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Some theorists believe that Dumbledore used the "Kreacher test" not only to see whether Number 12 Grimmauld Place actually belonged to Harry, rather than Bellatrix Lestrange (Sirius' cousin), but also as a means to determine whether Sirius' younger brother, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Regulus Black|Regulus Black]], was still alive. (It will be learned in the next book that Regulus is the mysterious R.A.B. who had left a note that is found at the end of this novel.) This test may be inconclusive, as the tradition is that property, such as a house, is directly handed down the male family line from eldest to eldest. If there is a charm meant to ensure this (what is called "entailment" in the UK) its parameters are unknown; it is possible that the charm ensuring this, if there was one, would prevent a lateral transfer from the eldest male child, once he had come into his inheritance, to his younger brother. It is also possible that the entailment, if there was one, simply ended when the male Black line did. There is no way of knowing; we only know that the house and property passed successfully to Harry on Sirius' death.
While the Ministry is busily making Harry a hero in the press, we don't see them approaching Harry directly to get his support. We will find out that this is because the Ministry had first approached Dumbledore, as Dumbledore was shielding Harry from Ministry visitations, and Dumbledore had rebuffed them. The Ministry, in the person of Minister for Magic [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rufus Scrimgeour|Rufus Scrimgeour]], will approach Harry directly [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince/Chapter 16|at Christmas this year]]. Dumbledore will [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince/Chapter 17|later]] reveal that there had been two similar attempts previously, which he had blocked: first when [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Cornelius Fudge|Fudge]] had attempted to rope Harry in to shore up his crumbling hold on power, and then in the early days of Scrimgeour's administration. There will be a final attempt made by Scrimgeour [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince/Chapter 30|after Dumbledore's funeral]], but then, as earlier, Harry will rebuff him.
The reason for Dumbledore's drastic character change can be attributed to his being injured by a fatal curse embedded in a ring; the curse was apparently intended as a trap to protect a [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Horcrux|Horcrux]], which was housed in that ring. He was able to get help from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Severus Snape|Severus Snape]], who has kept him alive by extraordinary magical means, though only temporarily. This minute-to-minute awareness that he will soon die, and the resulting sense of urgency, is likely the cause for his changed character.▼
▲The reason for Dumbledore's drastic character change can be attributed to his being injured by a fatal curse embedded in a ring; the curse was apparently intended as a trap to protect a [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Horcrux|Horcrux]], which was housed in that ring. The curse, triggered when he put the ring on, had withered his hand. He was able to get help from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Severus Snape|Severus Snape]], who has kept him alive by extraordinary magical means, though only temporarily. This minute-to-minute awareness that he will soon die, and the resulting sense of urgency, is likely the cause for his changed character.
Dumbledore, speaking directly to Petunia, mentions that they have corresponded before. There were actually at least four letters, though at this point in our reading there is nothing that can be attributed as being "correspondence". Dumbledore wrote a letter, which he left, along with Harry, on the Dursleys' doorstep [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone|at the series' beginning]], and the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Howler|Howler]] addressed to Petunia in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Order of the Phoenix/Chapter 2|''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'']] is also revealed to have been sent by Dumbledore. There is no indication that Petunia responded to either, and correspondence does rather imply that messages are being exchanged; despite this, many readers will assume that it is either one of these letters to which Dumbledore is referring. However, we will learn, in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 33|''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'']], that Petunia had earlier written to Hogwarts pleading for admission, and that Dumbledore responded, declining her plea on the grounds that she was unable to perform magic. Dumbledore's implied informational exchange, then, can only have been referring to this first set of letters.
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