RAB revisited

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 153436

Greeting all:
Tonks here. Back from Holiday. Ready to assume my new position as 
head of the Alternative Theories unit.

Let us begin by looking again at the case of RAB.
As we discovered from the evidence presented by the translators it 
does appear that RAB stands for Regulus Alphard Black. (or is it 
Regulus Arcturus Black???)

1.  We have heard that the last name is defiantly Black in all 
languages.   I assume that we affirmed that this is also true for 
the first Regulus and middle name of Alphard as well.  If anyone 
knows anything to the contrary please let us know ASAP.  (Could it 
be Arcturus?) Thank you.

2.  If we look closely at the Black family tree (see Lexicon) we 
will see that it appears to be a tradition to name children after 
older family members.  We have more than one Sirius Black, more that 
one Phineas Black,  and at *least one* other Regulus, etc. 

3. The name Regulus is associated with a star, as are most of the 
Black family names.  Regulus is a `double' star according to one of 
our informants. 

4.  Regulus was Sirius' younger brother.  If Sirius was in his early 
20's when James and Lily were killed that would make his brother in 
his late teens or maybe a year younger than Sirius.  (Lexicon has 
his death at age 18.)

This leads one to wonder how a man so young, graduating from a 
school where the Dark Arts  were not taught, would even know what a 
Horcrux was, let alone how to destroy one.  Harry only knows because 
DD told him.  And Tom learned about them from Slughorn, but not how 
to make one and presumably would not have been told how to destroy 
one either. It took Tom many years to gather this imformation.

I am pretty sure that LV does not teach a class in Dark Arts 101 to 
his DE.  He probably just teaches them, if he teaches them at all, 
what they need to know to do the job they are assigned to do.  And 
he would not teach anything about Horcruxes to his followers because 
he would be afraid that they would become his rival. 

We know that Regulus' uncle Alphard helped Sirius when he ran away 
from the family.  That leads one to suspect that perhaps uncle 
Alphard did not agree with the Black `traditional family values'.  

What I am leading to here is what if there are 2 men named Regulus 
Alphard Black?  What if Alphard went by his middle name and Regulus 
went by his first name?  Or maybe Regulus does not have Alphard as a 
middle name at all.  Either way, maybe the person we want is Uncle 
Alphard. 

We know that Uncle Alphard died around 1977. 

Here are some questions I would like a few volunteers to explore:

1.  Do we know how Uncle Alphard died?

2.  Came we come up with a plausible answer as to how the Slytherin 
locket would get in the Black family home when Sirius and Alphard 
are both burned off of the family tree?

3.  If it was Alphard that got the locket.  How?  Does he have a 
house elf that would have helped him as we suspected Kreacher to 
have done? (on a side note: who ever it was that switched lockets, 
how did they know it was a locket and how did they know where it 
was?)

4.  The Slytherin locket was in the Black family home and later 
stolen by Mundungus.  Wouldn't Kreacher have noticed that it was not 
the Black family locket?  OR if it was Alphard's, it would have been 
his locket and not the locket from Kreacher's masters. But this puts 
is back to how did the real one get into that house and what did 
people think that it was?? Mrs. Black did not die until 1985 (see 
Lexicon) so she would have had to have know that the locket was 
there.  Doesn't this seem a bit odd to anyone?  How did she get it?  
And what did she think it was?  If she knew it was the Slytherin 
locket, she would not have just kept it in a drawer would she?

One thing that might work against this idea is that the note left in 
the locket said "to the Dark Lord".  I think only DE refer to LV 
as `the Dark Lord'.  So I am not sure where this leaves us. Unless 
Uncle Alphard was also a DE, but I don't think that he was. 

Thank you in advance for your efforts and please report back with 
your finding ASAP.

Tonks_op