OoP clues?

[Argus Pyrites]

No: HPFGUIDX 158117

Abergoat wrote:

> Ooo, I do hope you'll share! That sounds like it would be at the
> popularity level of my certainty that Dumbledore's brother holds 
his
> head high and Albus isn't sure he can read because he is presently 
a
> goat...

Argus Pyrites replies:

Now how can a goat tend bar at the Three Broomsticks?? Ahhh, yes, I 
see it
 yet *another* unregistered animagus!

Carol wrote, at the beginning of this thread:

> Anyone want to volunteer a list of Book 5 subplots that need to be
> resolved in Book 7 and speculations on where JKR might take them?

Argus Pyrites responds:

Now, I know this is not the `That Awful Boy' thread, but it is a 
clue/unresolved plot point from OotP. So, I wanted to share with you 
a theory I saw briefly mentioned over at mugglenet. It intrigued me, 
and has been mulling around for about a week now, so I thought I'd 
run it up the flagpole and see who pulls out a shotgun.

"That Awful Boy" is
**Snape** – Yes, nothing new there, I 
know!  /But/, with an entirely different reason to be there (Other 
than Lovestruck!Snape visits his One True)

> hywla at Mugglenet wrote:

> I'm going to throw in MY 'pet' out-there theory about the 'awful 
boy'. I think it's important
> that Petunia mentions that the boy was discussing not just the 
dementors, but the dementors > as Azkaban guards.

> I think the discussion took place AFTER they were all finished 
with Hogwarts. 

> In fact I think it came about because of a 'living death' and 
Fidelius for Regulus (secret being > he's not really dead). I think 
Snape went to Lily to ask her to perform the Fidelius for Regulus > 
(with him as SK). Ollivander's comment on her wand being good for 
Charms has to come in 
> somewhere and Flitwick said it was an immensely complicated charm.

> I think she then suggested that if Regulus wanted to leave Voldy 
they should go see Albus - to > which I think Snape replied that 
Albus would just send them to Azkaban, pointedly reminding > her of 
the fact that dementors were now guarding the place (it doesn't seem 
as if they had 
> ALWAYS been guarding Azkaban).

Original post is here:
http://www.cosforums.com/showthread.php?p=4054997

hywla added in a private message to Argus Pyrites:

> I should add on that I think it's possible that Petunia and Lily 
were still 'seeing' each other 
> until Lily and James began hiding (which 'I' believe happened very 
soon after Harry's birth – 
> according to JKR interviews - about the time he was christened). 
Vernon knew Lily had a 
> child and he KNEW Harry's name (even tho' he wanted to believe he 
didn't). So, Lily could 
> EVEN be married with Petunia visiting at her home when Snape shows 
up to discuss a Fidelius > for Regulus.
Now Argus Pyrites:

NOTE: According to the Lexicon, Regulus died before Harry was born. 
This, as all things in the Potterverse are, is open to debate. But 
the above scenario certainly could have happened before Harry was 
born without harming the theory.

Additionally, I think there is a way for "That Awful Boy" to have 
been Regulus himself, with no Snape involved, which would make *him* 
the awful boy. But, of course, this has the same timeline problems, 
in that Petunia would have had to have been visiting the married 
potters around 1979 or 1980 (or just before Harry was born, if you 
prefer) which is about when Regulus  defected.

Now Regulus as "That awful boy" was brought up on HP4GU at one 
point, but not discussed much. 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/142853 

So, theory 2297864/A sub b14a = 
YoungMole!Snape is "that awful boy", on Regulus' behalf.

And Theory 2297864/B sub b14b = 
Regulus was "that awful boy", on the run from Voldemort.