Regulus' death(was: Snape - a werewolf bigot?? Was: Say it isn't so Lupin!!!

[lizzyben04]

No: HPFGUIDX 170229

 Magpie:
> > I would take that a step further--Lupin and Sirius could both
have heard of
> > Regulus' death, but how on earth did anyone know that he'd
turned? Did he
> > make a scene in front of LV? They wouldn't have heard this sort
of thing
> > from other DEs.
> >
> >  He leaves the note saying he knows he'll be dead but afterwards
LV will
> > find out he took his Horcrux. And the tone of the note
immediately makes
> > Regulus seem a lot more important a person than Sirius made him
out to be.
> > Did he find the Horcrux first and then, when he knew he had it,
make some
> > sort of public gesture that showed that he was leaving the DEs?
>
> Pippin:
> Perhaps Reg sent an owl, "to be opened in the event of my death"
dated
> only a few days before his body was discovered. It could have gone
to
> his parents, or the Daily Prophet, or even Kreacher. It's odd that
> Lupin should take more interest in the details than Sirius --  but
it
> could be a hint that survival time for DE's who betray Lord
Voldemort
> is a matter of personal interest to him <veg>.
>
> Pippin
>

lizzyben04:
The problem I have with that theory is that neither Sirius nor Lupin
seem to have any idea what Regulus was up to. If Regulus is RAB,
his escape from the Death Eaters was much more well-planned than
either knew. He needed a partner to help replace the potion &
capture the locket, a potions brewer to come up w/the new potion,
and an informer to tell him how to retrieve the locket. There's no
indication that he got any of this help from members of the Order.
DD would not have made that futile journey for the horcrux if he had
known. RAB's helpers were all from outside the Order, perhaps other
Death Eaters (Snape?)

Instead, Sirius & Lupin's info shows a basic *lack* of knowledge
about what Regulus's plan actually was. It sounds like second-hand
or third-hand gossip, not actual direct contact with Regulus. If
they did receive direct communication, you would expect Sirius to
know the most - instead he knows almost nothing at all, & just
repeats some vague reports. Lupin knows more, but he only knows the
date that Regulus renounced the Death Eaters, and died. This seems
more like information he would recieve from other DE, rather than
Regulus himself.

It actually doesn't seem like Sirius had any contact with his
brother at all since graduating Hogwarts, maybe even since he was
first sorted into Slytherin, and that's a little sad. At first, I
assumed Regulus was killed while Sirius was in Azkaban, which would
explain his lack of knowledge or interest in the event. But no,
Regulus died in 1979, at the age of eighteen. Sirius would've been
21 at the time, and still free & happy. Didn't he care? Didn't he
want to know more about what happened? I get the impression that
when Sirius cut himself off the Blacks, he *really* cut himself off,
to the point that he never even spoke to his brother again. (This
this seems to parallel rebel Sirius with suck-up Percy Weasley!)
Maybe he avoided information about Regulus's death in order to avoid
his own feelings
of guilt.