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par Leydorn
Lige
"There was an interview in the Diário Econômico, in November of 2005 with Ms. Isabel Nunes about translating, the sounds of words, the puns, things like that. She told them that she contacted Jo's agent to know RAB's sex (which was necessary, because in the message RAB tells "I will be dead", and dead would be "morto", if RAB was a male, or "morta" if RAB was a female) and she was surprised because the answer was that RAB was Regulus Arcturus Black.In December the trenslator told in a message to Nimbus: I don't care about telling you because it is already general knowledge and it was confirmed to us by JKR when we contacted her because of the gender (masculine or feminine). RAB is Regulus Arcturus Black.The site, Nimbus decided not to post it because they wanted a confirmation by Jo herself and they received yet another message from Ms. NunesDear NadirIt was because I knew that a lot of people have been speculating about RAB's identity that I decided to send the confirmation. So that there is no doubt about its origin, I explain: there is a more or less informal group of translators of Harry Potter that kept in contact with each other during the translation of HP6 and that, through the exchange of ideas and informations were able to overcome some difficulties. the question was posed to JKR's agent by this group in order to know if it was masculine or feminine (what, by the way, I had already done , through Editorial Presença, about the characters Sinistra and Blaise Zabini). It's always necessary to make it thoruogh the agents, for there is no direct contact with the author. We've been quite surprised, when, in the answer, we were informed not only about the sex, but also the meaning of the initials, something that we hadn't asked about.The translator, asked about the subject told also:I've personally discussed the matter with Steve Vander Ark and he has the same opinion that and all the others do. Therefore, in what respects me, you may feel free. I don't feel obligated to keep this secret.Why they are telling this now, after all these months? Because Pedro Rodrigeus, an ex-collaborator of them who knew the whole story, told it in one of their forums.I'd just like to add, that this whole thing was in 2005, before we knew that Regulus' grandfater was called Arcturus, something that we learned in that family Black tree, drawn by JKR, that was ayctioned in February and bought by Dan Radcliffe. In 2005 no fan of HP knew anything about the existence of anyone called Arcturus in the Black family. It first appeared in the Lexicon (and as the translator mentions Steve Vander Ark, I think she was his source)."