all.  It's frustrating because it COULD have been prevented, and yet, I think that was exactly JKR's point.  Everything's obvious in hindsight, and we can't predict the outcome of our decisions.  It was sad it happened, but sadly, it was realistic.  Well, as realistic as being shot in the chest with a spell and falling through a portal to another realm are going to be, anyway!)

Lissa

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