RAB

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 140670

vadwe wrote:
> Does anyone ever question if RAB isn't necesarily Regulus? 

zgirnius:
Interesting theories proposed on this list post HBP (not by me!) 
include:
One of the two kids Tom tormented in the cave. If I recall that post 
correctly, one even had a B last name... What if she was adopted, 
went to Hogwarts under a different name, and wanted revenge?
Amelia Bones. Assuming she has a hideous first name she hates, and so 
goes by the middle name.
Borgin, of Borgin & Burkes, the Knockturn Alley store. (Burke's first 
name is known to be Caractacus, so he does not fit).
Sorry, too lazy to wrestle Yahoomort for post numbers...

vadwe:
> Regulus could have followed VM, I
> suppose, but how and without VM noticing, I don't know. 

zgirnius:
If RAB is Regulus, this seems a reasonable scenario, that he followed 
Voldemort. How about Kreacher? We know Kreacher and Dobby could spy 
on Draco unnoticed. Yes, Draco is not in LV's class as a wizard, but 
I thihnk house-elves have a magic that lets them get around unseen as 
they do their chores...

vadwe:
> And did
> Regulus do the old switcharoo while being in with the DE and then
> deserted, or did he manage it after he deserted. I don't think he
> lasted very long. DId VM know that Regulus was after the horcruxes? 
If
> so, wouldn't he have gone back to make sure they are all doing just
> fine? He would have discovered the fake locket.

zgirnius:
I think it was Regulus. The language of the note suggests to me both 
that the writer was a Death Eater (addresses Voldemort as Dark Lord) 
and the writer expected to die soon. He wanted to leave the Death 
Eaters, but he knew that Voldemort was going to have him killed if he 
did. So he somehow learned of the Horcrux, and resolved to destroy it 
as a sort of "advance" revenge on Voldemort. Which Voldemort would  
never know about unless he went back to check on the locket at some 
point. I do not believe that Voldemort is aware of the switch. If 
Sirius is right, Regulus was considered too insignificant a Death 
Eater to merit being killed by Voldemort himself when he deserted. If 
Voldemort knew he had stolen a Horcrux, I think he would have wanted 
to kill Regulus himself...

vadwe:
> I do think that maybe it wasn't Regulus who found the horcrux and
> switched it, maybe it was Alphard Black, who perhaps has a first 
name
> of Rastaban, or Rigel, or even Rana. I would buy it being someone
> older, more experienced in magic and dark arts, who managed to 
thwart
> VM plans and Alphard left the locket to Sirius within his 
inheritance.

zgirnius:
We don't know much about Alphard, other than he was a fdavorite uncle 
of Sirius who dies when Sirius was about 17. (Permitting him to live 
independently of his family...from OotP). But if he had left the 
locket to Sirius, I would not expect it to be at Grimmauld Place, but 
rather at Gringott's or Sirius' apartment (long since not his 
anymore, of course...) Of course, the locket might not be the locker 
from OotP...


vadwe:
> But these are my own ramblings of course. Regulus has things going 
for
> him, like the fact that he was "in too deep" and that's why he was
> done in by VM himself (I can't remember if that's how it happened)

zgirnius:
Sirius says it was not LV, but Sirius could be wrong about this, he 
would not have had firsthand knowledge of this event.