Likeable Regulus.

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No: HPFGUIDX 178057

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "prep0strus" <prep0strus at ...> 
wrote:
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> And I still believe motivations and beliefs are very important in
> regards to action.  I think in literature we can know them, and they
> are more interesting and give more information about a character 
than
> the action itself.

Alla:

They are, I just see some exceptions to the rule ( not many, mind 
you), but Regulus' action to me falls within them. Yeah, I guess 
agree to disagree time.


Prep0strus:
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  Regulus may
> have been raised to be a bigot, but that's not an excuse.  
Especially
> as he did have his older brother setting a better example.

Alla:

Oh yeah, I agree with this.


Prep0strus: 
> Others have certainly made up their minds on Regulus - this 'hero' 
who
> we never actually meet or learn about why he did what he did.  But 
for
> me, unless JKR writes 'Regulus Black and the Change of Heart', he 
will
> always be a mystery, an unknown.  A plot twist even more than a plot
> device (because his actions didn't, in the end, change very much of
> what our main characters did), but not someone I can call a hero or 
a
> villain.  Or, for that matter, the 'good Slytherin'. ;)


Alla:

Obviously time to disagree, but I am truly at loss to see where you 
are coming from in  regards to Regulus and am very surprised, since I 
often at least see where you are coming from.

I mean, I am so not understanding how you can subscribe any sort of 
selfish motivations to him when we **know** that he went to die, not 
hoping to gain anything for himself, not to see this revenge that he 
was trying to execute upon Voldemort.

Nothing for himself, NOTHING, just the horrible death by one of the 
worst means possible. At seventeen or eighteen.

I certainly can compare him to Harry, who also had no clue that he is 
not coming back, but I found it to be incredibly noble and heroic, 
yes. So to me he is hero without parenthesis.

JMO,

Alla