[HPforGrownups] Re: R.A.B

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 150555

> >Carol earlier:
> >I don't see the problem with Regulus replacing the locket during VW1
> >if he had Kreacher's help.... We have the locket that no one can open in
> 12 GP (or wherever
> >it is now), which is surely the real, undestroyed Horcrux.
>

Nikkalmati responded:
Just for starters:  Is Regulus a powerful enough wizard to find the boat?
Note DD says only a powerful wizard could find it. How did he know he should
bring Kreacher and would need his help?  I would think he would want to keep
as many people out of the loop as possible, especially as Kreacher was
sympathetic
to LV and Kreacher would not be subject to RAB's orders anyway.  RAB was not
the head of the
household.  The potion appears to be a poison.  DD is not addled, he is
weakened
and possibly dying.  Kreacher doesn't die.  And a biggie - how did RAB get
the
replacement green potion to fill the basin up?
... Query:  DD implies that the potion will not kill the
drinker immediately because LV would want to know how he had gotten so far
past
his defenses.  Does this mean LV knows the cave has been invaded? Does he
have some
kind of alarm set up?
..
.
Kemper now:
Again, I go back to Slughorns comments on the Black brothers.  I infer the
comments to mean that Slughorn held some kind of regard for Regulus enough
so to have wanted the pair of brothers; he did not express wanting one
brother over the other.

But, again, I'm not ruling out the possibility of Kreacher.  Kreacher is a
different magical being than Dumbledore, so some kinds of magic may effect
him differently than it would Dumbledore.  Where Kreacher could be rattled
from drinking the potion, Dumbledore is weakened and possibly dying.


Kemper, wondering what makes one a 'great' enough wizard to find LV's boat?
Was Regulus a great wizard?


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