The Knight of Walburga

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 169489


> Goddlefrood:
> <snip>
> > Walburga is drooling, has rolling eyes and yellowing skin 
> > to boot. Not the ideal of a respectable, in wizarding world 
> > terms, middle aged woman. Also not a depiction she herself 
> > could have approved IMO. <snip>
> 
> Jen:  I hesitate to discount Sirius not noticing anything was amiss 
> with the portrait of his dear mum since he serves an expository role 
> in sections of POA and GOF.  He can be very dismissive of those he 
> doesn't like though and when OOTP starts, Sirius is in a self-
> absorbed funk and thinking only about the bad memories connected to 
> his family.  Any other ideas how to reconcile that piece of 
> information?

Pippin:
Maybe Kreacher's company was no more salutary for Walburga or
her portrait than hers was for him. Not to mention that at the 
time of her death she had lost her husband, one of her sons 
had been murdered and the other was considered the worst 
outlaw, next to Voldemort, that the wizarding world had ever 
seen. Stress like that would make anyone old beyond their 
years, and she must not have been terribly stable to begin with. 

My thought is that Regulus used a switching spell like the one 
Harry used to conceal the Prince's book to swap lockets while
the horcrux was still in Bella's possession. Dumbledore before
he died reversed the spell. IMO wherever the locket  that
was in GP has got to, it  now bears its rightful cover and the 
Slytherin S.

Pippin