RAB revisited

[barefootpuppets]

No: HPFGUIDX 153493

Tonks:
> 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.

Heidi R.:

Hmmmm...There is something that has always tugged at the back of my
brain (not that I disagree with any of your theory at all!)...At the
end of HBP, when Dumbledore is speaking to Draco Malfoy, Dumbledore
tells Draco that he and his family can be hidden -- that they can be
tucked away where no one will find them or know they are alive. What
if Regulus (RAB) was still alive, but hidden? (Or perhaps, alive
longer than the rumored age 18?) Perhaps Regulus had gone on his own
little personal vendetta after being in hiding for a while?

I'm not sure exactly what form of "hiding" Dumbledore was speaking
about (Secret-Keeper sort of thing like the Fidelus Charm or something
different?), but could it be that Regulus or, perhaps, others presumed
dead...are really in hiding? Not that I am proposing that Harry's
parents are secretly alive (they're not) or anything...but perhaps
there is someone (someones?) in hiding...

Just a thought,
Heidi R.