[HPforGrownups] RAB = Alphard?

[Kathy King]

No: HPFGUIDX 150829

On 4/10/06, David <foodiedb at optonline.net> wrote:
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> Hi all, sorry if this has been covered, but is there any chance that
> Uncle Alphard Black is RAB?  If there was some way to work a R into
> his name, and the fact that he left all that gold for Sirius.
>
>
> foodiedb
>


Snow:


How about this…Regulus decides that he wants out of the newfound deatheaters
club once he learns what he is asked to do and asks Uncle Alphard for some
assistance (RAB=Regulus and Alphard Black). The dates of their deaths add up
nicely according to the release of the Black Family Tree but not so good
according to canon. The Black Tree states that Regulus was born in '61 and
died in '79 making him eighteen (not fifteen like OOP states).



Uncle Alphard had left a decent bit of gold to Sirius when Sirius was
seventeen. Sirius was imprisoned when he was 21 or 22, which would put
Alphard's date of death in '76 or '77 when Sirius turned seventeen…but



If Regulus died in '79 when he was eighteen (according to the Tree) then
Sirius was three or four years older when Regulus died, because in the Fall
of '81 Sirius was imprisoned at age 21-22. If Sirius is at least three years
older than Regulus then in '76-'77 when Sirius was seventeen and received
his inheritance from Alphard, Regulus was fourteen-ish. The Tree puts the
timing accurate enough for Regulus to have been in cahoots with Alphard and
both of them were killed in (mid?) '79.



Maybe someone with a better forte in maths could make this plainer than I
have but I think it is doable with Regulus and Uncle traitor to the family
bloodline to have hoisted the Slytherin heirloom together.



Snow


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