OOP Chapter 6-8 post DH look

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 182821

zanooda wrote:
<snip> I would like to think that it was Snape who told DD, and 
> DD told Sirius, but unfortunately, Snape wasn't yet on our side when 
> Regulus died ;-(.

Carol responds:

Are you sure that Snape wasn't yet on the good side when Regulus died?
He went to Dumbledore some time after Harry's birth, possibly the
following fall, given the weather. That would have been about a year
before Godric's Hollow, the time during which young Snape spied for DD
"at great personal risk."

The date of Regulus's death is "some fifteen years" before Harry sees
the tapestry in the Blacks' house, and Harry has just turned fifteen.
So both events--Severus's repentance and Regulus's death--occurred
roughly fifteen years before, a little more or a little less than fifteen.

Or young Snape could have told DD about Regulus's change of heart
(assuming that Regulus made it known to anyone, which he may not have
had time or reason to do)) and informed DD of it, indicating that he
disappeared afterward and was presumed dead. DD might have wondered
why Reggie didn't show up for his last year of school.

Or the change of heart could just be an assumption on Sirius's part,
the reason why the tapestry shows him as dead. (The tapestry, being
magical, would know, just as the Weasleys' clock knows where all the
Weasleys are.)

Carol, who thinks that JKR just didn't check her canon facts, just as
she didn't check them for Draco's Hand of glory or Sirius's letter,
and it's just an inconsistency (sigh!)