RAB's artifacts (was: Significance of missing line)

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No: HPFGUIDX 156086

> Lupinlore:
> > Regulus alive?  Well, I guess it's a possibility, although it 
> > would make JKR, IMO, into an out and out liar (sorry, but if she 
> > says he's dead and he comes up alive, I will regard it as 
> > nothing but a bald-faced lie).
> 
> SSSusan:
> Well, the point I'd been trying to make here was concerning the 
way 
> Alla interpreted that very interview response -- that it left room 
> for a return from the dead.  That's all.  

aussie:
Remember Dobby justifying his logic in COS (Chap 18)? 
Harry speaking, "You told me all this had nothing to do with He-Who-
Must-Not-Be-Named, remember? Well --"
"It was a clue, sir," said Dobby, his eyes widening, as though this 
was obvious. "Was giving you a clue. The Dark Lord, before he 
changed his name, could be freely named, you see?"

That was not a bald face lie for JKR.

(and from other postings with the same heading)

> SSSusan:
> Well, now *that* would be interesting, at least. Like I've said, I
> don't really care if Regulus is Good 'n' Gone to the Afterworld; I
> only think it could be cool to have what he knew be discovered by
> Harry & crew somehow. ... 
> I guess I could live with discovery of Regulus artifacts. :-)

> 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?

aussie: 
We assume RAB stands for Regulus Alphard Black, Alphard being the 
Uncle removed from the tapestry.

So if Regulus didn't go to DD, why not to Uncle Alphard? He had 
enough gold to set Sirius up when Sirius turned 17. Alphard may 
still be around, and even if he is off the Black's Christmas card 
list.   


(Reading over what I've written, I start talking to much from now 
on ... aussie)
Alphard may be obscure enough so that DD didn't go to him for extra 
memories to find the Horcrux information. 

Shunned by his sisters, yet not embrassing DD's side. He may a 
regular in Nocturn Alley. He may have had raids from Arthur. He may 
hate muggles and mudbloods. 
- But he also loved his nephews, and that may be the key for Harry 
to get a hard lined Slytherin to help solve the common problem. 

This meeting of extremely different characters is what JKR loves. 
She loved the Hermione / Luna / Rita scene. She would love getting 
traditional enemies to, if not trust, at least tolerate each other, 
to stop the suffering for both sides. 
aussie (I'll stop talking now)