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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 140858

Deborah wrote:
> Good thinking, just mildly flawed ... ! On a technicality, and to
minimise hopeless quests, Deutsch = German, where black, or Black, is
Schwartz. RAS, therefore ... As it would also be in Afrikaans.
However, in Dutch the initials would certainly be RAZ. Three fruitful
fields for research! Are these translations out yet? 
<snip> 
> Any language which didn't use the B initial for the Blacks would do,
in fact - what fun! Polyglots of the Potterverse, unite! You have
nothing to lose but your speculations!
> 
> Deborah, frustrated not to have access to any translations right now

Carol notes:
Of course, this valuable information would lose its value if the
translator retained or transliterated RAB without inquiring what the
initials stood for. And I'm not sure that JKR would be willing to give
out that information, even if the translator enquired about it.

(On a side note, I wonder how the whole concept would be handled in a
language like Chinese or Japanese that doesn't use initials. Maybe
someone could answer that question in OT Chatter.)

Carol, hoping to be proven wrong on this one