Slughorn - hiding more than meets the eye?

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 136486

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "saraquel_omphale"
<saraquel_omphale at y...> wrote:
 
> Now, whoever stashed the false!locket found out about LVs Horcruxes 
> and about the cave.  It has taken DD nigh on 16 years to get to this 
> point, the greatest living Wizard – yet we are supposed to believe 
> that RAB – Regulus Black –  sorry, who?  Managed to get there way 
> before him.  RAB, of whom we have never heard anybody speak of as 
> having any talent whatsoever, but who gets a mention in Slughorn's 
> despatches as the brother of Sirius (HBP p71).  Whereas Sirius is 
> called `a talented boy', no such praise for his brother Regulus. I'm 
> very pulled to the opinion that Regulus was either someone's stooge, 
> or took someone very talented with him.  Regulus was probably a 
> wizard of little talent, who was young and whose powers wouldn't 
> register much in the boat. 

I don't think that is very fair to say that about Regulus - we don't
know much about him, this is true.  The only person who really had
more than 2 sentences to speak of him was Sirius, and he didn't think
much of him, because of the whole pure-blood beliefs and that Regulus
became a death-eater - of course Sirius isn't going to be praising
Regulus - hell, he doesn't praise Snape and WE know Snape is a very
powerful wizard.  However, Sirius does state that his family did say
Regulus was a better son that Sirius.  And Regulus did *smarted* up in
the end, only to be *killed* (or not, as theories goes) by one of
Voldemort's groupies.  Slughorn only stated that "I got his brother,
Regulus, when he came along, but I'd have liked the set"  Of course
there would be praise for Sirius(he was a talented boy) by Slughorn to
Harry - Slughorn knew he was a pal of Harry's father - but Harry
doesn't know Regulus from a hole in the ground.   Slughorn doesn't
mention James's talent, either - does that mean James wasn't worth
Sluggie's attention - that he thought James was not up to par with
Slughorn's standards?  We know that James, thru his friends eyes, was
a damn good wizard & a loyal friend.   

colebiancardi