RAB case is broken - all Aurors please read!

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 153262

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "leslie41" <leslie41 at ...> 
wrote:

> But how can your theory explain away the fact that in all the non-
> English translations, the "B" morphs into the first letter of that 
> language's word for "black"?
> 
> From the wikipedia entry on "Regulus Black:
> 
> "Support for the theory that Regulus Black is R.A.B. has been 
> gathered from the translation of Half-Blood Prince to other 
> languages. In the Dutch translation of the novel, Regulus Black is 
> called Regulus Zwarts and the initials in the locket are R.A.Z. In 
> the Norwegian edition, Regulus Black is called Regulus Svaart, and 
> the initials R.A.S. are in the locket, while in the Finnish 
> translation, Regulus Black is called Regulus Musta, and the 
initials are R.A.M. These make the theory that R.A.B. is Sirius's 
brother quite plausible."
> 
> I like your theory a lot, but I don't know if I can reconcile it 
> with the translation evidence.
>

Tonks:
I can not find an online translator that translates into those 
languages. Does anyone on this list know what it says in the German, 
Spanish, or French editions?  I am not so sure that I trust 
everything that we read at Wikipedia.  I would like to see 
confirmation from people on this list.  And if it is confirmed then 
we have to consider the possibility that Regulus was alive on the 
night of DD's death. 

If he was still alive, was he the one on the grounds? How did he get 
the locket from Aberforth? Does Aberforth know him? Are they working 
together? Is this how DD found out about the Horcruxes in the first 
place?  Is Regulus hiding out at the Hogshead? "They can't kill you 
if you are already dead" might apply to him.  If so we might have 
seen him before somewhere.  Who do we know him as??  Does DD really 
have a brother? (You see that this leads us to all sorts of 
speculation such as the DD does not really having a brother; Regulus 
is a Metamorphmagus pretending to be Aberforth theory
 which I am 
sure someone out there will pick up and run with.)

I hold to the 2 things that I am sure of:

1. DD and Harry did get the real locket in the cave and it was still 
a horcrux.
2. By the time that Harry got to DD's body the other locket was 
there and the real locket was gone.

And there is evidence that Mundungus had a locket and that it could 
have come into the possession of Aberforth.  This event was before 
the cave. 

Now we could go off into a bit more speculation here:  Let's say 
that Regulus is still alive and hiding all these years and is 
somehow in contact with Aberforth. Mundungus gets the locket and 
gives it to Aberforth who knows that DD is looking for a locket. 
Regulus knows that it is not the Slytherin locket and recognizes 
that it is the Black family locket. His mother's. And he is the only 
one that knows how to open the Black family locket.  He takes out 
the picture of Mom who is protecting the contents of the locket 
which may have information as to the real locket. (This information 
is given to DD.) He puts the note in the locket. And either he or 
Aberforth put it at the scene of DD's murder after taking the true 
Horcrux.  This would mean that Regulus knows enough Dark Magic to 
destroy a horcrux and maybe Aberforth does not. 

So if RAB is not Aberforth and is Regulus it still holds that the 
locket was a horcrux when DD got it out of the cave and that the 
real locket was in DD's possession upon his death and was switched 
after his death while he was on the ground.

Tonks_op