New RAB theory...

[davewitley]

> Carolyn:
> > However, he could easily have become a DE supporter 
subsequently, and 
> > then thought better of it once he saw where Voldemort was going. 
No 
> > idea how he could have discovered the cave, but still think he 
would be 
> > in a better position to work it out than a scared teenager. 
 
Pippin:
> Regulus died in 1959. It's either too early or too late, I think. 

> I think it's a red herring. JKR loves to tempt her readers into 
making
> the same mistakes her characters do, in this case underestimating 
youth.
> If Harry is going to discover and destroy all the remaining 
horcruxes,
> it lends credibility to the story that another young person was 
able to
> accomplish at least part of the task.

There's also a bit of a sort of reverse Chekhov's gun thingy going 
on here, isn't there?  From the point of view of someone who reads 
only the books and pays no attention to the froth of auctions, 
interviews and the like, this chracter is sprung out of nowhere, 
after the reader has been given an RAB clue and an existing RB 
character.  Amy Benson would be OK, but not great-uncle Regulus, IMO.

The mystery that JKR is interested in keeping difficult for us is 
*how* the locket was substituted, not who did it.  The ol' locked 
room mystery.

David