in the end of the last harry potter who is R.A.B?

Question

there was a note that harry found and it was singed r.a.b and i was wondering who it was

Answer 1

I was wondering when someone was going to ask this!! I should have thought of it myself....I don't know. I've been racking my brain, and trying to come up with someone who may have these initials. I even read the 6th book four times trying to see if anyone has the initials. The thing is, as we Harry fans know, the answer is almost always in the book we are currently reading. Remember when in the 5th book, Harry had to go in front of the Wizengomot, and Dumbledore appears right before the trial starts and says, "Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore"? Okay, that was a clue, because at the end of the book, when Harry and his pals get the prophecy, on the last page of chapter 24, Rowling says the the writing on the inscription is: "S.P.T. to A.P.W.B.D, Dark Lord, and (?) Harry Potter". The thing is, you'll only catch on if you remember what you read early on in the book when Dumbledore gives his full name that he is the one who was told the prophecy when it is first made by Professor Sybil Trewlaney (all of the initials match). While Dumbledore does eventually tell Harry that he heard the prophecy first, you can figure it out if earlier at the end of chapter 24 if you pay close attention. I think RAB is a similar situation. RAB is right under our noses, but I think the answer is so obvious, that we are looking right past it. Can't wait to find out!!!!!

Answer 2

I think that R.A.B. is Sirius' brother, Regulus Black. We know that he was a Death Eater, and that he was later killed because he wanted out. I believe that he stole the real locket Horcrux, tried to destroy it, but it ended up at his childhood home at Number 12, Grimmauld Place. In Order of the Phoenix (American Edition) on page 116, "a heavy locket that nobody could open" is mentioned. I think that this is the real Horcrux, and now that Harry owns Grimmauld Place, he, Hermione, and Ron will go there and discover it. Here is what J.K. Rowling had to say about R.A.B. in an interview with Melissa Anelli and Emerson Spartz of The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet fansites:

MA: R.A.B.

JKR: Ohhh, good.

[All laugh.]

JKR: No, I'm glad! Yes?

MA: Can we figure out who he is, from what we know so far?

[Note: JKR has adopted slightly evil look here]

JKR: Do you have a theory?

MA: We've come up with Regulus Black.

JKR: Have you now?

MA: Uh-oh.

[Laughter.]

JKR: Well, I think that would be, um, a fine guess.

MA: And perhaps, being Sirius’s brother, he had another mirror –

JKR: [drums fingers on soda can]

MA: Does he have the other mirror, or Sirius’s mirror —

JKR: I have no comment at all on that mirror. That mirror is not on the table. [Laughter from all; Jo's is maniacal.]

Answer 3

Most people think it was Regulus Black, someone even said that in a translation where his name was different the initials still matched. Rowling never said, probably because it will be important in book 7. I suppose we can only wait... But I'm pretty sure it's Regulus.

Answer 4

Its Regulus Armenius Black

Answer 5

Regulus A. (Artourus or something like that) Black, Sirius Black's younger brother.

Answer 6

My own philosophy is that it is Sirius' younger brother, Regulus Black. Of course, I have no proof, but it is interesting that Harry has inherited Grimmauld Place.

Answer 7

We, as readers, fans, mad-cap theorists, obsessives and devotees, have been given a clue to the possibilities of Book 7 in the form of three initials: R.A.B. While none of us is certain what Regulus Black’s middle name was, we have several clues to point us to the note in the locket being written by his hand. (As well as a recently posted essay here on MuggleNet).

The fact that a character we have only heard of once before in OotP was mentioned three times in idle conversation in HBP seems rather telling. Canon states that Regulus tried to leave the Death Eaters and was killed for his attempt at desertion. It states that he only survived three days after said defection, according to Lupin’s memory (HBP, pg. 106, American edition). Sirius states that he was murdered by Voldemort, or on Voldemort’s orders (OotP, pg. 112, American edition). Of course, Sirius cannot think of anything that Regulus could have done to have been important enough to be killed by Voldemort himself. But we, as readers, know differently now.

Voldemort states in the graveyard scene in GoF that his Death Eaters “knew the steps [he] took, long ago, to guard [himself] against mortal death” (pg. 648). We may very well be able to assume that the Death Eaters (including Regulus Black) were aware of the existence of at least one of the Horcruxes, if not more. While it is true that the individual Death Eaters may not have known the objects used or the locations, who better to know of the Slytherin artifacts than a Slytherin raised in a blood-line obsessed household full of books like Nature’s Nobility?

According to the Black family tapestry, Regulus died 15 years prior to the events of OotP. This would place his death after the prophecy had been spoken and possibly close in time to Harry’s birth, but before the attack at Godric’s Hollow that killed Lily and James and deprived Voldemort of his powers. This could mean that Regulus was aware of the two children who were targeted by the prophecy. We may never know if Regulus harbored feelings of sympathy toward either the Potters or the Longbottoms, but if he did it might have helped him to decide to betray Voldemort. It is important to keep this information in mind as this mystery is investigated.

Listed below are the steps that would have been necessary to follow in order for someone to steal the locket Horcrux and replace it with the fake that Harry and Dumbledore retrieved. I believe that anyone who had stolen the Horcrux would have taken pains to leave the scene just as he or she had found it. This would allow the thief the longest possible time to escape the wrath of Lord Voldemort. It would also reduce the chance that Voldemort would find out that the Horcrux had been stolen, thereby giving Voldemort’s match a better chance of winning in the end.

Steps needed to steal the locket Horcrux and replace it with a fake:

1. Learn of the Horcrux and its whereabouts
2. Learn of the enchantments surrounding the Horcrux
3. Discover the boat and its limitations
4. Discover the potion, its contents, and its effects on the drinker
5. Brew a batch of the same potion to replace that in the basin
6. Find an accomplice to assist in drinking the potion
7. Find a way to get said accomplice across the Inferi-infested lake
8. Drink the potion
9. Steal the locket
10. Replace the locket
11. Get back across the lake

It has already been shown that Voldemort told his Death Eaters about the existence of the Horcrux, and that it is reasonable that Regulus would have known of the existence of the locket. How Regulus found the locket may be up for very great debate. But Voldemort is prone to egotistical ramblings when he has a rapt audience and it may not have proven that difficult at all.

Once the cave was found there would be the matter of discovering the enchantments. The door to the Chamber of Secrets was not that difficult to open, after all. The would-be thief would then have had to take the boat across the lake to the basin. He or she would then become aware of the potion that covered the locket.

Here is the first issue that the thief would face. If the scene was to appear not to be tampered with should the Dark Lord check in on his locket at some point, the potion would need to be replaced with another batch of the same composition.

Canon states that Slughorn “got” Regulus as a Slytherin and therefore also as a Potion’s student. Regulus, assuming he passed his O.W.L., would have learned the Specialis Revelio spell that shows the caster of the spell what a poisonous potion contains. The use of this spell would have allowed Regulus to recreate the potion in the basin in the cave, and produce an antidote if there was one.

This spell would also have allowed Regulus to know completely what would happen to the person who would drink the potion. And here is the crux of this argument. Regulus would have to have known that it would take two people to retrieve the locket. There would need to be another person there to force the potion down the drinker’s throat. If Dumbledore, the greatest wizard of all time, could not drink the potion on his own, then it is very doubtful that Regulus was able to do so without some kind of assistance. Regulus would need to find an accomplice.

The question now is who was with Regulus?

Our first guess may be to look to those who were also adept at Potions, as Regulus may have needed help recreating the potion. We know of others who had outstanding abilities in Potions: Lily and Snape. Both of these individuals would have been close in age to Regulus and at Hogwarts at the same time. Regulus would have known about their abilities. There is also the possibility of Regulus’ Head of House and Potion’s Master coming to his aid in this instance. But each of these choices creates a problem.

Snape
Before defection from the Death Eaters, would Snape have participated in such an obvious betrayal? Canon states that Snape defected after the deaths of James and Lily Potter. Therefore he was still a Death Eater when Regulus was killed. It may have been that he was wavering after having overheard part of the prophecy, but we know that Snape delivered that information to Lord Voldemort. It is the reason that James and Lily were killed. So it seems without an argument Snape was still loyal to Lord Voldemort at that point. This leaves him as a highly unlikely accomplice. It also eliminates other Death Eaters as possible accomplices. Regulus could trust no one with this mission who might have turned on him and alerted Voldemort.

Answer 8

No one knows for sure who RAB is, but I think that it stands for Sirius' brother Regulus Black *whose middle name we are not sure of*.

Answer 9

I think it was Regulus Black, but I guess we won't know until next year

Answer 10

i hear that it was possible regulus black but we'll find out when the next book comes out next summer