Who is RAB again. WAS:Re: Snape and Regulus

[Mira]

No: HPFGUIDX 140868

Geoff Bannister wrote:

> (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.



Of how many individuals do we know whom Voldemort has
deemed important enough to go after them himself?

In truth, we only know that he murdered his uncle, his
father, and a few others whose deaths he used in order
to make Horcruxes. As per Snape, we know that
Voldemort is 'irked' enough by Harry now to want the
kid for himself. But of all the others, Regulus,
Emmeline, Karkaroff, Cedric, etc etc etc, we are
specifically told that it was not the Dark Lord who
killed them, but some obscure Death Eaters. We also
know that Voldemort is not above sending his acolytes
to murder people of which he is afraid (such as
Dumbledore).

Yet, Fudge says in the first chapter of HBP:

"Amelia Bones. Head of the Departament of Magical Law
Enforcement. We think He Who Must Not Be Named may
have murdered her in person, because she was a very
gifted witch - and all the evidence was that she put
up a real fight." (British Edition, page 19).

Dumbledore also stresses to Harry that "She was a
great witch" and her death is "a great loss". (British
Edition , page 63).

I have three questions regarding these statements. OK,
four.

1. Didn't such a great witch sort of waste her talent
as a member of the Law Enforcement Squad? When did she
have such a pivotal role in the battle to make her
death 'a great loss'?. As far as we know, Amelia is
not even a member of the Order. Of course, it was
crucial to have a fair person like her in the
Ministry, but from "fair" to "great" there is quite a
distance. So, when and how has Amelia proved her
greatness in direct relevance to the battle?

2. Which exactly are the "reasons" for Fudge to
believe that Voldemort killed Amelia himself? Just
because she put up a good fight? Surely she would have
put up an even better fight against a less powerful
wizard. She was a great witch, but who says that there
are great wizardfolks and then there is Voldemort?
Snape is a great wizard too. Greater or less great
than Amelia, who knows? Who can say for sure that only
Voldemort could have vanquished Amelia and nobody
else? To me these "reasons" do not really hold water
unless there are other links between Voldemort and
Amelia of which we are not aware as yet.

3. If Voldemort wanted Amelia dead badly enough for
the Ministry folks to believe that he bothered to kill
her himself, why didn't he try to do it by stealth?
And why on earth was it that important to kill Amelia,
how could she have impeded Voldemort's plans for
greatness? Of course, she would be on the hitlist
because she is great and incorruptible, but surely not
above Lupin, or Hagrid, or other DDM, or Dumbledore,
for that matter. Voldemort doesn't strike me as the
type who cares for Law Enforcement, since he is a Law
into himself, by definition.

4. Why on earth do we need to know all this, why
introduce Amelia then kill her off instead of letting
her do her job in peace, because anyway it would not
influence Harry's story in any way, why identify Susan
by name, it just doesn't make any sense. Jo
specifically said that she made OotP so huge because
she wanted to give us enough clues on what will happen
later. I know the clues were not about ships *grin*,
because those fell completely out of the sky, so
surely some of the things which seem loose ends at the
moment will be picked up and prove important in Book
7.

OK, these were not the original questions, I forgot
many ideas and made up others while typing. I won't
press the point any further because in fact I don't
necessarily believe that Amelia stole the locket, I
don't really believe anything about this matter right
now, but I wanted to bring up the possiblity that RAB
are not the initials of a name, but a more complicated
acronym. After all, do you think that Voldemort would
recognise more quickly a symbol that might have had
some importance for him in the past, or the initials
(middle name comprised!) of a meek DE or another (when
there were so many of them in the first war that they
outnumbered the members of the Order ten to one)?

Mira