R2, Flitwick, Lucius as next MoM

[Amey Chinchorkar]

No: HPFGUIDX 108083

-	Michal
-	Regulus II aka R2 (whether a son or daughter) has to be Harry's age or
-	older give the date of Regulus' murder. R2 could still be at Hogwarts or
-	could be a student at Durmstrang or Beauxbatons (lousy spelling). Wouldn't
-	it be funny if it was Krum? But no, we met his parent's unless that was his
-	step-father.

Amey:
Viktor Krum was over in a corner, conversing with his dark-haired mother and father in rapid Bulgarian.  He had inherited his fathers hooked nose. (GoF just before third task).

I know it’s flimsy, but I think Krum is not R2. What about Nott? He is *good* Slytherin (I think), he is Pureblood (yes, Regulus would have married *respectably* pureblood), but he is neutral till now. He doesn’t seem to despise Harry or say anything to him at the end of OOtP, even though his father is caught as DE. Is it possible that he is adopted, or Regulus’ mother married again as you said?


-	Anastasia
-	It is also possible that she wasn't there when the photograph was
-	taken, but this would also indicate that several people might be
-	missing. Now I come to the point which interests me - what about
-	Flitwick? Was/Is he in the Order?
-	As far as we know, Flitwick is clever and can use his wand properly
-	(otherwise he wouldn't be Head of Ravenclaw). He's been teaching at
-	Hogwarts since at least the Marauders' time. He's definitely very
-	loyal to DD, although he is not as close to him as Minerva or Snape
-	are.
-	There isn't any canon telling us that there aren't more members in
-	the Order than those we already know about.
-	What do you think?

Amey:
Yes, it is possible, and the way Flitwick relates to McGonall and Snape, it seems he is a member of the order, though not an active one. Also, as for Dumbledore and McGonall’s teaching timeline, we know Dumbledore was Transfiguration teacher in Riddle’s time (50 years before). Assuming as many of us are, that Grindelwald episode came after that, I think he became HeadMaster or Deputy after that. Also Lupin doesn’t say exactly when he became HeadMaster. I think he became headmaster when McGonall joined as teacher (or vice-versa, actually). That will place it around 3-4 years before Lupin and company joined. Lupin is not wrong in saying that before Dumbledore became Headmaster, he had no chance.

-	Jim said:
-	"mask, in the MoM in the middle of the night.  We'll have the testimony
-	of Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna, Neville, Dumbledore, Tonks, and Lupin."
-	DuffyPoo now.
-	You forgot Mad-Eye Moody and Kinglsey Shacklebolt. 

Amey:
That makes it a crazy boy, 3 underage kids, 1 daughter of Quibbler’s owner, a old person loosing his marbles, a new auror (though she is cool), a werewolf, an ex-auror who sees enemy in everyone and everything, and one auror. Hmmm
. Only one *proper* witness ;D. 
Ok, jokes apart, I think only Tonks and Shacklebolt will count with Dumbledore actually. 
But still, Lucius is in trouble till he escapes from Azkaban. And as for his being MoM, I think he is more of a KingMaker than a King (Fudge’s son as HBP anybody???), and now he will find it hard to keep new MoM in his pocket.
One more thought here,

"But I've told you, I had no idea!"  Bagman called earnestly over the crowd's babble, his round blue eyes widening.  "None at all! Old Rookwood was a friend of my dad's . . . never crossed my mind he was in with You-Know-Who!  I thought I was collecting information for our side!  And Rookwood kept talking about getting me a job in the Ministry later on ... " (GoF)

Where was he collecting information from? Or more precisely, from whom??? And when did he became so important and clever to gather information? What am I missing here? 

Amey



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