OOP Chapter 6-8 post DH look

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 182823

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Are you sure that Snape wasn't yet on the good side when Regulus 
> died?


zanooda:

No, I'm not sure :-). I was basing this assumption on the Black 
family tree, and I have no idea how reliable it is - I heard there 
were some inconsistencies there. Anyway, the family tree says that 
Regulus died in 1979. As Harry was born in 1980, and Snape turned 
only in 1981, I thought he (Snape) couldn't be the one to inform DD 
about Regulus's fate, at least at that time.


> Carol wrote:
 
> 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.


zanooda:

I agree that in the book itself it's rather vague :-).


> Carol wrote: 

> 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.)


zanooda:

I think that the change of heart is more likely something that Sirius 
knew, and Regulus being killed by the DEs is the assumption :-). If 
Regulus disappeared, and was presumed dead (when the tapestry showed 
it), why would Sirius think that the DEs killed him? He would just 
think that LV sent his brother on some mission where he died, still 
being a devoted follower of the Dark Lord. Sirius's believe that 
Regulus died because he tried to back out has to come from somewhere.