Dinner with the Burnhams:In a stark dinner table scene (with a centerpiece of red roses) to the tune of Bali Hai "elevator music," Carolyn made a snotty comment about having "prepared a nutritious yet savory meal" for he family without any gratitude.As they departed, Temple told McCloud that the two brothers had grown up with George and were good people who just got drunk and engaged in a bar brawl.I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can.I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more.It wasleft by someone with the initials "R.A.B." [Did it signify Regulus Arcturus Black (initials RAB), Sirius' younger brother, a Death Eater killed by Voldemort?] Harry was disheartened, declaring everything a "waste.(Aberforth had purchased Sirius' mirror from Mundungus Fletcher.)Aberforth had given up and was discouraged by Voldemort's victories - he advised the resistance fighters to end their hopeless "suicide mission," go home and save themselves."Afterwards, Alice looked at the clippings that Mark had obtained, and focused on one about Amanda Krueger, Freddy's distraught nun-mother, who had not committed suicide by hanging after Krueger's trial (as the newspapers reported), but spent the remainder of her life in an asylum.