I want to believe it too, but didn't JKR confirm that Regulus was dead in the 2004 World Book Day chat? (I don't think she would flat-out lie about this, although there was definitely a bit of misdirection in her answer, since the actual question was whether we would hear from him again.)
Yes, you're right. I had remembered her answer as being vague on the issue, but when I checked it just now, she said:
"Well, he's dead, so he's pretty quiet these days."
which does seem fairly definitive, and she said more recently she doesn't lie or deliberately mislead in interviews, so perhaps Regulus has indeed shuffled off this mortal coil.
I suppose it's possible that there is someone else who is in hiding...but then again, if it was a vitally important plot point all those lines would probably not have been cut from the UK edition, and I'm just reading too much into it.
So I'm left with the "Dumbledore really WAS that gullible" problem again. Ah.
I'm with you, I think there's something else. Dumbledore was optimistic and noble, but he wasn't stupid and he knew Snape was a very good Occlumens. There HAS to be something else.
Exactly. I know JKR said in one of the interviews that Dumbledore is a bit too trusting, but I have to believe he had some stronger grounds for trusting Snape, or it doesn't make sense to me.
Snape could block his mind to Dumbledore and not let him know what's really going on, but as you say, Dumbledore knows how skilled Snape is in this department. I still think there must have been deeds, as well as words, to have made Dumbledore so certain that Snape had turned his back on the Dark side.
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"Well, he's dead, so he's pretty quiet these days."
which does seem fairly definitive, and she said more recently she doesn't lie or deliberately mislead in interviews, so perhaps Regulus has indeed shuffled off this mortal coil.
I suppose it's possible that there is someone else who is in hiding...but then again, if it was a vitally important plot point all those lines would probably not have been cut from the UK edition, and I'm just reading too much into it.
So I'm left with the "Dumbledore really WAS that gullible" problem again. Ah.
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Snape could block his mind to Dumbledore and not let him know what's really going on, but as you say, Dumbledore knows how skilled Snape is in this department. I still think there must have been deeds, as well as words, to have made Dumbledore so certain that Snape had turned his back on the Dark side.
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