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Somehow, I seriously cannot see Dumbledore deciding to sacrifice his brother (who, I do agree, is most likely the Hog's Head bartender) in place of himself. Granted, he might not have known how it would turn out... But, it just isn't like Dumbledore at all to let somebody else take the hit for him.

Agreed on RAB, too. I think that seems to be the one prevailing theory; the only other idea I've heard is that it stands for some sort of title or made-up name rather than a real name, but that seems less logical. I can't remember how many times Regulus came up in HBP, but definitely seemed like JKR was trying to remind us of him for a reason.

As for Snape and an unbreakable vow with Dumbledore... I'd certainly buy that. It definitely would explain the trust factor better than most anything else.

Oh, on the issue of Grayback's wolfiness... I don't think Jezz meant that he was totally werewolfy -- as said, yes, he was human at the time. But from the description of him during the tower scene, he has long fangs. The overgrown nails and general ickiness of appearance could all be explained away as a lifestyle choice, but the fact that he retains long fangs in human form is a bit unusual and rather interesting. I didn't answer Jezz's inquiry before simply because I have no idea. Maybe he just used magic to do it because he thinks it adds to his appearance? sweatdrop

don't forget that Lupin takes the potion, and we have seen no other werewolves at this time. It could be that the potion suppresses a lot of the outward appearance just as much as it could be that he's just let the curse consume him... or even as you think, he may have altered himself magically or by making horcruxes just like Voldie.

However, we have seen Lupin as a young adult (via Snape's memory) and the potion is only a recent invention. In that memory, there were no visual clues that set Lupin apart from any other human, aside from being rather sickly.

One could say that the wolfy traits don't show up in younger werewolves, but I would think that by 7th year, having come of age, he would be to the point of showing any signs if they exist. Yet, as far as we know, the Marauders and Snape were the only other students to catch onto Lupin's "furry little problem".

I'd like to add that perhaps the locket WAS there. Perhaps, Voldemort put both horcruxes together. Regulus, upon retriving the locket (I'm not quite sure how. He obviously didn't drink the potion), left the phony with a note and took it home unable to destroy it before his own death. Remember when they were cleaning out the cupboard at Sirius' house and they came upon a locket, that no matter how hard they tried, could not be opened?

Edit: The goblet with which Dumbledore drank from is also odd. No matter how many times Harry tried to fill it with water, it kept becoming empty.

First of all, having sex with a theory? Is that possible? >_<

Secondly, hermione needs to vent some sexual tension...you know. Do some snogging or something.

*teehee*
rofl

Poor Hermione. I think she's had things figured out for quite a while. It's just Ron who's been a bit slow about catching on.

Meh..he's just being a teenager, and it seems like he was mostly going right to Lavender because of the argument he had when he found Ginny and her boyfriend kissing. He was just showing her that he could..uh..snog someone?

He did start to try and get away from Lavender after a while, though. He thought of it as a simple fling or something, but she obviously thought more of it.

..and if they had put that line in, I would've killed JK.

... ninja

*scuttles away*