Regulus - dead or alive.

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 170060

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> Okay, I know we argued about the quote " he is dead so is pretty 
> quiet these days" many many times, but I was searching for another 
> quote 
> 
> and realised that I may have misinterpreted another known quote 
from 
> JKR interview.
> 
> Consider this part from her interview with Melissa and Emerson :
> 
> MA: R.A.B.
> JKR: Ohhh, good.
> [All laugh.]
> JKR: No, I'm glad! Yes?
> MA: Can we figure out who he is, from what we know so far?
> [Note: JKR has adopted slightly evil look here]
> JKR: Do you have a theory?
> MA: We've come up with Regulus Black.
> JKR: Have you now?
> MA: Uh-oh.
> [Laughter.]
> JKR: Well, I think that would be, um, a fine guess.
> MA: And perhaps, being Sirius's brother, he had another mirror –
> JKR: [drums fingers on soda can]
> MA: Does he have the other mirror, or Sirius's mirror — 
> JKR: I have no comment at all on that mirror. That mirror is not on 
> the table. [Laughter from all; Jo's is maniacal.]
> MA: Let the record note that she has drummed her fingers on her 
Coke 
> can in a very Mr. Burns-like way.
> [Laughter.]
> 
> http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/0705-tlc_mugglenet-anelli-
> 2.htm
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Now, when I read this interview and it was rather long time since I 
> reread it completely, the impression I got was that RAB was indeed 
> Regulus and that the mirror would be important and why it is, she 
> cannot say.
> Now, when I am looking at it again, isn't it possible to interpret 
> it that Regulus indeed had the mirror and maybe still has it?

Dana:
I myself do not think the mirror is in any way related to Regulus as 
it seemed to have been something that was specifically used by James 
and Sirius. I even think but that remains to be seen is that it was 
not a marauder thing but truly just used by Sirius and James and so 
there not being more then two mirrors, so not four. If Harry had one 
then Sirius had the other. Of course we do not know if Sirius left 
his behind or that he had it on him. He probably left it behind and 
Harry will use it to communicate with Ron and Hermione. Of course I 
rather see it used differently but there might not be any more to it 
then that. Just it being put to use by the trio. 

Also I think Regulus is truly dead as the tapestry had registered the 
time of his dead as Harry noted. Sirius, DD and Lupin (HBP) all 
confirmed this and it seems to write itself and tracks the Black 
family members by magic. Well at least those not blasted off. Regulus 
died before Sirius went to Azkaban, about a year before actually as 
it is mentioned he died some 15 years before, at the time Harry 
noticed it and Harry was 15 in OotP, so it is not something Sirius 
picked up later. 

I do not think Regulus will make his appearance in DH, well not 
physically I mean. 

I also very much doubt that DE can fake their own death for LV. This 
is what fake Moody said about Karkaroff after he fled. 

GoF pg 586 UKed Paperback chapter: "Veritaserum"

`Karkaroff?' said Moody with an odd laugh. `Karkaroff fled tonight, 
when he felt the Dark Mark burn upon his arm. He betrayed too many 
faithful supporters of the Dark Lord to wish to meet them . . . but I 
doubt he will get far. The Dark Lord has ways of tracking his 
enemies.'

End quote canon

It gives me the impression that as long as you breath LV will know it 
and you can just hide but eventually they *will* find you (so it is 
not a GPS tracking device). Wormtail and Barty were both faked deaths 
in the time LV was no more then vapor and could not summon his DEs 
and both were revealed to be alive before he regained himself a body, 
so it seems that the three DEs he mentions of being dead are truly 
dead, if we assume for a moment of course that one of three was 
indeed Regulus. It could explain why Draco did not take DD's offer if 
he indeed was already marked and why he said he couldn't, that 
nothing could help him now. 

Of course what Barty says could be an indication to something else 
but I could imagine LV using his extra ordinary knowledge of magic 
and put it to the task, to make sure no DE escaped his punishment 
that there is no way to pull yourself out of his service and that 
only dead can release you if you want out.   

So if that is indeed the case then Regulus seemed to be truly dead 
but JKR herself already implied he was, just as the tapestry implies 
he is truly dead. 

JMHO

Dana