Who is RAB again. WAS:Re: Snape and Regulus/OFH!Snape

Geoff Bannister gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Sep 28 06:28:54 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 140834

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jajaredor" <jajaredor at y...> 
wrote:
> Amontillada:
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> > I agree that Regulus is a likely candidate for RAB, but I still
> > suspect that he's a false lead precisely because he's such an 
> obvious
> > candidate. I foresee about two years of fertile speculation!
 
Jaja:
 
> I really believe that R.A.B. stands for Regulus Arcturus Black. I 
> remember reading once that in deutsch, black is zwarts but this 
> hasn't been proved yet because I don't have a copy of the book in 
> deutsch version. so if RAB is really Regulus then the initials in the 
> deutsch version would be RAZ.

Geoff:
I haven't spent time in speculating on the mysterious RAB but might add 
two quick thoughts.

(1) Just for accuracy, the German equivalent of Black is Schwarz. Zwart 
or zwarts is Dutch. Even so, I doubt whether the German version would 
translate a surname. Has Sirius' family name been translated in the 
earlier books?

(2) With suggestions such as "Remember Amelia Bones" being made, why 
would someone leaving a note for Voldemort use a set of initials which 
were not those of their name?

Also, why would Voldemort recognise references to Amelia Bones - has 
she had dealing with him in the past? Surely whoever left the note had 
initials which would be immediately recognised by him - and the note 
reveals it was someone who also knew a bout the Horcrux setup.






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