Likeable Regulus.

[Tiffany B. Clark]

No: HPFGUIDX 178069

Mike:

The problem with equating Regulus with Draco, or to some degree 
Snape, is that we have nothing on stage of Reggie's to draw from. All 
we have is Sirius' bitter remarks about Regulus being "soft" enough 
to believe his parents. But with those same remarks, but seperate, he 
brings in the whole royalty motif, complete with the 700-year 
Tapestry of Lineage. Based on Ma Black's portrait, I don't doubt that 
purebloodism was taught in the Black household. But when you add in 
the Tapestry and the royalist posturing, I see their purebloodism 
taking a different form than the brand Voldemort was pushing. And, in 
the end, the Blacks distanced themselves from LV's position, after 
Voldemort "showed his true colors".

Tiffany:

I see the type of purebloodism to be more elitism than the type of 
purebloodism that LV was promoting.  Don't forget also that with 
someone with an ego like LV's, showing your true colors is only a 
matter of time.  I didn't care for the Blacks at first, but after a 
while, I gradually warmed up to them.  The Tapestry of Lineage was 
really cool when it was a new idea, but because I value diginty a 
whole lot, the whole royal motif lineage was more than enough for me.