Snape, redemption & Regulus WAS: Re: Would Harry forgiving Snape be character

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 164243

Alla writes:

(a bunch of other stuff and)

> Yes, I think the redemption story should play out in older 
> generation as well, but despite the fact that we never met Regulus, 
> I suspect that the amount of information we actually ** know** not 
> assume about Snape on page and about Regulus are not  that 
different 
> in size, so I think it is plausible if Regulus has a redemption 
> story, maybe instead of Snape yes.

va32h wonders:

Could Regulus' story involve Snape? They simply had to have known 
each other. In the same house, a few years apart in age, both Death 
Eaters, Regulus the brother of one of Snape's biggest enemies...did 
Regulus' disappearance coincide with Snape's conversion to 
Dumbledore's side?

I wanted to believe that Regulus, being RAB, was the one Dumbledore 
had once made appear dead, but I am not sure if that can be 
reconciled with Dumbledore's only suspecting the horcruxes after CoS, 
and waiting so long to pursue them, and bothering with the cave at 
all if he knew there was no real horcrux there. 

va32h, who is wasting her five posts per day by thinking out loud.