RAB revisited

[abergoat]

No: HPFGUIDX 161766


Baby blue wrote:

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

Abergoat writes: 

Ah, but there is the nice little hint (clue?) that Herbert Burke
married a Black and had two sons and a daughter. Caractacus Burke may
be one of those sons. So the other son or daughter might be our RAB
and would have access to Kreacher (Sirius tells us Kreacher SHOULD
obey Tonks but doesn't perhaps because her mother was removed from the
tapestry. If RAB died in the cave, Kreacher may have taken the locket
back home.

The beauty of a Burke is they would have access to the story of Merope
and might know to look at the Orphanage. They also may have been a
'boss' of Tom Riddle and hence the use of the R.A.B. which denotes
equality of not superiority - as in 'I don't need to tell you my name,
you know who I am'. I cannot see a Death Eater ever being known to
Voldemort as R.A.B., they seem to be called by their last names. 

> 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.

The Burkes on the tapestry are still part of the Black Family. I agree
that a Burke might be a bit obscure though. Some people speculate that
R.A.B. my be the three middle initials of Aberforth Dumbledore (his
brother has three so Aberforth probably does too).  Aberforth may have
gone by his middle names so as not to be known as Albus's brother. 
This doesn't put the locket in Grimmauld Place...but for all we know
the locket never was at Grimmauld Place. It might be in the
lake...which is why something reacted to Harry's 'accio horcrux' 

Perhaps you are right and RAB is Regulus, but I think there are other
possibilities.

Abergoat