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When Did Regulus Black Die

Hoping someone can clarify the timeline of Regulus Black's death in Harry Potter, after reading about his sacrifice and the locket horcrux.
2026-07-29 14:50:44
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Ron Scott
Ron Scott
The information provided by Sirius and Kreacher about Regulus Black in the books states that he died in 1979. This is off-page information and in line with the time frame of his sacrifice of himself to destroy the locket created by Slytherin. Speaking of characters trying to overcome death, I just finished reading a web novel, ‘THE LUNA WHO CONQUERED DEATH’ by Klasky. It follows the life of a werewolf queen in a dark and magical world. She is trying to fulfill her prophecy of death but instead is using it as a campaign for vengeance. This is a completely different story to Harry Potter, but it has the same central conflict and the author treats it with the same relentless drive.
2026-08-04
Una
Una
This event is not mentioned in the ‘Harry Potter’ books but I remember it. Young Regulus Black was 18 when he died in 1979. He had turned away from his evil ways and was trying to stop Voldy to achieve his own release from a life of evil when he was killed in a cave of Inferi.
2026-07-31
Welcome Rhoqa
Welcome Rhoqa
Of course, 1979 is mentioned, and the note that he left in the locket inside the basin of poison that he had himself filled reads: ‘To the Dark Lord… I know I will be dead long before you read this…’ He had given himself up, not been caught or killed, and that note is his real monument. A message of defiance, a time capsule of hatred to be left to the Dark Lord for him to read when it suited him. That was the year it was all sealed up in the locket and dropped to the bottom of the basin of poison.
2026-08-01
Daniel
Daniel
This is the story of Regulus Black who was once devoted to the Dark Lord, but turned against him. He spent the remainder of his life searching for a way to kill the Dark Lord and he finally found him in a cave in 1979. However, his way of killing the Dark Lord ended up being his own way of dying.
2026-08-02
Ariana Luna baas
Ariana Luna baas
The cave in which he died in 1979 is also a major character. The location is one of despair, set up to trap the unaware. Regulus went in willingly, never to leave, outsmarting Voldemort’s paranoidly controlled security system and dying in a tomb of his own making. He had, in the end, turned the Dark Lord’s own tactics of secrecy and sacrifice against him. The powerful location almost overshadows the fact that this all took place in 1979.
2026-08-02

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