Constellations reveal HBP

[MsTattersall]

No: HPFGUIDX 126817



In this morning's Dallas Morning News' family/kids section, there was 
a star map of the April constellations and descriptions of the various
constellations visible. The identity of the HBP leaped out at me when 
I read the description of the constellation Leo. Its principal star is
REGULUS, which the article pointed out means "little prince."

The teaser paragraph from HBP we have all read describes someone as
looking like an "old lion." If Sirius was named for the principal star
in the constellation Canis Major (Big Dog) (also described in the DMN
article), and his general aspect, as well as his animagus form, is a
big dog, can we then assume that the name of his younger brother,
Regulus, was derived in a similar way from the constellation LEO?

Now a big hint from canon: OotP, p. 111 (US). Sirius says, "Because I
hated the whole lot of them: my parents, with their pureblood mania,
convinced that to be a Black made you practically ROYAL [emphasis
added] ... my idiot brother, soft enough to believe them ..."

On the following page, Sirius describes how Regulus joined the Death
Eaters but backed out when he found out what they wanted him to do, 
and that he was killed for it. But was he really? Sirius has only
secondhand information and doesn't actually know who killed him.
Everyone thought Peter Pettigrew was dead, too.

I submit that Regulus Black is not only alive, but is the Half-Blood
Prince; and in book 6 we will discover that the House of Black isn't
as "toujours pur" as advertised. It also opens up all kinds of tinned
invertebrates about the disposition of 12 Grimmauld Place and the
future of the Order.

I also submit that it will be revealed that what the Death Eaters
wanted him to do was participate in the Godric's Hollow affair, as 
OotP says that he was killed 15 years ago--right about that same 
time. Which means Regulus, when he appears, can sort out a lot of 
unanswered questions.

Probably this theory has already been floated on this list (I posted 
it on OT-Chatter to begin with), but this is the report of my 
epiphany!

Whew. Thanks. Had to get that out.

Ms. Tattersall