Significance of missing line (was: HBP paperback)

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No: HPFGUIDX 156056

> > Dung:
> > Except... no it can't be Regulus. If Regulus were being hidden 
by the 
> > Order, or by DD, DD wouldn't have gone chasing off after a fake 
> > Horcrux. You don't stab the Dark Lord in the back, fake your own 
death 
> > with the help of his mortal enemies, go into hiding, and *not* 
tell 
> > Albus Dumbledore about the Horcrux. Do you?
> > 
> > It can't be Regulus.
> >

Colebiancardi: 
> unless,  unless, Regulus was so "insane in the membrane" from 
drinking
> the vile liquid, he could not really tell anyone much of 
anything.  I
> like to think that Regulus is now one of those characters that, for
> the most part, babbles a lot of stuff that most would think is
> crazy-talk.  However, I also like to think he has his more lucid
> momemts, which could be very helpful to Harry in book 7.  Or 
perhaps
> he is "cured" now.  
> 
> However, I also think he is still alive :)  So, I could be wrong on
> everything!!   


Alla:

Hehe, he does not even have to be insane, he just have to **not** 
come to Dumbledore for whatever reasons, you know?

Regulus may have gotten a wake up call about Voldemort, but who says 
that it means that he automatically felt love and respect for 
Dumbledore?

Maybe he just escaped on his own, maybe he felt it was too dangerous 
to involve anybody else, including DD?

Speculating here of course, but I do agree with Dung, that DD would 
not have gone after fake Horcrux, if Regulus came to him, so I 
speculate that if Regulus alive, DD did not know.


> 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?
<SNIP>

Alla:

Yes, that is precisely my line of thought. You see, if she would 
have just said - he is dead, that would have been end of story to 
me, since I do believe the interviews. But while I am convinced that 
she does not lie in interviews, she sure is being evasive about plot 
points, so why add **these days**, why?

JMO,

Alla.