R.A.B

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 150533


> Nikkalmati:
> There are a lot of problems associated with RAB entering the cave
and  replacing the locket with a dummy.  I suggested upthread that 
he/she switched the locket before it was placed in the cave by LV and
LV didn't know  it.  If it is Regalus, of course, the locket would
have to be placed in the  cave during WWI, not any earlier. Regalus
could have been killed by the locket  or by LV for other reasons.  If
LV found out the locket was missing, and  RAB is Regalus, LV would
have found it in the Black house.
> Any  thoughts?

Carol responds:
I don't see the problem with Regulus replacing the locket during VW1
if he had Kreacher's help, though I very much doubt that he, a boy of
about eighteen, could have destroyed the Horcrux or that he was killed
by it. We have the locket that no one can open in 12 GP (or wherever
it is now), which is surely the real, undestroyed Horcrux. I very much
doubt that Voldie knows the locket is missing; I think he had Reggie
killed for other reasons, maybe for refusing to Crucio a Muggle or
some such horrible assignment. 

I proposed some time ago that Bellatrix (on Voldie's orders) placed
the locket in the cave with Kreacher's help and that Regulus found out
about it, taking Kreacher with him to steal the real Horcrux and
ordering Kreacher to drink the potion:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/145831

At any rate, it's Regulus, everybody, not Regalus. Like all of the
other Blacks of his generation except Narcissa, Regulus is named after
a star or constellation, in his case the brightest star in the
constellation Leo. The name means "little king." (Hm. Fits nicely with
the Half-Blood Prince. Maybe they were friends and Regulus's death had
something to do with Severus's change of loyalty in VW1.) 

Carol, with apologies for pointing out misspellings, but that one was
getting on my nerves (as does Hermoine)