The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black

Ok, So, I still have some major posts coming on Book 4, but I have started listening to/Reading Book 5 and here are some things I noticed in "The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black" chapter and just thought I would throw in here: 1. I think that Regulus Black is indeed the RAB who got the locket HC. A Clue is the fact that when they are viewing his name on the tapestry Harry notices, "A Date of Death (some fifteen years previously) followed the date of birth." (p. 112 - emphasis added). Regulus died just before Harry became Voldy's downfall ... I think their is some connection that will be revealed in book 7. 2. The Locket that is mentioned on p 116 follows shortly after the mention of Regulus Black (p. 111-112). It is heavy and, most importantly, it is un-openable. If it is the HC locket, and if RAB managed to destroy the HC, although maybe that was what ended his life, this is a bit like the Palantir used by Denethor and held in his hands as he burned to death by his own hands in Return of the King ... nothing is ever seen through this Palantir again but a pair of palms closed in on it. Once the object has been used for such evil, and that evil undone, the object is forever unopenable, unusable. 3.Thematically, notice that it is Ginny who has the common sense to shut the lid on the music box that is enchanting them all to sleep, just before the locket is mentioned (OotP 116). I think it is a mention of an undone HC prefaced by a hidden reference to she who will be very instrumental on Harry's side in finally undoing the main HC, Voldy himself (Voldy has lost his sense of himself as a real person, he is to himself, on the one hand, an idol, and on the other nothing more than another of his own horcruxes). 4. There is an unusually high occurrence of spider images in this chapter. Just before the music box there is a the many legged silver instrument that "scuttle up Ron's Arm like a spider" just before Sirius smashes it. Next page they move to "from the drawing room to a dining room on the ground floor where they found spiders large as saucers lurking in the dresser." (p. 117) 6. Speaking of Spiders, their intrusions into this chapter is remarkably like the description of a key character/member of the order's presence at the house: "Snape flitted in and out of the house several times more." (p. 118). Oddly, not only does this describe well the presence of spiders as an image in this chapter, it also describes the flight pattern of a bat rather well (in other words, my wild theories are as alive and well as ever LOL) 5. Speaking of the Ground (as in the ground floor where the big spiders were found), I finally noticed the blindingly obvious fact that the house elf is named Kreacher, or rather "creature." He represents nature and the earth animals under the sway of pure-blood bigotry. Notice that Dobby is quite different, but then so were his masters. Lucius was officially a death eater and Dobby could see the "true colors" of the pure-blood mentality. The Blacks were more tender-footed when it came to taking things to their logical conclusions, but they were no less bigoted.