R.A.B

i think sirius'brother was the one who destroyed the locket of slytherin

R.A.B

Regulus A. Black!!!!

Oh, definately.

Though i read a fic where regulus' friend destroyed the locket and gave it to him to hide away.

Would she really make R.A.B. that easy?

But it seems logical,

hey, that's right... RAB...

but still... I don't know... I don't think sirius's brother destroyed it... I don't know... it fits, but...

no idea... just a feeling (hehe)

Apparantly, in the foreign language translations, the letters RAB are changed to coincide with whatever the translation of 'Black' is.

So this seems to prove that it is Regulus.

If they found a hard to open locket in grimmauld place...it would make sense that it was regulus...

Also..Sirius' uncle who gave him money when he ran away's name begins with an "A"...Regulus' middle name?

HP-lexicon put up a page saying that RAB was in fact Regulus black. But they took it down againg pretty soon after. Surely this means that it is Sirius' bro.


I think, saying that RAB is Regulus, he did destroy the locket and that it is either in Grimmauld place, or Mundungus stole it or something.

i think that Regulus is RAB but i dont think he destroyed the locket and i wonder how long it will take for Harry and the other's (that really means just HErmione) to work it out.

Personally, I disagree with all of this guessing about what will happen next.

People have started clubs and stuff, just to figure out what R.A.B means, or who this person is, or what this person will do... and so on.

I think that this ruins the suprise and fun of reading the next book. All of this extra stuff is taking away from the suspense and excitement when we read the book for the first time.

But, that's just my opinion: i know many diagree otherwises, and I'm okay with that, i'm just expressing my views

Duck the Duck wrote:

Apparantly, in the foreign language translations, the letters RAB are changed to coincide with whatever the translation of 'Black' is.

So this seems to prove that it is Regulus.

Really? In the swedish verisions it was RAB, and sirius is still sirius black. They don't change the names, exept for when they mean something. For example, slughorn is snigelhorn, kreacher is krake, buckbeak is vingfåle, goldenroy lockhart is gyllenroy lockman. But that's about it, really, these were the only name translations.


You don't think it could be someone from the Bones family?

i really think it was Regulus. First, while cleaning out Grimmauld Place, The people find a big silver locket that was impossibe to open. Second, Sirius had a great uncle "Alfie" or something like that. Regulus's middle initial probly came from him.

I do not think Regulus destroyed the locket because, well, the cleaners found it in book five. but they also threw it out, which means the have to do a bit of trash digging if they want to kill voldie haha.

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Well regulas is the only one I could really think of but in my fic hah I made it so that it was riddle and black because voldemorts secret wife fell inlove with regulas and they stole it together and gave it to Toms daughter Jessica Ann Riddle

I think I remember reading on a thread of "The site that must not be named" that in one edition the Blacks was another name and the initials R.A.B also changed to the same letter.so its a big possiblilty

Sure, it would fit in, BUT what the hell would he do there!? I mean, he's just Sirius' brother! Sure, he's sort of important but he's not that important... just wondering.. but remember this; It can also be that way, I never said it wouldn't.

Just curious to know the reason why you think it's Regulus, and not only the R.A.B for an excuse.

It could ALSO be Rolling Away Backwards, rofl.

Just joking...

I think.

Well the initials RAB are the main reason I think it's Regulus, but also because of the locket. Remember when they were cleaning Grimmauld Place in book 5, and they found a 'heavy locket none of them could open'?

Reggy would have had opportunity to hide it at his family home before he was killed.

Gee, I never thought about that... i totally forgot about the locket and stuff :D

omg, thanks, now i actually see a point in this

I think.

I never thought of him its such a good therory you guys are good i wish jk would hurry up and write the 7th book she driving me MAD i hate waiting. lol it could also be a completly new person but an old caracto rmakes more sense.

I think R.A.B. is Regulus and I also think kreacher has the locket. Stuid git.

I haven't really thought about the locket, but now that i do think about it, kreacher has to have it!

Yup! if he does though i hope harry beats him to a pulp first before he takes it from him!

I agree completely with the rest of you. Regulus is most likely R.A.B. and Kreacher now has it.

But for arguments sake, look at the other candidates I have for you today.

Bagman Sr
~Ludo and Otto's father, was a friend of Augustus Rookwood, a Death Eater. Could it be that the R.A.B. initials stand for Rookwood and Bagman? Because remember, Ludo went to trial for being accused of being a Death Eater. Is it possible that he was confused with his father?-I like this one the best

A Member of the Bones Family
~Voldy has a very particular hatred of the Boneses, doens't he? Susan even tells Harry that she now knows how he feels, because so many of her family members have been killed by Voldemort. Maybe a source told Volders that a member of the Bones family had betrayed him in some way, and now Voldy is taking it out on the whole family? -This one probably comes up after the Rookwood and Bagman theory

Rudolf Brand
~He's Captain of the Heidelberg Harriers and since his initials match...up he goes

Rupert "Axebanger" Brookstanton
~Hermione found his name therefore he is worthy.

A Member of the Bulstrode family
~Well, Millicent is none too bright, but her family does seem to be the type to be associated with Voldemort. Her father-whose name is never mentioned-could perhaps...?

Rosalind Antigone Bungs
~What a name! Rosalind means "fair rose". Well, everyone knows that a rose has its thorns. Antigone means "against birth". And bung can mean shut, stopper, give, and plug. Now, if you ask me this name is very interesting. Maybe Rosalind was in charge of taking care of or placing the locket in the place Voldemort intended. But, going against her birth-a reluctant Slytherin?-she instead hid it, and thus "stopped" Volders' plot.-This one is definitely up there with the Bones family theory.

Burke of "Borgin and Burke's"
~We have yet to meet this man...although Caractacus, the founder, knew about Slytherin's locket-he bought it from Merope Gaunt for 10 galleons. And he even hired young Tom Riddle. We have yet to meet this man...

Go ahead, murderlize my theories....

But remember-I *DO* believe that R.A.B. is Regulus Black, but I'm just putting these up for arguments sake!

Wow! I never thought there were so many candidates. Personally, I thought RAB would be regulus, but would JK make it that simple? And some of those other candidates you have outlines have prospects.

They're nice ideas, but I'm still a firm member of the "RAB is Reggie Black" camp.

The Bagman and Rookwood theory is one I've never seen before, and I must admit it's interesting, but hmm...I'm not convinced.

One thing I have been wondering about though - if it was Regulus, and I'm pretty sure it was, how did he manage it? Dumbledore was incapacitated by the potion he had to drink to reach the locket, if Regulus had to do the same thing, how did he get out of the cave? And he may have had to deal with Inferi as well.

So there could be some weight behind the Bagman and Rookwood idea - two wizards may have been needed.

But then this brings up *another* question - how would they both have got across the lake? Dumbledore and Harry were only able to get across because one was an underage wizard...with two adult wizards in the boat...

It makes your mind boggle trying to think a way through all these theories!

Now, we could assume that Regulus was an underage wizard when he retrieved the locket...he was nineteen when he died, so it's not implausable...he could have gone along with another adult wizard.

So maybe we could look at it as ____ And Black?

Rookwood And Black maybe?

You know what? I've just succeeded in befuddling myself thoroughly - gah!

That's the idea of my theories-befuddle your mind.

Now, for the boat idea for two adult wizards-one wizard could be using the charm that Harry considered using when escaping from the Dursleys-the "feather light" charm. That way, it would have been like only one was in the boat.

And couldn't Bagman-whose son would have been, at that time, a Quidditch player-taken his son's broom and flown across? Maybe the Ministry found his broom somewhere connected with Voldemort-is THAT what confused them?

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Now, for the boat idea for two adult wizards-one wizard could be using the charm that Harry considered using when escaping from the Dursleys-the "feather light" charm. That way, it would have been like only one was in the boat.

The feather-light charm wouldn't have made any difference. The boat doesn't measure body weight, but rather 'magical' weight. So that's why Dumbledore wanted Harry at that moment - he was still underage. The boat would only register one wizard crossing the water.

Lol, I probably would have forgotten about the magical-weight thing had I not read Melindaleo's The Seventh Horcrux yesterday. Harry has to take Ginny with him in the boat in the cave rather than Ron and Hermione, because she's the only one still underage.

And I don't buy the broomstick thing. If it was that simple, why did Dumbledore not think of it? Why risk squeezing into the tiny boat with Harry, crossing the lake filled with half-rotted, dead-but-alive people if he could have just flown across?

It doesn't add up :D

When i read R.A.B i thought Regulus A. Black. It seem obvious and i like the idea. It also sort of explains alot to me :D

Yeah yeah yeah it's obvious.

But is it too obvious?

(The answer is yes and that it's also right tho lol)

hmmmm..... i don't know, but reading up (i didn't last night) yes the Kreacher thing makes alot of sense and if he does, and if Harry can piece it together..... Why doen't he ask Kreacher to tell him what he knows? As his new master wouldn't kreacher have to tell him?

Well, yes, but Kreacher would of course hate to do it. So he'd probably end up saying it in a way that would lead Harry to his near-death. But being Harry he'd survive :D

See doesn't it all make sense now?

hmmm what if its a group of people? nah i dont think so... yea i think its sirus' brother... cuz it all makes sense everything fits.

It makes too much sense for it to be regulus. Everyone jumped with that conclusion straight away which is what JK probably hoped. Somehow, I think we need to look deeper. I think that regulus is too obvious a candidate


EDIT: another thing i thought of was dumbledore mentioned that not one person could have retrieved the locket - therefore RAB must have had an accompliss (sp?) If so, who?

Get this!

I agree it was Regulus it just fits. Though the bones family is a valid point but we really don't know them and I just don't think it works with the story. It would make more sense if it was a Black.

However, I think that the locket is still at Grimmauld place. And Kreacher is/was hiding it. This makes it easy becase Harry can simply take Kreacher back to Grimmauld place and order him to give it to him. Kreacher has to fallow a direct order from Harry.

Ta Da!

but harry hates Kreacher and doesnt want anything to do with him. Harry said so himself

yes regulus black is too obvious and that why i dont believe it. it might be him but someone else, someone we know well, played a bigger role, a role active in the last few books.....maybe dumbledore took it himself already?

well if it was really really really imortant then dumbledors bound to have it