[HPforGrownups] Re: Who was with Voldemort at GH?

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Lia wrote:

Still, others have raised the issue of
accompaniment, and it would seem that someone else might have been
there.  My guess here would be either Snape or Bellatrix--because it
would explain the actions and behavior of either in later events. 
(e.g., Snape's "re-allegiance", Bellatrix's claims of closeness to LV,
and so forth).  However, the introduction of RAB--whomever that may
be, Regulus or otherwise--may indicate a different person altogether.



Wink45:
While I agree with Carol that Wormtail was at Godric's Hollow, I'm not yet saying that there could not have been someone else there as well.  However I think we can rule out Regulus Black, maybe*.   Harry read his name on the Black family tree the summer of 1995, and noted that his death was "some fifteen years before."  That would put Regulus's death in 1980, the year Harry was born and the year before the attack at Godric's Hollow. 

Then there is the *maybe.  Rowlling has admitted she is not good at "math," and it seems she didn't spend a lot of time with real life calendars.  So it is possible that "some fifteen years before" will turn out to really mean "thirteen or fourteen years earlier."  

Voldemort doesn't seem to have been shy about telling his Death Eaters that he had gone further than everyone in defeating death.  I wonder if perhaps after watching Sirius turn against the family during his Hogwarts years, if Mrs. Black didn't decide to send Regulus to Durmstrang instead.  Do we know for sure that Regulus went to Hogwarts?  At Durmstrang he might have learned about Horcruses, and figured it out from Voldemort's bragging. 

Just a thought. 

Wink45