Theories/Thoughts

[brett]

So I don't know if I posted something like this before, but since I've been playing Regulus I've gotten big into theorizing about his life, as some of you have probably realized. So you already know about how I figured Reg would have gotten into being a Death Eater at such a young age. He tried to date someone the family didn't approve of, disgraced the name and nearly got himself kicked out of the family and only got back on his families good side by joining up with the Death Eaters as his parents (specifically his father) had always hoped he would.

Also if you've been reading the note thread I have going with Indigo you some more of my theorizing that he was really forced into being something he wasn't. For example the over decoration of his room with Slytherin memorabilia and a collage of articles about Voldemort, I just don't see Regulus being that completely obsessed which is why I think his father compiled the collage for him and also had a large hand in decorating his youngest sons room, and Regulus goes along wit it because all he wants is to make his father proud.

Plus there's the whole fact that I've been playing Reg's guilt for Sirius' dissent. Sirius' middle name is Orion, so from birth it shows that connection Orion Black was trying to make with his son so the more Sirius pulled away the more pressure was put on Reg. It was bad enough to have one son become an embarrassment, but both would be horrendous. So in away both Orion and to some extent Regulus himself felt it was Reg's job to redeem his immediately family and alleviate them of the shame of having Sirius disowned.

Then there's also the curious fact that Orion Black dies the same year as Regulus. Orion was only 50 at the time which is young for a muggle, let alone a wizard who should have been expected to like much longer. So I thought that it seemed likely that he kill himself out of guilt for his sons death. After all it's believed that Regulus was killed for deserting the Death Eaters, and Orion Black would feel responsible for forcing his son into the Death Eaters and effectively causing him to be killed at the tender age of 18.

Another theory I've been working on recently, that I've also started playing up, is that Regulus had a plan to overthrow the Dark Lord and that in all likelihood the Dark Lord knew it. I know it seems strange that Voldemort would allow someone who wasn't truly loyal to him stay in his ranks (or even stay alive) but Sirius says that he doubted Regulus was important enough to have the Dark Lord kill him personally, yet in his note Regulus signs using only his initials expecting the Dark Lord to recognize who he is. Not only that, but the entire note has an heir of arrogance to it. "It was I who discovered your secret" as if the Dark Lord would have thought Reg capable of coming to such a conclusion. And I'm wondering if perhaps Regulus even made an attempt on the Dark Lord's life since he ends with "I face my death in the hopes that when you meet your match you will be mortal once more" so he did know that the Dark Lord was "immortal" either because the dark lord told him so, or because he himself tried unsuccessfully to assassinate him.

((I'm not so sure about this but it kinda fits I think))
Of course after trying to kill the Dark Lord I would think reg would have to abandon the Death Eaters...which could possibly make sense because then Regulus is gone so he goes to the Blacks to take Kreacher as payment for Reg's disloyalty. Kreacher escapes and reports what happens to Regulus who is in hiding, but still in touch with Kreacher since he'd rely on the elf for money and food. So when Kreacher tells Reg what happened Regulus knows exactly what the locket was because he has been studying on ways to become immortal and finds out about horcruxes.

So yea, those were just some things on my mind that I felt like sharing.

[Remus Lupin]

((Sorry, thought I'd take the chance to share a few thoughts on Remus as well. Hope you don't mind ))

Delving into the mind of Remus has actually become extremely interesting. There are a few key points which I think are most important.

Number one is his hesitation to be with Tonks. I've already made a thread trying to explain this, but I think that something happened earlier in his life to make him extremely scared to be with women, on account of the fact that he thinks it's too dangerous. I'm thinking that he hurt one of his friends, just no one ever talks about it because it's too painful a memory. There had to be some specific reason that made him so frightened of being with someone intimately, not to mention what his kids might have turned out like. So, this is how I set it up (according to his friends on this site, not in the book):

Remus breaks out of the Shrieking Shack one night just before he leaves Hogwarts. It's stayed strong up till now, it's taken the beating of a lifetime. But he finally escapes one night, and wanders the forest looking for something interesting to eat/destroy. He's completely mad, since he is a werewolf, and ends up running into his friend Jada, who is just out for a night stroll. Since he isn't in his right mind, he sees her only as something to attack, and does so. She is only saved by the slight chance of Regulus hearing her screaming and he comes running, saving her life in the process. Werewolf Remus freaks out at the fact that he is now outnumbered and takes off into the forest. Remus wakes up the next morning, in the woods and absolutely horrified when he finds out what happened, and the fact that he found some of Jada's robes between his claws. After this he swears off being friends with anyone other than the Marauders, and absolutely refuses to be with Ravenna, or continue his friendship with Bella, completely convinced that he'll either hurt or kill anyone he's close to.

The second thought I had on Remus was a little more strange. I can't tell whether this was actually true, or if it's just my interpretation on it, but I think that Remus was a little bitter toward Sirius and James. I think after all the times that he bailed them out of trouble, and them still doing whatever they wanted bugged him a lot. I think it was also the reason the books didn't show any particular close friendship between Remus and Sirius as adults. He still counts them as friends, since he knows they'd do anything for him, and come with him to the Shack, but he's still irritated with the way they treat Snape, and get him in trouble all the time. I also think that Remus was better friends with James than Sirius, and that after he died, he fell away from his friendship with Sirius, and then Sirius went to Azkaban, and everything just went downhill from there. This would also explain his attachment to Harry. I think that James was just really good friends with Remus and Sirius, and that Sirius and Remus were just friends by default.

Gah, I wish we had someone to play Potter XP

[brett]

Haha I don't mind at all.

I also like that Regulus has already been picking at that tension that may lay between Remus and James and Sirius, or more so Remus and Sirius. I think you definitely have a good point with Sirius and Remus both being really close to James and just ending up friends by default. Which would lead to that tension of Remus trying to show James the right thing to do while Sirius was more concerned with having fun and pulling pranks which lead to a lot of bickering between Remus and Sirius (As Snape mentions they did a lot of in their school years and are still doing so in Harry's third year)

Also I've considered picking up James and just Dropping Wyatt since he's the only teacher we have any more and James is the only missing marauder, but I already have Reg and Ludo and to take on a third Canon...especially such a major one, seems like it would be unfair.