Snape, DD, and Book 7 - Kreacher in the cave!

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No: HPFGUIDX 137484

Dave wrote:

Does it make sense to introduce such an
important character into the story at this point? It's a bit of a 
deus ex
machina, if you ask me. Usually, the big twists are best when you 
could have
known all along if you'd followed the clues. This one was out of left 
field.

Rachel now:

I don't think it's at all out of left field that she introduces 
Regulus as a more important character.  JK loves to tell us one 
little thing and then bring it back in a huge way.  For example: the 
twins making fun of Professor Quirrell's turban and his silly answer 
about it that they didn't believe, Ginny squealing about her diary 
being left behind in book two, Peter Pettigrew losing a finger and 
that Scabbers all along was missing a toe, learing about polyjuice 
potion in book two and it reappearing in book four...sorry, it's just 
endless.  If you read the Wizarding World Press's The Ultimate 
Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter, one of their rules 
is "never take a character's word for it."  They also have two 
corallaries to this "Hermione is always right, except when there's 
emotion involved," and "Ron is always wrong, except when he's 
joking."  I had a feeling Regulus was more important than Sirius 
thought he was.

Anyway, it would be cool if Kreacher was the one to drink the 
poison.  But, wouldn't his mistress still have been in charge of 
him?  Are we assuming that Mrs. Black died before Regulus joined the 
DE?  Sirius says, "My parents thought he was a right little hero for 
joining up at first."  Or something similar...I'm paraphrasing.  It 
cannot be that Mrs. Black would have been trying to defeat LV, can 
it???