[HPforGrownups] Chapter 10 discussions

[AnitaKH]

No: HPFGUIDX 180555

tubazrcool <tubazrcool at yahoo.com> wrote many things, but after my ruthless cutting the following remains, regarding Regulus Black and the horcrux:                               ... I actually thought that the locket was in Grimmauld Place from the moment the note was signed RAB. I linked it to Regulus and remembered the locket from the house-cleaning. He was redeemed right then and there in my mind. I was surprised when Hermione didn't come up with the answer either during the last bit of school or the early part of summer. Mrs. Know-it-all apparently doesn't have any great common sense. Harry should have guessed it too being that Sirius and he did have a long talk about the Black family and its ins-and-outs in the 5th book.


akh  observes:
I  would have agreed with you that Hermione seems unnaturally dense about this, had I not recently had a conversation with a very bright friend of mine who is just now reading the HP series (I'm loaning him my Bloomsbury edition volumes).  He has finished book 6 and has NO IDEA who RAB is.  He won't let me tell him (rightfully so), but I was considerably taken aback that he has neither connected RAB with Regulus, nor has he made the connection between the locket found in Grimmauld Place and the horcrux.  (He doesn't even have the excuse of intervening years between books; he finished five just days before picking up six, right before Christmas, and he was finished with 6 by New Year's.)  My friend is at least as bright and perceptive as Hermione, so I've now conceded that JKR may not have manipulated Hermione's lack of insight just for plot purposes.
BTW, I agree with you about RAB's redemption.  Clearly, he had the moral compass that LV completely lacks.


akh, who really is planning to get her life back in order and contribute more...







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