CHAPDISC: DH12, Magic is Might

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 180850


> > 3. Did you even think before we see the tidy kitchen that 
> Kreacher's transformation and efforts to please would or could be so
dramatic?
> 
Alla:
> 
> Probably not, but I hate him too much and his transformation did not
impress me too much. I think he has blood of Black brothers on his 
hands and I really wanted his head among those other elves. <snip>
>
Carol responds:

I understand why you think that Kreacher is (partially?) responsible
for Sirius Black's death (though I don't agree). But do you also blame
him for Regulus's self-sacrifice? Surely, it was Reggie's own decision
to return to the cave with Kreacher, drink that terrible potion
himself even though he knew what it would do (he would be forced to
drink the water and die horribly, killed by Inferi), and it was also
his plan, and, indeed, his order to destroy the locket, that saved
Kreacher's life by causing him to Disapparate from the cave. It's not
as if Kreacher could have saved Regulus or as if he deserted his dying
master to save himself. I'd say that Regulus's blood is on
*Voledmort's* hands since he set up that horrible trap, including the
Inferi, which are subject to his will and have none of their own, even
though it was Kreacher, not Regulus, whom Voldemort left to die. The
whole set-up was murder waiting to happen.

Carol, who was profoundly moved by Kreacher's transformation and his
loyalty to the dead Regulus