R.A.B.. THEY ARE INITIALS FOR THREE PERSON

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 163754

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, stephenn hernandez
<draconianevil at ...> wrote:
>
> I could still remember when I read about Dumbledore telling Harry
after they got the Horcrux that "A single wizard alone couldn't have
done that".. That to get rid of the Horcrux that was in there, There
should be someone to help the drinker do whatever it was that was
needed to be drank. 
>    
>   Now if you're going to tell me about the Message that R.A.B. has
left, It says , "I know I will be dead long before you read this but I
want you to know that it was I who discovered  your secret. blah blah"
>    
>   Well.. maybe he was the one who discovered the secret but in the
cave, maybe there're some other wizard/s who helped.
> 
> 
> StiFeNn
> draconianevil at ...
>
Carol responds:
One wizard couldn't have done it alone, true, but the helper has to be
someone who doesn't register on the boat's radar, so to speak. In
Dumbledore's case, the helper is an underage wizard whose powers are
less than his and underdeveloped. In Regulus Black's case, he himself
may have been underage, so he could have had a slightly older helper,
for example Severus Snape, as some posters have argued, or, more
likely, he himself was just old enough to register, but his helper was
a house-elf (Kreacher), whose presence the boat didn't recognize any
more than it recognized Harry's and who was magically bound to obey
any Black. IMO, Kreacher knew where the Horcrux was and how to operate
the boat, etc., because he had helped Bellatrix hide it in the first
place.

Carol, thoroughly convinced that RAB is Regulus and his helper was
Kreacher, whose sanity could have been damaged by drinking the potion
for Master Regulus or by being forced to thwart his adored Miss Bellatrix