RAB / Amelia Bones and her murder

[Najwa]

No: HPFGUIDX 152816

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> In the process of some detective work regarding RAB, I was 
> considering the possibility of it being Amelia Bones. (Yes, I know 
> we all think that it is Sirius's brother. But I was just checking 
> all leads.) At the Lexicon it says that her middle name was Susan so 
> she can't have been using Amelia as a middle name and something with 
> a R as a first name.  BUT
> I see that she was killed by LV himself. WHY?  Why was she so 
> important to be killed by LV himself??  What was he looking for?  
> Did he just want to make a statement that not even the head of the 
> Dept. of Magical Law Enforcement was safe?  I tend to think that 
> there was more to it than that.  But what? 
> 
> By the way, RAB backwards is BAR. Perhaps it isn't Regulus at all, 
> but someone in the Hogshead or another bar.  Aberforth?  That 
> doesn't make sense, or course, because DD would have known about it. 
> But it is interesting that is does spell bar. Not that it means 
> anything.  One must explore all possibilities and not jump to the 
> obvious conclusions. 
> 
> Thoughts anyone??

Najwa now:
I do agree that we should look into all the possibilities of who RAB
might be. In another post I was trying to see if there was any
wordplay on Stubby Boardman, but I was reminded that The Quibbler
thought Sirius was Stubby, however since Regalus is his brother, that
it could have been a case of mistaken identity. I think perhaps if we
make a list of anyone who could have the initials RAB, or at least 2
out of three initials, and maybe we can include titles as well, such
as Reverend or whatever, we could take a look at who RAB might be. It
could just be the initials of a name they made for themselves, like
how Tom created Lord Voldemort.

The following names I found in the Lexicon, I've tried to narrow it
down so as not to just throw out unlikely suspects:

1. Ali Bashir-(maybe he got tired of smuggling flying carpets?
Doubtful he'd be RAB, but for the sake of the post I'll add him)

2. Alphard Black-Any canon that proves he's really dead? He could have
been considered dead since he went against the family and gave the
runaway nephew some money.

3. Arcturus Black- He died apparently in 1991, but he still could have
done the switch and left the fake by then.

4.Bertie (Robert?) Bott- maybe he can do more than just make candy!

5.Rupert 'Axebanger' Brookstanton (looks like a read herring to me)

6.Rosalind Antigone Bungs

That's all I could come up with, I did search the A's and the R's but
didn't come up with anything of interest. Any thoughts or additional
input?

Najwa