The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 165360

>"carodave92" <carodave92 at ...> wrote:

> I think Kreacher is the proof that no other Blacks are still alive 
in
> OoTP. I just don't think that Kreacher would have obeyed Sirius if
> any other member of Sirius' immediate family was still alive to 
serve
> as his master. Also, there's no reason why Regulus and Orion could
not
> have stayed on in 12 Grimmauld Place if still alive, since DEs do 
not
> know about the house, and Orion has placed numerous spells,etc. to
> keep it hidden. >

colebiancardi:

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but it isn't that the DE's
don't know about the house, but that they don't know that it is the
headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. Which came many years after
1979. And Mrs Black, Sirius & Regulus's mother, lived there until 1985
until her death. Regulus & Orion could not live there if other
wizards, including their cousins, could come & go to 12 Grimmauld 
Place.

Orion placed the many spells of concealment to make it unplottable, so
that muggles could never find it. Not that other wizards couldn't.

In my firm belief, which could change after 7/21, if DD hid Regulus
(and maybe his father), it was done in such a way that it made Regulus
seem dead to the rest of the world. Remember what DD told Draco - they
cannot kill you if you are already dead.

So, perhaps the enchantment that DD placed on those he "hid" was one
that made them "unplottable" to others, including close friends and
family members and house-elves, which would explain why Kreacher had 
to
obey Harry after Sirius's death. Now that DD is dead himself, does
that mean that the enchantment is now broken? (that is, if you believe
in this theory) Will Regulus & maybe Orion be forced back out into the
world and no longer hidden from the DE's and others?

colebiancardi