Significance of missing line (was: HBP paperback)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 156049

SSSusan earlier:
> > Right, I recall that remark of Lupin's.  And I wondered what 
> > Lupin's source for that story was.  Sirius?  Dumbledore?  
> <snip>
> > And again, from the comments of Lupin's, there's no evidence 
> > that Lupin saw anything himself; it sounds more as if he was 
> > recalling what he was told.

Dung:
> Hi SSSusan; I expect Lupin read about it in the Daily Prophet, 
> don't you? But here's a question: do you think Sirius went to the 
> funeral?

SSSusan:
Heh.  Truthfully, I had the same thought about where Lupin heard 
it.  Earlier, I was trying to place this on the timeline of who 
would've been hanging around with whom at this point, but I was too 
lazy to figure it out....  But, yeah, either he heard it from 
Sirius, or he read about it in the DP, or DD mentioned it sometime 
to the Order, methinks.  

You know, I think Sirius did *not* attend Regulus' funeral.  It just 
sounded to me, when Sirius told the story to Harry, like all that 
stuff about Regulus was assumption & hearsay, whereas if he'd gone 
to the funeral, I think there would've been more discussion 
(with...??? DD? Did DD go?), talk about what might have happened, 
etc.  No, I think Sirius made up his own mind about what Regulus 
did, and why he did it, and washed his hands of his brother, same as 
he washed his hands of his whole family.

What do you think?  Did he go or no? 

And did Slughorn go?  (Not sure why I care, but I'm just curious.)


SSSusan earlier:
> > Pippin reminded me that JKR had confirmed Regulus' death in an 
> > interview, 

Dung:
> Bah! The only good thing about the interviews is that you can 
> ignore them with a contemptuous "Well she was hardly going to 
> say 'Yes! We will see more of Regulus in book 7! It's going to be 
> a big surprise to you all to discover he *didn't really die*, 
> isn't it?'"
> 
> RAB is alive and well, and being kept hidden by Aberforth. And I 
> bet Snape knows, and is pals with him.

SSSusan:
Hee.  You've got a point there.  What *could* Herself have said 
otherwise?  Maybe Alla's got a point that her "he's not saying much 
these days" remark, which seemed so "Haha -- I'm saying this off the 
cuff to be funny," might've been a way of avoiding the truth but 
also dropping a hint?

But, yep, I'm betting Aberforth will be active in Book 7 somehow -- 
whether that's bearing news from brother Albus or having knowledge 
of Regulus' history or -- heck yeah! -- harboring Regulus, we shall 
see.

SSSusan, who'd like to thank Colebiancardi for the link to the 
theory on Regulus; I'm sure I read it when it was posted, but we 
(heh) "older members" of HPfGU can always use reminders of just what 
we read that long ago and promptly forgot....