New R.a.b. Rumor

I found an even better article:


http://www.nimbus.com.pt/index_novff.php



"Who is R.A.B.? - Short Summary
Publicado por Nadir Tejani @ 09-10-2006
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To clarify any misunderstandings, Nimbus Network would like to explain international websites how we got the information about R.A.B. identity.

(Spoiler Warning)

On the 26th of October, 2005, Nimbus Network received a message from Isabel Nunes, responsible for the translation and coordination of the Portuguese versions of the Harry Potter series. In that message, Mrs. Nunes told us directly who R.A.B. was:

Since it is common knowledge, and it was already confirmed by JKR (when we asked her about the character's delete this post), I don't mind telling you: R.A.B. is Regulus Arcturus Black.

Although we wanted to tell everyone who R.A.B. was, we asked Mrs. Nunes for more details about the revelation - it wouldn't be professional to disclose an information this important. The answer arrived three days later:

Dear Nadir

I've decided to send the confirmation due to many speculations concerning the identity of RAB. It may bring doubts about its credibility, so I'll explain: there is an informal group of translators of the Harry Potter books who kept in touch during the translation of HP6, which, while exchanging ideias and informations, managed to overcome some difficulties. JKR's agent was posed a question concerning the gender of RAB (this is not the first situation of this kind, as has also happened with the characters of Sinistra and Blaise Zabini). It's always needed to proceed through writers' agents because there isn't any direct contact with the writer. We were truly amazed when the written answer had not only the delete this post but the true identity of R.A.B. To be truly honest, we don't have any clearance to disclose this but we hadn't been told otherwise. There was not any direct concerning about not publishing this information.

Then we decided to keep the information in secrecy, at least until we had any confirmation from J. K. Rowling. Mrs. Nunes also told us that she had already talked about that issue with Steve Vander Ark, and apparently he shared the same opinion, so she didn't felt responsible to keep the information in secrecy.

Recently, our ex-newsposter Pedro Rodrigues found an online edition of one of the most credible portuguese newspapers, Diário Económico, which had published on the 25th of November, 2005, an interview with Mrs. Nunes, in which she says that R.A.B. is, in fact, Regulus Arcturus Black (even if it's written 'Arthur' in the article). After finding this confirmation published in the Mass Media, we decided that it was our duty to spread the news. At the moment, we must wait until Mrs. Rowling confirms the information - and that's why we tried to let everybody know about the issue, since it would be easier for HP international websites to receive any answer from the author's agents then it would be to Nimbus Network.

We insist that we wouldn't have spread the information if we hadn't found this newspaper's article, which clearly identifies R.A.B."

Cool beans. You are on top of things yet again Mione.

What do they mean about the "delete this post" stuff?

LoL, I have no idea. There were a couple of links in there.. that might have been one of them.

Oh! I get it now...
The "delete this post" was a word beginning with s and ending with x...I guess you can't post that word on these forums :P
Anyway, I guess I'll replace it with "gender"

Ah, ok. That makes much more sense now.

Very cool! This confirms it then, but of course most all of us figured it out it is so nice to know that at least one of our speculations is proven true, ya kno.
Nice.

In order of the phoenix Sirius explains to Harry that Regulas died almost 15 years ago, which is the same time that Harry was born. I think this will play apart in book 7

I am new here and I don't know how to find out if anyone has addressed the possibility that Regulas took the locket and hid it in his home, later to be found by everyone cleaning the house. There was a locket no one could open and was tossed out. If it was why didn't Dumbledore know it was there?

Hi Roonil!!


I think that Dumbledore might have known about r.a.b that's why he chose the Grimmauld Place as Headquarters for the order