RAB revisited

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No: HPFGUIDX 161742

Tonks_opqw
> 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???)

I'm really sorry to reopen such an old thread, but I just wanted a
chance to put my own twopenneth worth in, and I've been away for a
while.

I don't want to discount anyone else's theories, it's all about what
we think of the characters as we understand them, and everybody gets
diferrent things from these books, I think that's what's so special
about them. So therefore, I can only say what I believe is more
likely from my understanding of the texts.

Much as I can anticipate Lord Voldemort's dislike of what I am about
to say, I think it would do everyone well to remember that, although
Voldemort does seem to be the perfect vilian, he is in fact, only
human, and therefore imperfect.

We know that Regulus decided to leave the Death Eaters, and I find
it perfectly plausible that he may have caught Voldemort trying to
create a horcrux, and that's what prompted him to jump ship.

> 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.

I do take exception to this; we know from cannon that no special
knowledge is necesary to destroy a horcrux; Harry did so in his
second year at the age of 12. (Riddle's diary). I believe that
specialist knowledge is only necesary to locate the horcruxes, and
Regulus may well have stumbled upon insider information as to one's
location.

> 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?

I think this supports my theory, Regulus was the only one who still
had access to the Black family home.

> 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.

We know Regulus was a death eater, no-one else from the Black family
is mentioned as becoming one, he came from one of the oldest
wizarding families and thefore was one of the few true pure bloods
that Voldemort emmulated, and perhaps Voldie may have been a little
lax when it came to these people and security. just some ideas.

Baby blue